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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The Origins and Rise of Dissident Irish Republicanism: The Role and Impact of Organizational Splits	23
Censoring Extremism: Influence of Online Restriction on Official Media Products of ISIS	23
Assessing Violence Risk among Far-Right Extremists: A New Role for Natural Language Processing	21
Losing Hearts and Minds: Civil Conflict, Counterinsurgency Policing and Postwar Crime in Insurgent Strongholds	21
New Currents in the Middle East	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	17
Understanding Territorial Withdrawal: Israeli Occupations and Exits	14
Image Content Indicators of Extremist Group Evolution: A Comparative Study of MENA-Based and Far-Right Groups	13
Mobilizing for Jihad: How Political Exclusion and Organized Protest Contribute to Foreign Fighter Outflows	12
The Relational Dimension of Radicalization: Context and Tie Formation in Dutch Salafi-Jihadi Networks	12
Exploring the Intersection of Environmental Events and Domestic Political Violence in the United States	12
Citizenship, Family Law, and the Repatriation of Islamic State Affiliates in MENA	10
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	8
Four Typologies of Leadership Applied to a Survey of the Provisional IRA and Sinn Féin in the Troubles	8
A Call to Dissent: Defending Democracy Against Extremism and Populism	8
The Rhetoric of Radicalism: The Anti-Colonial Inspiration Behind Osama bin Laden’s Ideology	8
Social Ties and Jihadist Participation: A Mixed-Methods Approach to the Differential Recruitment of Radicalized Youth in Spain	7
Racist and Anti-diversity Attitudes as Predictors of Support for Political Violence among Supporters of Mainstream Political Parties	7
The Coercion-Manipulation-Persuasion Framework: Analyzing theModus Operandiof Systems of Non-State Actors	7
Psychopathologies Among European Women Involved in Islamist Radicalization: A Review	7
Climate Migration: Adding Fuel to the Ethnocentric Fire	7
Silver Lining? The Effects of Epidemics on Terrorist Groups	6
“Why We Have Become Revolutionaries and Murderers”: Radicalization, Terrorism, and Fascism in the Ustaša–Croatian Revolutionary Organization	6
Time Is of the Essence: Temporality and Competition as Drivers of Terrorist Credit-Taking	6

Foreign Fighter Mobilization: YPG Volunteers in Their Own Words	6
The Capitol Attack and the 5th Terrorism Wave	5
Developmental and Biographical Issues in Radicalization Pathways: A Comparative Case Analysis of Homegrown German Convicts of Islamist Terrorism-Related Offenses	5
Fortress Russia: Conspiracy Theories in Post-Soviet Russia	5
When Do Radical Flanks Use Violence? Conditions for Violent Protest in Radical Left-Libertarian Activism in Sweden, 1997–2016	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
The Origins of International Counterterrorism: Switzerland at the Forefront of Crisis Negotiations, Multilateral Diplomacy, and Intelligence Cooperation (1969-1977)	5
When Home Disappears: South Asia and the Growing Risk of Climate Conflict	5
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	5
Assessing the Validity of Open-Source Biographical Data in Terrorism Research	5
International Organisations and Terrorism: Multilateral Antiterrorism Efforts, 1960–1990	5
Elections and Anti-Refugee Violence in Germany from 2014-2020	5
How Contagious Were the Capitol Riots in Europe – In Praxis and in Perception?	5
Portugal’s Forgotten Overseas Wars in the 20th Century	5
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	4
Success or Shirking in Terror: Control Mechanisms in State Sponsored Terrorism	4
Croatian Radical Separatism and Diaspora Terrorism During the Cold War	4
South Sudan’s Injustice System. Law and Activism on the Frontline	4
Boko Haram’s Child Soldiers: Media Mujahids, Martyrs, and Militants	4
A New Counterterrorism Strategy: Why the World Failed to Stop Al Qaeda and ISIS/ISIL, and How to Defeat Terrorists	4
What Drives Counter-Extremism? The Extent of P/CVE Policies in the West and Their Structural Correlates	4
Predicting Novel Terrorism: Media Coverage as Early-Warning System of Novelty in Terror Attacks	4
Principles of Conflict Economics: The Political Economy of War, Terrorism, Genocide, and Peace	3
To Be Experienced or Not? Unpacking the Relationship between Leader Tenure and Counterinsurgency Efforts	3
(De)legitimization of Private Soldiers without Legal Status: The Case of Ukraine	3
Killing Strangers: How Political Violence Became Modern Killing Strangers: How Political Violence Became Modern , by T. K. Wilson, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2020,	3
Lethal Beliefs: Ideology and the Lethality of Terrorist Organizations	3
Measuring the Potential for Hateful Behaviours: Development and Validation of the Hate Behaviours Scale (HBS)	3
Correction	3
How Terror Evolves: The Emergence and Spread of Terrorist Techniques	3
Super Mad at Everything All the Time: Political Media and Our National Anger	3
We Have All Been Warned: Public Debate on the Capitol Attack in Finland and Sweden	3
Gathering Storm: An Introduction to the Special Issue on Climate Change and Terrorism	3
Retribution versus Rehabilitation for Children within Insurgency: Public Attitudes Toward ISIS-Affiliated Youth in Mosul, Iraq	3
Part-Time Foreign Jihadist Fighters in the Syrian Civil War	3
Perceived Policy Illegitimacy Leads to Acceptance of Political Violence: Evidence from a Nationally Representative Survey Experiment in Denmark	3
Examining the Persisting and Desisting Online Posting Behaviors of Violent and Non-Violent Right-Wing Extremists	3
Contentious Rituals: Parading the Nation in Northern Ireland	3
Dogs and Cats Living Together? Explaining the Crime-Terror Nexus	3
Public Perceptions of What Qualifies as Terrorism Across Similar Countries with Diverse Terrorism Experiences	3
Silent Sympathy: News Attention, Subtle Support for Far-Right Extremism, and Negative Attitudes Toward Muslims	2
Shaykh Yusuf al-Qaradawi: Spiritual Mentor of Wasati Salafism	2
Key Thinkers of the Radical Right: Behind the New Threat to Liberal Democracy	2
Hate Crime in Northern Ireland: The Need for Legislation and a Bespoke Version of the Prevent Strategy	2
Why do Insurgents Target Religion? The Case of Shining Path in Peru	2
Inequality and Radicalisation: Systematic Review of Quantitative Studies	2
The Representational Strategies of Lionization and Victimization in ISIS’s Online Magazine, Dabiq	2
Expressions of Radicalization: Global Politics, Processes and Practices	2
The Ulster Tales: A Tribute to Those Who Served 1969–2000	2
Reluctant Spies: The Role of Neighbourhood Leaders in Indonesia’s PVE Strategy	2

Armed and Explosive? An Explorative Statistical Analysis of Extremist Radicalization Cases with Military Background	2
The Gangster and the Bride: The Media Representation of Masculinity and Femininity in News Coverage of Jihadi Terrorists	2
How Did 9/11 Affect Terrorism Research? Examining Articles and Authors, 1970–2019	2
Regime Type of Foreign Supporters of Resistance Movements and its Impact on State Repression	2
Local Conditions for Anti-immigrant Violence: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) of Asylum Housing Attacks in Sweden	2
The Role of Honeypots and Sabotage in State-Based Operations Against Online Jihadism, 2001-2020	2
Why Do Online Countering Violent Extremism Strategies Not Work? The Case of Digital Jihad	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
Longevity of Partnering Terrorist Organization: An Empirical Study Using A Network Diffusion Model	2
Watching Murder: ISIS, Death Videos and Radicalization Watching Murder: ISIS, Death Videos and Radicalization , by Simon Cottee, New York, NY, Routledge, 2022, 156 pp.,	2
Cognitive Distortions in Men Who Have Exited White Supremacist Groups	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
Countering Terrorist Narratives: Assessing the Efficacy and Mechanisms of Change in Counter-narrative Strategies	2
Automating Terror: The Role and Impact of Telegram Bots in the Islamic State’s Online Ecosystem	2
U.S. Homegrown Political Violence and Terrorism	2
“What Made Me Change”: Transformative Experiences in the Jihadist Radicalization Process	2
How to Make Sense of it All: A Feasibility Study of Meaning-Centered Interventions in Deradicalization Counseling	2