OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Human Rights 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Who is a legitimate actor under international human rights law? A story about women’s mobilization against enforced disappearances	16
The primacy of care for global security	16
Social media and genocide: The case for home state responsibility	15
Naming and shaming, government messaging, and backlash effects: Experimental evidence from the Convention Against Torture	15
Vernacularizing human rights: A review essay	14
Reducing mass atrocities through transitional justice	12
Where were the listeners? Witnessing among Holocaust survivors	12
Policy-specific human rights shaming: Evidence from the other letters of the UN Special Procedures	11
Introduction to a special issue on beyond complacency and acrimony: Studying human rights in a post-COVID-19 world	10
How does transitional justice matter? Expanding and refining quantitative research on the effects of transitional justice policies	9
Perceptions of a human rights lens in relation to the training of social work field educators	9
Human rights globalization: How local and global actions institutionalize human rights	9
Closing chapters of the past? Rhetorical strategies in political apologies for human rights violations across the world	8
The spatial dynamics of freedom of foreign movement and human trafficking	8
Can nonviolent resistance survive COVID-19?	8
Making or breaking the cycle of corruption: Exploring the impact of transitional justice on corruption in postconflict countries	8
Children’s and young people’s human rights education in school: Cardinal complications and a middle ground	7
The International Criminal Court at 25	7
“It’s like living in a black hole”: Reevaluating the use of solitary confinement during COVID-19	7
Measuring absence: Narrative obstacles to counting contemporary enforced disappearances in Latin America	6
Introduction to human rights on the edge: The future of international human rights law and practice	6
A BIT of help? The divergent effect of bilateral investment treaties on women’s rights	5
Public acceptance of gender-based violence as torture	5
Nothing changed after Rome: Continuity in state support for the International Criminal Court	5
From ‘evil doers’ to ‘very fine people’: The politics of shifting counterterrorism targets	5

#ForeignersMustGo versus “in favorem libertatis”: Human rights violations and procedural irregularities in South African immigration detention law	5
Overlapping institutions in the UN human rights system: Mutually strengthening or undermining?	4
Digital feminism: In the aftermath of #MeToo, what’s next for workplace equity for women?	4
Negotiated rights: UN treaty negotiation, socialization, and human rights	4
The evolution of the global movement to end child marriage	4
Harming those doing good? The role of anti-aid rhetoric in explaining aid worker attacks	4
International human rights teachers in Myanmar universities: The individual constraints of structure on intermediaries	4
Can national human rights institutions make a difference? Discourse, accountability, and the Egyptian National Council for Human Rights	4
NGO repression as a predictor of worsening human rights abuses	4
Perceptions of human rights complaint mechanisms: The case of German international development cooperation	3
Rethinking work, the right to work, and automation	3
Practitioner’s perspective on human rights education: Key resources	3
International socialization, international politics, and the spread of state bureaucracies for women’s advancement	3
Meanings of the human rights concept: Tunisian activism in the 1970s	3
Indigenous vs. Peasants’ rights? Lhaka Honhat v. Argentina and the role of the Inter-American Human Rights System in communal interethnic conflicts	3
The economic origins of democratic civil liberties: A cross-country analysis	3
Economic sanctions, repression capacity, and human rights	3
Corporate influence and indigenous resistance: A postcolonial analysis of development projects in Africa	3
Where you stand depends on where you sit: The effect of status and evaluative identities on human rights perception	2
Shifting police strategies: US aid and repression by public safety institutions in Latin America	2
Layered localization of international human rights law: Signaling and contestation in the context of Thailand	2
Food oppression in the United Kingdom: A study of structural race and income-based food access inequalities	2
Broadening the British idealist approach to human rights: J. S. Mackenzie’s list of political, economic, and social rights	2
Copy thy neighbor: Spatial interdependences in the democracy-repression nexus	2
A decade of revitalizing UN work concerning freedom of religion or belief (2010–2020)	2
Human rights cities and the expanding global toolkit for decolonization and racial justice	2
Intersectionality as method for human rights research: Identifying who is made stateless and how through UN treaty body reviews	2
Researching under constraints: Recent books on post-genocide Rwanda	2
Translocal lessons from transitional justice in Colombia: Truth, art, and memory to advance human rights and transform societies	2
The dictator’s dilemma: Why communist regimes oppress their citizens while military regimes torture and kill	1
Critical human rights research	1
Communication at the margins: Online homophobia from the perspectives of LGBTQ + social media users	1
Constructing an international legal order under the shadow of colonial domination	1
Social ecologies of health and conflict-related sexual violence: Translating “healthworlds” into transitional justice	1
Institutionalizing human rights in the United States: Advocacy for a national human rights institution	1
The boundaries of religion in international human rights law	1
A fox in the henhouse: China, normative change, and the UN Human Rights Council	1
Correction	1
Transitional justice for the “war on terror?”	1
How torturers are made: Evidence from Saddam Hussein’s Iraq	1
How closing civil society space affects NGO-Government interactions	1
Examining the effects of democratic backsliding on human rights conditions	1
New evidence that naming and shaming influences state human rights practices	1
Pandemic patriarchy: The impact of a global health crisis on women’s rights	1
The COVID-19 pandemic and authoritarian consolidation in North Africa	1
The gendered politics of recognition and recognizability through political apology	1
Casting a shadow over war zones? Hard truths about the ICC’s efforts to deter wartime atrocities	1
The governance authority of non-state actors in the business and human rights regime	1
Child labor and unfree labor: Evidence from the palm oil sector in Sabah (East Malaysia)	1
When the stick fails to work: The effects of sanctions on government sexual violence in armed conflict	1

Stop blaming the farmer: Dispelling the myths of ‘misuse’ and ‘safe’ use of pesticides to protect health and human rights	1
Managed death: IO legitimacy and evolving human rights	1
Criminalization and rhetorical nondiscrimination: Sex work and sexual diversity politics in Rwanda	1
“Adding fuel to the fire”: Unconditional early release of perpetrators convicted by the ICTY, views from Bosnia and Herzegovina	1
The paradox of success: Evolutionary dynamics between human rights and small arms	1
The evolution of funding for the International Criminal Court: Budgets, donors and gender justice	1
An investigation of incident reports from the detention center Nauru: Has Australia breached the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?	1
The future of human rights: A research agenda	1