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 2021-08-01 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
Naming and shaming, government messaging, and backlash effects: Experimental evidence from the Convention Against Torture	15
Vernacularizing human rights: A review essay	15
Social media and genocide: The case for home state responsibility	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
Introduction to a special issue on beyond complacency and acrimony: Studying human rights in a post-COVID-19 world	11
Perceptions of a human rights lens in relation to the training of social work field educators	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 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
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
Indigenous vs. Peasants’ rights? Lhaka Honhat v. Argentina and the role of the Inter-American Human Rights System in communal interethnic conflicts	3
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