OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Annual Review of Political Science is 22. 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
How Lobbying Matters	42
Who Enters Politics and Why?	42
The Political Economy of Racial Capitalism in the United States	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
Networks of Conflict and Cooperation	28
Gender and Leadership in Executive Branch Politics	28

Authoritarian Power Sharing: Concepts, Mechanisms, and Strategies	27
The Rise of Local Politics: A Global Review	25
Race in International Relations: Beyond the “Norm Against Noticing”	25
The Continuing Dilemma of Race and Class in the Study of American Political Behavior	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