OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of European Integration is 7. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
From streets to parliament: understanding the mechanisms of protest impact on the policy-making process in the European Parliament’s TTIP debate	74
Developing banking union’s common supervisory culture: a look into the ‘black box’ of joint supervisory teams	67
Knowledge power Europe	60
The parliamentary politics of the rule of law crisis in the EU	53
So much promise, so little delivery: evidence-based policy-making in the EU approach to migrant smuggling	50
Trans-governmental regulatory networks and the European Union’s involvement in global governance: an occasional instrument?	39
How ‘European sovereignty’ became mainstream: the geopoliticisation of the EU’s ’sovereign turn’ by pro-EU executive actors	38
The COVID-19 pandemic and institutional change in the EU’s financial assistance regime: the governance of the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF)	33
In Europe we trust: selecting and empowering EU institutions in disruptive circumstances	33
Player and playground: Europe in US–China competition	33
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	29
War and integration. The Russian attack on Ukraine and the institutional development of the EU	25
Strategising solidarity: an examination of the Visegrád group’s role and motivations in EU migration policies	23
The mismatch between regulatory ideals and practical implementation: the challenges faced by national regulatory bodies in pursuit of the single European railway area	23
In every crisis an opportunity? European Union integration in defence and the War on Ukraine	22
Quiet early bird or loud late riser? Parliamentary activities and types of European Parliament involvement during the negotiation of international agreements	21
Public finance and the dynamic of European integration: an expanding galaxy	20
National identity as a cultural filter: External perceptions of the EU in Israel	20
Bridging Normative and Market Power Europe: The EU’s Diffusion of Market-related Norms and Policies in ASEAN	20
Principal-agent relations, politics of discretion, and the Africa-EU Partnership on Peace and Security	19
Bank supervision between risk reduction and economic renewal	18
Third time lucky? Reconciling EU climate and external energy policy during energy security crises	18
A limited green criminological turn in the EU approach to climate change? Mapping representations of climate change as ecocide	17
Turnabout or continuity? The German Zeitenwende and the reaction of the V4 countries to it	17

In the shadow of the EU’s crises: the changing dynamics of the European knowledge area, 2014–25	16
The impact of Brexit: polity, politics, policy	16
How the climate movement shaped the EU: protest cycles and democratic spaces in the European green deal	15
Candidate turnover in EP- versus national elections: a new perspective on the second-order logic? A comparative analysis	15
Is it all about distribution? – Debating the Green Deal in the European Parliament	14
Towards a political economy of the green transition	14
The EU’s interactions with formal intergovernmental organizations: a big data analysis of news media	14
Synchronizing out of gridlock: how the Council of the EU reached agreement on the New Pact on Migration and Asylum	14
Filling the EU information deficit mitigates negative EU attitudes among the least knowledgeable. Evidence from a population-based survey experiment	13
Explaining transformative change in EU climate policy: multilevel problems, policies, and politics	13
Getting Article 7 done: coalition-building against Hungary in the European Parliament	13
Neverland: the strange non-death of cakeism in conservative European thought	13
The European Central Bank in the Single Supervisory Mechanism: The Maturing of the European Regulatory State	12
Stalled by design: New paradoxes in the European Union’s single financial market	12
A moving target. EU actorness and the Russian invasion of Ukraine	12
The European Green Deal and the democratic imagination	12
From NGEU to REPowerEU: policy steering and budgetary innovation in the EU	12
What do citizens in tax havens think? The EU blacklist and public opinion in Switzerland	12
No fences, good neighbors: measuring and explaining integration in European cross-border regions	11
National satisfaction vs. European support? Explaining attitudes towards the EU in candidate member states	11
The recovery and resilience facility as a new legal technology of European governance	11
Explaining different usages of policy monitoring in the EU	10
The ECB as a banking supervisor: transparent compared to what?	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	10
Post-Brexit council: winners and losers after the UK’s withdrawal from the EU	9
Reform of global trade governance: the role of the European Union	9
From cohesion to differentiation? The effect of Cohesion Policy on the citizens’ preferences for differentiated integration	9
Europe after the crises: toward an optimum financial area?	9
Navigating widening and deepening: the European Council, geopolitical motives, and Union enlargement	8
Cross-border regionalism in the EU and ASEAN: another dimension of the “varieties of regionalism”	8
The partnership that failed: EU-Russia relations and the war in Ukraine	8
Federal fiscal capacity and the challenge of the green transition in the EU	8
Leaving the dragon’s shadow – Normative Power Europe and the emergence of a Taiwan policy in the EU?	8
Europe, the MENA region and knowledge production	8
The EU’s different faces in climate diplomacy: leadership, interests, and responsibilities	8
Back to the future: Twenty-five years later, relaunching the project of transforming the EU into an Area of Freedom, Security and Justice?	8
Wedging, binding and Europe in the US-China competition: theoretical and policy implications	7
The European union: assessing global leadership through actorness in artificial intelligence	7
Emotional politics of norm hierarchy in EU’s external relations: the case of climate crisis and the EU’s arctic policy	7
The transformation and design of EU restrictive measures against Russia	7
Correction	7
Negotiating and governing the economic and monetary union	7
Democracy and European Union: beyond the dichotomy	7
Multilevel governance in the temporal protection and integration of Ukrainians within the European Union: the case of Estonia	7
Constructing an ‘emotional community’ in times of crisis: the EU’s response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022	7
Between processes and norms. Understanding EU development cooperation beyond EU institutions	7
Between contestation and compromise? An evolutionary analysis of eurosceptic MEPs in the EP’s INTA committee	7