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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
The three pillars approach and a practicum portfolio for FAIR research in political science	50
Correction to: Political science in Central and Eastern Europe: integration with limited convergence in Czechia	33
Correction to: Policy-making in coalition governments	29
Correction: Electoral (non)alignment between resident and non-resident voters: evidence from Spain	28
Unpacking the eco-social perspective in European policy, politics, and polity dimensions	27
Out of the ivory tower: an explanation of the policy advisory roles of political scientists in Europe	26
The FEMPOWER dataset: Mapping the fragmentation of women’s organizations worldwide	25
The comparative conspiracy research survey (CCRS): a new cross-national dataset for the study of conspiracy beliefs	22
Political preferences across a transnational space: interviews with dual citizens of the Netherlands and Turkey	22
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	20
They (don’t) really care about us: youth representation in Portuguese political parties	19
The European Council turns 50: Studying and analyzing a key institution of the European Union	17
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	16
Cult of irrelevance or broad church? Responsiveness, diversity, and intellectual pluralism in the academic study of security	15
Mapping conceptualisations and evaluations of corruption through survey questions: five decades of public opinion-centred research	15
The politics of panel systems: political insurance and the organization of high courts	14
Great minds think alike? A new measure of MEPs–voters congruence following the 2019 European Parliament elections	14
Coup leaders: a new comprehensive dataset, 1950–2020	13
Book review for: Lucas Schramm. Crises of European integration: Joining together or falling apart? Springer Nature, 2024	13
Review of Yves Sintomer’s	13
Can students be encouraged to read? Experimental evidence from a large lecture	13
The money illusion and democratic accountability: the democratic stakes of indexing government benefits	12
Introduction: editing and publishing political science and international relations journals in Central and Eastern Europe	11
Public and private healthcare sectors during COVID-19: the main challenges in Lithuania	11

Unveiling the Chinese understanding of European strategic autonomy and its policy implications: An insight from scholarly literature in China	11
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
Are microtargeted campaign messages more negative and diverse? An analysis of Facebook Ads in European election campaigns	9
Unpacking the gender gap in academic journal publishing: the experience of South European Society and Politics	9
Legislative networks as gatekeepers of dissensus in Armenia, Georgia and Moldova	9
Introducing Comparative Death Penalty Database (CDPD)	9
Measuring legislative stability: a new approach with data from Hungary	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
Deep examination of weaknesses of Mr Putin and strengths of Russia	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
Adam Berinsky: Political rumors: Why we accept political misinformation and how to fight it, Princeton University Press, 2023	8
Legitimacy and political dissensus in the implementation of the Recovery and Resilience Facility: the case of Italy	8
John Polga-Hecimovich and Raul Sanchez Urribarri, Authoritarian Consolidation in Times of Crisis. New York, NY, USA: Venezuela under Nicolás Maduro – Routledge, 2025.	7
Who keeps the gates? A descriptive analysis of the composition of political science journal editors by country	7
A bottom-up perspective on democratic innovations in Italy	7
Academic placement records and gendered placements in the political science profession	6
Conclusion: bringing together the eco-social debate and established political science perspectives: synergies and new research pathways	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
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
Studying dimensions of representation: introducing the Belgian RepResent panel (2019–2021)	6
‘Varieties of green transitions’? Comparative welfare state research and the social dimension of green transitions	6
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
Constitutional deconstruction as a form of extra-systemic dissensus: the Polish case	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
Engaging the next generation: authoritarian regimes and their young diaspora	5
The impact of Russia’s propaganda on security perceptions in Romania and Bulgaria	5
Research challenges and training needs in text analysis for political science research – ERRATUM	5
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
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
With pulling ties, electoral participation flies: factors mobilising turnout among non-resident Finnish voters	4
Political parties and youth’s political (under) representation	4
The Pitkinian public: representation in the eyes of citizens	4
#Political parties: bridging divides between youth and political institutions	4
The politics behind political science: A cross-national perspective	4
Russian narratives in Turkey: historical background and propaganda in media	4