OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Conflict Management and Peace Science is 2. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Undivine intervention: How social networks mediate the relationship between religious repression and political violence	13
Morally opposed? A theory of public attitudes and emerging military technologies	11
Does a patron state's hardline posture reassure the public in an allied state?	10
More than monoliths: The gendered dynamics of support for torture in the United States	10
Depoliticizing rebels: Government use of civilian trials during armed conflict	10
PTSD and perpetrator participation in restorative transitional justice	9
From participation to provision: How civil society secures procedural rights through peace negotiations	9
Politically active dyads revisited: An update through 2014	9
Amnesty as a weapon of war: Incentivizing rebel defection during armed conflict	9
Measuring state security relationships: The security position score	9
When do leader backgrounds matter? Evidence from the President’s Daily Brief	8
Rebel network theory: The case of Moro Islamic Liberation Front	7
Do ethno-territorial rebels tolerate political competition? Power- and preference-based explanations	7
Punishment and blame: How core beliefs affect support for the use of force in a nuclear crisis	6
Donor political preferences and the allocation of aid: Patterns in recipient type	6
The die is cast? The origins of territorial claims & their escalation to military hostilities	6
Protest without influence? A meso-level analysis of women's inclusion in civil resistance movements	6
Economic development and revolutions. A cross-national investigation	6
The limits of shame: UN shaming, NGO repression, and women's protests	6
Unique offerings: Ideological competition and rebel governance	5
Crisis bargaining, domestic politics and Russia's invasion of Ukraine	5
Nuclear weapons and interstate conflict behavior: The moderating influence of civil–military relations	5
If we cooperate together, we intervene together: Defense cooperation agreements and support to conflict parties	5
Remittances, terrorism, and democracy	5
Life after exile: Introducing a new dataset on post-exile fate	5

The conditions for war and peace in interstate crises: An Introduction to this special issue	5
Treaty legalization, security interests, and ratification of multilateral disarmament treaties	5
Insecure fisheries: How illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing affects piracy	5
Rainfall shocks and state repression: How rainfall shocks incentivize governments to commit human rights abuses	5
Double standard: Chinese public opinion on the Hong Kong protests	5
Hurting or healing? How conflict exposure and trauma (do not) shape support for truth commissions	4
Aid targeting in post-conflict Nepal	4
Introducing the new diplomatic visits with France dataset, 1950–2020	4
Using committee amendments to improve estimates of state foreign policy preferences	4
Exogenous factors and the crisis bargaining process	4
Private military and security companies and human rights abuses: The impact of CEOs’ military background	4
Price of nationalism: Evidence from cross-border shopping in Cyprus	4
Assessing border walls’ varied impacts on terrorist group diffusion	4
Intervention, war expansion, and the international sources of civil war	4
Protest and handcuffs: The repressive effect of arrests	4
Regional approaches to conflict prevention: The effectiveness of rhetorical and diplomatic tools	4
Endogenous military strategy and crisis bargaining	4
Peace through equality: Exploring the cross-national micro-foundations of the gender equality-peace nexus	3
Delegative peacebuilding: Explaining post-conflict selective violence	3
How reciprocal cooperation between international rivals shapes threat perceptions: Evidence from inter-Korean rapprochement in 2018	3
Conceptualizing private military and security companies	3
Radicalizing alone: Are “lone wolves” idiosyncratic, political entrepreneurs or aggrieved avengers?	3
The implementation of truth commission recommendations: Exploring the ‘beyond words’ database for Latin America	3
Why gendered quantification trends are a problem: Post-traumatic growth arguments and the civil war malestream	3
Beyond body counts: Vietnam war ground combat data	3
Relative political capacity: A dataset to evaluate the performance of nations, 1960–2018	3
Talking bodies: Hostage concessions in civil war	3
Rebel institutions and negotiated peace	3
Beyond deterrence: Uncertain stability in the nuclear era	3
The problem with accidental war	3
The human cost of war: An experimental study of Taiwanese attitudes towards war casualties	3
Storms, floods, landslides and elections in India's growing metropolises: Hotbeds for political protest?	3
Aid for non-aggression	3
Why incumbents perpetrate election violence during civil war	3
Market power politics, critical minerals, and conflict: Presidential address at the 2025 annual meeting of the peace science society, international	3
Ethnic preferences, domestic audiences and military coalition formation	3
Either with us or against us: The threat of rebel group fragmentation to demobilized rebels	3
The harsh face of the empire by invitation: Coups in the US world order	2
Measuring Chinese economic sanctions 1949–2020: Introducing the China TIES dataset	2
Peacekeeping operations and shadow economy growth in host countries	2
Attention beyond the battlefield: Voters’ responses to foreign military investments	2
External intelligence assistance and the recipient government’s violence against civilians	2
How exposure to wartime violence shapes conflict resolution preferences	2
International virtue signaling: How female combatants shape state support for armed rebellion	2
Lethal aid and human security: The effects of US security assistance on civilian harm in low- and middle-income countries	2
Ripe moments for terror attacks: Opportunity benefits–reputation tradeoff	2
How leader's type shapes the effect of nuclear latency on dispute involvement	2
Rugged terrain, forest coverage, and insurgency in Myanmar	2
Creating (with) community: The value of collaboration in peace Science	2
The asymmetry of war support: Evidence from private donations to Ukraine	2

Public opinion on sanctions compliance and evasion: Experimental evidence from the 2022–23 Russia sanctions