OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Studies in Conflict & Terrorism 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
Fighting over International Legitimacy: Testing Israel’s Image War Strategies During the 2023–24 War Between Hamas and Israel	24
Blueprints for Red Insurgencies: Revolutionary Ideology and Strategy in India and Colombia	17
Examining the Outcome of Investigations and Prosecutions of Extremism in the United States	17
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	13
Financing of Non-State Armed Groups in the Middle East: Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) as a Case Study	12
Supply and Demand: Drivers of Women Non-Combat Participation in Rebel Groups	12
The Elusive Promise of “Over-the-Horizon” Counterterrorism	10
The Order of Nine Angles: Cosmology, Practice & Movement	10
How Proximity and Space Matter: Exploring Geographical & Social Contexts of Radicalization in Northern Ireland	10
Conventional Insurgents: Understanding al-Shabaab’s Mass Attacks against African Union Bases in Somalia	9
Understanding the Role of the Internet in the Process of Radicalisation: An Analysis of Convicted Extremists in England and Wales	9
Policing of the Far-Right Online: The Cases of the UK and Hungary	9
Gender, Agency, and Accountability for ISIS Violence: Public Perspectives from Mosul, Iraq	8
Remembering a Road: How One U.S. Development Project Provides Insight into America’s Complicated Legacy in Afghanistan	8
“ 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?	8
Examining Online Behaviors of Violent and Non-Violent Right-Wing Extremists During Peak Posting Days	8
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
Refugees, Perceived Threat & Domestic Terrorism	8
The Social Identity Analytical Method: Facilitating Social Science-Based Practitioner Analysis of Violent Substate Conflict	8
Special Issue on Radical and Militant Islamism in Indonesia	8
Exploring the Motivation of the United Kingdom’s Domestic Extremist Informants	8
Rebel Recruitment and Governance: Examining the Relationship Between Mobilization Strategies and the Provision of Social Services to Civilians	7
Research Note: Pathways of Foreign Fighters: An in-Depth and Comparative Study Based on Dutch Probation Files	7
Reviewed Work: Weaponized Words: The Strategic Role of Persuasion in Violent Radicalization and Counter-Radicalization by Kurt Braddock	7

“The Road to Jerusalem Goes through Cairo”: Exploring Israel’s Counter-Militancy Efforts against Sinai Peninsula-Based Threats	6
Online and Social Media News Usage, Conspiratorial Attitudes and Fear of Terrorism	6
Outbreak: A Comprehensive Analysis of Biological Terrorism^♦	6
Pragmatism and Purism in Jihadist Governance: The Islamic Emirate of Azawad Revisited	6
The Logic of Non-State Armed Groups Survival in Syria: A Contemporary Framework of Analysis	6
Women in Militant Movements: The Role of the State in Driving Recruitment	5
Threat Perception, Policy Diffusion, and the Logic of Terrorist Group Designation	5
Hay’at Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS) from an Insurgent Group to a Local Authority: Emergence, Development and Social Support Base	5
Reasons behind Reasons: A Communitarian Reading of Women’s Radicalization and Family Bombings in Southeast Asia	5
From Superiority to Supremacy: Exploring the Vulnerability of Military and Police Special Forces to Extreme Right Radicalization	5
How Members of the Islamic State-Linked Ripoll Cell Grouped, Radicalized and Plotted Mass Casualty Terrorist Attacks in Barcelona	5
Is the U.S. Heading for a Civil War? Scenarios for 2024-25	5
Real or Imagined Consolidation? The Case of Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces	4
The Ideological Indoctrination through ISIS Textbooks	4
Reassessing Core Perceptions of Evolving Threats Following the October 7th Attacks	4
Maintaining Dominance: Explaining the Rise of Late-Entering Insurgent Groups in El Salvador and Guatemala	4
Emotional Trials in Terrorism Research: Running Risks When Accessing Salafi-Jihadist Foreign Fighter Returnees and Their Social Milieu	4
The ONA Network and the Transnationalization of Neo-Nazi-Satanism	4
The (Non) Deus-Ex Machina: A Realistic Assessment of Machine Learning for Countering Domestic Terrorism	4
Redefining Global Jihad and Its Termination: The Subjugation of al-Qaeda by Its Former Franchise in Syria	4
What Do Overrepresented and Underrepresented Groups Tell Us About Risks for Involvement in Islamist Extremism?	4
The Trouble with Numbers: Difficult Decision Making in Identifying Right-Wing Terrorism Cases. An Investigative Look at Open Source Social Scientific and Legal Data	4
Ulsterisation vs De-Baathification: Precedents in Local Security During Counterinsurgency	3
Postage Stamps as Political and Religious Propaganda: The Case of Hamas	3
Willingness to Engage in Religious Collective Action: The Role of Group Identification and Identity Fusion	3
How Do Offender Ideology and Offense Severity Impact Punitive Attitudes Toward Politically Motivated Offenders in the U.S.?	3
Warscapes and Reticulating Inhumanities: Ethnographic Lessons from Shia Militancy	3
The Wagner Group in Africa: Russia’s Quasi-State Agent of Influence	3
Assessing Evaluative Practice in Protective Security	3
Confluences of War and Crime: Trajectories into Paramilitary Groups in Colombia	3
The Effects of Social Media, Elites, and Political Polarization on Civil Conflict	3
The Crime-Terror Nexus and the Illicit Trade in Drugs	3
Beyond “Leaderless Resistance”? Toward a Typology for White Supremacist Extremist Leadership	3
We Protect Us: Cyber Persistent Digital Antifascism and Dual Use Knowledge	3
Is He /ourguy/, a False Flag, or Something Else? Debating Breivik’s and Tarrant’s Terrorism on 4chan’s /pol/ Board	3
The “Lightning” Brigade: Security Force Assistance and the Fight Against al-Shabaab	3
Time to Bear Arms: An Exploration of Time Suspensions Between Lone Mass Shooting Attacks in the US and When the Perpetrator Acquired Their Weapons	3
The Kurdish Protection Units in Northern Syria: A Deviant Case of Peaceful Cohabitation between Foreign Fighters and Local Civilians?	3
Spurious Correlations in Terrorism Studies	3
Community, More than Conviction: Understanding Radicalisation Factors for Young People in Australia	3
Moral Policing of Gender Norms: Honor-Based Violence as a Mobilizing Factor Towards Militant Islamism	3
Foreign Military Aid, War-Induced Economy, and Terrorism in Afghanistan	3
Developing a Responsive Regulatory Approach to Online Terrorist Content on Tech Platforms	3
Masculinities and Disengagement from Jihadi Networks: The Case of Indonesian Militant Islamists	3
Blended Legacies : Vietnamese and Other Foreign Influences on the FARC-EP	3
The False Promise of Foreign Fighters: The Effect of Somali Foreign Fighters on Civilian Victimization	3
The Devil is in the Detail: Assessing Threat-Framing in Violent Extremist Discourses	2
The “Disaster Business”: Natural Disasters and Human Trafficking	2
From the PYD-YPG to the SDF: the Consolidation of Power in Kurdish-Controlled Northeast Syria	2
The Evolution of Far-Right Terrorist Tactics and Targeting	2

Counter-Terrorism: The Risk of Performativity in Big Data-Based Mass Surveillance	2
Networks, Marriage, and Socioeconomics: Comparing the Men and Women of the Islamic State	2
Textual Messaging of ISIS’s al-Naba and the Context Drivers That Correspond to Strategic Changes	2
Operation Jungle Fire: The Consolidation of the Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy	2
Supreme Men, Subjected Women: Gender Inequality and Violence in Jihadist, Far Right and Male Supremacist Ideologies	2
3D-Printed Firearms: Global Proliferation Trends and Analyses	2
TamTam: The Online Drums of Hate	2
Jihadist Ideological Conflict and Local Governance in Mali	2
From Mobilization to Annihilation: The Strategic Logics of Bioterrorism	2
The Growth of Narco-Terrorism in Mexico: Expanding The Counternarcotic Strategy with Foreign Terrorist Designation	2
Comparing Online Posting Typologies among Violent and Nonviolent Right-Wing Extremists	2
Socio-Semantic Network Analysis for Extremist and Terrorist Online Ecosystems	2
Countering the Financing of Terrorists’ Salaries	2
Risk of Romani Radicalization in the Balkans: Freeing the Shackles of a Marginalized Identity	2
From Control to Conflict: A Spectrum and Framework for Understanding Government-Militia Relationships	2
Under the Hood – Learning and Innovation in the Islamic State’s Suicide Vehicle Industry	2
From Democratic Resistance to Hostility against a “Covid-Regime” – Conspiracy Theories as Cross-Milieu Catalysts of Radicalization	2
The Convergence of Artificial Intelligence and Terrorism: A Systematic Review of the Literature	2
From Black to White Flags: The Resurgence of Extremist Groups in Post-ISIS Iraq	2
The European Union as a Maritime Security Provider – The Naval Diplomacy Perspective	2
Militant Animal Rights Activity: Terrorism, Extremism or Something Else?	2
Legitimation through Collectivization: Al Qaeda and US Discourses on the Use of Force	2
Discussing Terrorism in the Classroom – Adopting an Empathizing and Historical Perspective: A Research Note	2
Recommendations for Assessing Vulnerabilities in Soft Targets and Crowded Places	2
The Benefits and Challenges of Classroom-Based Surveys for the Study of Radicalization and Extremism among Adolescents	2
Data Collection in Online Terrorism and Extremism Research: Strengths, Limitations, and Future Directions	2
The Fast & The Furious…Torturous? : Examining the Impact of Torture Scenes in Popular Films on Public Perceptions of Torture Policy	2
Eco-Fascism Online: Conceptualizing Far-Right Actors’ Response to Climate Change on Stormfront	2
Radicalization Discourse: Consensus Points, Evidence Base and Blind Spots	2
Queering Terrorism	2
Exposure to Extremist Content and Public Sympathy for ISIS	2
Social Cohesion and Collective Violence: Latent Variable Approach to Explaining Riots in East Jerusalem	2
Gaza’s Subterranean Warfare: Palestinian Resistance Tunnels vs. Israel’s Military Strategy	2
Anatomy of Terrorist Cells: A Critical Examination and Identified Gaps in Current Research	2