OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Studies Review is 6. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Fallacies of Democratic State-Building	67
Why Do We—or Don’t We—Fight?	56
Practices of (De)Legitimation in World Politics	53
War without Boots	39
Practices of Policy Orientation: A Study of the Heterogeneous Field of Democracy Promotion Research	36
Teaching and Researching Human Rights in Hostile US Spaces	34
Regionalism and the Politics of Identity in Russia	30
Correction to: International Studies and Struggles for Inclusion	27
Introduction to the Presidential Special Issue	25
Wither the Trade Regime?	24
Feminist Commitments Towards a Horizontal Women, Peace, and Security Critical Learning Community	22
Queering Gender-Based Violence Scholarship: An Integrated Research Agenda	20
Intermediation between International Society and World Society: The Pope and the UN Secretary-General on “the Figure of the Refugee”	20
The Climate Challenge for International Studies	18
Can Men Do Feminist Fieldwork and Research?	16
Reimagining Comparisons in International Relations through Reflexivity	16
Ceasefire Violations: Why They Occur and How They Relate to Strategic Decision-Making Processes	15
Calculations in Small Circles: Factors Influencing Russian Foreign Policy-Making	15
How to Pay Attention to the Words We Use: The Reflexive Review as a Method for Linguistic Reflexivity	15
Why Westphalia Still Matters: Territorial Rights under Empire	14
European Regional International Society and the Political Economy of the Global Sugar Regime	13
“Eliding Joy” No More: Bringing Joy Back to Human Rights	13
Understanding German Foreign Policy in the (Post-)Merkel Era—Review Essay	12
“The More, the Merrier”: Three Ways of Case Universe Extension—Reflections on Bringing Shia into Islamism Studies	12
COVID-19 and Gendered Risk: A Case Study of Yemeni Women Peacebuilders	12

How Religious Are “Religious” Conflicts?	12
Who’s Afraid of the Bomb?: The Euromissiles Crisis and Nuclear Weapons in Europe, Past and Present	12
Tracking Climate Securitization: Framings of Climate Security by Civil and Defense Ministries	12
The International Recognition of Governments in Practice(s): Creatures, Mirages, and Dilemmas in Post-2011 Libya	11
Collective Memory and Problems of Scale in International Relations	11
Why States Arm and Why, Sometimes, They Do So Together	10
NGOs and States: Exploring National Diversity and Global Liberalism	10
Systemism and International Relations: How a Graphic Method Can Enhance Communication	10
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,	10
Contested Facts: The Politics and Practice of International Fact-Finding Missions	10
Issues and Strategies in a Managed Rivalry	10
Talk from the Top: Leadership and Self-Legitimation in International Organizations	9
What Is Christendom to Us? Making Better Sense of Christianity in Global Politics	8
Activists in International Courts: Theorizing the Roles of Rights Activists between International Human Rights Courts, States, and Societies	8
Civilian Agency in Civil War? Militia Formation and Diffusion in Mozambique	8
Revolt and Rule: Learning about Governance from Rebel Groups	8
Conditions in Which Small States Improve Their Influence	8
Exposure to Violence as Explanatory Variable: Meaning, Measurement, and Theoretical Implications of Different Indicators	7
Is the Public Backlash against Globalization a Backlash against Legalization and Judicialization?	7
The Concept of Anxiety in Ontological Security Studies	7
Fake News and Gendered Public Labor: Burundian Peace Activists Combat COVID-19 Disinformation	7
Correction to: Reassembling the Social in the Study of Religion and International Relations	7
Classified and Secret: Understanding the Literature on Diversity in the Intelligence Sector	7
Global Crisis and the Liberal International Order: Critical Nodes in a Totality	6
From Confrontation to Cooperation: Describing Non-State Armed Group–UN Interactions in Peace Operations	6
Deter, Disrupt, or Deceive: Assessing Cyber Conflict as an Intelligence Contest	6
Where is Conflict Research? Western Bias in the Literature on Armed Violence	6
A New Model of “Taboo”: Disgust, Stigmatization, and Fetishization	6
Cult of the Irrelevant: The Waning Influence of Social Science on National Security	6
The Cold War Origins of Global IR. The Rockefeller Foundation and Realism in Latin America	6
Review of Making International Institutions Work: The Politics of Performance	6