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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The parliamentary politics of the rule of law crisis in the EU	68
How ‘European sovereignty’ became mainstream: the geopoliticisation of the EU’s ’sovereign turn’ by pro-EU executive actors	61
Developing banking union’s common supervisory culture: a look into the ‘black box’ of joint supervisory teams	53
So much promise, so little delivery: evidence-based policy-making in the EU approach to migrant smuggling	51
Knowledge power Europe	47
Trans-governmental regulatory networks and the European Union’s involvement in global governance: an occasional instrument?	38
From streets to parliament: understanding the mechanisms of protest impact on the policy-making process in the European Parliament’s TTIP debate	35
The COVID-19 pandemic and institutional change in the EU’s financial assistance regime: the governance of the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF)	32
Player and playground: Europe in US–China competition	32
In Europe we trust: selecting and empowering EU institutions in disruptive circumstances	31
The European Union’s leadership in the eyes of others at the UN Human Rights Council	30
Investigating the politics of democratic legitimacy in EU climate policymaking: the special case of Fit for 55	28
The mismatch between regulatory ideals and practical implementation: the challenges faced by national regulatory bodies in pursuit of the single European railway area	26
Strategising solidarity: an examination of the Visegrád group’s role and motivations in EU migration policies	22
War and integration. The Russian attack on Ukraine and the institutional development of the EU	20
Quiet early bird or loud late riser? Parliamentary activities and types of European Parliament involvement during the negotiation of international agreements	20
The impact of Brexit: polity, politics, policy	18
Bridging Normative and Market Power Europe: The EU’s Diffusion of Market-related Norms and Policies in ASEAN	18
National identity as a cultural filter: External perceptions of the EU in Israel	18
In every crisis an opportunity? European Union integration in defence and the War on Ukraine	18
A limited green criminological turn in the EU approach to climate change? Mapping representations of climate change as ecocide	17
Bank supervision between risk reduction and economic renewal	17
Principal-agent relations, politics of discretion, and the Africa-EU Partnership on Peace and Security	17
Public finance and the dynamic of European integration: an expanding galaxy	16
Third time lucky? Reconciling EU climate and external energy policy during energy security crises	15

Turnabout or continuity? The German Zeitenwende and the reaction of the V4 countries to it	15
Towards a political economy of the green transition	14
How the climate movement shaped the EU: protest cycles and democratic spaces in the European green deal	14
Neverland: the strange non-death of cakeism in conservative European thought	14
The EU’s interactions with formal intergovernmental organizations: a big data analysis of news media	14
Candidate turnover in EP- versus national elections: a new perspective on the second-order logic? A comparative analysis	14
Synchronizing out of gridlock: how the Council of the EU reached agreement on the New Pact on Migration and Asylum	13
What do citizens in tax havens think? The EU blacklist and public opinion in Switzerland	13
Is it all about distribution? – Debating the Green Deal in the European Parliament	13
Filling the EU information deficit mitigates negative EU attitudes among the least knowledgeable. Evidence from a population-based survey experiment	12
Stalled by design: New paradoxes in the European Union’s single financial market	12
From NGEU to REPowerEU: policy steering and budgetary innovation in the EU	12
The European Green Deal and the democratic imagination	12
Getting Article 7 done: coalition-building against Hungary in the European Parliament	12
A moving target. EU actorness and the Russian invasion of Ukraine	11
Explaining transformative change in EU climate policy: multilevel problems, policies, and politics	11
No fences, good neighbors: measuring and explaining integration in European cross-border regions	11
The European Central Bank in the Single Supervisory Mechanism: The Maturing of the European Regulatory State	11
National satisfaction vs. European support? Explaining attitudes towards the EU in candidate member states	11
The EU’s different faces in climate diplomacy: leadership, interests, and responsibilities	10
The recovery and resilience facility as a new legal technology of European governance	10
Leaving the dragon’s shadow – Normative Power Europe and the emergence of a Taiwan policy in the EU?	10
Supranational authorities and private actors as drivers of single market integration? The state of the Union in electricity and banking	10
External shocks, policy spillovers, and veto players: (post)exceptionalist common agricultural policy and the case of the 2023-2027 reform	9
Back to the future: Twenty-five years later, relaunching the project of transforming the EU into an Area of Freedom, Security and Justice?	9
Explaining different usages of policy monitoring in the EU	9
The ECB as a banking supervisor: transparent compared to what?	8
Cross-border regionalism in the EU and ASEAN: another dimension of the “varieties of regionalism”	8
Europe after the crises: toward an optimum financial area?	8
Post-Brexit council: winners and losers after the UK’s withdrawal from the EU	8
Reform of global trade governance: the role of the European Union	8
Europe, the MENA region and knowledge production	7
Constructing an ‘emotional community’ in times of crisis: the EU’s response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022	7
Navigating widening and deepening: the European Council, geopolitical motives, and Union enlargement	7
From cohesion to differentiation? The effect of Cohesion Policy on the citizens’ preferences for differentiated integration	7
The partnership that failed: EU-Russia relations and the war in Ukraine	7
Wedging, binding and Europe in the US-China competition: theoretical and policy implications	7
Federal fiscal capacity and the challenge of the green transition in the EU	7
Multilevel governance in the temporal protection and integration of Ukrainians within the European Union: the case of Estonia	7
Correction	7
Democracy and European Union: beyond the dichotomy	6
The European union: assessing global leadership through actorness in artificial intelligence	6
Emotional politics of norm hierarchy in EU’s external relations: the case of climate crisis and the EU’s arctic policy	6
Negotiating and governing the economic and monetary union	6
Discursive postfunctionalism: theorizing the interface between EU politicization and policy-making	6
Governing the digital economy: transatlantic accommodation and cooperation	5
The European Union’s roles in global atmospheric governance: evolving towards a ‘spacifier’?	5
Cohesion through co-optation: the mobilisation of evaluative critique as a key enabler of a European investment policy	5
How to implement the European digital single market: identifying the catalyst for digital transformation	5
The European Union’s transformation after Russia’s attack on Ukraine	5

’We do not see the problem, but agree with your solution’: the European Court of Auditors and the politics of evaluation in EU development policy	5
Between contestation and compromise? An evolutionary analysis of eurosceptic MEPs in the EP’s INTA committee	5
EU law and the governance of Global Spaces: ambitions, constraints and legal creativity	5
Policy learning within and across European institutions: charting the path towards European integration	5
The Roma and the double-movement of Social Europe	5
Between processes and norms. Understanding EU development cooperation beyond EU institutions	5
Populism, the far right and EU integration: beyond simple dichotomies	5
The transformation and design of EU restrictive measures against Russia	5
Winds of change? The impact of the European Green Deal on the practice of EU climate diplomacy	5
Exploring the cave of the unknown: transnational party politics in the EU	5
The crisis discourse’s blind spot: EU-level politicization and the endogenization of the migration crisis	5
Do citizens know more about political issues after failed referendums? Evidence from the EU Constitution referendum	5