OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Terrorism and Political Violence 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
The Origins and Rise of Dissident Irish Republicanism: The Role and Impact of Organizational Splits	27
Censoring Extremism: Influence of Online Restriction on Official Media Products of ISIS	23
Losing Hearts and Minds: Civil Conflict, Counterinsurgency Policing and Postwar Crime in Insurgent Strongholds	21
Assessing Violence Risk among Far-Right Extremists: A New Role for Natural Language Processing	21
Mobilizing for Jihad: How Political Exclusion and Organized Protest Contribute to Foreign Fighter Outflows	20
Making and Unmaking Nations: War, Leadership, and Genocide in Modern Africa Making and Unmaking Nations: War, Leadership, and Genocide in Modern Africa , by Scott Straus	20
New Currents in the Middle East	15
Understanding Territorial Withdrawal: Israeli Occupations and Exits	13
Exploring the Intersection of Environmental Events and Domestic Political Violence in the United States	13
Image Content Indicators of Extremist Group Evolution: A Comparative Study of MENA-Based and Far-Right Groups	13
The Relational Dimension of Radicalization: Context and Tie Formation in Dutch Salafi-Jihadi Networks	12
Psychopathologies Among European Women Involved in Islamist Radicalization: A Review	12
The Rhetoric of Radicalism: The Anti-Colonial Inspiration Behind Osama bin Laden’s Ideology	11
Deconstructing Fears of Terrorism: A Comparison between Fear from Domestic and International Terrorist Groups	10
How do Militant Organizations Respond to Counterterrorism? Introducing the LIVE Typology, with Examples from Proscription in Pakistan	10
Citizenship, Family Law, and the Repatriation of Islamic State Affiliates in MENA	9
Four Typologies of Leadership Applied to a Survey of the Provisional IRA and Sinn Féin in the Troubles	9
Climate Migration: Adding Fuel to the Ethnocentric Fire	8
Time Is of the Essence: Temporality and Competition as Drivers of Terrorist Credit-Taking	8
Racist and Anti-diversity Attitudes as Predictors of Support for Political Violence among Supporters of Mainstream Political Parties	8
Social Ties and Jihadist Participation: A Mixed-Methods Approach to the Differential Recruitment of Radicalized Youth in Spain	8
A Call to Dissent: Defending Democracy Against Extremism and Populism	8
The Capitol Attack and the 5th Terrorism Wave	7
Foreign Fighter Mobilization: YPG Volunteers in Their Own Words	7
The Coercion-Manipulation-Persuasion Framework: Analyzing theModus Operandiof Systems of Non-State Actors	7

Elections and Anti-Refugee Violence in Germany from 2014-2020	7
Silver Lining? The Effects of Epidemics on Terrorist Groups	7
Developmental and Biographical Issues in Radicalization Pathways: A Comparative Case Analysis of Homegrown German Convicts of Islamist Terrorism-Related Offenses	7
“Why We Have Become Revolutionaries and Murderers”: Radicalization, Terrorism, and Fascism in the Ustaša–Croatian Revolutionary Organization	7
Ceasefires: Stopping the Violence and Negotiating Peace	6
The Origins of International Counterterrorism: Switzerland at the Forefront of Crisis Negotiations, Multilateral Diplomacy, and Intelligence Cooperation (1969-1977)	6
International Organisations and Terrorism: Multilateral Antiterrorism Efforts, 1960–1990	6
Right-Wing Extremism in Canada Right-Wing Extremism in Canada , by Barbara Perry and Ryan Scrivens, New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, 277 pp., $89.99 (hardcover), ISBN	6
When Home Disappears: South Asia and the Growing Risk of Climate Conflict	6
When Do Radical Flanks Use Violence? Conditions for Violent Protest in Radical Left-Libertarian Activism in Sweden, 1997–2016	6
Social Networks as the New Frontier of Terrorism Social Networks as the New Frontier of Terrorism , by Laura Scaife, London and New York, Routledge, 2017, 201 pp., $50.0	5
Boko Haram’s Child Soldiers: Media Mujahids, Martyrs, and Militants	5
How Contagious Were the Capitol Riots in Europe – In Praxis and in Perception?	5
Croatian Radical Separatism and Diaspora Terrorism During the Cold War	5
Public Perceptions of What Qualifies as Terrorism Across Similar Countries with Diverse Terrorism Experiences	5
Assessing the Validity of Open-Source Biographical Data in Terrorism Research	5
A New Counterterrorism Strategy: Why the World Failed to Stop Al Qaeda and ISIS/ISIL, and How to Defeat Terrorists	5
South Sudan’s Injustice System. Law and Activism on the Frontline	5
Portugal’s Forgotten Overseas Wars in the 20th Century	5
Religious Fundamentalism in the Age of Pandemic Religious Fundamentalism in the Age of Pandemic , by Nina Käsehage, Bielefeld, Germany, Trancript, 2021, 278 pp., € 37 (p	5
Correction	4
Retribution versus Rehabilitation for Children within Insurgency: Public Attitudes Toward ISIS-Affiliated Youth in Mosul, Iraq	4
Dogs and Cats Living Together? Explaining the Crime-Terror Nexus	4
Success or Shirking in Terror: Control Mechanisms in State Sponsored Terrorism	4
Lethal Beliefs: Ideology and the Lethality of Terrorist Organizations	4
Predicting Novel Terrorism: Media Coverage as Early-Warning System of Novelty in Terror Attacks	4
What Drives Counter-Extremism? The Extent of P/CVE Policies in the West and Their Structural Correlates	4
Measuring the Potential for Hateful Behaviours: Development and Validation of the Hate Behaviours Scale (HBS)	4
Gathering Storm: An Introduction to the Special Issue on Climate Change and Terrorism	4
How Terror Evolves: The Emergence and Spread of Terrorist Techniques	4
Killing Strangers: How Political Violence Became Modern	3
To Be Experienced or Not? Unpacking the Relationship between Leader Tenure and Counterinsurgency Efforts	3
The Gangster and the Bride: The Media Representation of Masculinity and Femininity in News Coverage of Jihadi Terrorists	3
(De)legitimization of Private Soldiers without Legal Status: The Case of Ukraine	3
Examining the Persisting and Desisting Online Posting Behaviors of Violent and Non-Violent Right-Wing Extremists	3
Perceived Policy Illegitimacy Leads to Acceptance of Political Violence: Evidence from a Nationally Representative Survey Experiment in Denmark	3
Perspectives on Violent Extremism: Insights from Swedish Population Registers in a Global Comparison	3
Contentious Rituals: Parading the Nation in Northern Ireland	3
Super Mad at Everything All the Time: Political Media and Our National Anger	3
Armed and Explosive? An Explorative Statistical Analysis of Extremist Radicalization Cases with Military Background	3
Part-Time Foreign Jihadist Fighters in the Syrian Civil War	3
We Have All Been Warned: Public Debate on the Capitol Attack in Finland and Sweden	3
Watching Murder: ISIS, Death Videos and Radicalization Watching Murder: ISIS, Death Videos and Radicalization , by Simon Cottee, New York, NY, Routledge, 2022, 156 pp.,	3
Silent Sympathy: News Attention, Subtle Support for Far-Right Extremism, and Negative Attitudes Toward Muslims	3
Shaykh Yusuf al-Qaradawi: Spiritual Mentor of Wasati Salafism	3
The Role of Honeypots and Sabotage in State-Based Operations Against Online Jihadism, 2001-2020	2
“What Made Me Change”: Transformative Experiences in the Jihadist Radicalization Process	2
Non-Western Responses to Terrorism Non-Western Responses to Terrorism , edited by Michael J. Boyle, Manchester, England, Manchester University Press, 2019, 504 pp., $36.	2
Local Conditions for Anti-immigrant Violence: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) of Asylum Housing Attacks in Sweden	2
Longevity of Partnering Terrorist Organization: An Empirical Study Using A Network Diffusion Model	2

Deterring Terrorism: A Model for Strategic Deterrence	2
The Representational Strategies of Lionization and Victimization in ISIS’s Online Magazine, Dabiq	2
Why do Insurgents Target Religion? The Case of Shining Path in Peru	2
The Ulster Tales: A Tribute to Those Who Served 1969–2000	2
Urban Terrorism in the Arab World: Introducing a Dataset of Jihadist Attack Plots in Jordan	2
Pulling the Brakes on Political Violence: How Internal Brakes Limited Violent Escalation from the Provisional IRA in Pre- and Post-Good Friday Northern Ireland	2
Inequality and Radicalisation: Systematic Review of Quantitative Studies	2
Reluctant Spies: The Role of Neighbourhood Leaders in Indonesia’s PVE Strategy	2
Key Thinkers of the Radical Right: Behind the New Threat to Liberal Democracy	2
Assessing Racial and Ethnically Motivated Extremist Cyberattacks Using Open Source Data	2
How Did 9/11 Affect Terrorism Research? Examining Articles and Authors, 1970–2019	2
A Conspiracy of Dunces: Good Americans vs. A Cabal of Satanic Pedophiles?	2
Cognitive Distortions in Men Who Have Exited White Supremacist Groups	2
Needs, Rights and Systems: Increasing Canadian Intimate Bystander Reporting on Radicalizing to Violence	2
Automating Terror: The Role and Impact of Telegram Bots in the Islamic State’s Online Ecosystem	2
Drone Activity and Cyber Terrorism Cyber Enigma: Unravelling the Terror in the Cyber World , by E. Dilipraj, New York, NY Routledge, 2019, 262 pp., $155.00 (hardcover),	2
U.S. Homegrown Political Violence and Terrorism	2
Nativist and Islamist Radicalism: Anger and Anxiety	2
Hate Crime in Northern Ireland: The Need for Legislation and a Bespoke Version of the Prevent Strategy	2
Regime Type of Foreign Supporters of Resistance Movements and its Impact on State Repression	2
How to Make Sense of it All: A Feasibility Study of Meaning-Centered Interventions in Deradicalization Counseling	2
Countering Terrorist Narratives: Assessing the Efficacy and Mechanisms of Change in Counter-narrative Strategies	2
Why Do Online Countering Violent Extremism Strategies Not Work? The Case of Digital Jihad	2
Never-Ending War on Terror	2
Expressions of Radicalization: Global Politics, Processes and Practices	2
Monsters to Destroy: Understanding the War on Terror	2
The Violence of Peace: Post Good Friday Agreement Paramilitary Vigilantism in Northern Ireland	2