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 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
Human rights in Southeast Asia: ASEAN’s rights regime after its first decade	8
Feminist periscoping in research on border enforcement and human rights	8
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
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
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
An investigation of incident reports from the detention center Nauru: Has Australia breached the Universal Declaration of 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
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
Solving old problems or making new ones? Blockchain technology for the protection of refugees and migrants	3