OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Post-Soviet Affairs is 8. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Authoritarian succession, rules, and conflicts: Tokayev’s gambit and Kazakhstan’s bloody January of 2022 ( Qandy Qantar )	59
A blind and militant attachment: Russian patriotism in comparative perspective	45
If you do not change your behavior: preventive repression in Lithuania under Soviet rule	41
Who cares about sanctions? Observations from annual reports of European firms	31
Want to be heard: survey participation in Russia before and during the war	30
Going jingo: a classification of the wartime positions of Russia’s “systemic opposition” parties	25
The effect of democratic participation on public goods provision: evidence from local governments in Ukraine	21
Redistributive policy and redistribution preferences: the effects of the Moscow redevelopment program	21
The willingness of Ukrainians to fight for their own country on the eve of the 2022 Russian invasion	19
Invisible costs of exiting autocracy: subjective well-being and emotional burnout among Russian wartime migrants	17
Attitudes towards democracy and the market in Belarus: what has changed and why it matters	16
Presidential popularity and international crises: an assessment of the rally-‘round-the-flag effect in Russia	15
The big brothers: measuring influence of large firms on electoral mobilization in Russia	14
Voices of the Caucasus: mapping knowledge production on the Caucasus region	14
Migration assistance activism and the German humanitarian visa: framing deservingness, enacting solidarity	14
Dominant party and co-ethnic vote in Russia’s ethnic republics	14
Antisemitism in Russia: evaluating its decline and potential resurgence	13
Exogenous shock and Russian studies	12
Belarusian public opinion and the 2020 uprising	12
Dissecting Putin’s regime ideology	12
Social sanctions and violent mobilization: lessons from the Crimean Tatar case	11
Perceptions of the past in the post-Soviet space	11
Populism for the ambivalent: anti-polarization and support for Ukraine’s Sluha Narodu party	10
Rainfall variability and labor allocation in Uzbekistan: the role of women’s empowerment	10
Our zona : the impact of decarceration and prison closure on local communities in Kazakhstan	10

Ethnic stacking in the Russian armed forces? Findings from a leaked dataset	9
The best among the connected (men): promotion in the Russian state apparatus	8
Anti-opposition crackdowns and protest: the case of Belarus, 2000–2019	8
Central bank communication during the war: the case of the National Bank of Ukraine	8
US-Russian partnerships in science: working with differences	8
“Did it have to come to this?” three images of Vladimir Putin’s attitudes toward Ukraine	8
Central Asian regionalism in the 1990s: order, familiarization, and spotlighting	8