OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Leiden Journal of International Law 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
LJL volume 36 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	52
Recent developments in reliance upon third-party fact-finding at the International Court of Justice	31
China in the UNCLOS and BBNJ negotiations, yesterday once more?	25
The third wave of critical minerals	25
LJL volume 37 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	12
Jens Steffek, International Organizations as Technocratic Utopia, Oxford University Press, 2021, ISBN 9780192845573, 256pp, $100	12
Legal measures to preserve lunar security and safety in the context of China–US competition to the Moon: An appraisal from China’s perspective	12
Judicial Dissent at the International Criminal Court: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis	11
Eradicating the exceptional: The role of territory in structuring international legal thought	10
The Hawija airstrike: Reverberating effects on civilians under international humanitarian law	10
From soft law to hard law in business and human rights and the challenge of corporate power	9
On consular internationalism	9
On the punitive nature of ICC reparations orders	9
Climate tipping points: Tracing the limits of political discretion	9
The ‘imbroglio’ of ecocide: A political economic analysis	9
Subsidiarity does not win cases: A mixed methods study of the relationship between margin of appreciation language and deference at the European Court of Human Rights	8
National climate litigation and the international rule of law	8
Revisiting Jessup and the imperial origins of transnational law	8
Mapping representation before the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea	8
Digital evidence and fair trial rights at the International Criminal Court	7
Entangled harms: A reparative approach to climate justice	7
Francisco de Paula Santander and Haiti, 1824–5: Non-solidarity, neocolonialism, and the Haitian Revolution in the origins of Latin American international law	7
State responsibility in relation to military applications of artificial intelligence	7
Bibliography	6
Ukri Soirila, The Law of Humanity Project A Story of International Law Reform and State-making, Hart, 2021, 208pp, £80.00	6

LJL volume 37 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	6
The effects of international judges’ personal characteristics on their judging	6
Imperialism through adjudication in Latin America – ERRATUM	5
Gaza Marine: The facts and the law – ADDENDUM	5
LJL volume 37 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	5
LJL volume 35 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	5
Toward a new field of comparative regional human rights systems	5
Seventeen men at Lake Success: In search of the International Law Commission	5
Fela Aníkúlápó Kútì’s ‘cross-examination’ of the international system	5
Bibliography	4
Dislodging the compulsory dispute settlement mechanism: Analysis of Article 281 of UNCLOS	4
In what sense are international organizations ‘public’? A plea for an international public law of organization	4
Victim assistance under the Rome Statute: Approach and effectiveness of the Trust Fund for Victims assistance activities	4
Andrew Clapham, War, Oxford University Press, 2021, 624pp, £29.99 (pb)	4
What we talk about when we talk about ‘human shields’: Reading international law through images	4
The powers of silence: Making sense of the non-definition of gender in international criminal law	4
Bibliography	3
The concept of sustainable development in investment arbitration: A disconnect from investment policymaking and international adjudication	3
The fragmentation of international investment and tax dispute settlement: A good idea?	3
Customary international law: Formation, identification, and narrative construction	3
Bibliography	3
Prometheus caged: The exiling of Napoleon and the Law of Nations, 1814–1821	3
Mandatory human rights due diligence laws in Europe: A mirage for rightsholders?	3
Reflections on our article ‘Postwar development of offshore energy resources: Legal and political models for developing the Gaza Marine gas field’	3
The formative international law studies of Judge Shi Jiuyong	3
Ian Johnstone and Steven Ratner (eds.), Talking International Law: Legal Argumentation Outside the Courtroom, Oxford University Press, 2021, 368pp, £80.00	3
Seeing Santurbán through ISDS: A sociolegal case study of Eco Oro v. Colombia	3
LJL volume 35 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	3
Reconsidering ‘Sook Ching’ victimhood: A microhistory of Singapore’s Nishimura trial	3
To divide or not to divide: Innovations on liability for reparations in the Ntaganda case	3
Legal challenges of attributing malicious cyber activities against space activities	2
Self-judgment in international law: Between judicialization and pushback	2
The (un)changing face of ICJ advocacy	2
Beyond rhetoric: Interrogating the Eurocentric critique of international criminal law’s selectivity in the wake of the 2022 Ukraine invasion	2
The Law and Political Economy of Business and Human Rights: From governance gaps to root causes	2
Lessons to learn? Using the Inter-American Court of Human Rights’ jurisprudence on amnesties and pardons in the context of the Russo-Ukrainian War	2
An International Ombudsman to make non-governmental organizations more accountable? Too good to be true …	2
Collateral kids: Weighing the lives of children in targeting	2
Dokhtaran -e- khiyaban -e- Enghelab [The Girls of Revolution Street]	2
Legal status of abiotic resources in outer space: Appropriability, ownership, and access	2
International law and time between three paradigms	2
Processing state’s regulatory responsibility for seafood legality: An age-long vacuum in international law?	2
LJL volume 36 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	2
The armed conflict in Gaza, and its complexity under international law: Jus ad bellum, jus in bello, and international justice	2
Andrew Fitzmaurice, King Leopold’s Ghostwriter: The Creation of Persons and States in the Nineteenth Century, Princeton University Press, 2021, 592pp, ISBN: 9780691148694, $39.95	2
Deciphering l’esprit d’internationalité: The 1872 Alabama arbitration and the pacifist antithesis of modern international law profession	2
The two faces of Franco-Sudanian Treaties: The peripheral practice of ratification as evidence of transregional international law in the nineteenth century	2
Regionalism as development: The Lomé Conventions I and II (1975–1985)	2
Beyond the machinery metaphors: Towards a theory of international organizations as machines	2
Marine genetic resources, who owns and who owes what? A Hohfeldian mapping of legal positions on MGRs	2

Bibliography	2
Developments in Canada on business and human rights: One step forward two steps back	2