OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Human Rights Law Review is 1. 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
Reconciling the Dual-Faceted Mandates of Quasi-Judicial Human Rights Bodies: The Working Group on Arbitrary Detention’s Prima Facie Approach to Evidence	19
The anatomy of a valid waiver of human rights	16
Judicial Convergence and Fragmentation in International Human Rights Law: the Regional Systems and the United Nations Human Rights Committee	15
Deference, Dignity and ‘Theoretical Crisis’: Justifying ECtHR Rights Between Prudence and Protection	13
Judicial Activism and Judge-Made Law at the ECtHR	11
The Human Rights Implications of the Use of AI in the Digital Welfare State: Lessons Learned from the Dutch SyRI Case	11
‘Turning the Rights Lens Inwards’: The Case for Child Rights-Consistent Strategic Litigation Practice	10
The Human Right to Land: A Peasant Struggle in the Human Rights System	10
The 2016 UN General Assembly Declaration on the Right to Peace: A Step towards Sustainable Positive Peace within Societies?	9
Reconstructing the Roles of Human Rights Treaty Organs under the ‘Two-Tiered Bounded Deliberative Democracy’ Theory	8
Truth commissions on disability institutions: towards a disability truth and repair framework	7
Lisa McIntosh Sundstrom, Valerie Sperling, and Melike Sayoglu, Courting Gender Justice: Russia, Turkey, and the European Court of Human Rights (Oxford University Press, 2019, 296pp, £61.00) ISBN: 9780	6
Article 31, 31 Years On: Choice and Autonomy as a Framework for Implementing Children’s Right to Play in Early Childhood Services	5
The Indivisibility of Human Rights: An Empirical Analysis	4
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	4
X Factors and Tipping Points in Eviction Cases: A Statistical Analysis of Eviction Litigation of the European Court of Human Rights	4
Ensuring Data Science and Its Applications Benefit Humanity: Data Monetization and the Right to Science	4
Navigating the right to a fair trial for vulnerable suspects pretrial: a legal and psychological critique of the Strasbourg jurisprudence	3
Scholarship in Times of Constitutional Transformation: A View from Hong Kong	3
Positive Obligations Under the European Convention on Human Rights: Within and Beyond Boundaries	3
Is the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child Doing Enough to Protect the Rights of LGBT Children and Children with Same-Sex Parents?	2
The Disappearing ‘Minimum Rights’ of Article 6 ECHR: the Unfortunate Legacy of Ibrahim and Beuze	2
Duties of persons with disabilities under the African disability rights protocol: a sceptical argument	2
Adaptive Protection of Human Rights: Stealth Institutionalisation of Scrutiny Functions in ASEAN’s Limited Regime	2
Legal-Conflict Constellations. A Political Approach to the ‘Labour Rights-Human Rights’ Debate	2

The Arab Court of Human Rights and the Enforcement of the Arab Charter on Human Rights	2
Women and International Human Rights in Modern Times: A Contemporary Casebook	2
Tinker, Tailor, Twitter, Lie: Government Disinformation and Freedom of Expression in a Post-Truth Era	2
The Right of the Child to Play: From Conception to Implementation	2
Hope’s Relations: A Theory of the ‘Right to Hope’ in European Human Rights Law	2
Revisiting the Preamble of the European Social Charter: Paper Tiger or Blessing in Disguise?	2
Human Rights and the Universal Periodic Review Mechanism: A Research Companion	2
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	2
Introduction to special edition: ‘the convention on the rights of persons with disability: next generation thinking’	2
The Times and Temporalities of International Human Rights Law	1
Lodestar in the Time of Coronavirus? Interpreting International Obligations to Realise the Right to Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic	1
Does the Practice of the European Convention on Human Rights Fit the Practical Conception of Human Rights?	1
Children’s Religious Identity in Alternative Care and Adoption: The Need to Recentre the Child’s Best Interest in International Human Rights Adjudication	1
Catarina Woyames Dreher, A Legal Assessment of the Efficacy of Consultation with Indigenous Peoples: The Case of Brazil	1
Enforcing Rights Beyond Litigation: Mapping NGO Strategies in Monitoring ECtHR Judgement Implementation	1
Rendering International Human Rights Law Fit for Purpose on Climate Change	1
Mental Capacity, Dignity and the Power of International Human Rights	1
Damian Etone, The Human Rights Council: The Impact of the Universal Periodic Review in Africa (Routledge, 2021, xv + 215 pp, £36.99) ISBN 9781032175317 (pb).	1
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	1
Uncovering the Nature of ECHR Rights: An Analytical and Methodological Framework	1
Recognizing Early Childhood Education as a Human Right in International Law	1
Sex and Gender in International Human Rights Law through the Prism of the ‘Women’ Category in Recent Case Law	1
Patents, Human Rights, and Access to Medicines. By Emmanuel Kolawole Oke. (Cambridge University Press, 2022, 175 pp) Hardback, GBP 95, ISBN 9781108472104.	1
Access to Courts for Asylum Seekers and Refugees: State Obligations under the 1951 Refugee Convention	1
Borrowed Words and Judicial Gestalt: A Dialogical Reading of Hirst, the ECtHR and Prisoner Voting Rights	1
Legal Violence and (In)Visible Families: How Law Shapes and Erases Family Life in SOGI Asylum in Europe	1
An Incremental Approach to Filling Protection Gaps in Equality Rights for Persons with Disabilities	1