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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Understanding Territorial Withdrawal: Israeli Occupations and Exits	35
Exploring the Intersection of Environmental Events and Domestic Political Violence in the United States	31
Assessing Violence Risk among Far-Right Extremists: A New Role for Natural Language Processing	29
Censoring Extremism: Influence of Online Restriction on Official Media Products of ISIS	25
Selective Visibility: How Newsworthiness Shapes Unattributed Violence Across Terrorist Tactics in Open-Source Data	25
The Mathematics of Political Mayhem: A Computational Model for Predicting Stochastic Violence	21
The Peace Formula: Voice, Work and Warranties, Not Violence	17
Mobilizing for Jihad: How Political Exclusion and Organized Protest Contribute to Foreign Fighter Outflows	15
Social Learning Theory and Racial Extremist Ideologies: Differing Learning Processes for Youth/Young Adults Compared to Older Adults	14
Losing Hearts and Minds: Civil Conflict, Counterinsurgency Policing and Postwar Crime in Insurgent Strongholds	14
New Currents in the Middle East	13
The Relational Dimension of Radicalization: Context and Tie Formation in Dutch Salafi-Jihadi Networks	12
Image Content Indicators of Extremist Group Evolution: A Comparative Study of MENA-Based and Far-Right Groups	12
Racist and Anti-diversity Attitudes as Predictors of Support for Political Violence among Supporters of Mainstream Political Parties	12
Four Typologies of Leadership Applied to a Survey of the Provisional IRA and Sinn Féin in the Troubles	11
Deconstructing Fears of Terrorism: A Comparison between Fear from Domestic and International Terrorist Groups	11
A Call to Dissent: Defending Democracy Against Extremism and Populism	10
Citizenship, Family Law, and the Repatriation of Islamic State Affiliates in MENA	10
Psychopathologies Among European Women Involved in Islamist Radicalization: A Review	9
Ideology and Cognitive Complexity in Terrorism: Insights from a Terrorist Rehabilitation Program	9
How do Militant Organizations Respond to Counterterrorism? Introducing the LIVE Typology, with Examples from Proscription in Pakistan	9
Climate Migration: Adding Fuel to the Ethnocentric Fire	8
Silver Lining? The Effects of Epidemics on Terrorist Groups	8
Social Ties and Jihadist Participation: A Mixed-Methods Approach to the Differential Recruitment of Radicalized Youth in Spain	8
“Why We Have Become Revolutionaries and Murderers”: Radicalization, Terrorism, and Fascism in the Ustaša–Croatian Revolutionary Organization	8

The Rhetoric of Radicalism: The Anti-Colonial Inspiration Behind Osama bin Laden’s Ideology	8
Countering ISIS Finances: A New Paradigm of Success	7
The Coercion-Manipulation-Persuasion Framework: Analyzing the Modus Operandi of Systems of Non-State Actors	7
Foreign Fighter Mobilization: YPG Volunteers in Their Own Words	7
When Home Disappears: South Asia and the Growing Risk of Climate Conflict	6
The Word and the Bullet: Out-Grouping and Threat Framing as Predictors of Islamic State Targeting, 2015–2020	6
The Origins of International Counterterrorism: Switzerland at the Forefront of Crisis Negotiations, Multilateral Diplomacy, and Intelligence Cooperation (1969-1977)	6
Time Is of the Essence: Temporality and Competition as Drivers of Terrorist Credit-Taking	6
Elections and Anti-Refugee Violence in Germany from 2014-2020	6
When Do Radical Flanks Use Violence? Conditions for Violent Protest in Radical Left-Libertarian Activism in Sweden, 1997–2016	6
Ceasefires: Stopping the Violence and Negotiating Peace	6
Developmental and Biographical Issues in Radicalization Pathways: A Comparative Case Analysis of Homegrown German Convicts of Islamist Terrorism-Related Offenses	6
Assessing the Validity of Open-Source Biographical Data in Terrorism Research	6
Boko Haram’s Child Soldiers: Media Mujahids, Martyrs, and Militants	5
Croatian Radical Separatism and Diaspora Terrorism During the Cold War	5
South Sudan’s Injustice System. Law and Activism on the Frontline	5
The Radical Redemption Model: Terrorist Beliefs and Narratives	5
A New Counterterrorism Strategy: Why the World Failed to Stop Al Qaeda and ISIS/ISIL, and How to Defeat Terrorists	5
Retribution versus Rehabilitation for Children within Insurgency: Public Attitudes Toward ISIS-Affiliated Youth in Mosul, Iraq	5
Portugal’s Forgotten Overseas Wars in the 20th Century	5
Politico-Ideological Mobilisation and Violence in the Arab World: All In	5
Gathering Storm: An Introduction to the Special Issue on Climate Change and Terrorism	4
Correction	4
Conceptualizing Election-Related Violence	4
What Drives Counter-Extremism? The Extent of P/CVE Policies in the West and Their Structural Correlates	4
Public Perceptions of What Qualifies as Terrorism Across Similar Countries with Diverse Terrorism Experiences	4
How Terror Evolves: The Emergence and Spread of Terrorist Techniques	4
What Is Deradicalization? Translating Security Practices in the Maghreb and the Sahel	4
Theories of Civilian Victimization: Constraint, Control, or Contestation? Evidence from Afghanistan	4
Measuring the Potential for Hateful Behaviours: Development and Validation of the Hate Behaviours Scale (HBS)	4
Dogs and Cats Living Together? Explaining the Crime-Terror Nexus	4
Religious Redemption as the Motivation for the Jihadist Crime-Terrorism Nexus: A Critical Inquiry	4
Predicting Novel Terrorism: Media Coverage as Early-Warning System of Novelty in Terror Attacks	4
Success or Shirking in Terror: Control Mechanisms in State Sponsored Terrorism	4
To Be Experienced or Not? Unpacking the Relationship between Leader Tenure and Counterinsurgency Efforts	3
Perspectives on Violent Extremism: Insights from Swedish Population Registers in a Global Comparison	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
Examining the Persisting and Desisting Online Posting Behaviors of Violent and Non-Violent Right-Wing Extremists	3
White Jihad: Fused Extremism?	3
Part-Time Foreign Jihadist Fighters in the Syrian Civil War	3
PTSD and Coping Strategies Among Palestinian University Students During Political Violence: A Cross Sectional Study	3
Killing Strangers: How Political Violence Became Modern	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
Contentious Rituals: Parading the Nation in Northern Ireland	3
Perceived Policy Illegitimacy Leads to Acceptance of Political Violence: Evidence from a Nationally Representative Survey Experiment in Denmark	3
Does Incapacitation Effectively Deter the Occurrence of Terror Attacks? Israel as a Case Study	3
The Gangster and the Bride: The Media Representation of Masculinity and Femininity in News Coverage of Jihadi Terrorists	3
Super Mad at Everything All the Time: Political Media and Our National Anger	3
(De)legitimization of Private Soldiers without Legal Status: The Case of Ukraine	3

Gendered Narratives and Misogyny as Motivators Towards Violent Extremism: The Case of Far-Right Extremism in the UK and Australia	2
U.S. Homegrown Political Violence and Terrorism	2
Why do Insurgents Target Religion? The Case of Shining Path in Peru	2
Non-State Special Operations: Capabilities and Effects	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
Expressions of Radicalization: Global Politics, Processes and Practices	2
Targeting Taxonomy and Patterns of Political Violence in Stable Societies: Evidence from the Far Right in Italy	2
The Representational Strategies of Lionization and Victimization in ISIS’s Online Magazine, Dabiq	2
Automating Terror: The Role and Impact of Telegram Bots in the Islamic State’s Online Ecosystem	2
The Violence of Peace: Post Good Friday Agreement Paramilitary Vigilantism in Northern Ireland	2
Islam, State, and Terrorism: A Quantitative Analysis	2
Linking Conspiracy Beliefs and Violent Anti-Government Extremism: Mitigating the Threat with Procedurally Just Governance	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
Reluctant Spies: The Role of Neighbourhood Leaders in Indonesia’s PVE Strategy	2
Longevity of Partnering Terrorist Organization: An Empirical Study Using A Network Diffusion Model	2
Cognitive Distortions in Men Who Have Exited White Supremacist Groups	2
Why They Fight: Ideology and Terrorist Motivation	2
The Role of Honeypots and Sabotage in State-Based Operations Against Online Jihadism, 2001-2020	2
Nativist and Islamist Radicalism: Anger and Anxiety	2
Local Conditions for Anti-immigrant Violence: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) of Asylum Housing Attacks in Sweden	2
Psychological Dynamics of Terrorism: Insights from Individuals Exposed to Extremist Activities Embedded in Conflict-Prone Environments	2
“What Made Me Change”: Transformative Experiences in the Jihadist Radicalization Process	2
Why Do Online Countering Violent Extremism Strategies Not Work? The Case of Digital Jihad	2
Hate Crime in Northern Ireland: The Need for Legislation and a Bespoke Version of the Prevent Strategy	2
Seeing through Troubled Water: Proposing a Narrow Focus on Behavioral Warning Signals for the Prevention of Terrorist Violence	2
How to Make Sense of it All: A Feasibility Study of Meaning-Centered Interventions in Deradicalization Counseling	2
Regime Type of Foreign Supporters of Resistance Movements and its Impact on State Repression	2
Assessing Racial and Ethnically Motivated Extremist Cyberattacks Using Open Source Data	2