OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of European Journal of International Relations is 7. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Transnational uncivil society networks: kleptocracy’s global fightback against liberal activism	48
Moral status – human status? Interrogating the connection between morality and dehumanisation during mass violence	44
Conceptualizing technicization: the history of the medicalization of male circumcision	36
Conceptualizing the foreign policy roles of states dealing with historical traumas: the case of Israel	36
Securitizing the nation beyond the state: diasporas as threats, victims, and assets	29
The dynamics of informal institutions and counter-hegemony: introducing a BRICS Convergence Index	27
‘100 large fruit trees cut down by ISAF’: land, infrastructure and military violence	27
Populists in the shadow of great power competition: Duterte, Sukarno, and Sihanouk in comparative perspective	21
Securitized political economy, investment regulation and business influence in a geoeconomic era	20
Archeology as a critical mode of inquiry in global politics	20
How informality keeps multilateralism going: the role of informal groupings in EU foreign policy negotiations	19
The “negative” view of human nature: apologia for an unrealistic assumption	18
Does Russian election interference damage support for US alliances? The case of Japan	17
Accounting for inequalities: divided selves and divided states in International Relations	17
The cosmopolitan standard of civilization: a reflexive sociology of elite belonging among Indian diplomats	17
Kant’s domestic analogy: international and global order	16
Keep your enemies safer: technical cooperation and transferring nuclear safety and security technologies	15
What can IR learn from disability studies? Debility, capacity and power in the case of COVID-19	15
The turn to turns in International Relations	15
Infrastructuring public-private relations: Big Tech, the Ukraine War and implications to security governance	15
The contested meaning-making of diplomatic norms: competence in practice in Southeast Asian multilateralism	14
Multiplicity and the problem of ‘society’	14
Perpetual ontological crisis: national division, enduring anxieties and South Korea’s discursive relationship with Japan	14
Theorising global IR through regional peripheries: Southeast Asia between civilisations, empires and great powers	14
Beyond ports, roads and railways: Chinese economic statecraft, the Belt and Road Initiative and the politics of financial infrastructures	14

Corrigendum to “Racialization in history and theory: World War II, Ethiopia, and colorblindness in international relations”	13
Navigating friction: women’s peacebuilding in hybrid regimes	13
Fantasy and the figure: ideological bodies in the Nordic Resistance Movement	12
Principled and pragmatic: reconciling competing arguments for ICC attention	12
Audience costs, humiliation, and social creativity strategies: how Beijing boosts citizens’ esteem in international conflicts	12
Historical institutionalism and institutional design: divergent pathways to regime complexes in Asia and Europe	11
Voice, exit . . . arbitrage: the politics of the modern multinational firm	11
Practically becoming international: expertise, infrastructure and classification societies in maritime governance	10
Ontological security, cyber technology, and states’ responses	10
Macrosecuritisation failure and technological lock-in: lessons from the history of the bomb	10
Multiple hierarchies within the ‘civilized’ world: country ranking and regional power in the International Labour Organization (1919–1922)	10
Racialization in history and theory: World War II, Ethiopia, and colorblindness in international relations	9
The European Union’s ‘geopolitical subjectivity’ in the Arctic in question: a case study of France and the Kingdom of Denmark relations	9
The politics of international solidarity	9
Against ‘resistance’? Towards a conception of differential politics in international political sociology	9
Clouds with silver linings: how mobilization shapes the impact of coups on democratization	9
Corrigendum to “Concept formation in historical International Relations”	9
Disentangling public opposition to Chinese FDI: trade unions, patient capital, and members’ preferences over FDI inflows	8
The populist challenge to multilateral diplomacy: Brexit and the demise of UK-EU security cooperation	8
The afterlives of state failure: echoes and aftermaths of colonialism	8
When do rebels sign agreements with the United Nations? An investigation into the politics of international humanitarian engagement	8
Hidden figures: how legal experts influence the design of international institutions	8
Methods of economic statecraft: A typology and an agenda for research	8
Why the West’s alternative to China’s international infrastructure financing is failing	7
The law and politics of funding armed groups in Syria: how states (fail to) counter terrorism	7
What makes a spokesperson? Delegation and symbolic power in Crimea	7
Cui bono? business elites and interstate conflict	7
“Conceptual entrapment”: understanding the researcher-concept relationship in critical International Relations and beyond	7
Foundations of the Vanguard: the origins of leftist rebel groups	7
Ontological complexity of interpolity orders: the encounter between Chosŏn and Tibet in Qing	7