OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of European Public Policy is 29. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Who supports whom? Citizens’ support for affirmative action policies in recruitment processes towards four underrepresented groups	108
Unpacking the European Commission's fiscal policy response to crisis: mapping and explaining economic ideas in the European Semester 2011–2022	88
Polarisation or convergence? How the economy shapes party policy positions	82
Democratic backsliding and support for public good provision in the European Union	72
Tackling blind spots in Europeanisation research: the impact of EU legislation on national policy portfolios	67
Solidarity in the European Union and the resilience of the state as a communicative frame	65
Constructing expertise: the front- and back-door regulation of AI’s military applications in the European Union	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	63
Democratic governance and policy complexity: revisiting the intelligence of democracy	52
Liberal-democratic self-defense through rights restrictions: the European Court of Human Rights between enabling self-defense and constraining governmental overreach	52
Editorial announcement - JEPP Reviewer Prize 2021	50
‘Guns versus butter’ in public opinion: the politicization of the warfare-welfare trade-off	49
Missed opportunities: the impact of internal compartmentalisation on EU diplomacy across the international regime complex on climate change	45
‘When in a hole, keep digging’. How the EUCO system process managed its way to an energy price cap	45
Filtering politicisation towards a more social Europe? The European Parliament and EU social legislation	43
The kids are Alt right? Age, authoritarian attitudes and far-right support in Europe	42
The rise and fall of technocratic democracies: unstable majorities and delegation to technocrats	42
Social dialogue in professional sports in Europe: towards democratic governance between the European Sport Model and national industrial relations?	39
Making a difference – a tribute to Jeremy	38
Managing constraint: frugal opposition to European fiscal solidarity	37
Mind the gap! UK employment policy both during and beyond EU membership: from policy layering to policy drift	37
Democracy and discontent: institutional trust and evaluations of system performance among core and peripheral far right voters	36
A sentence-based approach to measuring EU regulatory activity	35
Fueling opposition? Yellow vests, urban elites, and fuel taxation	32
War, political development, and European integration: a debate on Kelemen and McNamara's ‘State-building and the European Union’	31

Introduction: a symposium on the behavioural limits of the state	31
Untangling the differential drivers of protest participation: survey evidence from Extinction Rebellion’s arrestable and lawful actions (2019 and 2023)	31
Healthcare provision and attitudes towards redistribution. A regional analysis across Europe	30
Testing theories of policy growth: public demands, interest group politics, electoral competition, and institutional fragmentation	30
Regional crises and European fiscal preferences: how regional Covid-19, economic downturn, and migration shape support for EU risk sharing	29