OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of PS-Political Science & Politics 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Toward a Theory of Office: Authority, Separability, Ministry, Accountability	34
What We Do and Do Not Know about Democratic Backsliding	28
The Representation of LGBTQ+ People in the US Labor Movement	19
Reviewing and the State of the Discipline	19
Measuring Gender in Comparative Survey Research	16
Legislative-Executive Paralysis in Kuwait	16
Citations to the Publications of Male and Female Political Scientists Revisited	16
A General Path of Incumbencies	10
Rainbow Voices: LGBTQ Respondents in the 2020 Collaborative Multiracial Postelection Survey	10
Movement and Countermovement Mobilization in the US Abortion Conflict	10
Wikipedia Edit-A-Thons: Sites of Struggle, Resistance, and Responsibility	10
From “Lab Rats” to “Mad Scientists”: Cultivating Agentic Learning Through Student-Led Simulation Redesign	9
Academic Solidarity in the Wake of Disaster: Blueprint for an Online Writing Support Group	9
Building Inclusion, Equity, and Diversity into Graduate Student Coauthorship	9
The Messenger Matters: Religious Leaders and Overcoming COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy	8
Opening Up? Adoption of Open Science Practices in Democratic Innovation Research	8
Negative Sentiment and Congressional Cue-Taking on Social Media	7
PSC volume 57 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	7
Developing a Critical Understanding of Environmental Activism through Active Learning	7
PSC volume 56 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	6
Capturing Ethnic Diversity Among Black Respondents: A Black Immigrant Oversample	6
Measuring Transgender and Nonbinary Identities in Online Surveys: Evidence from Two National Election Studies	6
PSC volume 56 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	6
Teaching Chinese Politics in the “New Cold War”: A Survey of Faculty	6
Combining Forecasts for the 2025 German Federal Election: The PollyVote	6

The Alphabet Mafia: Effectiveness of LGBTQ+ Interest Groups in Congress	6
Academic Solidarity and the Culture War in Orbán’s Hungary	5
Murder in the Archive	5
Fostering Academic Excellence in Political Science: Insights from the European Research Council Grants	5
Party Ratings and Electoral Forecasting: The Case of the French Presidential Election of 2022	5
Creating Resource Pathways: Considering Opportunities and Funding Sources for Women of Color in the Discipline	5
What, Where, Who, and Why? An Empirical Investigation of Positionality in Political Science Field Experiments	5
Forecasting Popular Vote and Electoral College Vote Results: Partisan-Bounded Economic Model	5
House Republican Decision Making Following the Capitol Riot	5
Citizen Forecasting: The 2022 French Presidential Election	5
Governing Texas	5
Conflating Lobbying and PACs: The Surprisingly Low Overlap in Organizational Lobbying and Campaign Expenditures	5
Scholarship on the Middle East in Political Science and International Relations: A Reassessment	5
What Happens When Mini-Publics Are Held in a Deeply Divided Place? Evidence from Northern Ireland	5
A Tool for Healthy Critique: Community Spaces for the Development of Non-Tenured Women of Color in Political Science	5
Disproportionate Service: Considering the Impacts of George Floyd’s Death and the Coronavirus Pandemic for Women Academics and Faculty of Color	5
Who Is Perceived as Deserving? How Social Identities Shape Attitudes about Disaster Assistance in the United States	4
Populism and democracy: The road ahead	4
Multidimensional Constructions of Target Groups and Their Political Implications: The Case of Immigrant (Il)Legality	4
Research Adaptivity in Times of Disruption: Zig-Zagging Your Way through the Field During the COVID-19 Pandemic	4
Reclaiming Our Time and Labor: Contesting and Reframing Productivity Narratives in Political Science	4
Department Research Productivity in 19 Scholarly Political Science Journals (1990–2018)	4
Conclusion to the Spotlight “Dynamics in Legislative-Executive Relations: Global Outline for 2019-2024”	4
The Impacts of Exclusion and Disproportionate Service on Women and Faculty of Color in Political Science	4
Predicting Popular-vote Shares in US Presidential Elections: A Model-based Strategy Relying on Anes Data	4
The Fragility of the Local News Trust Advantage: Evidence from Republican Attacks on Local News	4
Data and Code Availability in Political Science Publications from 1995 to 2022 – ADDENDUM	4
Norway: Strong Parliament Facing New Challenges	4
A Baker’s Dozen: Insights into Taxation and Public Policy	4
A Call to APSA Part 1: Learn about Community College Faculty	4
Combatting Sexual Harassment in the Field Is Fundamental to the Research Enterprise – CORRIGENDUM	3
Escalating Political Violence and the Intersectional Impacts on Latinas in National Politics	3
Still Marginalized? Gender and LGBTQIA+ Scholarship in Top Political Science Journals	3
The Physical Proximity of the Executive Branch to the Legislature: How close is too close? The Case of Australia	3
The Invincible Gender Gap in Political Ambition	3
Field Experiments in the Global South: Assessing Risks, Localizing Benefits, and Addressing Positionality	3
Examining Native Hawaiians Self-Identification and Political Relevance: Insights from the 2020 Collaborative Multicultural Post-Election Survey Native Hawaiians Oversample	3
Integrating Digital and On-Site Fieldwork: Practical Solutions for Scholars with Limited On-Site Access	3
The Resilience of Democracy’s Third Wave	3
Lisa Wedeen: Appreciations and Queries	3
On the Replicability of Data Collection Using Online News Databases	3
Populists in Opposition: A Neglected Threat to Liberal Democracy?	3
Learning by Doing: Using an Undergraduate Research Lab to Promote Diversity and Inclusion	3
How Divided Is Britain? Symbolic Boundaries and Social Cohesion in Post-Brexit Britain	3
PSC volume 56 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	3
Risk and Realism: Using a Board Game Mobile App to Illustrate an International Relations Theory	3
Best Practices and the Need for Research on MA Degree Programs in Political Science	3
Reciprocity, Incentives, and Off-Ramps: Faculty–Undergraduate Collaboration and Comparative Politics Research	3
A Message from the Guest Editors	3
The Malapportionment of the US House of Representatives: 1940–2020	3

The Substantive Effects of Descriptive Representation: Gay and Lesbian Members of Congress Are More Supportive of Gay Rights	3
The Effect of Populist Incumbents on Democracy	3
Be Explicit: Identifying and Addressing Misaligned Goals in Collaborative Research Teams	3
Minority Politics Online Seminar Series	3
Methodological Impasses: Facing Interrogation and Silence While Gathering Data on Sexual Violence in India	3
The Textbook Road Taken	3
Workshops Without Borders: Building an Online Community of Japan Scholars	3
Unequal Power Relations at the Center of Social Vulnerability to Climate Change: Empirical Insights from Coastal Bangladesh	2
Introduction: The Politics of Abortion in the Americas	2
Politics and Religion’s Resilience During the COVID-19 Pandemic	2
Cultivating a Beginner’s Mind: How Textbook Writing Improves Our Undergraduate Teaching	2
Testing ChatGPT in International Relations Classrooms: Potentialities, Limitations, and What’s Next	2
China on Campus: A Conversation with China Scholars of Asian Heritage	2
Gender Identification and Survey Weighting: A Shifting Landscape	2
Empowering Students to Have Difficult Conversations	2
The Political Engagement of Political Scientists: Partisans, Public Scholars, and Teachers/Pedagogues	2
“Does it Matter…?” Political Theory in the Archives of William F. Buckley, Jr.	2
Integrating the Use of Statistical Software into Undergraduate Political Methodology Courses	2
Teaching Econometrics Dynamically with R-Shiny	2
Introduction: The Import of Equity and Equality for All Political Scientists	2
Introduction: Pandemic and Post-Pandemic Publication Patterns in Political Science	2
Thoughts on Textbook Writing	2
Civic Engagement Assignments and Student Political Efficacy	2
Climate, Conflict, and Context: Reevaluating Americans’ Support for Refugees	2
The Trump Effect: How 2016 Campaign Rallies Explain Spikes in Hate	2
Exporting the China Model? Two Chinese Technology Firms in Kenya’s Digital Development	2
Increasing Public Support for Transgender Rights through Superordinate LGBT+ Rights Framing: Evidence from a US Survey Experiment on Transgender Participation in Sports	2
The South African Parliament’s Capacity to Constrain the Executive Branch Weakened by a Dominant Party System	2
Choosing Reviewers: Predictors of Undergraduate Manuscript Evaluations	2
Productive Learning Through Labs: Data Laboratories and Their Value in Undergraduate Education and Scholarly Research	2
High-Tech Exports and Governance Institutions	2
The Predation Index: A Tool to Discover Predatory Journals	2
Funding-Model Changes at Hungarian Universities: Greater Autonomy?	2
Climate Security: How to Write About the Future Without Lapsing into Prophecy	2
Explaining Gender Gap Variation in Political Science Knowledge Production	2
Role-Play Simulations for Decision Making in Contexts of Uncertainty: Challenges and Strategies When Engaging Elites as Participants	2
Democracies Not in Peril: Globalization and Tax Revenue	2
Forecasting the 2022 French Presidential Election with a SUR Regionalized Model	2
Hard Work and You Can’t Get It: An International Comparative Analysis of Gender, Career Aspirations, and Preparedness Among Politics and International Relations PhD Students	2
PSC volume 57 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	2
Software Citations in Political Science	2
How the Media Uses the Phrase “Identity Politics”	2
Teaching Computational Social Science for All	2
The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education: The Case of Armenia	2
Everywhere and Nowhere: Information Literacy in the Political Science Classroom	2
Concrete Diversity Initiatives in Political Science: A Faculty Workload Intervention Program	2
New Voices of Inquiry: How the Inclusive Classroom Catalyzes Innovative Research	2
Synthesize This: Meta-Analysis as a Dissertation Tool	2
Can Autocracy Handle Climate Change?	2
Collaborating on Research with Undergraduate Students: A Comparative Institutional-Racial Analysis	2
Applications of GPT in Political Science Research: Extracting Information from Unstructured Text	2
Conclusion: What we Learned and the Path Forward	2
China–Ethiopia Relations and Industrial Development: A Brief Evaluation	2
It’s all about the Money: Understanding how Black Women Fund their Campaigns	2
The Publication Gender Gap, Collaboration, and an Index of Inclusion for Scholars Publishing Peer-Reviewed Research	2
Integrating Civic Engagement Into Scholarly Reward Systems	2
Teaching Undergraduates Research Methods: A “Methods Lab” Approach	2
Political Scientists’ Public Involvement and the Meanings of Democratic Education: Critical Questions from Poland	2
Explaining Partisan Gaps in Satisfaction with Democracy after Contentious Elections: Evidence from a US 2020 Election Panel Survey	2
The Disruptive Effects of Polarization on the Law-Making Process	2