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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
The primacy of care for global security	22
Who is a legitimate actor under international human rights law? A story about women’s mobilization against enforced disappearances	21
Vernacularizing human rights: A review essay	21
African justice in precarious moments: Evolving approaches to remedial mandates at the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights	15
Perceptions of a human rights lens in relation to the training of social work field educators	15
Making or breaking the cycle of corruption: Exploring the impact of transitional justice on corruption in postconflict countries	13
Policy-specific human rights shaming: Evidence from the other letters of the UN Special Procedures	12
Human rights globalization: How local and global actions institutionalize human rights	12
Reducing mass atrocities through transitional justice	8
The International Criminal Court at 25	7
#ForeignersMustGo versus “in favorem libertatis”: Human rights violations and procedural irregularities in South African immigration detention law	6
Measuring absence: Narrative obstacles to counting contemporary enforced disappearances in Latin America	6
Public acceptance of gender-based violence as torture	6
“It’s like living in a black hole”: Reevaluating the use of solitary confinement during COVID-19	6
Nothing changed after Rome: Continuity in state support for the International Criminal Court	6
Overlapping institutions in the UN human rights system: Mutually strengthening or undermining?	5
Development of the right to fair trial principles in the African human rights system	5
Perceptions of human rights complaint mechanisms: The case of German international development cooperation	5
Questioning the eradication framing of global statelessness work: IBelong and beyond	5
The economic origins of democratic civil liberties: A cross-country analysis	5
Harming those doing good? The role of anti-aid rhetoric in explaining aid worker attacks	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
New frame for an old issue: How organizations view frame choice, embedding, and efficacy about child, early, and forced marriage	5
A decade of revitalizing UN work concerning freedom of religion or belief (2010–2020)	4

Does responsibility matter in domestic discourses on human rights due diligence legislation? Analyzing interest groups’ discourse on Germany’s Supply Chain Act	4
Practitioner’s perspective on human rights education: Key resources	4
Fashioning the self: Arguing for a right to dress under the freedom of expression in international human rights law	4
Corporate influence and indigenous resistance: A postcolonial analysis of development projects in Africa	4
Meanings of the human rights concept: Tunisian activism in the 1970s	4
Layered localization of international human rights law: Signaling and contestation in the context of Thailand	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
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
Translocal lessons from transitional justice in Colombia: Truth, art, and memory to advance human rights and transform societies	3
Human rights cities and the expanding global toolkit for decolonization and racial justice	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
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
When the stick fails to work: The effects of sanctions on government sexual violence in armed conflict	2
Human rights, vulnerability, and climate migration in the anthropocene: Reconceptualizing responsibility	2
Artificial intelligence, human rights, and the future of work: Global governance and international organizations in the age of AI	2
Copy thy neighbor: Spatial interdependences in the democracy-repression nexus	2
Barriers to justice for survivors of egregious human rights violations: A transdisciplinary approach	2
Examining the effects of democratic backsliding on human rights conditions	2
Above politics: The construction of human rights in the negotiation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights	2
Communication at the margins: Online homophobia from the perspectives of LGBTQ + social media users	2
Social practice of human rights: Insights on decolonization and development for Africa and people of African descent	2
Researching under constraints: Recent books on post-genocide Rwanda	2
Intersectionality as method for human rights research: Identifying who is made stateless and how through UN treaty body reviews	2
Managed death: IO legitimacy and evolving human rights	2
How closing civil society space affects NGO-Government interactions	2
Populist elite cues and public attitudes toward international organizations: Experimental evidence from South Korea on the UN human rights bodies	2
Critical human rights research	2
Democratic representation of dependent claim makers	1
A fox in the henhouse: China, normative change, and the UN Human Rights Council	1
The case for human rights realism and restraint in the new era	1
Reflections on a research agenda: The rise of abuse against information workers – Public goods dimensions	1
Transitional justice for the “war on terror?”	1
Emotion in the production of political violence	1
Correction	1
Human rights as mockery of morality , manifesting morality , and moral maze	1
Another Highway of Tears: Human rights abuses on the Alaska Highway	1
The human rights defenders targeted killings (HRD-TK) dataset	1
Advantageous comparison: Israel’s response to allegations of human rights violations	1
Addressing the impacts of climate change on human rights through adaptation-focused litigation: Cases before the African Union’s human rights bodies	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
Hard to kill: The UN Complaint Procedure turns 50	1
The evolution of funding for the International Criminal Court: Budgets, donors and gender justice	1
Human rights and research ethics: Methods for sex workers’ rights scholarship	1
Regulation at the margins: Child labour, ungoverned spaces, and the politics of agency	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
“Adding fuel to the fire”: Unconditional early release of perpetrators convicted by the ICTY, views from Bosnia and Herzegovina	1
New evidence that naming and shaming influences state human rights practices	1
The dictator’s dilemma: Why communist regimes oppress their citizens while military regimes torture and kill	1
Casting a shadow over war zones? Hard truths about the ICC’s efforts to deter wartime atrocities	1
Caught in the crossfire: Children’s rights under backsliding and backlash	1