OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of European Political Science 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Political preferences across a transnational space: interviews with dual citizens of the Netherlands and Turkey	48
The three pillars approach and a practicum portfolio for FAIR research in political science	31
Correction to: Political science in Central and Eastern Europe: integration with limited convergence in Czechia	29
Correction to: Policy-making in coalition governments	28
Correction: Electoral (non)alignment between resident and non-resident voters: evidence from Spain	26
Out of the ivory tower: an explanation of the policy advisory roles of political scientists in Europe	25
Unpacking the eco-social perspective in European policy, politics, and polity dimensions	24
The European Council turns 50: Studying and analyzing a key institution of the European Union	22
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	21
Surviving in a male academia: gender gap, publication strategies and career stage in South European political science journals	21
Political science communities challenged by internationalisation	19
Cult of irrelevance or broad church? Responsiveness, diversity, and intellectual pluralism in the academic study of security	19
Mapping conceptualisations and evaluations of corruption through survey questions: five decades of public opinion-centred research	17
The comparative conspiracy research survey (CCRS): a new cross-national dataset for the study of conspiracy beliefs	16
The politics of panel systems: political insurance and the organization of high courts	15
They (don’t) really care about us: youth representation in Portuguese political parties	15
Can students be encouraged to read? Experimental evidence from a large lecture	14
Review of Yves Sintomer’s	13
Coup leaders: a new comprehensive dataset, 1950–2020	13
The money illusion and democratic accountability: the democratic stakes of indexing government benefits	13
Book review for: Lucas Schramm. Crises of European integration: Joining together or falling apart? Springer Nature, 2024	13
Introduction: editing and publishing political science and international relations journals in Central and Eastern Europe	12
Great minds think alike? A new measure of MEPs–voters congruence following the 2019 European Parliament elections	12
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, ),	11
Introducing Comparative Death Penalty Database (CDPD)	11

Public and private healthcare sectors during COVID-19: the main challenges in Lithuania	11
Legislative networks as gatekeepers of dissensus in Armenia, Georgia and Moldova	10
Dropping ‘truth bombs’? The framing of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in Indian broadcast news	9
Legitimacy and political dissensus in the implementation of the Recovery and Resilience Facility: the case of Italy	9
Unpacking the gender gap in academic journal publishing: the experience of South European Society and Politics	8
The discussion of gender and citations in submission guidelines of 102 political science journals	8
Measuring legislative stability: a new approach with data from Hungary	8
Are microtargeted campaign messages more negative and diverse? An analysis of Facebook Ads in European election campaigns	8
Who keeps the gates? A descriptive analysis of the composition of political science journal editors by country	8
Adam Berinsky: Political rumors: Why we accept political misinformation and how to fight it, Princeton University Press, 2023	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
“Rally around the flag” effects in the Russian–Ukrainian war	8
Deep examination of weaknesses of Mr Putin and strengths of Russia	8
A bottom-up perspective on democratic innovations in Italy	7
John Polga-Hecimovich and Raul Sanchez Urribarri, Authoritarian Consolidation in Times of Crisis. New York, NY, USA: Venezuela under Nicolás Maduro – Routledge, 2025.	7
Studying dimensions of representation: introducing the Belgian RepResent panel (2019–2021)	7
Academic placement records and gendered placements in the political science profession	6
Reclaiming party politics research	6
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)	6
Uneven internationalisation of higher education in the European Union: a case study of two universities in Czechia and Slovakia	6
Democracy erodes from the top: leaders, citizens, and the challenge of populism in Europe	6
Conclusion: bringing together the eco-social debate and established political science perspectives: synergies and new research pathways	5
Democratisation and dictatorship revisited - Michael K. Miller: Shock to the System: Coups, Elections, and War on the Road to Democratization, Princeton University Press, Pr	5
The Pitkinian public: representation in the eyes of citizens	5
The impact of Russia’s propaganda on security perceptions in Romania and Bulgaria	5
Engaging the next generation: authoritarian regimes and their young diaspora	5
Do or die? The UK, the EU, and internal/external security cooperation after Brexit	5
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
‘Varieties of green transitions’? Comparative welfare state research and the social dimension of green transitions	5
Research challenges and training needs in text analysis for political science research – ERRATUM	5
Constitutional deconstruction as a form of extra-systemic dissensus: the Polish case	5
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
The politics behind political science: A cross-national perspective	4
The trajectory of democratic innovations in Australia: Between democratic creativity and institutional stubbornness	4
Open science in democracy research: the research infrastructure “Monitoring Electoral Democracy” (MEDem)	4
Russian narratives in Turkey: historical background and propaganda in media	4
Political parties and youth’s political (under) representation	4
#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
How can a strong environment foster better research? Reflections on the 60th anniversary of the University of Essex	4