OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of American Political Science Review is 32. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
In the Mood for Democracy? Democratic Support as Thermostatic Opinion-CORRIGENDUM	204
Making the List: Reevaluating Political Trust and Social Desirability in China	96
Legislative Effectiveness in the American States	85
Racial Equality and Anticolonial Solidarity: Anténor Firmin’s Global Haitian Liberalism	75
I’m a Survivor: Political Dynamics in Bureaucratic Elites’ Partisan Identification	75
Slavery and Oratory: Frederick Douglass in the History of Rhetoric	66
Social Capital, Institutional Rules, and Constitutional Amendment Rates	65
Vigilance as a Practice of Postcolonial Freedom	64
Rule Ambiguity, Institutional Clashes, and Population Loss: How Wikipedia Became the Last Good Place on the Internet	64
Rationalizing Democracy: The Perceptual Bias and (Un)Democratic Behavior	63
This One’s for the Boys: How Gendered Political Socialization Limits Girls’ Political Ambition and Interest	63
Starting with People Where They Are: Ella Baker’s Theory of Political Organizing	62
Collective Remembrance and Private Choice: German–Greek Conflict and Behavior in Times of Crisis	60
Muddying the Waters: How Perceived Foreign Interference Affects Public Opinion on Protest Movements	59
Who Debates, Who Wins? At-Scale Experimental Evidence on the Supply of Policy Information in a Liberian Election	59
Notes from the Editors: Advice to Authors	55
Public Perceptions of Minority Inclusion and Feelings of Political Efficacy: A Replication, Validation, and Extension	51
Notes from the Editors: #APSR	51
Endogenous Colonial Borders: Precolonial States and Geography in the Partition of Africa	50
Vox Populi: Popular Support for the Popular Initiative	47
Discrimination Without Traits: From Social Construction to the Politics of Discrimination	43
Bloc Voting for Electoral Accountability	41
Structural Responsibility	41
Climate Displacement and Territorial Justice	41
Can Party Elites Shape the Rank and File? Evidence from a Recruitment Campaign in India	41

Representative Democracy and Social Equality	38
Analytical Democratic Theory: A Microfoundational Approach	38
Corruption and Co-Optation in Autocracy: Evidence from Russia	37
Enfranchisement and Incarceration after the 1965 Voting Rights Act	36
Extraction, Assimilation, and Accommodation: The Historical Foundations of Indigenous–State Relations in Latin America	36
Can Stakeholders Mobilize Businesses for the Protection of Democracy? Evidence from the U.S. Capitol Insurrection	34
Land, Opportunism, and Displacement in Civil Wars: Evidence from Colombia	32
How the Workplace Affects Employee Political Contributions	32
The Effect of Gender on Interruptions at Congressional Hearings	32
Payments and Penalties for Democracy: Gendered Electoral Financing in Action Worldwide	32
Senators at Home: Local Attentiveness and Policy Representation in Congress	32