OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies is 2. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Introduction: Changing Tourism in the Cities of Post-communist Central and Eastern Europe	28
Foreign Direct Investments’ Impact on Economic Growth in Serbia	13
The Militarization of Turkish Foreign Policy	13
Turkish Populist Nationalism in Transnational Space: Explaining Diaspora Voting Behaviour in Homeland Elections	11
Turkey and Israel: Changing Patterns of Alliances in the Eastern Mediterranean	11
Clientelism and the Abuse of Power in the Western Balkans	11
Geopolitical Visions in Turkish Foreign Policy	10
The Relationship between Foreign Direct Investment and Institutional Quality in Western Balkan Countries	10
Geopolitics of the Prespa Agreement: Background and After-Effects	10
When local becomes general: Turkey's 31 March 2019 elections and its implications for dynamics of polarization and sustainability of competitive authoritarianism	9
The Peace Process between Turkey and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, 2009–2015	8
Ukraine, Multipolarity and the Crisis of Grand Strategies	8
The Balkan Paradox: Are Wages and Labour Productivity Significant Determinants of FDI Inflows?	7
Strictly Pragmatism?: Prospects for a Russian-Turkish Partnership	6
Rebranding the Cultural Legacy of Communism: The Golden Stag Festival (Braşov, Romania) and Local Placemaking	6
Place Identity, Urban Tourism and Heritage Interpretation: A Case Study of Craiova, Romania	6
The Transformation of Turkey’s Pro-Kurdish Democratic Movement	6
European Capital of Culture, Urban Tourism and Cross-Border Cooperation Between Romania and Serbia	6
Revisionism and Resecuritization of Turkey's Middle East Policy: A Neoclassical Realist Explanation	5
Economic Management under the Presidential System of Government in Turkey: Beyond the Depoliticization versus Repoliticisation Dichotomy	5
From Humanitarian Crisis Management to Prison Island: Implementing the European Asylum Regime at the Border Island of Lesvos 2015-2017	5
Turkey’s Kurdish Question in the Era of Neoliberalism	5
Who Takes Care of the Children? Albanian Migrant Parents’ Strategies for Combining Work and Childcare in Greece	5
The PKK’s Ideological Odyssey	5
Special Issue: Crisis in the Eastern Mediterranean and COVID-19	4

Forming Pre-Electoral Coalitions in Competitive Authoritarian Contexts: The Case of the 2018 Parliamentary Elections in Turkey	4
China and New Middle East	4
Turkey’s Foreign Aid to Africa: An Analysis of the Post-July 15 Era	4
Iran and the New Geopolitics of the Middle East: In Search of Equilibrium	4
Interdependence between Gross Capital Formation, Public Expenditure on R&D and Innovation in Turkey	4
Russian Surrogate Warfare in Ukraine and Syria: Understanding the Utility of Militias and Private Military Companies	4
The Political Economy of Turkish Foreign Policy	4
‘Everyone is a Possibility’: Messy Networks of Refugees from Syria in Urfa, Turkey	4
Urban Sprawl and Its Impact on Urban Tourism in Romania	3
Religious vs. Secular Discourse and the Change of Political Power in Montenegro	3
Neo-liberal Globalization and Income Inequality: Panel Data Evidence from OECD and Western Balkan Countries	3
Editorial. Entangled Temporalities of Migration in the Western Balkans. Ethnographic Perspectives on (Im)-mobilities and Reception Governance	3
In Byron’s Footsteps, through Byron’s Eyes: Literary Tourism and ‘Imagined Geographies’ of Southern Albania	3
Europe and the ‘New’ Middle East	3
Post-Yugoslav States Thirty Years after 1991: Unfinished Businesses of a Fivefold Transition	3
Eastern Mediterranean Energy Geopolitics Revisited: Green Economy Instead of Conflict	3
The Balkan Route (and Its Afterlife): The New Normal in the European Politics of Migration	3
Russia and the New Middle East	3
The Western Balkans and Geopolitics: Leveraging the European Union and China	3
Has the Arab Spring Spread to the Caucasus and Central Asia? Explaining Regional Diffusion and Authoritarian Resistance	3
Past and present financialization in Central Eastern Europe: the case of Western subsidiary banks	3
Geopolitics of the New Middle East: Perspectives from Inside and Outside	3
The Changing Security Landscape in South-Eastern Mediterranean: Assessing Turkey’s Strategies as a Rising Power	2
Placed in Time. Migration Policies and Temporalities of (Im)Mobility Across the Eastern European Borders	2
China’s Belt and Road Initiative and South-South Cooperation	2
Globalisation and the struggle over hegemony in a peripheral context: Turkey’s membership bid to the European Union	2
The Dimensions and Attributes of State Failure in Syria	2
Investor-State Disputes in Balkan, post-Soviet Union and Near and Middle East Countries: An Empirical Appraisal	2
China’s Friendly Cooperative Relations with Tunisia in the Age of the New Silk Road Initiative	2
A Contemporary Analysis of Intra-Party Democracy in Turkey’s Political Parties	2
On National Anniversaries: Greece, 1821-2021	2
Place Making and Tourism Logistics in Timișoara: Facing the Tasks of the Newly Appointed European Cultural Capital for 2021	2
A Greening Dragon in the Desert? China’s Role in the Geopolitical Ecology of Decarbonisation in the Eastern Mediterranean	2
An Assessment of Turkey’s Soft Power Resources in Asia: Potential and Limitations	2
Causes of the Second Karabakh War: Analysis of the Positions and the Strength and Weakness of Armenia and Azerbaijan	2
Festivals, Place-making and Local Economic Development: The Untold Festival in Cluj	2
The Impact of AKP’s Foreign Policy on the Capital Accumulation Process in Turkey	2
2023 Elections in Turkey within Global Context: Right Wing Populism in the Era of Global Shift	2
Albanian Returned Asylum-Seekers: Failures, Successes and What Can Be Achieved in a Short Time	2
The ‘New Normal’ in Migration Management in Serbia in Times of the COVID-19 Crisis	2
Soft Power and SPPD in China Iran Relationship	2
The 2018 ‘Construction Peace’ in Turkey: A Neoliberal Inclusion or Populist Electoral Exchange?	2
Fear, Superiority, Self-Identification and Rejection: Turks’ Different Attitudes to Europe since the Late Ottoman Era	2
Aid, Trade or Faith? Questioning Narratives and Territorial Pattern of Gulf Foreign Aid	2
Then Is Now, but the Colours are New: Greece, Cyprus and the Evolving Power Game between the West, Russia and Turkey in the Eastern Mediterranean	2