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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Who is a legitimate actor under international human rights law? A story about women’s mobilization against enforced disappearances	20
The primacy of care for global security	20
Vernacularizing human rights: A review essay	19
Where were the listeners? Witnessing among Holocaust survivors	17
Reducing mass atrocities through transitional justice	17
Perceptions of a human rights lens in relation to the training of social work field educators	16
Policy-specific human rights shaming: Evidence from the other letters of the UN Special Procedures	16
Making or breaking the cycle of corruption: Exploring the impact of transitional justice on corruption in postconflict countries	14
Introduction to a special issue on beyond complacency and acrimony: Studying human rights in a post-COVID-19 world	14
Human rights globalization: How local and global actions institutionalize human rights	14
African justice in precarious moments: Evolving approaches to remedial mandates at the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights	13
The International Criminal Court at 25	13
Measuring absence: Narrative obstacles to counting contemporary enforced disappearances in Latin America	11
Nothing changed after Rome: Continuity in state support for the International Criminal Court	10
Public acceptance of gender-based violence as torture	10
“It’s like living in a black hole”: Reevaluating the use of solitary confinement during COVID-19	7
#ForeignersMustGo versus “in favorem libertatis”: Human rights violations and procedural irregularities in South African immigration detention law	6
Development of the right to fair trial principles in the African human rights system	6
Can nonviolent resistance survive COVID-19?	6
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
International human rights teachers in Myanmar universities: The individual constraints of structure on intermediaries	5
Does responsibility matter in domestic discourses on human rights due diligence legislation? Analyzing interest groups’ discourse on Germany’s Supply Chain Act	5
The economic origins of democratic civil liberties: A cross-country analysis	5
Overlapping institutions in the UN human rights system: Mutually strengthening or undermining?	5

Harming those doing good? The role of anti-aid rhetoric in explaining aid worker attacks	5
New frame for an old issue: How organizations view frame choice, embedding, and efficacy about child, early, and forced marriage	5
Meanings of the human rights concept: Tunisian activism in the 1970s	5
Questioning the eradication framing of global statelessness work: IBelong and beyond	5
Fashioning the self: Arguing for a right to dress under the freedom of expression in international human rights law	5
Perceptions of human rights complaint mechanisms: The case of German international development cooperation	5
Practitioner’s perspective on human rights education: Key resources	5
Corporate influence and indigenous resistance: A postcolonial analysis of development projects in Africa	4
Economic sanctions, repression capacity, and human rights	4
A decade of revitalizing UN work concerning freedom of religion or belief (2010–2020)	4
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
Human rights cities and the expanding global toolkit for decolonization and racial justice	3
Translocal lessons from transitional justice in Colombia: Truth, art, and memory to advance human rights and transform societies	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
Layered localization of international human rights law: Signaling and contestation in the context of Thailand	3
Social practice of human rights: Insights on decolonization and development for Africa and people of African descent	3