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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Who is a legitimate actor under international human rights law? A story about women’s mobilization against enforced disappearances	20
The primacy of care for global security	20
Vernacularizing human rights: A review essay	19
Where were the listeners? Witnessing among Holocaust survivors	17
Reducing mass atrocities through transitional justice	17
Policy-specific human rights shaming: Evidence from the other letters of the UN Special Procedures	16
Perceptions of a human rights lens in relation to the training of social work field educators	16
Human rights globalization: How local and global actions institutionalize human rights	14
Making or breaking the cycle of corruption: Exploring the impact of transitional justice on corruption in postconflict countries	14
Introduction to a special issue on beyond complacency and acrimony: Studying human rights in a post-COVID-19 world	14
The International Criminal Court at 25	13
African justice in precarious moments: Evolving approaches to remedial mandates at the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights	13
Measuring absence: Narrative obstacles to counting contemporary enforced disappearances in Latin America	11
Public acceptance of gender-based violence as torture	10
Nothing changed after Rome: Continuity in state support for the International Criminal Court	10
“It’s like living in a black hole”: Reevaluating the use of solitary confinement during COVID-19	7
Can nonviolent resistance survive COVID-19?	6
#ForeignersMustGo versus “in favorem libertatis”: Human rights violations and procedural irregularities in South African immigration detention law	6
Development of the right to fair trial principles in the African human rights system	6
Practitioner’s perspective on human rights education: Key resources	5
From ‘evil doers’ to ‘very fine people’: The politics of shifting counterterrorism targets	5
Digital feminism: In the aftermath of #MeToo, what’s next for workplace equity for women?	5
International human rights teachers in Myanmar universities: The individual constraints of structure on intermediaries	5
Does responsibility matter in domestic discourses on human rights due diligence legislation? Analyzing interest groups’ discourse on Germany’s Supply Chain Act	5
The economic origins of democratic civil liberties: A cross-country analysis	5

Overlapping institutions in the UN human rights system: Mutually strengthening or undermining?	5
Harming those doing good? The role of anti-aid rhetoric in explaining aid worker attacks	5
New frame for an old issue: How organizations view frame choice, embedding, and efficacy about child, early, and forced marriage	5
Meanings of the human rights concept: Tunisian activism in the 1970s	5
Questioning the eradication framing of global statelessness work: IBelong and beyond	5
Fashioning the self: Arguing for a right to dress under the freedom of expression in international human rights law	5
Perceptions of human rights complaint mechanisms: The case of German international development cooperation	5
Corporate influence and indigenous resistance: A postcolonial analysis of development projects in Africa	4
Economic sanctions, repression capacity, and human rights	4
A decade of revitalizing UN work concerning freedom of religion or belief (2010–2020)	4
Layered localization of international human rights law: Signaling and contestation in the context of Thailand	3
Social practice of human rights: Insights on decolonization and development for Africa and people of African descent	3
Rights education and the children’s university	3
Measuring technology presence in trafficking: Introducing the Social Media and the Internet in Trafficking of Humans (SMITH) data project	3
Human rights cities and the expanding global toolkit for decolonization and racial justice	3
Translocal lessons from transitional justice in Colombia: Truth, art, and memory to advance human rights and transform societies	3
Indigenous vs. Peasants’ rights? Lhaka Honhat v. Argentina and the role of the Inter-American Human Rights System in communal interethnic conflicts	3
Food oppression in the United Kingdom: A study of structural race and income-based food access inequalities	3
Constructing an international legal order under the shadow of colonial domination	2
Stop blaming the farmer: Dispelling the myths of ‘misuse’ and ‘safe’ use of pesticides to protect health and human rights	2
Human rights, vulnerability, and climate migration in the anthropocene: Reconceptualizing responsibility	2
Managed death: IO legitimacy and evolving human rights	2
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
Barriers to justice for survivors of egregious human rights violations: A transdisciplinary approach	2
Communication at the margins: Online homophobia from the perspectives of LGBTQ + social media users	2
When the stick fails to work: The effects of sanctions on government sexual violence in armed conflict	2
Researching under constraints: Recent books on post-genocide Rwanda	2
Copy thy neighbor: Spatial interdependences in the democracy-repression nexus	2
Above politics: The construction of human rights in the negotiation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights	2
Critical human rights research	2
Hard to kill: The UN Complaint Procedure turns 50	2
Examining the effects of democratic backsliding on human rights conditions	2
Intersectionality as method for human rights research: Identifying who is made stateless and how through UN treaty body reviews	2
Reflections on a research agenda: The rise of abuse against information workers – Public goods dimensions	1
“Adding fuel to the fire”: Unconditional early release of perpetrators convicted by the ICTY, views from Bosnia and Herzegovina	1
The dictator’s dilemma: Why communist regimes oppress their citizens while military regimes torture and kill	1
Transitional justice for the “war on terror?”	1
Democratic representation of dependent claim makers	1
Hindsight is 2020: Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic for future human rights research	1
Caught in the crossfire: Children’s rights under backsliding and backlash	1
Pandemic patriarchy: The impact of a global health crisis on women’s rights	1
The case for human rights realism and restraint in the new era	1
Addressing the impacts of climate change on human rights through adaptation-focused litigation: Cases before the African Union’s human rights bodies	1
Child labor and unfree labor: Evidence from the palm oil sector in Sabah (East Malaysia)	1
How closing civil society space affects NGO-Government interactions	1
Casting a shadow over war zones? Hard truths about the ICC’s efforts to deter wartime atrocities	1
Another Highway of Tears: Human rights abuses on the Alaska Highway	1
The COVID-19 pandemic and authoritarian consolidation in North Africa	1
Advantageous comparison: Israel’s response to allegations of human rights violations	1

Institutionalizing human rights in the United States: Advocacy for a national human rights institution	1
Responding to criticism: Autocratic states and treaty reservation withdrawal	1
The governance authority of non-state actors in the business and human rights regime	1
New evidence that naming and shaming influences state human rights practices	1
Correction	1
A fox in the henhouse: China, normative change, and the UN Human Rights Council	1
Global perceptions of South Korea's COVID-19 policy responses: Topic modeling with tweets	1
The human rights defenders targeted killings (HRD-TK) dataset	1
The evolution of funding for the International Criminal Court: Budgets, donors and gender justice	1