OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of European Integration is 5. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Resisting domestic and external pressure towards de-Europeanization of foreign policy? The case of Estonia	48
Trans-governmental regulatory networks and the European Union’s involvement in global governance: an occasional instrument?	41
Developing banking union’s common supervisory culture: a look into the ‘black box’ of joint supervisory teams	37
The parliamentary politics of the rule of law crisis in the EU	35
From streets to parliament: understanding the mechanisms of protest impact on the policy-making process in the European Parliament’s TTIP debate	34
Knowledge power Europe	32
The COVID-19 pandemic and institutional change in the EU’s financial assistance regime: the governance of the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF)	31
How ‘European sovereignty’ became mainstream: the geopoliticisation of the EU’s ’sovereign turn’ by pro-EU executive actors	29
So much promise, so little delivery: evidence-based policy-making in the EU approach to migrant smuggling	28
Strategising solidarity: an examination of the Visegrád group’s role and motivations in EU migration policies	28
Quiet early bird or loud late riser? Parliamentary activities and types of European Parliament involvement during the negotiation of international agreements	26
In Europe we trust: selecting and empowering EU institutions in disruptive circumstances	23
Investigating the politics of democratic legitimacy in EU climate policymaking: the special case of Fit for 55	22
The European Union’s leadership in the eyes of others at the UN Human Rights Council	22
Principal-agent relations, politics of discretion, and the Africa-EU Partnership on Peace and Security	19
In every crisis an opportunity? European Union integration in defence and the War on Ukraine	19
War and integration. The Russian attack on Ukraine and the institutional development of the EU	19
The impact of Brexit: polity, politics, policy	18
Third time lucky? Reconciling EU climate and external energy policy during energy security crises	17
How the climate movement shaped the EU: protest cycles and democratic spaces in the European green deal	16
European procurement schemes and the European Defence Fund (EDF): how should academic research develop?	16
The Eurozone crisis’ impact: a de-Europeanization of Greek and Portuguese foreign policies?	15
National identity as a cultural filter: External perceptions of the EU in Israel	13
Bank supervision between risk reduction and economic renewal	13
Bridging Normative and Market Power Europe: The EU’s Diffusion of Market-related Norms and Policies in ASEAN	13

A limited green criminological turn in the EU approach to climate change? Mapping representations of climate change as ecocide	12
Turnabout or continuity? The German Zeitenwende and the reaction of the V4 countries to it	12
Stalled by design: New paradoxes in the European Union’s single financial market	11
Is it all about distribution? – Debating the Green Deal in the European Parliament	11
Neverland: the strange non-death of cakeism in conservative European thought	11
Candidate turnover in EP- versus national elections: a new perspective on the second-order logic? A comparative analysis	11
The EU’s interactions with formal intergovernmental organizations: a big data analysis of news media	11
The European Green Deal and the democratic imagination	10
Explaining transformative change in EU climate policy: multilevel problems, policies, and politics	10
From NGEU to REPowerEU: policy steering and budgetary innovation in the EU	10
Getting Article 7 done: coalition-building against Hungary in the European Parliament	10
What do citizens in tax havens think? The EU blacklist and public opinion in Switzerland	10
Filling the EU information deficit mitigates negative EU attitudes among the least knowledgeable. Evidence from a population-based survey experiment	9
The ECB as a banking supervisor: transparent compared to what?	9
No fences, good neighbors: measuring and explaining integration in European cross-border regions	9
National satisfaction vs. European support? Explaining attitudes towards the EU in candidate member states	9
External shocks, policy spillovers, and veto players: (post)exceptionalist common agricultural policy and the case of the 2023-2027 reform	9
A moving target. EU actorness and the Russian invasion of Ukraine	9
Individual amending activity in the European Parliament committee system	9
The recovery and resilience facility as a new legal technology of European governance	9
Post-Brexit council: winners and losers after the UK’s withdrawal from the EU	8
Leaving the dragon’s shadow – Normative Power Europe and the emergence of a Taiwan policy in the EU?	8
Supranational authorities and private actors as drivers of single market integration? The state of the Union in electricity and banking	8
Human rights sanctions and the role of black knights: Evidence from the EU’s post-Soviet neighbours	8
Reform of global trade governance: the role of the European Union	8
Back to the future: Twenty-five years later, relaunching the project of transforming the EU into an Area of Freedom, Security and Justice?	7
Federal fiscal capacity and the challenge of the green transition in the EU	7
The EU’s different faces in climate diplomacy: leadership, interests, and responsibilities	7
Cross-border regionalism in the EU and ASEAN: another dimension of the “varieties of regionalism”	7
Explaining different usages of policy monitoring in the EU	7
Europe after the crises: toward an optimum financial area?	7
The European union: assessing global leadership through actorness in artificial intelligence	6
Navigating widening and deepening: the European Council, geopolitical motives, and Union enlargement	6
Constructing an ‘emotional community’ in times of crisis: the EU’s response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022	6
Multilevel governance in the temporal protection and integration of Ukrainians within the European Union: the case of Estonia	6
Negotiating and governing the economic and monetary union	6
Europe, the MENA region and knowledge production	6
The partnership that failed: EU-Russia relations and the war in Ukraine	6
Correction	6
Between contestation and compromise? An evolutionary analysis of eurosceptic MEPs in the EP’s INTA committee	5
The Domestic Challenge to EU Foreign Policy-Making: From Europeanisation to de-Europeanisation?	5
Between processes and norms. Understanding EU development cooperation beyond EU institutions	5
Emotional politics of norm hierarchy in EU’s external relations: the case of climate crisis and the EU’s arctic policy	5
Governing the digital economy: transatlantic accommodation and cooperation	5
Discursive postfunctionalism: theorizing the interface between EU politicization and policy-making	5