OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Human Rights Law Review 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Enforced disappearances: on universal responses to a worldwide phenomenon	20
The anatomy of a valid waiver of human rights	11
Reconciling the Dual-Faceted Mandates of Quasi-Judicial Human Rights Bodies: The Working Group on Arbitrary Detention’s Prima Facie Approach to Evidence	10
Rethinking human rights: critical insights from Palestinian youth	9
Judicial Convergence and Fragmentation in International Human Rights Law: the Regional Systems and the United Nations Human Rights Committee	8
Deference, Dignity and ‘Theoretical Crisis’: Justifying ECtHR Rights Between Prudence and Protection	7
Judicial Activism and Judge-Made Law at the ECtHR	6
The 2016 UN General Assembly Declaration on the Right to Peace: A Step towards Sustainable Positive Peace within Societies?	6
The Human Right to Land: A Peasant Struggle in the Human Rights System	6
Child Rights, Legal Theory and Social Advocacy	6
‘Turning the Rights Lens Inwards’: The Case for Child Rights-Consistent Strategic Litigation Practice	6
Truth commissions on disability institutions: towards a disability truth and repair framework	5
Strengthening the rule of law: the necessity of protecting human rights defenders from criminalisation	5
Disability Discrimination in the Digital Realm: How the ICRPD Applies to Artificial Intelligence Decision-Making Processes and Helps in Determining the State of International Human Rights Law	5
The customary prohibition of the mandatory death penalty in international law	5
The Indivisibility of Human Rights: An Empirical Analysis	5
Duties of persons with disabilities under the African disability rights protocol: a sceptical argument	4
Ensuring Data Science and Its Applications Benefit Humanity: Data Monetization and the Right to Science	4
Women and International Human Rights in Modern Times: A Contemporary Casebook	4
Positive Obligations Under the European Convention on Human Rights: Within and Beyond Boundaries	4
Navigating the right to a fair trial for vulnerable suspects pretrial: a legal and psychological critique of the Strasbourg jurisprudence	4
Human Rights and the Universal Periodic Review Mechanism: A Research Companion	4
Scholarship in Times of Constitutional Transformation: A View from Hong Kong	4
X Factors and Tipping Points in Eviction Cases: A Statistical Analysis of Eviction Litigation of the European Court of Human Rights	4
The Disappearing ‘Minimum Rights’ of Article 6 ECHR: the Unfortunate Legacy of Ibrahim and Beuze	3

Brazil and Climate Justice: Pioneering Climate Litigation for a Global Cause	3
Rethinking the predominant purpose test under Article 18 ECHR—lessons from the détournement de pouvoir à la française	3
Adaptive Protection of Human Rights: Stealth Institutionalisation of Scrutiny Functions in ASEAN’s Limited Regime	3
Introduction to special edition: ‘the convention on the rights of persons with disability: next generation thinking’	3
The Right of the Child to Play: From Conception to Implementation	3
Deconstructing the Eviction Protections Under the Revised European Social Charter: A Systematic Content Analysis of the Interplay Between the Right to Housing and the Right to Property	3
From common law duty of care to statutory mandatory human rights due diligence: the continuing challenge of holding parent companies liable for human rights abuses committed by subsidiary companies	3
Sex and Gender in International Human Rights Law through the Prism of the ‘Women’ Category in Recent Case Law	2
Does the Practice of the European Convention on Human Rights Fit the Practical Conception of Human Rights?	2
Borrowed Words and Judicial Gestalt: A Dialogical Reading of Hirst, the ECtHR and Prisoner Voting Rights	2
Children’s Religious Identity in Alternative Care and Adoption: The Need to Recentre the Child’s Best Interest in International Human Rights Adjudication	2
Uncovering the Nature of ECHR Rights: An Analytical and Methodological Framework	2
Lodestar in the Time of Coronavirus? Interpreting International Obligations to Realise the Right to Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic	2
Rendering International Human Rights Law Fit for Purpose on Climate Change	2
Recognizing Early Childhood Education as a Human Right in International Law	2
Catarina Woyames Dreher, A Legal Assessment of the Efficacy of Consultation with Indigenous Peoples: The Case of Brazil	2
Legal-Conflict Constellations. A Political Approach to the ‘Labour Rights-Human Rights’ Debate	2
Access to Courts for Asylum Seekers and Refugees: State Obligations under the 1951 Refugee Convention	2
Mental Capacity, Dignity and the Power of International Human Rights	2
Patents, Human Rights, and Access to Medicines. By Emmanuel Kolawole Oke. (Cambridge University Press, 2022, 175 pp) Hardback, GBP 95, ISBN 9781108472104.	2
The Committee on the Rights of the Child’s Admissibility Decisions in the ‘Syrian Camps Cases’ against France: a Critique from the Viewpoint of Treaty Interpretation	2
The intersubjective dimension of human dignity—from philosophical theorizing to case law examples from the European Court of Human Rights	2
The Times and Temporalities of International Human Rights Law	2