OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of European Integration is 6. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
EU economic governance and Covid-19: policy learning and windows of opportunity	116
European Union Responses to the Covid-19 Pandemic: adaptability in times of Permanent Emergency	84
The Covid-19 crisis: a critical juncture for EU climate policy development?	82
Theorizing institutional change and governance in European responses to the Covid-19 pandemic	73
Nein to ‘Transfer Union’: the German brake on the construction of a European Union fiscal capacity	40
The development of EU health policy and the Covid-19 pandemic: trends and implications	39
Discursive continuity and change in the time of Covid-19: the case of EU cybersecurity policy	35
The Domestic Challenge to EU Foreign Policy-Making: From Europeanisation to de-Europeanisation?	35
Framing immobility: Schengen governance in times of pandemics	28
In every crisis an opportunity? European Union integration in defence and the War on Ukraine	27
Sizing up the competition: explaining reform of European Union competition policy in the Covid-19 era	26
A member state like any other? Germany and the European integration of core state powers	24
Digital Single Market and the EU Competition Regime: An Explanation of Policy Change	24
A moving target. EU actorness and the Russian invasion of Ukraine	23
A community of shared values? Dimensions and dynamics of cultural integration in the European Union	22
War and integration. The Russian attack on Ukraine and the institutional development of the EU	21
Reframing the language of human rights? Political group contestations on women’s and LGBTQI rights in European Parliament debates	19
Wartime EU: consequences of the Russia – Ukraine war on the enlargement process	19
The European Council as a crisis manager and fusion driver: assessing the EU’s fiscal response to the COVID-19 pandemic	18
Clear messages to the European public? The language of European Commission press releases 1985–2020	17
The European Union’s transformation after Russia’s attack on Ukraine	17
Loyal at once? The EU’s global health awakening in the Covid-19 pandemic	16
The partnership that failed: EU-Russia relations and the war in Ukraine	16
The European defence fund: a step towards a single market for defence?	15
Championing the ‘German model’? Germany’s consistent preferences on the integration of fiscal constraints	15

Debating fiscal solidarity in the EU: interests, values and identities in the legitimation of the Next Generation EU plan	14
The Ukraine war and the emergence of the European commission as a geopolitical actor	14
Importing EU norms: the case of anti-corruption reform in Ukraine	14
Populism meets EU Foreign policy: the de-Europeanization of Poland´s Foreign policy toward the Israeli-Palestinian conflict	14
The transformation and design of EU restrictive measures against Russia	13
Defending European integration by (symbolically) integrating European defence? Germany and its ambivalent role in European security and defence policy	13
The impact of Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine on public perceptions of EU security and defence integration: a big data analysis	13
Foreign policy and de-Europeanization under the M5S–League government: exploring the Italian behavior in the UN General Assembly	12
Third time lucky? Reconciling EU climate and external energy policy during energy security crises	12
How to implement the European digital single market: identifying the catalyst for digital transformation	12
Power without a cause? Germany’s conflict avoidance and the integration of European defence procurement	12
The Return of Intergovernmentalism? De-Europeanisation and EU Foreign Policy Decision-making	11
Explaining the reform of the Europarties’ selection procedures for Spitzenkandidaten	11
Not so unique after all? Urgency and norms in EU foreign and security policy	11
Defying Europe? The Euroscepticism of radical right and radical left voters in Western Europe	10
The Eurozone crisis’ impact: a de-Europeanization of Greek and Portuguese foreign policies?	10
The European Union’s failure to address the autocracy crisis: MacGyver, Rube Goldberg, and Europe’s unused tools	9
Watering down the ‘nuclear option’? The Council and the Article 7 dilemma	9
Borrowing in the European Union: from a pure national model to the antechamber of a European fiscal federal solution	9
Resisting domestic and external pressure towards de-Europeanization of foreign policy? The case of Estonia	9
The discursive construction of discontent: varieties of populist anti-system ideas and discursive interactions in Europe	9
Ontological security, crisis and political myth: the Ukraine war and the European Union	9
Challenges to the European single market at thirty: renationalisation, resilience, or renewed integration?	8
From Trevi to Europol: Germany’s role in the integration of EU police cooperation	8
The impact of Russia’s war against Ukraine on Sino-European relations	8
The return of the commission social entrepreneurship before and after the Covid-19 pandemic	8
One step forward, two steps back: the ambiguous role of Germany in EU Asylum policies	8
Promoting the regulatory or the redistributive state? The politicisation of core state power integration in the German Bundestag, 1978-2019	7
Policy responsibility in the multilevel EU structure – The (non-)effect of media reporting on citizens’ responsibility attribution across four policy areas	7
Hierarchy, polyarchy, and experimentalism in EU banking regulation: the Single Supervisory Mechanism in action	7
Unintentional neo-colonialism? Three generations of trade and development relationship between EU and West Africa	7
Unity over diversity? The politics of differentiated integration after Brexit	7
The European Central Bank, the Single Supervisory Mechanism and the COVID-19 related economic crisis: a neofunctionalist analysis	7
Multilevel governance in the temporal protection and integration of Ukrainians within the European Union: the case of Estonia	7
Towards a ‘gold standard for the world’? The European General Data Protection Regulation between supranational and national norm entrepreneurship	7
Introduction to the special issue: the persistent challenges to European Banking Union	6
Emotions in EU foreign policy – when and how do they matter?	6
So much promise, so little delivery: evidence-based policy-making in the EU approach to migrant smuggling	6
Watching EU watchdogs assessing the accountability powers of the European Court of auditors and the European Ombudsman	6
Executive gladiators in the European arena: discursive intergovernmentalism in the politicization of the Covid-19 EU recovery plan	6
Turnabout or continuity? The German Zeitenwende and the reaction of the V4 countries to it	6
Speaking on Europe’s behalf: EU discourses of representation during the refugee crisis	6
Russia’s war in Ukraine and transformation of EU public diplomacy: challenges and opportunities	6
De-Europeanisation in European foreign policy-making: assessing an exploratory research agenda	6
Discursive postfunctionalism: theorizing the interface between EU politicization and policy-making	6
Bringing Independence and Accountability Together: Mission Impossible for the European Central Bank?	6
From projection to introspection: enlargement discourses since the ‘big bang’ accession	6