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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
The citation behaviours and the academic performance of first-year Political Science students	26
Democratisation and dictatorship revisited	16
Not as expected: the role of performance expectations in voter responses to election pledge fulfilment	15
Humanity Is the Answer to the Refugee Crisis	12
Towards an EU framework for a just transition: welfare policies and politics for the socio-ecological transition	12
The hard task of defining Macronism	11
Towards a European political science? Opportunities and pitfalls in the internationalisation of political science in Europe	10
Tracking the development of gender equality policy in the EU	9
Using television series to teach comparative and European politics	8
Building resilience in times of global crisis: the tourism sector in Croatia	8
Arjen Boin, Allan McConnell, and Paul’t Hart: Governing the pandemic: the politics of navigating a mega-crisis	8
Putting the action into Politics: embedding employability in the academic curriculum	8
Running a party as a firm: the novel typology of entrepreneurial parties	7
Co-option, control and criticality: the politics of relevance regimes for the future of political science	7
A gendered pattern? Publishing, submission and reviewing in West European Politics	7
A policy recommendation for the reinvigoration of the transatlantic alliance	7
The networked researcher, the editorial manager, and the traveller: the profiles of international political scientists and the determinants of internationalisation	7
Out of the ivory tower: an explanation of the policy advisory roles of political scientists in Europe	6
A bibliometric analysis of the internationalisation of political science in Europe	6
Who are we? The diversity puzzle in European political science	6
Discussing immigration in an illiberal media environment: Hungarian political scientists about the migration crisis in online public discourses	6
The impact of Russia’s propaganda on security perceptions in Romania and Bulgaria	5
Bringing representatives back in: How political parties moderate patterns of inequality in opinion representation	5
Conclusion: bringing together the eco-social debate and established political science perspectives: synergies and new research pathways	5
Engaging the next generation: authoritarian regimes and their young diaspora	5

Some promises are more equal than others	5
Ukraine is Europe: lessons for Europe and for political science	5
Unpacking the eco-social perspective in European policy, politics, and polity dimensions	5
Teaching effective policy memo writing and infographics in a policy programme	5
Correction to: Political science in Central and Eastern Europe: integration with limited convergence in Czechia	4
Correction to: Policy-making in coalition governments	4
What do we (not) know about demand-side populism? A systematic literature review on populist attitudes	4
Humanitarian intervention and responsibility to protect	4
We are in this together: stakeholder cooperation during COVID-19 in Romania	4
The Pitkinian public: representation in the eyes of citizens	4
Correction: Electoral (non)alignment between resident and non-resident voters: evidence from Spain	4
Political preferences across a transnational space: interviews with dual citizens of the Netherlands and Turkey	4
What maximizes productivity and impact in political science research?	4
Mapping conceptualisations and evaluations of corruption through survey questions: five decades of public opinion-centred research	4
China and Central Europe: much ado about nothing?	3
Empire is at the heart of the discipline: uncovering the colonial logic of political science	3
Stephen Noakes and Chris Wilson: Democratization: a thematic approach	3
Populism’s social acceptability in western Europe: memory matters	3
Jay Krehbiel's impressive article wins our 2022 Jacqui Briggs EPS Prize	3
Cult of irrelevance or broad church? Responsiveness, diversity, and intellectual pluralism in the academic study of security	3
Diverging or converging trajectories? Assessing differences in the internationalisation of political science within Central and Eastern Europe	3
Review symposium: Beyond presidentialism and parliamentarism	3
Political polarisation compared: creating the comparative political polarisation index	3
With pulling ties, electoral participation flies: factors mobilising turnout among non-resident Finnish voters	3
Surviving in a male academia: gender gap, publication strategies and career stage in South European political science journals	3
International relations in a multipolar world	3
The Populist Radical Right in the European Parliament: Between elective affinities and disreputable companies	3
Intellectual quest to define modern left	3
Do or die? The UK, the EU, and internal/external security cooperation after Brexit	3