OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Post-Soviet Affairs 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 2020-07-01 to 2024-07-01.)

Article	Citations
The politics of exporting higher education: Russian university branch campuses in the “Near Abroad”	24
Making sense of the January 2022 protests in Kazakhstan: failing legitimacy, culture of protests, and elite readjustments	20
“All of Belarus has come out onto the streets”: exploring nationwide protest and the role of pre-existing social networks	17
Mixed signals: what Putin says about gender equality	17
Citizenship as a cornerstone of civic national identity in Ukraine	16
Is Telegram a “harbinger of freedom”? The performance, practices, and perception of platforms as political actors in authoritarian states	15
Russia’s “impressionable years”: life experience during the exit from communism and Putin-era beliefs	14
Composition of the ruling elite, incentives for productive usage of rents, and prospects for Russia’s limited access order	14
Smart enough to make a difference? An empirical test of the efficacy of strategic voting in Russia’s authoritarian elections	12
Beyond “hybrid warfare”: a digital exploration of Russia’s entrepreneurs of influence	12
Is Putin’s popularity (still) real? A cautionary note on using list experiments to measure popularity in authoritarian regimes	12
Long Soviet shadows: the nomenklatura ties of Putin elites	10
Democracy promotion in times of autocratization: the case of Poland, 1989–2019	10
Sanctions and dollar dependency in Russia: resilience, vulnerability, and financial integration	9
Truth with a Z: disinformation, war in Ukraine, and Russia’s contradictory discourse of imperial identity	9
Patriotic disunity: limits to popular support for militaristic policy in Russia	9
Anti-opposition crackdowns and protest: the case of Belarus, 2000–2019	9
You are what you read: media, identity, and community in the 2020 Belarusian uprising	9
Populism for the ambivalent: anti-polarization and support for Ukraine’s Sluha Narodu party	9
Branching out or inwards? The logic of fractals in Russian studies	8
Outsourcing social services to NGOs in Russia: federal policy and regional responses	7
Exogenous shock and Russian studies	7
The art of partial commitment: the politics of military assistance to Ukraine	7
Plus ça change: getting real about the evolution of Russian studies after 1991	6
Still winners and losers? Studying public opinion’s geopolitical preferences in the association agreement countries (Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine)	6

Parade, plebiscite, pandemic: legitimation efforts in Putin’s fourth term	6
Activism in exile: how Russian environmentalists maintain voice after exit	6
Producing state capacity through corruption: the case of immigration control in Russia	6
Media framing of political protests – reporting bias and the discrediting of political activism	5
Heterarchy: Russian politics between chaos and control	5
A tale of two councils: the changing roles of the security and state councils during the transformation period of modern Russian politics	5
Credibility revolution and the future of Russian studies	5
Who cares about sanctions? Observations from annual reports of European firms	5
Protest, platforms, and the state in the Belarus crisis	5
Rise and fall: social science in Russia before and after the war	5
Fear of punishment as a driver of survey misreporting and item non-response in Russia and its neighbors	5
Towards a two-dimensional analytical framework for understanding Georgian foreign policy: how party competition informs foreign policy analysis	4
Cuckoos in the nest: the co-option of state-owned enterprises in Putin’s Russia	4
From mercenary to legitimate actor? Russian discourses on private military companies	4
Independent media under pressure: evidence from Russia	4
The Belarus crisis: people, protest, and political dispositions	4
Is Vladimir Putin a strong leader?	4
The buck stops elsewhere: authoritarian resilience and the politics of responsibility for COVID-19 in Russia	4
Critical approaches and research on inequality in Russian studies: the need for visibility and legitimization	3
The future has to wait: 5G in Russia and the lack of elite consensus	3
Building fences? sectoral immigration bans in Russian regions	3
Hybrid surveillance capitalism: Sber’s model for Russia’s modernization	3
Methods in Russian studies: overview of top political science, economics, and area studies journals	3
Anti-regime action and geopolitical polarization: understanding protester dispositions in Belarus	3
Understandings of democracy and “good citizenship” in Ukraine: utopia for the people, participation in politics not required	3
The geopolitical orientations of ordinary Belarusians: survey evidence from early 2020	2
Political foundations of state support for civil society: analysis of the distribution of presidential grants in Russia	2
Russia’s return to Africa: a renewed challenge to the West?	2
Attitudes towards democracy and the market in Belarus: what has changed and why it matters	2
Ethnic intermarriage in Russia: the tale of four cities	2
A blind and militant attachment: Russian patriotism in comparative perspective	2
Rethinking the role of personal connections in the Russian labor market: getting a job as a law graduate in Russia	2
US-Russian partnerships in science: working with differences	2
Putinism beyond Putin: the political ideas of Nikolai Patrushev and Sergei Naryshkin in 2006–20	2
The legislative role of the Russian Duma and the Kazakh Mazhilis: authoritarianism and power sharing in post-Soviet Eurasia	2