OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of European Political Science is 1. 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
The three pillars approach and a practicum portfolio for FAIR research in political science	39
Correction: Electoral (non)alignment between resident and non-resident voters: evidence from Spain	26
Correction to: Policy-making in coalition governments	25
Out of the ivory tower: an explanation of the policy advisory roles of political scientists in Europe	23
Unpacking the eco-social perspective in European policy, politics, and polity dimensions	22
Correction to: Political science in Central and Eastern Europe: integration with limited convergence in Czechia	20
The comparative conspiracy research survey (CCRS): a new cross-national dataset for the study of conspiracy beliefs	20
Political preferences across a transnational space: interviews with dual citizens of the Netherlands and Turkey	20
They (don’t) really care about us: youth representation in Portuguese political parties	20
Surviving in a male academia: gender gap, publication strategies and career stage in South European political science journals	16
Mapping conceptualisations and evaluations of corruption through survey questions: five decades of public opinion-centred research	16
Political science communities challenged by internationalisation	16
China and Central Europe: much ado about nothing? - Gabriela Pleschová: China in Central Europe: seeking allies, creating tensions. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2022, 168 pp. ISBN: 978-1-8	15
Cult of irrelevance or broad church? Responsiveness, diversity, and intellectual pluralism in the academic study of security	14
Can students be encouraged to read? Experimental evidence from a large lecture	13
The politics of panel systems: political insurance and the organization of high courts	13
Book review for: Lucas Schramm. Crises of European integration: Joining together or falling apart? Springer Nature, 2024	12
Great minds think alike? A new measure of MEPs–voters congruence following the 2019 European Parliament elections	11
The money illusion and democratic accountability: the democratic stakes of indexing government benefits	11
Review of Yves Sintomer’s	11
Introduction: editing and publishing political science and international relations journals in Central and Eastern Europe	11
Are microtargeted campaign messages more negative and diverse? An analysis of Facebook Ads in European election campaigns	11
Coup leaders: a new comprehensive dataset, 1950–2020	11
Public and private healthcare sectors during COVID-19: the main challenges in Lithuania	10
Unpacking the gender gap in academic journal publishing: the experience of South European Society and Politics	10

Contesting gender equality across Europe - The gendered politics of crises and de-democratization: opposition to gender equality. Bianka Vida 2022 (ed) (London, Rowman & Littlefield/ECPR Press, ),	10
Legislative networks as gatekeepers of dissensus in Armenia, Georgia and Moldova	9
Introducing Comparative Death Penalty Database (CDPD)	9
Legitimacy and political dissensus in the implementation of the Recovery and Resilience Facility: the case of Italy	8
“Rally around the flag” effects in the Russian–Ukrainian war	8
The discussion of gender and citations in submission guidelines of 102 political science journals	8
Dropping ‘truth bombs’? The framing of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in Indian broadcast news	8
Shaping modern warfare: insights from conflict and innovation - Beyond Ukraine: debating the future of war, Sweijs Tim, and Michaels Jeffrey H. (eds.), London, Hurst & Co., 2024, 432 pp. (Hardback	8
What sort of ever closer Union? - Ever Closer Union? Europe in the West Perry Anderson (London, Verso, 2021), 250 pp. ISBN: 978–1-83976–441-7/978–1-83976–444-8 (US EBK)/978–1-83976–443-1 (UK EBK)	7
Measuring legislative stability: a new approach with data from Hungary	7
Political science in exceptional times: Finnish scholars responding to three crises of the 2010s	7
Deep examination of weaknesses of Mr Putin and strengths of Russia	7
Down from the “Ivory Tower”? Not so much…Italian political scientists and the constitutional referendum campaign	7
Adam Berinsky: Political rumors: Why we accept political misinformation and how to fight it, Princeton University Press, 2023	7
Reclaiming party politics research	6
‘Varieties of green transitions’? Comparative welfare state research and the social dimension of green transitions	6
Studying dimensions of representation: introducing the Belgian RepResent panel (2019–2021)	6
Democracy erodes from the top: leaders, citizens, and the challenge of populism in Europe	6
In search of relevance: European political scientists and the public sphere in critical times	6
Uneven internationalisation of higher education in the European Union: a case study of two universities in Czechia and Slovakia	6
Tracking the development of gender equality policy in the EU Gabriele Abels, Andrea Krizsán, Heather MacRae and Anan van der Vleuten: The Routledge handbook of gender and EU politics, Routledge, Londo	5
The impact of Russia’s propaganda on security perceptions in Romania and Bulgaria	5
Conclusion: bringing together the eco-social debate and established political science perspectives: synergies and new research pathways	5
Constitutional deconstruction as a form of extra-systemic dissensus: the Polish case	5
Engaging the next generation: authoritarian regimes and their young diaspora	5
The Pitkinian public: representation in the eyes of citizens	5
Academic placement records and gendered placements in the political science profession	5
#Political parties: bridging divides between youth and political institutions	4
With pulling ties, electoral participation flies: factors mobilising turnout among non-resident Finnish voters	4
Open science in democracy research: the research infrastructure “Monitoring Electoral Democracy” (MEDem)	4
Do or die? The UK, the EU, and internal/external security cooperation after Brexit	4
The Ebb and flow of the western liberal order - Geopolitics and democracy: the western liberal order from foundation to fracture, Peter Trubowitz 2023 and Brian Burgoon, Oxford and New York, Oxford Un	4
Democratisation and dictatorship revisited - Michael K. Miller: Shock to the System: Coups, Elections, and War on the Road to Democratization, Princeton University Press, Pr	4
Russian narratives in Turkey: historical background and propaganda in media	4
Publisher Correction: Pragmatism and protest: Russia’s communist party through Covid-19 and beyond	3
Fair Enough? Support for Redistribution in the Age of Inequality by Charlotte Cavaillé. 2023. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press	3
Tackling the challenge of liberal democracy in Israel: the role of political scientists in the civic studies debate	3
Exploring the European Union external actorness moving from norms to policy practices	3
Electoral (non)alignment between resident and non-resident voters: evidence from Spain	3
Ever distant union: the EU (In)action during COVID-19 as a source of disruptive dissensus	3
Political parties and youth’s political (under) representation	3
The politics of EU diaspora in the UK post-Brexit: civic organisations’ multi-scalar lobbying and mobilisation strategies	3
The landscape of political science journals in Romania	3
Who governs Europe? A new historical dataset on governments and party systems since 1848	3
Research transparency and openness	3
Publishing Political Science and International Relations journals in Central and Eastern Europe: navigating national, regional and global scales	3
Arjen Boin, Allan McConnell, and Paul’t Hart: Governing the pandemic: the politics of navigating a mega-crisis, Cham, Palgrave Pivot, 2021, 171 pp, ISBN: 978-3-030-72680-5	3
How can a strong environment foster better research? Reflections on the 60th anniversary of the University of Essex	3
Building and legitimizing an illiberal transnational field: illiberal think tanks’ struggle for cultural hegemony in Poland and Hungary	3
Triggering populist support in Europe: how internal political efficacy shapes the effect of economic vulnerability on party preferences	3

Perceptions of the war in Ukraine: how the Russian propaganda works outside the west	3
Heuristics and policy responsiveness: a research agenda	3
Peoplehood, dissensus, and partisanship. The European Union as a case study	3
Mentalities, classes and the four lines of conflict in the social-ecological transformation	3
Political polarisation compared: creating the comparative political polarisation index	2
Dissensus in Europe: climate protesters before court	2
Explaining support for populists among external voters: between home and host country	2
A bibliometric analysis of the internationalisation of political science in Europe	2
Between technochauvinism and human-centrism: Can algorithms improve decision-making in democratic politics?	2
Discussing immigration in an illiberal media environment: Hungarian political scientists about the migration crisis in online public discourses	2
Why is political science important in today’s world?	2
Diverging or converging trajectories? Assessing differences in the internationalisation of political science within Central and Eastern Europe	2
Some promises are more equal than others - The Triumph of Broken Promises: The End of the Cold War and the Rise of Neoliberalism. Fritz Bartel 2022 (Cambridge, Harvard University Press, ), 440 pp. ISB	2
Book review: EU Climate Diplomacy towards the IMO and ICAO By George Dikaios, Palgrave Macmillan, 2024, 244 pp, ISBN:978–3-031–51123-3	2
Russian narratives of the war in Ukraine as reflected in the Serbian and Polish press	2
Towards an EU framework for a just transition: welfare policies and politics for the socio-ecological transition	2
Democracy, belief in democratic redistribution, and income inequality	1
“Things fall apart, the center cannot hold”: fractionalized and polarized party systems in Western democracies	1
Farewell to the liberal consensus: the intellectualisation of political projects in Poland and Hungary	1
Dissensus over liberal democracy: concept-building and typology	1
Exploring the conditions for youth representation: a qualitative comparative analysis of party parliamentary groups	1
Sartori’s grandchildren: the enduring legacy of a political science founder	1
Why does political representation of the marginalised matter? Teaching classic literature using intersectional and decolonial approaches	1
Jay Krehbiel's impressive article wins our 2022 Jacqui Briggs EPS Prize	1
A gendered pattern? Publishing, submission and reviewing in West European Politics	1
On the shoulders of giants: restoring the normative afflatus of political science	1
Engaging with research methods in comparative politics courses: practicing skills, questioning data, reflecting on positionality	1
Ideological drivers of participatory democracy in Europe: disentangling the different approaches of populism and post-materialist politics	1
Philip Rathgeb: How the radical right has changed capitalism and welfare in Europe and the USA Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2024, ISBN: 9780192866332	1
COVID-19 and the structural vulnerabilities in the Spanish health and long-term care systems	1
Making sense of ‘Tolerance towards Corruption’ through power, public ethics, and injustice: a perception-based study with citizens and politicians in Portugal	1
Party fragmentation, political predispositions, and delayed voting decisions	1
A career dataset of Flemish ministerial advisors (1999–2020) leveraging online data sources	1
Policy integration and the eco-social debate in political analysis	1
Humanity Is the Answer to the Refugee Crisis - No Refuge: Ethics and the Global Refugee Crisis. Serena Parekh, (New York, Oxford University Press, 2020), 247 pp. ISBN: 978-0-19-750799-5	1
On the frontline of democracy: poll workers’ evaluations of elections	1
Social Media and Political Participation: A Review of Vaccari & Valeriani's Outside the Bubble, Oxford University Press, 2021, 280 pp, ISBN: 9780190858483	1
A new perspective on the diversity of capitalism - Anke Hassel and Bruno Palier, eds: Growth and welfare in advanced capitalist economies: How have growth regimes evolved? Oxford, New York: Oxford Uni	1
Alternative metrics, traditional problems? Assessing gender dynamics in the altmetrics of political science	1
Unconstrained voters drive increased electoral volatility	1
Can active learning be asynchronous? Implementing online peer review assignments in undergraduate political science and international relations courses	1
Rational autocrats? Drivers of corruption patterns in competitive authoritarian regimes: towards an explanatory framework with empirical applications from Hungary	1
What to do for reviewer two: survey results on the preferences of peer reviewers	1
B. Laffan and S. Telle (2023) The EU’s Response to Brexit: United and Effective, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan	1
Political science as architecture	1
Bringing representatives back in: How political parties moderate patterns of inequality in opinion representation	1
The presidential republic, By Jean Blondel, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2015, ISBN: 978-1-349-50311-7	1
Making a difference: the effects of institutional resilience in society during COVID-19	1