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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
A blind and militant attachment: Russian patriotism in comparative perspective	44
Authoritarian succession, rules, and conflicts: Tokayev’s gambit and Kazakhstan’s bloody January of 2022 ( Qandy Qantar )	28
If you do not change your behavior: preventive repression in Lithuania under Soviet rule	27
Producing state capacity through corruption: the case of immigration control in Russia	22
Going jingo: a classification of the wartime positions of Russia’s “systemic opposition” parties	22
Who cares about sanctions? Observations from annual reports of European firms	20
The buck stops elsewhere: authoritarian resilience and the politics of responsibility for COVID-19 in Russia	19
Redistributive policy and redistribution preferences: the effects of the Moscow redevelopment program	18
The willingness of Ukrainians to fight for their own country on the eve of the 2022 Russian invasion	16
Invisible costs of exiting autocracy: subjective well-being and emotional burnout among Russian wartime migrants	15
Attitudes towards democracy and the market in Belarus: what has changed and why it matters	14
Presidential popularity and international crises: an assessment of the rally-‘round-the-flag effect in Russia	13
Still winners and losers? Studying public opinion’s geopolitical preferences in the association agreement countries (Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine)	13
Political foundations of state support for civil society: analysis of the distribution of presidential grants in Russia	13
The big brothers: measuring influence of large firms on electoral mobilization in Russia	11
Dominant party and co-ethnic vote in Russia’s ethnic republics	11
Dissecting Putin’s regime ideology	11
Voices of the Caucasus: mapping knowledge production on the Caucasus region	10
Populism for the ambivalent: anti-polarization and support for Ukraine’s Sluha Narodu party	10
Antisemitism in Russia: evaluating its decline and potential resurgence	10
Social sanctions and violent mobilization: lessons from the Crimean Tatar case	9
Rainfall variability and labor allocation in Uzbekistan: the role of women’s empowerment	9
Exogenous shock and Russian studies	9
Our zona : the impact of decarceration and prison closure on local communities in Kazakhstan	9
Belarusian public opinion and the 2020 uprising	9

Ethnic stacking in the Russian armed forces? Findings from a leaked dataset	9
Perceptions of the past in the post-Soviet space	9
“Did it have to come to this?” three images of Vladimir Putin’s attitudes toward Ukraine	8
US-Russian partnerships in science: working with differences	8
Anti-opposition crackdowns and protest: the case of Belarus, 2000–2019	7
Composition of the ruling elite, incentives for productive usage of rents, and prospects for Russia’s limited access order	6
Building voting coalitions in electoral authoritarian regimes: a case study of the 2020 constitutional reform in Russia	6
A tale of two councils: the changing roles of the security and state councils during the transformation period of modern Russian politics	6
Fear of punishment as a driver of survey misreporting and item non-response in Russia and its neighbors	6
Is Telegram a “harbinger of freedom”? The performance, practices, and perception of platforms as political actors in authoritarian states	6
The best among the connected (men): promotion in the Russian state apparatus	6
State pranking: deceit and humor in Russia-West relations	6
Omnibalancing in China-Russia relations: regime survival and the specter of domestic threats as an impetus for bilateral alignment	6
Corruption, development, and the state in Putin’s Russia	6
Measuring and validating the Ukrainian ethnic coherence instrument	5
Truth with a Z: disinformation, war in Ukraine, and Russia’s contradictory discourse of imperial identity	5
On double miss in Russian studies: can social and political psychology help?	5
Is Putin’s popularity (still) real? A cautionary note on using list experiments to measure popularity in authoritarian regimes	5
Pro-war hardline influencers in Putin’s regime in the context of Russia’s re-invasion of Ukraine	5
Understandings of democracy and “good citizenship” in Ukraine: utopia for the people, participation in politics not required	4
Rise and fall: social science in Russia before and after the war	4
State, business, and the political economy of modernization: introduction	4
Dysfunctional orders: Russia’s rubbish protests and Putin’s limited access order	4
Transitional justice options for post-war Russia	4
The sources of territorial resilience in Putin’s Russia	3
Polycentric crisis response and societal resilience: how local communities address internal displacement in Ukraine due to the Russian full-scale invasion	3
A hidden form of mass event: the law, politics, and practice of single pickets in Russia	3
Protest, platforms, and the state in the Belarus crisis	3
Credibility revolution and the future of Russian studies	3
Explaining Putin’s impunity: public sector corruption and political trust in Russia	2
“You should care by prohibiting all this obscenity”: a public policy analysis of the Russian law banning medical and legal transition for transgender people	2
Effects of a coup attempt on public attitudes under autocracy: quasi-experimental evidence from Russia	2
The politics of bank failures in Russia	2
Russia’s return to Africa: a renewed challenge to the West?	2
Perceptions of governance: state and non-state governance in the North Caucasus	2
Branching out or inwards? The logic of fractals in Russian studies	2
Making sense of the January 2022 protests in Kazakhstan: failing legitimacy, culture of protests, and elite readjustments	2
Life through grey-tinted glasses: how do audiences in Latvia psychologically respond to Sputnik Latvia’s destruction narratives of a failed Latvia?	2
Russia’s war strategy: what Chechnya suggests for Ukraine	2
From mercenary to legitimate actor? Russian discourses on private military companies	2
Ethnic intermarriage in Russia: the tale of four cities	2