OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Studies in Conflict & Terrorism is 3. 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
Blueprints for Red Insurgencies: Revolutionary Ideology and Strategy in India and Colombia	29
Fighting over International Legitimacy: Testing Israel’s Image War Strategies During the 2023–24 War Between Hamas and Israel	22
Financing of Non-State Armed Groups in the Middle East: Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) as a Case Study	21
Debates and Controversies over the Legitimacy of “Internet Sources” in Scholarship on Jihadism: The Online Dimension in the Persistence of the “Al-Qaeda Narrative” in Boko Haram Studies	17
Supply and Demand: Drivers of Women Non-Combat Participation in Rebel Groups	16
Complicating Convergence: A Micro-Ethnography of Neo-Fascist Accelerationist Views of Militant Islam on Terrorgram	13
Policing of the Far-Right Online: The Cases of the UK and Hungary	12
How Governments Ensure the Loyalty of Pro-Government Militias: Evidence from Chechnya	12
How Proximity and Space Matter: Exploring Geographical & Social Contexts of Radicalization in Northern Ireland	11
“ The Smallest Act You Do in Their Lands is More Beloved to Us than the Biggest Act Done Here”: When Do an Armed Movement’s Transnational Supporters Turn to Terrorism at Home?	11
The Elusive Promise of “Over-the-Horizon” Counterterrorism	11
The Order of Nine Angles: Cosmology, Practice & Movement	10
Conventional Insurgents: Understanding al-Shabaab’s Mass Attacks against African Union Bases in Somalia	10
Gender, Agency, and Accountability for ISIS Violence: Public Perspectives from Mosul, Iraq	9
The Social Identity Analytical Method: Facilitating Social Science-Based Practitioner Analysis of Violent Substate Conflict	9
Understanding the Role of the Internet in the Process of Radicalisation: An Analysis of Convicted Extremists in England and Wales	9
Exploring the Motivation of the United Kingdom’s Domestic Extremist Informants	9
Maintaining Course or Righting the Ship? Examining Adjustments in Al-Qaeda’s Communicative Approach	8
Post-Fordism and the Transformation of Transatlantic Counter-Terrorism	8
Rebel Recruitment and Governance: Examining the Relationship Between Mobilization Strategies and the Provision of Social Services to Civilians	8
Examining Online Behaviors of Violent and Non-Violent Right-Wing Extremists During Peak Posting Days	8
“The Road to Jerusalem Goes through Cairo”: Exploring Israel’s Counter-Militancy Efforts against Sinai Peninsula-Based Threats	8
Special Issue on Radical and Militant Islamism in Indonesia	8
Reviewed Work: Weaponized Words: The Strategic Role of Persuasion in Violent Radicalization and Counter-Radicalization by Kurt Braddock	8
Online and Social Media News Usage, Conspiratorial Attitudes and Fear of Terrorism	8

Outbreak: A Comprehensive Analysis of Biological Terrorism^♦	7
Research Note: Pathways of Foreign Fighters: An in-Depth and Comparative Study Based on Dutch Probation Files	7
How Members of the Islamic State-Linked Ripoll Cell Grouped, Radicalized and Plotted Mass Casualty Terrorist Attacks in Barcelona	7
The Logic of Non-State Armed Groups Survival in Syria: A Contemporary Framework of Analysis	7
Remembering a Road: How One U.S. Development Project Provides Insight into America’s Complicated Legacy in Afghanistan	7
From Superiority to Supremacy: Exploring the Vulnerability of Military and Police Special Forces to Extreme Right Radicalization	7
Pragmatism and Purism in Jihadist Governance: The Islamic Emirate of Azawad Revisited	7
Women in Militant Movements: The Role of the State in Driving Recruitment	6
Hay’at Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS) from an Insurgent Group to a Local Authority: Emergence, Development and Social Support Base	6
Is the U.S. Heading for a Civil War? Scenarios for 2024-25	6
Reasons behind Reasons: A Communitarian Reading of Women’s Radicalization and Family Bombings in Southeast Asia	6
Threat Perception, Policy Diffusion, and the Logic of Terrorist Group Designation	6
Reassessing Core Perceptions of Evolving Threats Following the October 7th Attacks	5
Maintaining Dominance: Explaining the Rise of Late-Entering Insurgent Groups in El Salvador and Guatemala	5
What Do Overrepresented and Underrepresented Groups Tell Us About Risks for Involvement in Islamist Extremism?	5
Real or Imagined Consolidation? The Case of Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces	5
The Ideological Indoctrination through ISIS Textbooks	5
Redefining Global Jihad and Its Termination: The Subjugation of al-Qaeda by Its Former Franchise in Syria	5
Blended Legacies : Vietnamese and Other Foreign Influences on the FARC-EP	4
The ONA Network and the Transnationalization of Neo-Nazi-Satanism	4
Willingness to Engage in Religious Collective Action: The Role of Group Identification and Identity Fusion	4
Beyond “Leaderless Resistance”? Toward a Typology for White Supremacist Extremist Leadership	4
Masculinities and Disengagement from Jihadi Networks: The Case of Indonesian Militant Islamists	4
Warscapes and Reticulating Inhumanities: Ethnographic Lessons from Shia Militancy	4
Assessing Evaluative Practice in Protective Security	4
We Protect Us: Cyber Persistent Digital Antifascism and Dual Use Knowledge	4
Foreign Military Aid, War-Induced Economy, and Terrorism in Afghanistan	4
Postage Stamps as Political and Religious Propaganda: The Case of Hamas	4
Community, More than Conviction: Understanding Radicalisation Factors for Young People in Australia	4
Time to Bear Arms: An Exploration of Time Suspensions Between Lone Mass Shooting Attacks in the US and When the Perpetrator Acquired Their Weapons	4
How Do Offender Ideology and Offense Severity Impact Punitive Attitudes Toward Politically Motivated Offenders in the U.S.?	4
Developing a Responsive Regulatory Approach to Online Terrorist Content on Tech Platforms	4
The Effects of Social Media, Elites, and Political Polarization on Civil Conflict	4
“Among the World’s Most Powerful”: Analyzing the Evolution of Iran’s Cyber Espionage, Disruption, and Information Operations Capabilities	4
The “Lightning” Brigade: Security Force Assistance and the Fight Against al-Shabaab	3
The Wagner Group in Africa: Russia’s Quasi-State Agent of Influence	3
Spurious Correlations in Terrorism Studies	3
Ulsterisation vs De-Baathification: Precedents in Local Security During Counterinsurgency	3
Operation Jungle Fire: The Consolidation of the Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy	3
Is He /ourguy/, a False Flag, or Something Else? Debating Breivik’s and Tarrant’s Terrorism on 4chan’s /pol/ Board	3
The Kurdish Protection Units in Northern Syria: A Deviant Case of Peaceful Cohabitation between Foreign Fighters and Local Civilians?	3
Confluences of War and Crime: Trajectories into Paramilitary Groups in Colombia	3
Radicalization Discourse: Consensus Points, Evidence Base and Blind Spots	3
Supreme Men, Subjected Women: Gender Inequality and Violence in Jihadist, Far Right and Male Supremacist Ideologies	3
Moral Policing of Gender Norms: Honor-Based Violence as a Mobilizing Factor Towards Militant Islamism	3
The Crime-Terror Nexus and the Illicit Trade in Drugs	3
Queering Terrorism	3
3D-Printed Firearms: Global Proliferation Trends and Analyses	3
From Democratic Resistance to Hostility against a “Covid-Regime” – Conspiracy Theories as Cross-Milieu Catalysts of Radicalization	3