OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Contemporary European Studies is 4. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Growth model dependencies and the digital sovereignty agenda: comparative analysis of Slovenia, Hungary and Serbia	25
The symbolic representation of the ‘People’ and the ‘Homeland’ in Spanish left populism: an opportunity for feminist politics?	23
Small EU member states and Brexit: introduction	23
“The cultural war is declared”: The Front National’s cultural policy and the resistance it provoked in France between 1995 and 2002	21
A small state finding its way in the EU: Croatia and its approach to Brexit	19
Radicalism, identity construction and emotionality in social movements: #BogaziciDireniyor and the challenge to authoritarianism	17
The differential impact of EU attitudes on voting behaviour in the European parliamentary elections 2019	16
“We will burn anything we can”: Czech presidency and EU nuclear Renaissance	15
Influencing the general public? The self-perceived communicative roles of Norwegian and Danish far-right anti-immigration actors	15
Alternative media and political divides: understanding system-critical and elite-challenging sentiments in Czech politics	14
Resilience in EU crisis interventions in Ukraine: A complexity perspective	14
A case of far-right mainstreaming beyond electoral performance: far-right memory politics in Albania	14
The limits of strategic narratives: the EU–US relationship between emotive polarization and uncertain times	14
Power beyond borders? Analysing formal and informal tools of the European Parliament in EU enlargement policy	14
Political drivers of Muslim youth radicalisation in France: religious radicalism as a response to nativism	13
Framing the Eastern Partnership in the European Union’s and Russia’s institutional discourse	13
Bringing Erasmus home: the European universities initiative as an example of ‘Everyday Europeanhood’	12
The role of (rule of law) conditionality in MFF 2021-2027 and Next Generation EU, or the stressed budget	12
Covid-19 and the collective securitisation of schengen: an analysis of EU and national responses to border control	11
The EU as a weak and authoritative traitor: signs of post-socialist ressentiment and populist rhetoric in online civic anti-European discourses	11
Mapping citizens, voters, and parties’ preferences on European solidarity across EU member states	11
Perceptions, images and emotions towards the European Union (EU) in Latin America: between admiration and resentment	11
Non-recognizing the Other? Discursive deligitimation of the EAEU by the EU	11
Is the rule of law really a European concern? Mediatized rule of law conflicts and the contestation of the independence of the judiciary in France and Italy	10
Measuring Czech Armed Forces’ resilience to hybrid interference	10

Transnational diffusion and far-right latent social movements: unveiling the survival of anti-immigration mobilisation in Portugal	9
State positioning in European military AI networks: a social network analysis of European partnerships in military AI	9
Tracing Jewish family history in a post-Holocaust world	9
Connectivity of the EU’s Eastern Partnership region: contestation between liberal and illiberal approaches	9
Substantiating EU citizenship: an unintended route to anti-establishment support	8
All roads lead to Rome? Analysing the electoral performance of populist radical left parties in Europe (2008-2018): a fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis	8
Public opinion about Finland joining NATO: analysing Twitter posts by performing natural language processing	8
Sanitary segregation imposed by Big Brother – a Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis of Grzegorz Braun’s radical anti-vaccine rhetoric	8
Pax Transatlantica; America and Europe in the Post-Cold War Era	8
Sensing, imagining, doing Europe : Europeanisation in the boundary work of welcome cultures	8
Integration or exclusion? Assimilation of non-Irish nationals into the Irish labour market	8
Need a little love? Go South: patterns of trust across EU member states	8
The rise and fall of the EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment: ‘open strategic autonomy’ in action	8
Europe between Russia’s self and others: continuity and transformation in Russia’s perceptions of the European Union	7
Conflict conditionality in the Western Balkans: its conceptualization, evolution, and nature	7
Ontological (In)security in theRassemblement National’sdystopian narrative of the EU	7
Unpacking negative public attitudes towards European union integration: insights from a qualitative study in Slovakia	7
The “green wave” in the EU Twittersphere during the May 2019 election campaign	7
International development policies in Central and Eastern Europe since EU accession: increasing divergence?	6
The elephant in the room: the European Council’s dominance in core state powers during times of crisis	6
Introduction: social movements and radicalisation in Europe	6
Correction	6
European identity and European political parties	6
Conflicting dynamics of public attitudes toward austerity: evidence from Europe (2010–2011)	6
Cosmopolitanism in contemporary European societies: mapping and comparing different types of openness across Europe	6
Populist radical-right governments in Central-Eastern Europe and education policy-making: a comparison of Hungary and Poland	6
EUPD performance in Latin America: Assessing the cases of Brazil, Mexico and Colombia	6
Agreeing on the European COVID-19 budget package – multiple streams in the European Union	6
Coping, struggling, or just getting by? Brexit and its implications for Czech and Slovak security and defence policies	6
Divided Towns, Integration and Cross-border Cooperation. The Cases of Cieszyn/Český Těšín and Słubice/Frankfurt (Oder)	6
Centrist and Radical Right Populists in Central and Eastern Europe: Divergent Visions of History and the EU	6
EU Fiscal Capacity – Legal Integration after COVID-19 and the War in Ukraine EU Fiscal Capacity – Legal Integration after COVID-19 and the War in Ukraine , by Federico F	5
Change in the Baltic Sea region: geopolitics, identity, and the Russian negative integration factor	5
EU regional trade agreements. An instrument of promoting the rule of law to third states	5
History of the Adriatic: a sea and its civilisation	5
Does the EU message impact public attitudes toward the death penalty in EU membership-aspiring countries? Lessons from Albania	5
European political narratives in higher education: towards an ever-stronger politicisation?	5
Roles and ideologies in foreign policy: the Czech positions on the EU migration crisis	5
Innovations, Reinvented Politics and Representative Democracy	5
Radicalisation and radicalism: the double face of prejudice in the Spanish case of the Neo-Nazi group Hogar Social (2014–2019)	5
Ukraine and the willingness to fight for one’s country	5
China’s discourse on the belt and road initiative: a hidden threat to European security logic?	5
Alliance-building between great power commitment and misperceptions: failed balancing despite alignment efforts in the post-Soviet space	5
The Russia-Ukraine war of 2022: faces of modern conflict The Russia-Ukraine war of 2022: faces of modern conflict , edited by Agnieszka Kasińska-Metryka and Karolina Pał	5
The Multiannual financial framework 2021–2027 and Next Generation EU - A turning point of EU multi-level governance?	4
Narrowing the ‘expectations deficit’? Evolving Japanese expectations of the EU as an Indo-Pacific security actor (2020–2022)	4
Baltic States’ EU membership: discursive search for (and failure to obtain) farewell from Russia	4
No to the ‘mad’ Green Deal, yes to ‘quality’ Czech food: how the far-right populist Freedom and Direct Democracy messages on environmental issues	4
Between constraint co-production and real co-creation of public services: citizen involvement as public service innovation. Lessons from Poland	4
Still a great power? Russia’s status dilemmas post-Ukraine war	4

Brexit coping strategies of the Baltic states	4
Between policy issues and values: the public discourse of constrained presidents in Western Europe	4
Restoring economic pride? How right-wing populists moralize economic change	4
Brexit and the Migrant Voice: EU Citizens in post-Brexit Literature and Culture	4
Whatever happened to Red Belt rural communism in Western Europe? A comparative perspective on the Finnish case	4
Eastern enlargement 2.0? EU enlargement discourses in the European Parliament before and after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine	4
Returning Back or to Self: Reluctance and Compatibility of Third space and EU Enlargement to the Inner Other	4
Networked social movements and radicalisation: yellow vests’ cross-ideological horizon for underrepresented groups	4
Global perspectives on European Union public diplomacy: an introduction	4
Challenging the mainstream in times of crisis: evidence from legislative speeches in Italy (2013–2018)	4
The European Union agenda in Erdogan’s argumentative discourse: an analysis of the ideational sources and interactive functions of political reasoning	4
The Jean Monnet action and the EU public diplomacy in India	4
EU and US Foreign economic policy responses to China, the end of naivety	4
(Pro)-Russian (dis)information in Moldova: eroding vertical trust in Sandu and the PAS government?	4
Alternative science, alternative experts, alternative politics. The roots of pseudoscientific beliefs in Western Europe	4
A reluctant European? The Czech Republic’s EU membership experience read through the EU Council Presidency	4
Framing collective identities in Swedish and Spanish left-leaning parties’ intra-party education	4