OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Annual Review of Political Science is 4. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Three Traditions of African American Political Thought: Realism, Reformism, and Nationalism	66
Same Trend, Different Paths: Growth and Welfare Regimes Across Time and Space	59
Conceptualizing and Measuring Geopolitical Alignments	58
Race, Racism, and the Crisis of Democracy in Political Science	49
The US Presidency: Power and Constraint	40
Non-Western Visions of International Order	38
Democratic Norms and the Ethics of Resistance	35
Structure and Context: A Multi-Level Approach to Supply Chain Governance	34
Courts in the Global South	31
Monument Protection Laws and the Evolving American Monumental Landscape	30
AI as Governance	27
The Political Economy of the Clean Energy Transition	25
Rural Politics in the United States	23
How Lobbying Matters	22
The Political Economy of Racial Capitalism in the United States	21
Terra Incognita: The Governance of Artificial Intelligence in Global Perspective	20
Accountability in Developing Democracies: The Impact of the Internet, Social Media, and Polarization	20
Is War in Decline?	19
Gender and Leadership in Executive Branch Politics	19
The Political Role of Business Leaders	19
Authoritarian Power Sharing: Concepts, Mechanisms, and Strategies	18
Women's Suffrage: Causes and Consequences	15
Global Economic Sanctions	13
Democracy and the Corporation: The Long View	13
Islamism and Armed Conflict	13

Revolution as Mass-Based Regime Change	13
From Territorial Consolidation to Bureaucratic Dominance: The Long Arc of State Development	12
Causal Inference, Agency, and the Problem of Inherent Endogeneity	12
The Politics of Racist Dehumanization in the United States	11
Historical Political Economy: Past, Present, and Future	11
Citizenship Studies: Policy Causes and Consequences	10
Theories of Democratic Backsliding	10
Contesting LGBTQI Inclusion: Expansion, Contraction, and New Dilemmas	9
Intellectual Diary of an Iconoclast	9
State Policy and Immigrant Integration	9
Bureaucratic Politics: Blind Spots and Opportunities in Political Science	9
Political Inequality in Rich Democracies	8
The Politics of Contagion: States, Societies, and the Control and Consequences of Infectious Diseases	8
Ethnography and Ethnographic Sensibility in Political Science	8
Selection Neglect and Political Beliefs	7
Did Globalization Undermine Governance and Spur a Backlash?	7
The Politics of Childcare	7
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Fictive Politics	6
Defining Bureaucratic Autonomy	6
Organizing and Democracy: Understanding the Possibilities for Transformative Collective Action	5
Asian Americans and the Politics of the Twenty-First Century	5
The Politics of Reparations for Black Americans	5
Relational Egalitarianism	4
Democratic Duties	4
Conceptualizing Academic Freedom	4
Beyond the Ballot Box: A Conversation About Democracy and Policing in the United States	4