OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Studies Review is 5. 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
IR and Relational Cosmology: Attainments and the Limits of Entanglement Fetishism	58
Forum: Conflict Delegation in Civil Wars	47
Practices of Policy Orientation: A Study of the Heterogeneous Field of Democracy Promotion Research	36
Fallacies of Democratic State-Building	36
War without Boots	28
Practices of (De)Legitimation in World Politics	27
Why Do We—or Don’t We—Fight?	21
Regionalism and the Politics of Identity in Russia	20
Correction to: International Studies and Struggles for Inclusion	19
Teaching and Researching Human Rights in Hostile US Spaces	19
Introduction to the Presidential Special Issue	19
Wither the Trade Regime?	18
Feminist Commitments Towards a Horizontal Women, Peace, and Security Critical Learning Community	18
Queering Gender-Based Violence Scholarship: An Integrated Research Agenda	17
The International Origins of Unconsolidated Sovereignty	16
Peacebuilding with “Chinese Characteristics”? Insights from China's Engagement in Myanmar's Peace Process	15
Why Westphalia Still Matters: Territorial Rights under Empire	14
Can Men Do Feminist Fieldwork and Research?	14
The Climate Challenge for International Studies	14
Reimagining Comparisons in International Relations through Reflexivity	14
Intermediation between International Society and World Society: The Pope and the UN Secretary-General on “the Figure of the Refugee”	14
Ceasefire Violations: Why They Occur and How They Relate to Strategic Decision-Making Processes	12
“The More, the Merrier”: Three Ways of Case Universe Extension—Reflections on Bringing Shia into Islamism Studies	11
How to Pay Attention to the Words We Use: The Reflexive Review as a Method for Linguistic Reflexivity	11
How Religious Are “Religious” Conflicts?	11

Calculations in Small Circles: Factors Influencing Russian Foreign Policy-Making	11
“Eliding Joy” No More: Bringing Joy Back to Human Rights	10
Tracking Climate Securitization: Framings of Climate Security by Civil and Defense Ministries	10
European Regional International Society and the Political Economy of the Global Sugar Regime	10
Collective Memory and Problems of Scale in International Relations	9
Understanding German Foreign Policy in the (Post-)Merkel Era—Review Essay	9
Who’s Afraid of the Bomb?: The Euromissiles Crisis and Nuclear Weapons in Europe, Past and Present	9
Contested Facts: The Politics and Practice of International Fact-Finding Missions	9
COVID-19 and Gendered Risk: A Case Study of Yemeni Women Peacebuilders	9
Systemism and International Relations: How a Graphic Method Can Enhance Communication	9
Why States Arm and Why, Sometimes, They Do So Together	8
NGOs and States: Exploring National Diversity and Global Liberalism	8
Christopher Clary, the Difficult Politics of Peace: Rivalry in Modern South Asia, OUP, 2022 and Surinder Mohan, Complex Rivalry: The Dynamics of India-Pakistan Conflict, University of Michigan Press,	8
Issues and Strategies in a Managed Rivalry	7
The International Recognition of Governments in Practice(s): Creatures, Mirages, and Dilemmas in Post-2011 Libya	7
Revolt and Rule: Learning about Governance from Rebel Groups	7
Activists in International Courts: Theorizing the Roles of Rights Activists between International Human Rights Courts, States, and Societies	7
Conditions in Which Small States Improve Their Influence	7
Talk from the Top: Leadership and Self-Legitimation in International Organizations	7
Contesting Legitimacy of Global Governance Institutions: The Case of the World Health Organization During the Coronavirus Pandemic	6
Exposure to Violence as Explanatory Variable: Meaning, Measurement, and Theoretical Implications of Different Indicators	6
Correction to: Reassembling the Social in the Study of Religion and International Relations	6
FORUM: Stripping Away the Body: Prospects for Reimagining Race in IR	6
The Concept of Anxiety in Ontological Security Studies	6
Is the Public Backlash against Globalization a Backlash against Legalization and Judicialization?	6
Cult of the Irrelevant: The Waning Influence of Social Science on National Security	6
Classified and Secret: Understanding the Literature on Diversity in the Intelligence Sector	6
What Is Christendom to Us? Making Better Sense of Christianity in Global Politics	6
Fake News and Gendered Public Labor: Burundian Peace Activists Combat COVID-19 Disinformation	6
Civilian Agency in Civil War? Militia Formation and Diffusion in Mozambique	6
Deter, Disrupt, or Deceive: Assessing Cyber Conflict as an Intelligence Contest	6
Review of Making International Institutions Work: The Politics of Performance	5
Where is Conflict Research? Western Bias in the Literature on Armed Violence	5
From Confrontation to Cooperation: Describing Non-State Armed Group–UN Interactions in Peace Operations	5
Global Crisis and the Liberal International Order: Critical Nodes in a Totality	5
The Cold War Origins of Global IR. The Rockefeller Foundation and Realism in Latin America	5
The Forum: Global Challenges to Democracy? Perspectives on Democratic Backsliding	5
A New Model of “Taboo”: Disgust, Stigmatization, and Fetishization	5