OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Annual Review of Political Science is 6. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Who Enters Politics and Why?	215
The Politics of the Black Power Movement	129
The Politics of Reparations for Black Americans	100
Asian Americans and the Politics of the Twenty-First Century	83
From Imperialism to the “Golden Age” to the Great Lockdown: The Politics of Global Health Governance	61
Bureaucratic Politics: Blind Spots and Opportunities in Political Science	57
Race and Redistricting	55
From Foes to Friends: The Causes of Interstate Rapprochement and Conciliation	53
Organizing and Democracy: Understanding the Possibilities for Transformative Collective Action	51
Corruption and Social Norms: A New Arrow in the Quiver	47
Three Traditions of African American Political Thought: Realism, Reformism, and Nationalism	47
NIMBYs, YIMBYs, and the Politics of Land Use in American Cities	43
Defining Bureaucratic Autonomy	39
Presidential Unilateral Power	36
Conflict-Related Sexual Violence	33
Violence Against Civilians During Armed Conflict: Moving Beyond the Macro- and Micro-Level Divide	30
External Validity	29
Selection Neglect and Political Beliefs	29
The Politics of Contagion: States, Societies, and the Control and Consequences of Infectious Diseases	27
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Terra Incognita: The Governance of Artificial Intelligence in Global Perspective	24
Intellectual Diary of an Iconoclast	24
Does Democracy Matter?	22
Political Inequality in Rich Democracies	22
Emotion and Politics: Noncognitive Psychological Biases in Public Opinion	21

The Political Role of Business Leaders	20
A Framework for the Study of Persuasion	19
Political Risk and International Investment Law	18
How Do Electoral Gender Quotas Affect Policy?	17
Historical Persistence	16
Authoritarian Power Sharing: Concepts, Mechanisms, and Strategies	16
Beyond the Ballot Box: A Conversation About Democracy and Policing in the United States	16
Measuring Liberalism, Confronting Evil: A Retrospective	14
Same Trend, Different Paths: Growth and Welfare Regimes Across Time and Space	14
The State and Trust	14
International Statebuilding and the Domestic Politics of State Development	14
Social Protection and State–Society Relations in Environments of Low and Uneven State Capacity	13
International Energy Politics in an Age of Climate Change	13
Education and Political Participation	13
Disability in Political Science	13
Territory and Self-Determination	12
Indigenous Sovereignty and Political Science: Building an Indigenous Politics Subfield	12
Formal Theories of Special Interest Influence	10
Is War in Decline?	9
Networks of Conflict and Cooperation	9
The Causes of Populism in the West	9
Nationalism: What We Know and What We Still Need to Know	9
Expert Knowledge in Democracies: Promises, Limits, and Conflict	8
Comparative Bureaucratic Politics	7
The Rise of Local Politics: A Global Review	7
The Political Economy of Health: Bringing Political Science In	7
The Power of Beliefs	7
Political Control	6
Las Vidas Negras Importan: Centering Blackness and Racial Politics in Latin American Research	6