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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Uncovering the Far-Right Online Ecosystem: An Analytical Framework and Research Agenda	29
Lone-Actor Terrorism – A Systematic Literature Review	24
A Witch’s Brew of Grievances: The Potential Effects of COVID-19 on Radicalization to Violent Extremism	23
White Supremacist Terrorism in Charlottesville: Reconstructing ‘Unite the Right’	16
The Wagner Group in Africa: Russia’s Quasi-State Agent of Influence	14
Playing for Hate? Extremism, Terrorism, and Videogames	12
Examining Online Indicators of Extremism in Violent Right-Wing Extremist Forums	10
Hospital Attacks Since 9/11: An Analysis of Terrorism Targeting Healthcare Facilities and Workers	10
Is There a Language of Terrorists? A Comparative Manifesto Analysis	10
Too Close for Comfort: Cyber Terrorism and Information Security across National Policies and International Diplomacy	10
From Bombs to Books, and Back Again? Mapping Strategies of Right-Wing Revolutionary Resistance	8
Female Combatants and Durability of Civil War	8
From Superiority to Supremacy: Exploring the Vulnerability of Military and Police Special Forces to Extreme Right Radicalization	8
Jihadist Ideological Conflict and Local Governance in Mali	7
A Crime Script Analysis of Involuntary Celibate (INCEL) Mass Murderers	7
Social Exclusion and Political Violence: Multilevel Analysis of the Justification of Terrorism	7
“A Skinhead at Heart with a Hate-Filled Mind”: Understanding the Themes Present in the White Power Music Scene	7
Disengaging from Left-Wing Terrorism and Extremism: Field Experiences from Germany and Research Gaps	7
Exiting the Manosphere. A Gendered Analysis of Radicalization, Diversion and Deradicalization Narratives from r/IncelExit and r/ExRedPill	7
Impacts of Radical Right Groups’ Movements across Social Media Platforms – A Case Study of Changes to Britain First’s Visual Strategy in Its Removal from Facebook to Gab	7
Understanding the Role of the Internet in the Process of Radicalisation: An Analysis of Convicted Extremists in England and Wales	7
A Comparative Analysis of Australian and Canadian Foreign Fighters Traveling to Syria and Iraq	7
Terrorism Studies and the Far Right – The State of Play	7
Everyday Prevention of Radicalization: The Impacts of Family, Peer, and Police Intervention	6
Queering Terrorism	6

Mechanisms of 3N Model on Radicalization: Testing the Mediation by Group Identity and Ideology of the Relationship between Need for Significance and Violent Extremism	6
Five Things We Need to Learn About Incel Extremism: Issues, Challenges and Avenues for Fresh Research	6
Supreme Men, Subjected Women: Gender Inequality and Violence in Jihadist, Far Right and Male Supremacist Ideologies	6
Composite Violent Extremism: Conceptualizing Attackers Who Increasingly Challenge Traditional Categories of Terrorism	6
An Attack against Us All? Perceived Similarity and Compassion for the Victims Mediate the Effects of News Coverage about Right-Wing Terrorism	6
Refugees, Perceived Threat & Domestic Terrorism	6
How War in Yemen Transformed the Iran-Houthi Partnership	6
A Hybrid Threat: The Night Wolves Motorcycle Club	5
Beyond Greed: Why Armed Groups Tax	5
Capitalizing on Cleavages: Transnational Jihadist Conflicts, Local Fault Lines and Cumulative Extremism	5
Masculinities and Disengagement from Jihadi Networks: The Case of Indonesian Militant Islamists	5
Comparing Online Posting Typologies among Violent and Nonviolent Right-Wing Extremists	5
Family Matters: A Preliminary Framework for Understanding Family Influence on Islamist Radicalization	5
Toward an Ethical Framework for Countering Extremist Propaganda Online	4
Pragmatism and Purism in Jihadist Governance: The Islamic Emirate of Azawad Revisited	4
A Crime Script Analysis of Violent and Nonviolent Extremists	4
Deep Analysis of Taliban Videos: Differential Use of Multimodal, Visual and Sonic Forms across Strategic Themes	4
Textual Messaging of ISIS’s al-Naba and the Context Drivers That Correspond to Strategic Changes	4
Exploring the Nexus between Armed Groups and the Trafficking and Smuggling of Human Beings in the Central Sahel and Libya	4
Investigating the Effects of Right-Wing Terrorism on Government Satisfaction: A Time Course Analysis of the 2019 Christchurch Terror Attack	4
Reframing the Campaign: From Egypt’s Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis to Wilayat Sinai, Islamic State’s Sinai Province	4
Causes of Violent Extremism in Central Asia: The Case of Kazakhstan	4
Social Cohesion and Collective Violence: Latent Variable Approach to Explaining Riots in East Jerusalem	4
Identifying Key Players in Violent Extremist Networks: Using Socio-Semantic Network Analysis as Part of a Program of Content Moderation	3
The Image War as a Significant Fighting Arena – Evidence from the Ukrainian Battle over Perceptions during the 2022 Russian Invasion	3
Oil and the Islamic State: Revisiting “Resource Wars” Arguments in Light of ISIS Operations and State-Making Attempts	3
Exposure to Extremist Content and Public Sympathy for ISIS	3
Everyday Religion and Radical Islamism – A Contribution to Theorizing the Role of Religion in Radicalization Studies	3
Social Cleavages and Armed Group Consolidation: The Case of Khalifa Haftar’s Libyan Arab Armed Forces	3
Legitimation through Collectivization: Al Qaeda and US Discourses on the Use of Force	3
Reasons behind Reasons: A Communitarian Reading of Women’s Radicalization and Family Bombings in Southeast Asia	3
Reclaim the Beach: How Offline Events Shape Online Interactions and Networks Amongst Those Who Support and Oppose Right-Wing Protest	3
From the PYD-YPG to the SDF: the Consolidation of Power in Kurdish-Controlled Northeast Syria	3
New Models for Deploying Counterspeech: Measuring Behavioral Change and Sentiment Analysis	3
Characteristics of Incel Forum Users: Social Network Analysis and Chronological Posting Patterns	3
The Women ‘Behind’ the Mujahidin Eastern Indonesia: Negotiating Agency and Gender Dynamics	3
Don’t Kill the Messenger: Perceived Credibility of Far-Right Former Extremists and Police Officers in P/CVE Communication	3
Rebel Legal Order, Governance and Legitimacy: Examining the Islamic State and the Taliban Insurgency	3
Side-Switching as State-Building: the Case of Russian-Speaking Militias in Eastern Ukraine	3
The Relationship between of Moral Injury and Radicalisation: A Systematic Review	3
The Effects of Social Media, Elites, and Political Polarization on Civil Conflict	3
From Rebelling to Ruling: Insurgent Victory and State Capture in Africa	2
An Empirical Assessment of China’s Counterterrorism Efforts and Securitization of Turkic Muslims	2
The Constraints Hypothesis: Rethinking Causality in Deradicalisation, Disengagement and Reintegration Pathways. A Complex Systems Perspective	2
Two Sides of the Same Coin? A Largescale Comparative Analysis of Extreme Right and Jihadi Online Text(s)	2
The ONA Network and the Transnationalization of Neo-Nazi-Satanism	2
Emotional Trials in Terrorism Research: Running Risks When Accessing Salafi-Jihadist Foreign Fighter Returnees and Their Social Milieu	2
Redefining Global Jihad and Its Termination: The Subjugation of al-Qaeda by Its Former Franchise in Syria	2
Blowin’ in the Wind? The Musical Response to the War on Terror	2
To Escalate, or Not to Escalate? Private Military and Security Companies and Conflict Severity	2

TamTam: The Online Drums of Hate	2
A Downward Spiral: The Role of Hegemonic Masculinity in Lone Actor Terrorism	2
Is the U.S. Heading for a Civil War? Scenarios for 2024-25	2
Insurgent Group Cohesion and the Malleability of ‘Foreignness’: Al-Shabaab’s Relationship with Foreign Fighters	2
Eating, Shitting and Shooting: A Scatological and Culinary Approximation to the Daily Lives of Rebels	2
And the Last Straw Falls: The Cumulative Influence of Disillusionment among Former Viet Cong Insurgents	2
Willingness to Engage in Religious Collective Action: The Role of Group Identification and Identity Fusion	2
Transnational Jihad as a Bundled Conflict-Constellation	2
Terrorist Peer Review: Which Autonomous Attacks Does ISIL Accept for Publication?	2
Studying Extremism in the 21^st Century: The Past, a Path, & Some Proposals	2
Crossing Battle Death Lines: Why Do Some Insurgent Organizations Escalate Violence to Higher-Intensity Armed Conflicts?	2
From Control to Conflict: A Spectrum and Framework for Understanding Government-Militia Relationships	2
Threat Perception, Policy Diffusion, and the Logic of Terrorist Group Designation	2
Post-Fordism and the Transformation of Transatlantic Counter-Terrorism	2
Eco-Fascism Online: Conceptualizing Far-Right Actors’ Response to Climate Change on Stormfront	2
From Democratic Resistance to Hostility against a “Covid-Regime” – Conspiracy Theories as Cross-Milieu Catalysts of Radicalization	2
Understanding PKK, Kurdish Hezbollah and ISIS Recruitment in Southeastern Turkey	2
Counterterrorism and Modern White Supremacy	2
State Accompli: The Political Consolidation of the Islamic State Prior to the Caliphate	2
A Framework for Explaining National P/CVE Programs: A Case Study of Kazakhstan	2
British Troops on British Streets: Defence’s Counter-Terrorism Journey from 9/11 to Operation Temperer	2
Truth or Dare? Exploring the Importance of Factual Accuracy in Different Deradicalization Counseling Approaches	2
After the Caliphate: Changing Mobilization in the Swedish Salafi-Jihadist Environment following the Fall of ISIS	2
The (Non) Deus-Ex Machina: A Realistic Assessment of Machine Learning for Countering Domestic Terrorism	2
Casting Shadow: Founders and the Unique Challenges of a Terrorist Group’s First Leadership Change	2
How the Tigers Got Their Stripes: A Case Study of the LTTE’s Rise to Power	2
De-Talibanization and the Onset of Insurgency in Afghanistan	2