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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Law, gender identity, and the uses of human rights: The paradox of recognition in South Asia	21
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?	12
The effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on human rights practices: Findings from the Human Rights Measurement Initiative’s 2021 Practitioner Survey	11
Challenging antisodomy laws in Singapore and the former British colonies of ASEAN	11
Naming and shaming, government messaging, and backlash effects: Experimental evidence from the Convention Against Torture	10
Global perceptions of South Korea's COVID-19 policy responses: Topic modeling with tweets	10
Prevention of pesticide suicides and the right to life: The intersection of human rights and public health priorities	9
A decade of institutionalizing human rights in ASEAN: Progress and challenges	9
Feminist periscoping in research on border enforcement and human rights	8
Human rights in Southeast Asia: ASEAN’s rights regime after its first decade	8
Children’s and young people’s human rights education in school: Cardinal complications and a middle ground	7
The challenges and dilemmas of local translators of human rights: The case of disability rights among Jewish ultra-Orthodox communities	7
Transgender rights are human rights: A cross-national comparison of transgender rights in 204 countries	7
How regional organizations respond to human rights: ASEAN’s ritualism in comparative perspective	7
Building solidarity on the margins: Seeking SOGIE rights in ASEAN	7
A line under the past: Performative temporal segregation in transitional justice	7
An investigation of incident reports from the detention center Nauru: Has Australia breached the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?	6
Communication at the margins: Online homophobia from the perspectives of LGBTQ + social media users	6
Peasants' rights and agrarian violence in transitional settings: From transitional justice to transformative agrarian justice	6
A fox in the henhouse: China, normative change, and the UN Human Rights Council	6
Negotiated rights: UN treaty negotiation, socialization, and human rights	6
Hindsight is 2020: Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic for future human rights research	5

Social media and genocide: The case for home state responsibility	5
NGO repression as a predictor of worsening human rights abuses	5
Prickles and goo: Human rights and spirituality	4
The governance authority of non-state actors in the business and human rights regime	4
International socialization, international politics, and the spread of state bureaucracies for women’s advancement	4
Closing chapters of the past? Rhetorical strategies in political apologies for human rights violations across the world	4
How closing civil society space affects NGO-Government interactions	4
Disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration in Colombia: Lost human rights opportunities for ex-combatants with disabilities	4
Who commits to regional human rights treaties? Reputational benefits, sovereignty costs, and regional dynamics	4
Solving old problems or making new ones? Blockchain technology for the protection of refugees and migrants	3
Untangling the authority of external experts in the corporate implementation of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights	3
Belgium’s “Truth Commission” on its overseas colonial legacy: An expressivist analysis of transitional justice in consolidated democracies	3
Truth commissions and democratic transitions: Neither truth and reconciliation nor democratization in Nepal	3
“When the ground opened”: Responsibility for harms and rights violations in disasters – Insights from Sierra Leone	3
Introduction to a special issue on beyond complacency and acrimony: Studying human rights in a post-COVID-19 world	3
Social movements and human rights language in abortion debates	3
The economic origins of democratic civil liberties: A cross-country analysis	3
The evolution of the global movement to end child marriage	3
Child labor and unfree labor: Evidence from the palm oil sector in Sabah (East Malaysia)	3
The ‘invention’ of human rights as a revolutionary concept: Confronting orthodox Marxism and the New Left (Argentina, 1972)	3
A BIT of help? The divergent effect of bilateral investment treaties on women’s rights	2
Using images as data in political violence research	2
How torturers are made: Evidence from Saddam Hussein’s Iraq	2
Epistemes of human rights in Kashmir: Paradoxes of universality and particularity	2
Journaling as a rights-based intervention during pandemic times: An interview with the creators of the Pandemic Journaling Project	2
Disruption and emergence: How to think about human rights futures	2
The gendered politics of recognition and recognizability through political apology	2
‘It was supposed to be fair here’: Human rights and recourse mechanisms in the Dominican Republic’s prison reform process	2
Gendered framing in human rights campaigns	2
Defending the watchdogs: How citizens and courts protect the press	2
Constructing an international legal order under the shadow of colonial domination	2
Whose justice? Youth, reconciliation, and the state in post-Ben Ali Tunisia	2
Cultural brokerage and translation of human rights in the face of cultural opposition: A case of deliberative activism in Israel	2
Rethinking work, the right to work, and automation	2
Examining compliance with domestic human rights bodies: The case of truth commission recommendations	2
Southeast Asia’s human rights institutions and the inconsistent power of human rights	2
Safeguarding truth: Supporting children’s participation at truth commissions	1
On conceptions of time in human rights studies: The afterlife, Islam, and reparative justice in post-uprising Tunisia	1
Socioeconomic rights in the age of pandemics: Covid-19 large-scale lockdowns have exposed the weakness of the right to work	1
Introduction to human rights on the edge: The future of international human rights law and practice	1
The spatial dynamics of freedom of foreign movement and human trafficking	1
Ranking for human rights? The formative power of indicators for business responsibility	1
Localizing human rights through the Sustainable Development Goals: The case of Los Angeles	1
Legal waivers in settlement agreements: Implications on access to remedies in business and human rights	1
The paradox of success: Evolutionary dynamics between human rights and small arms	1
Explaining support for international action against human rights abusers	1
The future of human rights: A research agenda	1
From a ‘cultural logic’ to an ‘institutional logic’: The politics of human rights in Pacific Island Countries	1
How does transitional justice matter? Expanding and refining quantitative research on the effects of transitional justice policies	1
“Legal exhaustion” and the crisis of human rights: Tracing legal mobilization against sexual violence and torture of Kurdish women in state custody in Turkey since the 1990s	1

Economic sanctions, repression capacity, and human rights	1
The troubled world of hate speech regulation	1
War and infant mortality rates	1
Can national human rights institutions make a difference? Discourse, accountability, and the Egyptian National Council for Human Rights	1
International human rights teachers in Myanmar universities: The individual constraints of structure on intermediaries	1
Human rights as mockery of morality , manifesting morality , and moral maze	1
Criminal justice in Ghana as experienced by people with disabilities: An analysis of the availability, accessibility, acceptability, and quality of services	1
Do human rights treaty obligations matter for ratification?	1
New evidence that naming and shaming influences state human rights practices	1
Critical human rights research	1