OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of International Economic Law is 2. 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
Monitoring Agriculture Policy at the WTO: Insights from a New Quantitative Database	25
Last year’s model? Investment arbitration, negotiation, and the gap between Model BITs and IIAs	19
Economic progress versus cultural preservation: insights from ‘cultural heritage in international economic law’	16
Overcoming the circularity divide: accelerating a circular apparel transition in Africa through trade	15
Dangerous Liaisons: The Story of Special Economic Zones, International Investment Agreements, and Investor–State Dispute Settlement	12
Taking Stakeholder Engagement in International Policy-Making Seriously: Is the WTO Finally Opening Up?	12
Global justice in the reshaping of international tax	12
Anti-deforestation npr-PPMs and Carbon Border Measures: Thinking About the Chapeau of Article XX GATT in Times of Climate Crisis	10
Under the Radar—The Return of Member States in EU Investment Policy	10
Treaty influencers: a computational analysis of the development of international investment law	9
Conjuring markets: valuation in comparative international economic law	8
Supporting trade negotiations with sustainable development impact assessments	8
The Curious Case of Stablecoins—Balancing Risks and Rewards?	7
Financial Services Trade in Special Economic Zones	6
The Tuna Bond Scandal: The Continued Lack of Transparency in Bank-to-State Credit Facilities Agreements	6
The right to regulate and the interpretation of the WTO Agreement	5
The Evolution of the ‘Trade and …’ ‘Debate’—A View from ASEAN	5
Excellence in Reviewing Award	5
Trade Law 4.0: Are We There Yet?	4
Re-thinking the sustainability of sovereign debt	4
International Economic Law in the ‘Asian Century’	4
Friction theory and conflict prevention in legal analysis	4
Research Handbook on Feminist Engagement with International Law	4
International investment agreements and the global minimum tax: of treaty troubles and investment incentives	4
Promoting Renewable Energy: The Mutual Supportiveness of Climate Trade Law. By ALESSANDRO MONTI, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023. ISBN: 978 1 80392 077 1	4

Let’s Agree to Disagree: A Strategy for Trade-Security	4
Recalibrating the WTO Dispute Settlement System: Towards New Standards of Appellate Review	3
A New Chapter in China’s Stance on Labour Protection? An Assessment of the China–EU CAI	3
Rethinking the (CP)TPP as a Model for Regulation of Chinese State-Owned Enterprises	3
Climate change and oil and gas production regulation: an impossible reconciliation?	3
Chronicle of a crisis foretold: how the WTO Appellate Body drove itself into a corner	3
Lost in conversion: rethinking investment treaty protection against retroactive regulation in the wake of the ‘Francogeddon’	3
The Future of the BRI: A New Context and New Issues	3
Peaceful settlement of inter-state energy disputes: applicable law, defence arguments, and remedies in the ICC arbitration between Iraq and Turkey	3
The trade and environment nexus: proposing a broad universal definition of environmental services	3
Discourses of ISDS reform: a comparison of UNCITRAL Working Group III and ICSID processes	3
Investor–State Mediation and the Belt and Road Initiative: Examining the Conditions for Settlement	3
And the lawsuits kept rolling in	3
Competition Law and Economic Inequality: A Comparative Analysis of the US Model of Law	3
Maintaining Relevance in a Much-Changed World: Reforming WTO Dispute Settlement	3
Preserving the Crown Jewel	3
From Bananas to Large Civil Aircraft: An On-Going Quest for Value-Added in the Computation of Countermeasures at the WTO	3
Critical insecurities? The European Union’s strategy for a stable supply of minerals	2
Neoliberalism, Ordoliberalism and the Future of Economic Governance	2
The EU Sustainable Finance Framework in Light of International Standards	2
Home remedies: flexibilities to onshore pharmaceutical manufacturing under WTO rules	2
New Asian Regionalism in International Economic Law	2
Chinese companies in tax havens	2
How to safeguard social objectives of intellectual property rights in the context of investment arbitration	2
New (Paradigms In) International Economic Law	2
The rise of data property rights in China: how does it compare with the EU data act and what does it mean for digital trade with China?	2
Policy Space for Capital Flow Management: An Empirical Investigation	2
Compatibility of emerging AI regulation with GATS and TBT: the EU Artificial Intelligence Act	2
International adjudication as interactional law-making: the incorporation of fair and equitable treatment elements in investment treaties	2
Dynamic diffusion	2
The Legalization of Cannabis and the Question of Reparations	2
Compensation and its Limits: Can Trade’s Losers be Made Whole?	2
Compliance politics and international investment disputes: a new dataset	2