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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Three Traditions of African American Political Thought: Realism, Reformism, and Nationalism	248
Violence Against Civilians During Armed Conflict: Moving Beyond the Macro- and Micro-Level Divide	166
Does Democracy Matter?	130
Same Trend, Different Paths: Growth and Welfare Regimes Across Time and Space	109
Political Control	76
The US Presidency: Power and Constraint	76
Race, Racism, and the Crisis of Democracy in Political Science	72
Democratic Norms and the Ethics of Resistance	67
Structure and Context: A Multi-Level Approach to Supply Chain Governance	61
What Can We Learn from Written Constitutions?	56
Secrecy in International Relations and Foreign Policy	56
Courts in the Global South	55
Testing Causal Theories with Learned Proxies	50
Three Faces of Climate Justice	46
The Political Economy of Racial Capitalism in the United States	42
How Lobbying Matters	42
Who Enters Politics and Why?	42
Terra Incognita: The Governance of Artificial Intelligence in Global Perspective	41
The Political Role of Business Leaders	37
A Framework for the Study of Persuasion	36
Emotion and Politics: Noncognitive Psychological Biases in Public Opinion	35
Is War in Decline?	34
Accountability in Developing Democracies: The Impact of the Internet, Social Media, and Polarization	34
Gender and Leadership in Executive Branch Politics	28
Networks of Conflict and Cooperation	28

Authoritarian Power Sharing: Concepts, Mechanisms, and Strategies	27
The Continuing Dilemma of Race and Class in the Study of American Political Behavior	25
The Rise of Local Politics: A Global Review	25
Race in International Relations: Beyond the “Norm Against Noticing”	25
The Backlash Against Globalization	24
Democracy and the Corporation: The Long View	23
Non-Modernization: Power–Culture Trajectories and the Dynamics of Political Institutions	22
The American Political Economy: Markets, Power, and the Meta Politics of US Economic Governance	21
Global Economic Sanctions	21
Populism, Democracy, and Party System Change in Europe	19
Islamism and Armed Conflict	19
Comparative Politics in Borderlands: Actors, Identities, and Strategies	18
From Territorial Consolidation to Bureaucratic Dominance: The Long Arc of State Development	18
Elites in the Making and Breaking of Foreign Policy	17
State Policy and Immigrant Integration	17
Theories of Democratic Backsliding	16
Party and Ideology in American Local Government: An Appraisal	16
Historical Political Economy: Past, Present, and Future	15
The Politics of Racist Dehumanization in the United States	14
Race and Redistricting	13
Citizenship Studies: Policy Causes and Consequences	13
Intellectual Diary of an Iconoclast	11
The Politics of Contagion: States, Societies, and the Control and Consequences of Infectious Diseases	11
Bureaucratic Politics: Blind Spots and Opportunities in Political Science	11
Political Inequality in Rich Democracies	10
The Causes of Populism in the West	10
The Politics of Childcare	9
The Power of Beliefs	9
Government Responsiveness in Developing Countries	9
Defining Bureaucratic Autonomy	8
Automation, Digitalization, and Artificial Intelligence in the Workplace: Implications for Political Behavior	8
Organizing and Democracy: Understanding the Possibilities for Transformative Collective Action	8
The Politics of Reparations for Black Americans	7
Selection Neglect and Political Beliefs	7
Presidential Unilateral Power	7
Criminal Violence, the State, and Society	6
Asian Americans and the Politics of the Twenty-First Century	6
Beyond the Ballot Box: A Conversation About Democracy and Policing in the United States	6