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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
The primacy of care for global security	16
Who is a legitimate actor under international human rights law? A story about women’s mobilization against enforced disappearances	16
Vernacularizing human rights: A review essay	15
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
Where were the listeners? Witnessing among Holocaust survivors	13
Policy-specific human rights shaming: Evidence from the other letters of the UN Special Procedures	12
Reducing mass atrocities through transitional justice	12
Perceptions of a human rights lens in relation to the training of social work field educators	11
Introduction to a special issue on beyond complacency and acrimony: Studying human rights in a post-COVID-19 world	11
How does transitional justice matter? Expanding and refining quantitative research on the effects of transitional justice policies	10
The spatial dynamics of freedom of foreign movement and human trafficking	9
Making or breaking the cycle of corruption: Exploring the impact of transitional justice on corruption in postconflict countries	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
Can nonviolent resistance survive COVID-19?	8
“It’s like living in a black hole”: Reevaluating the use of solitary confinement during COVID-19	7
Introduction to human rights on the edge: The future of international human rights law and practice	7
The International Criminal Court at 25	7
Measuring absence: Narrative obstacles to counting contemporary enforced disappearances in Latin America	6
Public acceptance of gender-based violence as torture	6
A BIT of help? The divergent effect of bilateral investment treaties on women’s rights	6
NGO repression as a predictor of worsening human rights abuses	5
#ForeignersMustGo versus “in favorem libertatis”: Human rights violations and procedural irregularities in South African immigration detention law	5
Children’s and young people’s human rights education in school: Cardinal complications and a middle ground	5

From ‘evil doers’ to ‘very fine people’: The politics of shifting counterterrorism targets	5
Nothing changed after Rome: Continuity in state support for the International Criminal Court	5
The economic origins of democratic civil liberties: A cross-country analysis	4
Digital feminism: In the aftermath of #MeToo, what’s next for workplace equity for women?	4
Development of the right to fair trial principles in the African human rights system	4
Perceptions of human rights complaint mechanisms: The case of German international development cooperation	4
Harming those doing good? The role of anti-aid rhetoric in explaining aid worker attacks	4
Overlapping institutions in the UN human rights system: Mutually strengthening or undermining?	4
Negotiated rights: UN treaty negotiation, socialization, and human rights	4
New frame for an old issue: How organizations view frame choice, embedding, and efficacy about child, early, and forced marriage	4
The evolution of the global movement to end child marriage	4
International human rights teachers in Myanmar universities: The individual constraints of structure on intermediaries	4
International socialization, international politics, and the spread of state bureaucracies for women’s advancement	4
Economic sanctions, repression capacity, and human rights	3
A decade of revitalizing UN work concerning freedom of religion or belief (2010–2020)	3
Rethinking work, the right to work, and automation	3
Practitioner’s perspective on human rights education: Key resources	3
Corporate influence and indigenous resistance: A postcolonial analysis of development projects in Africa	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
Food oppression in the United Kingdom: A study of structural race and income-based food access inequalities	2
Where you stand depends on where you sit: The effect of status and evaluative identities on human rights perception	2
Intersectionality as method for human rights research: Identifying who is made stateless and how through UN treaty body reviews	2
Shifting police strategies: US aid and repression by public safety institutions in Latin America	2
Human rights cities and the expanding global toolkit for decolonization and racial justice	2
Layered localization of international human rights law: Signaling and contestation in the context of Thailand	2
Social practice of human rights: Insights on decolonization and development for Africa and people of African descent	2
Copy thy neighbor: Spatial interdependences in the democracy-repression nexus	2
Translocal lessons from transitional justice in Colombia: Truth, art, and memory to advance human rights and transform societies	2
Rights education and the children’s university	2
Broadening the British idealist approach to human rights: J. S. Mackenzie’s list of political, economic, and social rights	2
Researching under constraints: Recent books on post-genocide Rwanda	2
The gendered politics of recognition and recognizability through political apology	1
The case for human rights realism and restraint in the new era	1
The dictator’s dilemma: Why communist regimes oppress their citizens while military regimes torture and kill	1
How closing civil society space affects NGO-Government interactions	1
Examining the effects of democratic backsliding on human rights conditions	1
Constructing an international legal order under the shadow of colonial domination	1
New evidence that naming and shaming influences state human rights practices	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
Social ecologies of health and conflict-related sexual violence: Translating “healthworlds” into transitional justice	1
Addressing the impacts of climate change on human rights through adaptation-focused litigation: Cases before the African Union’s human rights bodies	1
Above politics: The construction of human rights in the negotiation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights	1
When the stick fails to work: The effects of sanctions on government sexual violence in armed conflict	1
Communication at the margins: Online homophobia from the perspectives of LGBTQ + social media users	1
Transitional justice for the “war on terror?”	1
Pandemic patriarchy: The impact of a global health crisis on women’s rights	1
The boundaries of religion in international human rights law	1
The future of human rights: A research agenda	1

Correction	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
Critical human rights research	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
A fox in the henhouse: China, normative change, and the UN Human Rights Council	1
Casting a shadow over war zones? Hard truths about the ICC’s efforts to deter wartime atrocities	1