OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Human Rights is 3. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Criminalization and rhetorical nondiscrimination: Sex work and sexual diversity politics in Rwanda	15
Truth commissions and democratic transitions: Neither truth and reconciliation nor democratization in Nepal	13
The ‘invention’ of human rights as a revolutionary concept: Confronting orthodox Marxism and the New Left (Argentina, 1972)	12
Gendered framing in human rights campaigns	12
How torturers are made: Evidence from Saddam Hussein’s Iraq	11
Hindsight is 2020: Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic for future human rights research	11
How regional organizations respond to human rights: ASEAN’s ritualism in comparative perspective	10
Who is a legitimate actor under international human rights law? A story about women’s mobilization against enforced disappearances	10
Ambiguous marital identity and conflict: A study of the half-widows in Jammu and Kashmir	9
The future of human rights	8
From human rights to “righteous humans”: Brazilian foreign policy in the Bolsonaro era	7
Global perceptions of South Korea's COVID-19 policy responses: Topic modeling with tweets	7
How to consolidate quickly: The cases of Algeria and Tunisia	7
How closing civil society space affects NGO-Government interactions	7
Meanings of the human rights concept: Tunisian activism in the 1970s	7
Naming and shaming, government messaging, and backlash effects: Experimental evidence from the Convention Against Torture	7
How climate volatility influences human rights	6
Critical human rights research	6
Rethinking work, the right to work, and automation	6
The primacy of care for global security	6
Social media and genocide: The case for home state responsibility	6
Child soldiers as contemporary slaves: A human rights approach	5
A decade of revitalizing UN work concerning freedom of religion or belief (2010–2020)	5
Between negotiation and legitimation: The international criminal court and the political use of sovereignty challenges	4
The dictator’s dilemma: Why communist regimes oppress their citizens while military regimes torture and kill	4

A new hope for human rights	4
Correction	4
The ICC beyond the courtroom: Activities, warnings, and impact	4
SDG 16 and the human rights architecture in Southeast Asia: A complementary protection process	4
Transitional justice for the “war on terror?”	3
New evidence that naming and shaming influences state human rights practices	3
Child labor and unfree labor: Evidence from the palm oil sector in Sabah (East Malaysia)	3
The troubled world of hate speech regulation	3
Belgium’s “Truth Commission” on its overseas colonial legacy: An expressivist analysis of transitional justice in consolidated democracies	3
Localizing human rights through the Sustainable Development Goals: The case of Los Angeles	3
To know in the subjunctive: New abolitionistimagetextsand the specter of modern slavery	3
Legal waivers in settlement agreements: Implications on access to remedies in business and human rights	3
Economic sanctions, repression capacity, and human rights	3
‘It was supposed to be fair here’: Human rights and recourse mechanisms in the Dominican Republic’s prison reform process	3