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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
State surveillance and the COVID-19 crisis	39
Global health and human rights in the time of COVID-19: Response, restrictions, and legitimacy	32
Solidarity in times of crisis	23
Freedom of movement, migration, and borders	18
Law, gender identity, and the uses of human rights: The paradox of recognition in South Asia	18
The state of human rights in a (post) COVID-19 world	15
The COVID-19 pandemic and authoritarian consolidation in North Africa	13
Pandemic patriarchy: The impact of a global health crisis on women’s rights	12
Can nonviolent resistance survive COVID-19?	11
Human rights obligations of drug companies	11
The effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on human rights practices: Findings from the Human Rights Measurement Initiative’s 2021 Practitioner Survey	10
Challenging antisodomy laws in Singapore and the former British colonies of ASEAN	9
America First and the human rights regime	9
The World Bank as an enforcer of human rights	8
What COVID-19 revealed about health, human rights, and the WHO	8
Naming and shaming, government messaging, and backlash effects: Experimental evidence from the Convention Against Torture	8
In the crosshairs: The perils of environmental journalism	8
Prevention of pesticide suicides and the right to life: The intersection of human rights and public health priorities	7
Global perceptions of South Korea's COVID-19 policy responses: Topic modeling with tweets	7
A decade of institutionalizing human rights in ASEAN: Progress and challenges	7
Feminist periscoping in research on border enforcement and human rights	7
An investigation of incident reports from the detention center Nauru: Has Australia breached the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?	6
Citizen support for the pursuit of gender equality in US foreign policy	6
A line under the past: Performative temporal segregation in transitional justice	6
How regional organizations respond to human rights: ASEAN’s ritualism in comparative perspective	6

Negotiated rights: UN treaty negotiation, socialization, and human rights	6
Peasants' rights and agrarian violence in transitional settings: From transitional justice to transformative agrarian justice	6
Publicity and perceptions of risk: The effects of HRO naming and shaming on sovereign credit rating	6
Rainbow Island: Taiwan’s struggle for marriage equality	5
The paradox of framing water as a human right in the United States: An analysis of power and resistance	5
Social media and genocide: The case for home state responsibility	5
A forecasted failure: Intersectionality, COVID-19, and the perfect storm	5
Revisiting interdependence in times and terms of crisis	5
The challenges and dilemmas of local translators of human rights: The case of disability rights among Jewish ultra-Orthodox communities	5
Hindsight is 2020: Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic for future human rights research	5
Building solidarity on the margins: Seeking SOGIE rights in ASEAN	5
Legal empowerment approaches in the context of COVID-19	5
Out of sync: The failed translation of international human rights in the creation of the UK Human Rights Act	5
Hazardous confinement during the COVID-19 pandemic: The fate of migrants detained yet nondeportable	4
NGO repression as a predictor of worsening human rights abuses	4
The governance authority of non-state actors in the business and human rights regime	4
Human rights in Southeast Asia: ASEAN’s rights regime after its first decade	4
Closing chapters of the past? Rhetorical strategies in political apologies for human rights violations across the world	4
Communication at the margins: Online homophobia from the perspectives of LGBTQ + social media users	4
Children’s and young people’s human rights education in school: Cardinal complications and a middle ground	4
The economic origins of democratic civil liberties: A cross-country analysis	3
The evolution of the global movement to end child marriage	3
The mixed strategy of authoritarian labor rights repression	3
Disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration in Colombia: Lost human rights opportunities for ex-combatants with disabilities	3
Between protection and participation: Rethinking children’s rights to participate in protests on streets, online spaces, and schools	3
Prickles and goo: Human rights and spirituality	3
Introduction to a special issue on beyond complacency and acrimony: Studying human rights in a post-COVID-19 world	3
International socialization, international politics, and the spread of state bureaucracies for women’s advancement	3
“When the ground opened”: Responsibility for harms and rights violations in disasters – Insights from Sierra Leone	3
Transgender rights are human rights: A cross-national comparison of transgender rights in 204 countries	3
A BIT of help? The divergent effect of bilateral investment treaties on women’s rights	2
The gendered politics of recognition and recognizability through political apology	2
External threat and human rights: How international conflict leads to domestic repression	2
Child labor and unfree labor: Evidence from the palm oil sector in Sabah (East Malaysia)	2
The ‘invention’ of human rights as a revolutionary concept: Confronting orthodox Marxism and the New Left (Argentina, 1972)	2
How closing civil society space affects NGO-Government interactions	2
A fox in the henhouse: China, normative change, and the UN Human Rights Council	2
Cultural brokerage and translation of human rights in the face of cultural opposition: A case of deliberative activism in Israel	2
Introduction to a Special Issue on Human Rights in the Time of COVID-19	2
Belgium’s “Truth Commission” on its overseas colonial legacy: An expressivist analysis of transitional justice in consolidated democracies	2
Mapping perceptions of human rights and cultivating Boston as a human rights city	2
Truth commissions and democratic transitions: Neither truth and reconciliation nor democratization in Nepal	2
Journaling as a rights-based intervention during pandemic times: An interview with the creators of the Pandemic Journaling Project	2
Untangling the authority of external experts in the corporate implementation of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights	2
Water as a Human Right	2
Who commits to regional human rights treaties? Reputational benefits, sovereignty costs, and regional dynamics	2
Using images as data in political violence research	2
‘It was supposed to be fair here’: Human rights and recourse mechanisms in the Dominican Republic’s prison reform process	2
Social movements and human rights language in abortion debates	2
Defending the watchdogs: How citizens and courts protect the press	2

Can national human rights institutions make a difference? Discourse, accountability, and the Egyptian National Council for Human Rights	1
The future of human rights: A research agenda	1
Criminal justice in Ghana as experienced by people with disabilities: An analysis of the availability, accessibility, acceptability, and quality of services	1
Epistemes of human rights in Kashmir: Paradoxes of universality and particularity	1
New evidence that naming and shaming influences state human rights practices	1
International human rights teachers in Myanmar universities: The individual constraints of structure on intermediaries	1
Gendered framing in human rights campaigns	1
Southeast Asia’s human rights institutions and the inconsistent power of human rights	1
From a ‘cultural logic’ to an ‘institutional logic’: The politics of human rights in Pacific Island Countries	1
Examining compliance with domestic human rights bodies: The case of truth commission recommendations	1
Ranking for human rights? The formative power of indicators for business responsibility	1
Socioeconomic rights in the age of pandemics: Covid-19 large-scale lockdowns have exposed the weakness of the right to work	1
Legal waivers in settlement agreements: Implications on access to remedies in business and human rights	1
Constructing an international legal order under the shadow of colonial domination	1
How does transitional justice matter? Expanding and refining quantitative research on the effects of transitional justice policies	1
The paradox of success: Evolutionary dynamics between human rights and small arms	1
The troubled world of hate speech regulation	1
Explaining support for international action against human rights abusers	1
How torturers are made: Evidence from Saddam Hussein’s Iraq	1