OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Hague Journal on the Rule of Law 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Dual Dynamics of Chinese Constitutional Review: Coexistence and Tension Between Rule of Law and Party’s Leadership	14
The Court of Justice of the European Union in the Case Law of the Polish Constitutional Court: The Current Breakdown in View of Polish Constitutional Jurisprudence Pre-2016	14
Heterodox Protest, the Conservative Right, and the Law	10
Well-Tempered Power: ‘A Cultural Achievement of Universal Significance’	7
Reconciling Theory and Practice of the Rule of Law in the European Union	7
Purging the Judiciary After a Transition: Between a Rock and a Hard Place	7
Pre-enlargement Reform Failures in the Western Balkans: Social and Economic Preconditions of the Rule of Law	6
Private Power, the Rule of Law and the European Union	6
The Rule of Law Under Pressure: A Transnational Perspective	6
Rule of Law and the Criteria for Appointment of Judges: A Case for Judicial Virtues	6
China’s Foreign-Related ‘Rule of Law’: The Evolution of an Idea	6
Informal Concentration of Powers in Illiberal Constitutionalism: The Case of Hungary	5
Democratic Front-Sliding in Action: Procedural Violation, Strategic Marginalisation, and Principled Legalism in Poland	5
Courts and Populist Electoral Politics – the Case of Hungary	5
Academic Freedom as a Defensive Right	5
Correction: Triangulation of Theoretical and Empirical Conceptualizations Related to the Rule of Law	5
Aristocrats in Arbitration: Did Class Affect Inter-state Arbitration Before or After the 1899 Hague Peace Conference?	5
The Authority Trap: Constitutional Erosion of Reproductive Rights in Poland	5
Special Issue of the Hague Journal on the Rule of Law on Populism, Democracy, and the Rule of Law in Central and Eastern Europe	5
Between a Rock-Hard Reality and a Pious Wish Place: Postema on the Rule of Law Beyond Borders	4
Rule of Law Through the ‘Urban Turn’ in South African Constitutionalism	4
The Abduction and Criminal Prosecution of Maduro: A Few Observations from an International and Criminal Law Perspective	4
Correction: International and European Law and the Catalan Secession Process: Rule of Law, Human Rights and Democracy at Stake?	4
Quick Fix Solutions-Anticorruption as Core/Peripheral Modality of the ‘Rule of Law’	4
Maritime Rule of Law: Some Preliminaries	4

Rule of Law Compliance Beyond Ticking Boxes	4
False Analogies? Rule of Law ‘Backsliding’ and Identitarian Claims in Hungary, Poland, and Romania	4
Reclaiming Political Rights During a Rule of Law Crisis: The Role of the UN Human Rights Committee	4