OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Post-Soviet Affairs is 5. 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
Making sense of the January 2022 protests in Kazakhstan: failing legitimacy, culture of protests, and elite readjustments	32
Truth with a Z: disinformation, war in Ukraine, and Russia’s contradictory discourse of imperial identity	19
“All of Belarus has come out onto the streets”: exploring nationwide protest and the role of pre-existing social networks	17
Citizenship as a cornerstone of civic national identity in Ukraine	17
Mixed signals: what Putin says about gender equality	17
Composition of the ruling elite, incentives for productive usage of rents, and prospects for Russia’s limited access order	16
Is Telegram a “harbinger of freedom”? The performance, practices, and perception of platforms as political actors in authoritarian states	15
Beyond “hybrid warfare”: a digital exploration of Russia’s entrepreneurs of influence	13
Patriotic disunity: limits to popular support for militaristic policy in Russia	12
Is Putin’s popularity (still) real? A cautionary note on using list experiments to measure popularity in authoritarian regimes	12
Democracy promotion in times of autocratization: the case of Poland, 1989–2019	11
Long Soviet shadows: the nomenklatura ties of Putin elites	11
Populism for the ambivalent: anti-polarization and support for Ukraine’s Sluha Narodu party	10
Sanctions and dollar dependency in Russia: resilience, vulnerability, and financial integration	9
You are what you read: media, identity, and community in the 2020 Belarusian uprising	9
Anti-opposition crackdowns and protest: the case of Belarus, 2000–2019	9
Branching out or inwards? The logic of fractals in Russian studies	8
Independent media under pressure: evidence from Russia	8
Exogenous shock and Russian studies	8
Outsourcing social services to NGOs in Russia: federal policy and regional responses	7
Still winners and losers? Studying public opinion’s geopolitical preferences in the association agreement countries (Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine)	7
Plus ça change: getting real about the evolution of Russian studies after 1991	7
The art of partial commitment: the politics of military assistance to Ukraine	7
Media framing of political protests – reporting bias and the discrediting of political activism	6
Producing state capacity through corruption: the case of immigration control in Russia	6

Parade, plebiscite, pandemic: legitimation efforts in Putin’s fourth term	6
Activism in exile: how Russian environmentalists maintain voice after exit	6
Rise and fall: social science in Russia before and after the war	6
Protest, platforms, and the state in the Belarus crisis	5
Who cares about sanctions? Observations from annual reports of European firms	5
Towards a two-dimensional analytical framework for understanding Georgian foreign policy: how party competition informs foreign policy analysis	5
Credibility revolution and the future of Russian studies	5
Fear of punishment as a driver of survey misreporting and item non-response in Russia and its neighbors	5
A tale of two councils: the changing roles of the security and state councils during the transformation period of modern Russian politics	5
Heterarchy: Russian politics between chaos and control	5
From mercenary to legitimate actor? Russian discourses on private military companies	5