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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Comparing measures of democracy: statistical properties, convergence, and interchangeability	26
Engaging the next generation: authoritarian regimes and their young diaspora	15
A systematic mapping review of European Political Science	13
Planning, implementing and reporting: increasing transparency, replicability and credibility in qualitative political science research	13
What do we (not) know about demand-side populism? A systematic literature review on populist attitudes	12
Introduction: The nature of political opposition in contemporary electoral democracies and autocracies	12
Who governs Europe? A new historical dataset on governments and party systems since 1848	12
Who are we? The diversity puzzle in European political science	11
A gendered pattern? Publishing, submission and reviewing in West European Politics	10
Between technochauvinism and human-centrism: Can algorithms improve decision-making in democratic politics?	9
Explaining support for populists among external voters: between home and host country	9
Gender and politics research in Europe: towards a consolidation of a flourishing political science subfield?	9
Unpacking the gender gap in academic journal publishing: the experience of South European Society and Politics	8
A bibliometric analysis of the internationalisation of political science in Europe	8
Saved by the diaspora? The case of the Alliance for the Union of Romanians	8
Co-option, control and criticality: the politics of relevance regimes for the future of political science	8
Decline, adaptation and relevance: political parties and their researchers in the twentieth century	7
In search of relevance: European political scientists and the public sphere in critical times	7
Are microtargeted campaign messages more negative and diverse? An analysis of Facebook Ads in European election campaigns	7
Electoral (non)alignment between resident and non-resident voters: evidence from Spain	7
Political social media use and its linkage to populist and postmaterialist attitudes and vote intention in the Netherlands	7
Political science in the age of populism: perspectives from Turkey	6
Unpacking the eco-social perspective in European policy, politics, and polity dimensions	6
‘Varieties of green transitions’? Comparative welfare state research and the social dimension of green transitions	6
The Performance of Opposition Parties in Competitive Authoritarian Regimes: Three Case Studies from the Western Balkans	6

Direct democracy integrity and the 2017 constitutional referendum in Turkey: a new research instrument	6
Under-represented, cautious, and modest: the gender gap at European Union Politics	6
Aiding Ukraine in the Russian war: unity or new dividing line among Europeans?	5
Greek political scientists under the crisis and the case of the Greek bailout referendum: an intellectual barricade protecting the status quo?	5
We are in this together: stakeholder cooperation during COVID-19 in Romania	5
The mobilizing effects of political media consumption among external voters	5
What maximizes productivity and impact in political science research?	5
Introduction: the gendered distribution of authors and reviewers in major European political science journals	5
The triumph of partisanship: political scientists in the public debate about Catalonia’s independence crisis (2010–2018)	5
Do or die? The UK, the EU, and internal/external security cooperation after Brexit	5
Political polarisation compared: creating the comparative political polarisation index	4
Introduction: Non-residents’ participation in the homeland arena from a European perspective	4
COVID-19 and the structural vulnerabilities in the Spanish health and long-term care systems	4
Towards an EU framework for a just transition: welfare policies and politics for the socio-ecological transition	4
The politics of the EU eco-social policies	4
Who creates the “common market”? The gendered practices of knowledge production in a “European studies” journal	4
With pulling ties, electoral participation flies: factors mobilising turnout among non-resident Finnish voters	4
Playing out diplomacy: gamified realization of future skills and discipline-specific theory	4
Can active learning be asynchronous? Implementing online peer review assignments in undergraduate political science and international relations courses	4
Political science in Central and Eastern Europe: integration with limited convergence in Czechia	3
“Rally around the flag” effects in the Russian–Ukrainian war	3
Migrant associations, other social networks of Portuguese Diaspora, and the modern political engagement of non-resident citizens	3
Late but not least? Spanish political science’s struggle for internationalisation in the twenty-first century	3
Towards a European political science? Opportunities and pitfalls in the internationalisation of political science in Europe	3
Discussing immigration in an illiberal media environment: Hungarian political scientists about the migration crisis in online public discourses	3
Making a difference: the effects of institutional resilience in society during COVID-19	3
Mentalities, classes and the four lines of conflict in the social-ecological transformation	3
Opposition behaviour against the third wave of autocratisation: Hungary and Poland compared	3
Policy integration and the eco-social debate in political analysis	3
Teaching effective policy memo writing and infographics in a policy programme	3
Identity formation of the profession in a latecomer political science community	3
Down from the “Ivory Tower”? Not so much…Italian political scientists and the constitutional referendum campaign	3
“Things fall apart, the center cannot hold”: fractionalized and polarized party systems in Western democracies	3
The politics of EU diaspora in the UK post-Brexit: civic organisations’ multi-scalar lobbying and mobilisation strategies	3
Political science as architecture	3
Political preferences across a transnational space: interviews with dual citizens of the Netherlands and Turkey	3