OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of European Political Science 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Out of the ivory tower: an explanation of the policy advisory roles of political scientists in Europe	33
Unpacking the eco-social perspective in European policy, politics, and polity dimensions	24
Political preferences across a transnational space: interviews with dual citizens of the Netherlands and Turkey	23
Correction to: Policy-making in coalition governments	22
The three pillars approach and a practicum portfolio for FAIR research in political science	20
Correction: Electoral (non)alignment between resident and non-resident voters: evidence from Spain	20
China and Central Europe: much ado about nothing?	19
Mapping conceptualisations and evaluations of corruption through survey questions: five decades of public opinion-centred research	16
Surviving in a male academia: gender gap, publication strategies and career stage in South European political science journals	16
Cult of irrelevance or broad church? Responsiveness, diversity, and intellectual pluralism in the academic study of security	16
Political science communities challenged by internationalisation	15
The comparative conspiracy research survey (CCRS): a new cross-national dataset for the study of conspiracy beliefs	13
They (don’t) really care about us: youth representation in Portuguese political parties	11
Book review for: Schramm, Lucas. Crises of European integration: Joining together or falling apart? Springer Nature, 2024	11
Great minds think alike? A new measure of MEPs–voters congruence following the 2019 European Parliament elections	11
Review of Yves Sintomer’s	10
The politics of panel systems: political insurance and the organization of high courts	10
Coup leaders: a new comprehensive dataset, 1950–2020	10
Introduction: editing and publishing political science and international relations journals in Central and Eastern Europe	9
The money illusion and democratic accountability: the democratic stakes of indexing government benefits	8
Contesting gender equality across Europe	8
Public and private healthcare sectors during COVID-19: the main challenges in Lithuania	8
Unpacking the gender gap in academic journal publishing: the experience of South European Society and Politics	7
Legislative networks as gatekeepers of dissensus in Armenia, Georgia and Moldova	7
Dropping ‘truth bombs’? The framing of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in Indian broadcast news	7

Introducing Comparative Death Penalty Database (CDPD)	6
Deep examination of weaknesses of Mr Putin and strengths of Russia	6
Legitimacy and political dissensus in the implementation of the Recovery and Resilience Facility: the case of Italy	6
“Rally around the flag” effects in the Russian–Ukrainian war	6
Measuring legislative stability: a new approach with data from Hungary	6
Academic placement records and gendered placements in the political science profession	5
Adam Berinsky: Political rumors: Why we accept political misinformation and how to fight it, Princeton University Press, 2023	5
Studying dimensions of representation: introducing the Belgian RepResent panel (2019–2021)	5
Reclaiming party politics research	5
What sort of ever closer Union?	5
Democracy erodes from the top: leaders, citizens, and the challenge of populism in Europe	5
Shaping modern warfare: insights from conflict and innovation	5
The discussion of gender and citations in submission guidelines of 102 political science journals	5
‘Varieties of green transitions’? Comparative welfare state research and the social dimension of green transitions	4
Tracking the development of gender equality policy in the EU	4
Democratisation and dictatorship revisited	4
Uneven internationalisation of higher education in the European Union: a case study of two universities in Czechia and Slovakia	4
Constitutional deconstruction as a form of extra-systemic dissensus: the Polish case	4
The impact of Russia’s propaganda on security perceptions in Romania and Bulgaria	3
With pulling ties, electoral participation flies: factors mobilising turnout among non-resident Finnish voters	3
Open science in democracy research: the research infrastructure “Monitoring Electoral Democracy” (MEDem)	3
Political parties and youth’s political (under) representation	3
Engaging the next generation: authoritarian regimes and their young diaspora	3
Russian narratives in Turkey: historical background and propaganda in media	3
Publisher Correction: Pragmatism and protest: Russia’s communist party through Covid-19 and beyond	3
The Ebb and flow of the western liberal order	3
Conclusion: bringing together the eco-social debate and established political science perspectives: synergies and new research pathways	3
The Pitkinian public: representation in the eyes of citizens	3
#Political parties: bridging divides between youth and political institutions	3
How can a strong environment foster better research? Reflections on the 60th anniversary of the University of Essex	3