OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Annual Review of Political Science is 13. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Three Traditions of African American Political Thought: Realism, Reformism, and Nationalism	80
Does Democracy Matter?	71
Same Trend, Different Paths: Growth and Welfare Regimes Across Time and Space	57
The US Presidency: Power and Constraint	55
Race, Racism, and the Crisis of Democracy in Political Science	47
Political Control	46
Democratic Norms and the Ethics of Resistance	43
Structure and Context: A Multi-Level Approach to Supply Chain Governance	42
Courts in the Global South	37
Three Faces of Climate Justice	35
Testing Causal Theories with Learned Proxies	35
How Lobbying Matters	34
The Political Economy of Racial Capitalism in the United States	31
Accountability in Developing Democracies: The Impact of the Internet, Social Media, and Polarization	30
The Political Role of Business Leaders	28
A Framework for the Study of Persuasion	27
Emotion and Politics: Noncognitive Psychological Biases in Public Opinion	25
Terra Incognita: The Governance of Artificial Intelligence in Global Perspective	24
Is War in Decline?	23
Authoritarian Power Sharing: Concepts, Mechanisms, and Strategies	21
Gender and Leadership in Executive Branch Politics	21
Race in International Relations: Beyond the “Norm Against Noticing”	20
Democracy and the Corporation: The Long View	19
Islamism and Armed Conflict	18
Global Economic Sanctions	16

Non-Modernization: Power–Culture Trajectories and the Dynamics of Political Institutions	13
The American Political Economy: Markets, Power, and the Meta Politics of US Economic Governance	13
From Territorial Consolidation to Bureaucratic Dominance: The Long Arc of State Development	13