OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of European Public Policy is 34. 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
Liberal-democratic self-defense through rights restrictions: the European Court of Human Rights between enabling self-defense and constraining governmental overreach	171
Solidarity in the European Union and the resilience of the state as a communicative frame	109
Polarisation or convergence? How the economy shapes party policy positions	107
Democratic backsliding and support for public good provision in the European Union	105
Who supports whom? Citizens’ support for affirmative action policies in recruitment processes towards four underrepresented groups	103
Puzzling or powering? How fiscal communication reflects the politicisation of the European Central Bank	90
Unpacking the European Commission's fiscal policy response to crisis: mapping and explaining economic ideas in the European Semester 2011–2022	78
Constructing expertise: the front- and back-door regulation of AI’s military applications in the European Union	71
Tackling blind spots in Europeanisation research: the impact of EU legislation on national policy portfolios	69
Justifying European border policies: a quantitative content analysis of German government communication 2013-2023	69
Democratic governance and policy complexity: revisiting the intelligence of democracy	64
How policy capacities shape the green transition: explaining the use of EU sustainable finance in the EU’s Central and Eastern European member states	60
‘Guns versus butter’ in public opinion: the politicization of the warfare-welfare trade-off	60
Managing constraint: frugal opposition to European fiscal solidarity	59
A sentence-based approach to measuring EU regulatory activity	59
The rise and fall of technocratic democracies: unstable majorities and delegation to technocrats	57
Filtering politicisation towards a more social Europe? The European Parliament and EU social legislation	55
Making a difference – a tribute to Jeremy	52
Missed opportunities: the impact of internal compartmentalisation on EU diplomacy across the international regime complex on climate change	52
‘When in a hole, keep digging’. How the EUCO system process managed its way to an energy price cap	49
Mind the gap! UK employment policy both during and beyond EU membership: from policy layering to policy drift	49
The kids are Alt right? Age, authoritarian attitudes and far-right support in Europe	47
Social dialogue in professional sports in Europe: towards democratic governance between the European Sport Model and national industrial relations?	46
Fueling opposition? Yellow vests, urban elites, and fuel taxation	45
Democracy and discontent: institutional trust and evaluations of system performance among core and peripheral far right voters	45

War, political development, and European integration: a debate on Kelemen and McNamara's ‘State-building and the European Union’	42
In this together? Support for European fiscal integration in the COVID-19 crisis	39
When do crises centralise decision-making? The core executive in the Greek economic crisis	39
Policy information and opinion change: panel studies from European Union referendums	39
Electoral effects of investment subsidies in national and European elections	38
Bonding through crises: how the EU social dimension fuels and counteracts Euroscepticism	37
Bargaining hard or hardly bargaining? Brexit and the populist renegotiation of international agreements	35
External pressure, bureaucratic politics and policy insiders: the policy shaping influence of internal coordination processes on European Commission Strategies	35
Untangling the differential drivers of protest participation: survey evidence from Extinction Rebellion’s arrestable and lawful actions (2019 and 2023)	34