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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
The Origins and Rise of Dissident Irish Republicanism: The Role and Impact of Organizational Splits	34
Assessing Violence Risk among Far-Right Extremists: A New Role for Natural Language Processing	25
Social Learning Theory and Racial Extremist Ideologies: Differing Learning Processes for Youth/Young Adults Compared to Older Adults	24
Mobilizing for Jihad: How Political Exclusion and Organized Protest Contribute to Foreign Fighter Outflows	23
Exploring the Intersection of Environmental Events and Domestic Political Violence in the United States	22
New Currents in the Middle East	15
Understanding Territorial Withdrawal: Israeli Occupations and Exits	15
Image Content Indicators of Extremist Group Evolution: A Comparative Study of MENA-Based and Far-Right Groups	14
The Relational Dimension of Radicalization: Context and Tie Formation in Dutch Salafi-Jihadi Networks	13
Psychopathologies Among European Women Involved in Islamist Radicalization: A Review	12
Censoring Extremism: Influence of Online Restriction on Official Media Products of ISIS	12
Losing Hearts and Minds: Civil Conflict, Counterinsurgency Policing and Postwar Crime in Insurgent Strongholds	12
Deconstructing Fears of Terrorism: A Comparison between Fear from Domestic and International Terrorist Groups	11
The Rhetoric of Radicalism: The Anti-Colonial Inspiration Behind Osama bin Laden’s Ideology	11
How do Militant Organizations Respond to Counterterrorism? Introducing the LIVE Typology, with Examples from Proscription in Pakistan	10
Four Typologies of Leadership Applied to a Survey of the Provisional IRA and Sinn Féin in the Troubles	10
Citizenship, Family Law, and the Repatriation of Islamic State Affiliates in MENA	9
A Call to Dissent: Defending Democracy Against Extremism and Populism	9
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
Racist and Anti-diversity Attitudes as Predictors of Support for Political Violence among Supporters of Mainstream Political Parties	8
Foreign Fighter Mobilization: YPG Volunteers in Their Own Words	8
Time Is of the Essence: Temporality and Competition as Drivers of Terrorist Credit-Taking	8
The Coercion-Manipulation-Persuasion Framework: Analyzing the Modus Operandi of Systems of Non-State Actors	7

Elections and Anti-Refugee Violence in Germany from 2014-2020	7
Climate Migration: Adding Fuel to the Ethnocentric Fire	7
Developmental and Biographical Issues in Radicalization Pathways: A Comparative Case Analysis of Homegrown German Convicts of Islamist Terrorism-Related Offenses	7
Ceasefires: Stopping the Violence and Negotiating Peace	6
Croatian Radical Separatism and Diaspora Terrorism During the Cold War	6
A New Counterterrorism Strategy: Why the World Failed to Stop Al Qaeda and ISIS/ISIL, and How to Defeat Terrorists	6
When Home Disappears: South Asia and the Growing Risk of Climate Conflict	6
The Origins of International Counterterrorism: Switzerland at the Forefront of Crisis Negotiations, Multilateral Diplomacy, and Intelligence Cooperation (1969-1977)	6
Portugal’s Forgotten Overseas Wars in the 20th Century	6
When Do Radical Flanks Use Violence? Conditions for Violent Protest in Radical Left-Libertarian Activism in Sweden, 1997–2016	6
Assessing the Validity of Open-Source Biographical Data in Terrorism Research	6
The Radical Redemption Model: Terrorist Beliefs and Narratives	6
South Sudan’s Injustice System. Law and Activism on the Frontline	5
Correction	5
Measuring the Potential for Hateful Behaviours: Development and Validation of the Hate Behaviours Scale (HBS)	5
Success or Shirking in Terror: Control Mechanisms in State Sponsored Terrorism	5
Boko Haram’s Child Soldiers: Media Mujahids, Martyrs, and Militants	5
Theories of Civilian Victimization: Constraint, Control, or Contestation? Evidence from Afghanistan	5
Retribution versus Rehabilitation for Children within Insurgency: Public Attitudes Toward ISIS-Affiliated Youth in Mosul, Iraq	5
Public Perceptions of What Qualifies as Terrorism Across Similar Countries with Diverse Terrorism Experiences	5
Lethal Beliefs: Ideology and the Lethality of Terrorist Organizations	5
Dogs and Cats Living Together? Explaining the Crime-Terror Nexus	5
Predicting Novel Terrorism: Media Coverage as Early-Warning System of Novelty in Terror Attacks	4
Killing Strangers: How Political Violence Became Modern	4
To Be Experienced or Not? Unpacking the Relationship between Leader Tenure and Counterinsurgency Efforts	4
Contentious Rituals: Parading the Nation in Northern Ireland	4
Gathering Storm: An Introduction to the Special Issue on Climate Change and Terrorism	4
Perceived Policy Illegitimacy Leads to Acceptance of Political Violence: Evidence from a Nationally Representative Survey Experiment in Denmark	4
Perspectives on Violent Extremism: Insights from Swedish Population Registers in a Global Comparison	4
Part-Time Foreign Jihadist Fighters in the Syrian Civil War	4
How Terror Evolves: The Emergence and Spread of Terrorist Techniques	4
What Drives Counter-Extremism? The Extent of P/CVE Policies in the West and Their Structural Correlates	4
Does Incapacitation Effectively Deter the Occurrence of Terror Attacks? Israel as a Case Study	4
Shaykh Yusuf al-Qaradawi: Spiritual Mentor of Wasati Salafism	3
(De)legitimization of Private Soldiers without Legal Status: The Case of Ukraine	3
Armed and Explosive? An Explorative Statistical Analysis of Extremist Radicalization Cases with Military Background	3
Regime Type of Foreign Supporters of Resistance Movements and its Impact on State Repression	3
Targeting Taxonomy and Patterns of Political Violence in Stable Societies: Evidence from the Far Right in Italy	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
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
Why Do Online Countering Violent Extremism Strategies Not Work? The Case of Digital Jihad	3
Expressions of Radicalization: Global Politics, Processes and Practices	3
Examining the Persisting and Desisting Online Posting Behaviors of Violent and Non-Violent Right-Wing Extremists	3
White Jihad: Fused Extremism?	3
Silent Sympathy: News Attention, Subtle Support for Far-Right Extremism, and Negative Attitudes Toward Muslims	3
The Ulster Tales: A Tribute to Those Who Served 1969–2000	3
How to Make Sense of it All: A Feasibility Study of Meaning-Centered Interventions in Deradicalization Counseling	3
Cognitive Distortions in Men Who Have Exited White Supremacist Groups	3
Needs, Rights and Systems: Increasing Canadian Intimate Bystander Reporting on Radicalizing to Violence	2

Assessing Racial and Ethnically Motivated Extremist Cyberattacks Using Open Source Data	2
Countering Terrorist Narratives: Assessing the Efficacy and Mechanisms of Change in Counter-narrative Strategies	2
Local Conditions for Anti-immigrant Violence: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) of Asylum Housing Attacks in Sweden	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
U.S. Homegrown Political Violence and Terrorism	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
Never-Ending War on Terror	2
Urban Terrorism in the Arab World: Introducing a Dataset of Jihadist Attack Plots in Jordan	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
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
“What Made Me Change”: Transformative Experiences in the Jihadist Radicalization Process	2
Hate Crime in Northern Ireland: The Need for Legislation and a Bespoke Version of the Prevent Strategy	2
The Role of Honeypots and Sabotage in State-Based Operations Against Online Jihadism, 2001-2020	2
The African Union’s Policy Frameworks, Institutional Mechanisms and Challenges in Countering Terrorism in Africa	2
Gaming and Extremism. The Radicalization of Digital Playgrounds	2
Islamic Extremism and CBRN Terrorism	2
Nativist and Islamist Radicalism: Anger and Anxiety	2
Inequality and Radicalisation: Systematic Review of Quantitative Studies	2
Why do Insurgents Target Religion? The Case of Shining Path in Peru	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
Key Thinkers of the Radical Right: Behind the New Threat to Liberal Democracy	2
The Representational Strategies of Lionization and Victimization in ISIS’s Online Magazine, Dabiq	2
Monsters to Destroy: Understanding the War on Terror	2
Taming the Beast: Democratic Institutions and Terrorist Groups’ Involvement in Civil War	2
Deterring Terrorism: A Model for Strategic Deterrence	2