OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Post-Soviet Affairs 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Authoritarian succession, rules, and conflicts: Tokayev’s gambit and Kazakhstan’s bloody January of 2022 ( Qandy Qantar )	65
A blind and militant attachment: Russian patriotism in comparative perspective	43
If you do not change your behavior: preventive repression in Lithuania under Soviet rule	39
Going jingo: a classification of the wartime positions of Russia’s “systemic opposition” parties	27
Want to be heard: survey participation in Russia before and during the war	27
Nepotism as structural barrier: why anti-bribery reforms fail to improve employment access in Uzbekistan	27
Economic and political determinants of corporate crime in Russia: the first evidence	25
Redistributive policy and redistribution preferences: the effects of the Moscow redevelopment program	21
The effect of democratic participation on public goods provision: evidence from local governments in Ukraine	20
The willingness of Ukrainians to fight for their own country on the eve of the 2022 Russian invasion	18
“The devil that takes any form”: geopolitics of gendered and sexualized enmity in Russia’s wartime news media	17
When transnational activism fails: pathways to political disengagement among Russian wartime migrants	17
The holy war on reproductive rights: the Russian Orthodox Church as an anti-abortion lobbyist in contemporary Russia	15
Presidential popularity and international crises: an assessment of the rally-‘round-the-flag effect in Russia	14
For God, Tsar and fatherland? The church’s role in modern autocracy	14
Invisible costs of exiting autocracy: subjective well-being and emotional burnout among Russian wartime migrants	14
Migration assistance activism and the German humanitarian visa: framing deservingness, enacting solidarity	13
Dominant party and co-ethnic vote in Russia’s ethnic republics	12
Voices of the Caucasus: mapping knowledge production on the Caucasus region	11
The big brothers: measuring influence of large firms on electoral mobilization in Russia	10
Dissecting Putin’s regime ideology	10
Russia’s failed “muscular mediation” in Nagorno-Karabakh	10
Exogenous shock and Russian studies	10
Perceptions of the past in the post-Soviet space	10
Ethnic stacking in the Russian armed forces? Findings from a leaked dataset	9

“Did it have to come to this?” three images of Vladimir Putin’s attitudes toward Ukraine	8
Rainfall variability and labor allocation in Uzbekistan: the role of women’s empowerment	8
The best among the connected (men): promotion in the Russian state apparatus	8
Our zona : the impact of decarceration and prison closure on local communities in Kazakhstan	8
State pranking: deceit and humor in Russia-West relations	7
Central bank communication during the war: the case of the National Bank of Ukraine	7
Central Asian regionalism in the 1990s: order, familiarization, and spotlighting	7
Corruption, development, and the state in Putin’s Russia	7
The populist voter trap: why regime change may not end populism Lessons from Hungary’s electoral autocracy	7
Fear of punishment as a driver of survey misreporting and item non-response in Russia and its neighbors	6
Truth with a Z: disinformation, war in Ukraine, and Russia’s contradictory discourse of imperial identity	6
Is Putin’s popularity (still) real? A cautionary note on using list experiments to measure popularity in authoritarian regimes	6
Omnibalancing in China-Russia relations: regime survival and the specter of domestic threats as an impetus for bilateral alignment	6
Building voting coalitions in electoral authoritarian regimes: a case study of the 2020 constitutional reform in Russia	6
Pro-war hardline influencers in Putin’s regime in the context of Russia’s re-invasion of Ukraine	6
On double miss in Russian studies: can social and political psychology help?	5
The spillover effect of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine: labor response in a neighboring economy	5
Rise and fall: social science in Russia before and after the war	5
Measuring and validating the Ukrainian ethnic coherence instrument	5
A hidden form of mass event: the law, politics, and practice of single pickets in Russia	4
Governmental discrimination against religious minorities in the post-communist states of Eastern Europe and Central Asia, 1990–2023	4
Polycentric crisis response and societal resilience: how local communities address internal displacement in Ukraine due to the Russian full-scale invasion	4
Change for the sake of continuity? Élite politics in post-Nazarbayev Kazakhstan (2019–2023)	4
Life through grey-tinted glasses: how do audiences in Latvia psychologically respond to Sputnik Latvia’s destruction narratives of a failed Latvia?	4
Credibility revolution and the future of Russian studies	4
Transitional justice options for post-war Russia	4
Russia’s war strategy: what Chechnya suggests for Ukraine	3
Rethinking language shifts in Ukraine: methodological challenges in the context of war and displacement	3
Effects of a coup attempt on public attitudes under autocracy: quasi-experimental evidence from Russia	3
The politics of bank failures in Russia	3
The local and regional dimension of Ukraine’s resilience during Russia’s full-scale invasion: an introduction	3
“You should care by prohibiting all this obscenity”: a public policy analysis of the Russian law banning medical and legal transition for transgender people	3
Branching out or inwards? The logic of fractals in Russian studies	3
From mercenary to legitimate actor? Russian discourses on private military companies	3
The sources of territorial resilience in Putin’s Russia	3
Multi-purpose populist policymaking in practice: the Polish academic evaluation reform	3
Ukrainian decentralization under martial law: challenges for regional and local self-governance	3