OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of JCMS-Journal of Common Market Studies is 6. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Issue Information	72
Fighting for Europe: The EU's Democratic Pull Phenomenon in Ukraine, Poland and Belarus	63
EU Sport Diplomacy: An Idea Whose Time Has Nearly Come	62
Fiscal Rules in the European Union: Less Is More	48
Turkey's Influence as a Third Country on the European Union: From Association to a Key Partner	46
Supranational Entrepreneurship Through the Administrative Backdoor: The Commission, the Green Deal and the CAP 2023–2027	43
‘You Know, This Conference Has No Legitimacy’: Eurosceptic Contestation of the Conference on the Future of Europe	43
Is the Governance of Europe's Transnational Party System Contributing to EU Democracy?*	37
Euro Area: Towards a European Common Bond? – Empirical Evidence from the Sovereign Debt Markets	36
Resilience of the Silo Organizational Structure in the European Commission	34
The Ripple Effects of Compliance: Reconfiguring EU Policy Effectiveness in Transboundary Environmental Governance	33
The European Economic Area: Decision‐Shaping during the COVID‐19 Pandemic	33
The European Parliament and Gender Equality: An Analysis of Achievements Based on the Concept of Power	33
Information or Accountability? A Research Agenda on European Commissioners in National Parliaments	31
Snap Out of It? Governmental Instability and Far‐Right Mainstreaming in the Dutch and French Elections of 2023/2024	31
Two and a Half Tales of Europe: How the European Commission Narrates Peoplehood in Migration and Citizenship Policy	31
Minding the Gaps: Solidaristic Transfers and Burden‐Sharing in the European Union and Its Member States' Pandemic Response	30
Issue Information	29
EUropean Identity Construction After the Russian Full‐Scale Invasion of Ukraine: Dialogic (Re)construction of Self and Others	29
Equal Focus on Inequality? Approaches to Distributional Impact Assessment in the National Budget Process Across the EU	28
Reframing Civil–Military Relations in the EU: Insights From the Drone Strategy 2.0	27
Beyond the Heaven–Hell Binary and the One‐Way Traffic Paradigm: The European Union, Africa and Contested Human Rights in the Negotiations of the Samoa Agreement	27
Anti‐elitism in the European Radical Right in Comparative Perspective	27
The Populist Vs Anti‐Populist Divide in the Time of Pandemic: The 2021 Czech National Election and its Consequences for European Politics*	27
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The EU and Russia: The War that Changed Everything	26
Home Field Advantage? EU–ACP Economic Partnership Agreement Meeting Locations and Textual Tone	25
Account‐Holding Intensity in the EU Accountability Landscape: A Comprehensive Review of EU agencies' Institutional Accountability Relationships*	24
Negative Integration Is What States Make of It? Tackling Labour Exploitation in the German Meat Sector	24
Firms and Trade Policy Lobbying in the European Union	21
Brussels‐Based Think Tanks in Times of Crisis: Examining Think Tank Climate Publication and Networking Activities During Brexit	20
Transregional Europe by William Outhwaite (Bingley: Emerald Publishing Limited, 2020, ISBN: 978‐1‐78769‐494‐1); 152 pp., €90.46, hardcover.	20
All in this Together? Communities of Practice in UK–EU Cybersecurity Relations Post‐Brexit and Differentiated Re‐engagement	19
The New Pact on Migration: Embedded Illiberalism?	19
Issue Information	19
Book Reviews	19
From Protesting Against Troika Bailouts to Pro‐EU Governing in Greece and Portugal: Europeanisation and Institutionalisation Processes	18
Immigration Policy Preferences in Six EU Countries: The Shadow of Intergovernmental Conflicts in Public Opinion	17
Legislative Transparency in the European Parliament: Disclosing Legislators' Meetings with Interest Groups	16
Transnational Parliamentary Activities in EU Foreign Policy: The Role of Parliamentarians in the Establishment of the EU's Global Human Rights Sanctions Regime	16
The EU at Crossroads: 2022 as a Turning Point Year?	16
Non‐documents for Big Decisions: The Commission and the EEC–Japan Automotive Agreement (1991)	15
A Litmus Test for Democratic Politics in Europe: Parliaments, Brexit and the Future of the European Union, JulienNavarro (London: Routledge, 2022)	15
Issue Information	15
Border Regions as Nuclei of European Integration? Evidence From Germany	15
Trust Matters in the Single Market, but How? Analysing Trust Amongst European Financial Supervisors	15
EU Snapshots: 2022 Challenges of Fortress EU	14
Issue Information	14
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Dysfunction and Pathology in Brussels: The European Commission and the Politics of Debt Restructuring	14
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Enforcement, Information or Socialization? The Role of the European Labour Authority in Protecting Mobile Workers in the EU	14
Failing Forward in European Economic Governance: The Cyclicality of European Integration and Institutional Competition in the COVID‐19 Crisis	13
How Have EU Legislators Established EU Agencies With Enforcement Tasks? Case Studies of the European Aviation Safety Agency and the European Medicines Agency	13
Moving across Borders: The Work Life Experiences of Czech Cross‐border Workers during the COVID‐19 Pandemic	13
The European Union's Place in United States–China Strategic Competition: How Role Dynamics Drive Brussels Towards Washington	13
Much More Than a Report: The Search for Europe's New Political Identity and the Politics of Competitiveness	13
The European Union's Response to the Rule of Law Crisis and the Making of the New Conditionality Regime	12
The United Kingdom: Turning its Back on Influencing the EU?	12
A ‘Geopolitical Commission’: Supranationalism Meets Global Power Competition	11
From the Green to the Just Transition: The Emergence of the Compensatory State in the EU's Approach to Climate Change	11
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How Do Supranational Regulators Keep Companies in Line? An Analysis of the Enforcement Styles of EU Agencies	11
An Evermore Geoeconomic European Union? Exploring Critical Perspectives for Future Research	11
Irregular and Infectious? COVID‐19, Ebola and the Securitization of Migration to Southern Europe	11
Book Reviews	11
When EU Agencies Set Up Advisory Committees: All About Autonomy?	11
The New CAP and the Participative Method in Decision‐Making: A Textual Analysis of the Italian Case	11
Lobbying Across Policy Stages: Different Tales of Interest Group Success	11
Europe's Coming of Age, Loukas Tsoukalis (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2022, ISBN 9781509554553); 246 pp., 25 GBP hardback.	10
Debating EU Actions Against Democratic Backsliding in Hungary: Shifting Government and Opposition Frames	10
The Legal Architecture of the Economic Responses to COVID‐19: EMU beyond the Pandemic*	10
Thank you to Reviewers list July 2023 – July 2024	10
How the European Parliament Chooses Its Battles: Parliamentary Resolutions on the Negotiation of International Agreements	10
Correction to “Examining the EU Reaction to a Humanitarian Emergency from a Network Perspective: The Response to Cyclones Idai and Kenneth”	10

Security‐as‐Service in the Management of European Border Data Infrastructures	10
Fundamental Change Beneath the Surface: The Supranationalisation of Rule of Law Protection in the European Union	10
Inside the European Union's Trade Machinery: Institutional Changes in an Age of Geoeconomics	10
The 2023 Cypriot Presidential Elections: Shifts in Domestic and Regional Dynamics	10
Right‐Wing Eurosceptic Parties and the Strategic Use of Law	9
Critical Theory and International Relations: Knowledge, Power and Practice, by S.Hobden (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2023), ISBN 9781526131959); ix+197 pp., £85 GBP hardcover.	9
Pandemic Politics: The European Union in Times of the Coronavirus Emergency	9
Institutional Quality and Geography of Discontent in the EU	9
Opening the Black Box of ‘Convergence’ in the European Monetary Union: A Discursive Analysis	9
Defining and Operationalising Defiant Non‐Compliance in the EU: The Rule of Law Case	9
Coordination and Control in European Council Centred Governance. The Netherlands and the Covid Recovery Fund	9
After Merkel – The 2021 German Election and its Implications for European Union Politics	9
Revisiting Policy Preferences and Capacities in the EU: Multi‐level policy implementation in the subnational authorities	9
Context Matters: Variation in the Shortsightedness of European Climate Policy	9
Economic Sentiment and Aggregate Activity: A Tale of Two European Cycles*	9
Non‐learning Within a Constellation of Communities of Practice: The Case of the EU and Its Democracy Support in the Arab World	9
All Along the Watch Tower: The European Central Bank and Legitimation Strategies in Times of Crisis	8
‘Closer to the Market’: EU Research Governance and Symbolic Power	8
The Politics of Emigration in Europe: A Research Agenda*	8
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Decentring European Union Foreign Policy: Addressing Colonial Dynamics in EU‐Algeria Relations	8
A Turn to Export‐Led Growth? Rethinking the Growth Models in Greece and Portugal	8
The EU's Combating Antisemitism Policy: Agenda Setting and the Making of a ‘European Polity’	8
Networked Health Cooperation in the European Union: Horizontal or Hierarchical?	8
The Impossibility of Constitutionalizing Emergency Europe¹	8
A Capacity‐Based Approach for Assessing Changes in Responsibility Sharing in the EU: Comparing the Syrian and Ukrainian Refugee Crises	8
Critical Expectation Gaps: Advancing Theorization of the Perceptual Approach in EU Foreign Policy Studies	8
Blessing or Curse? The Rise of Tourism‐Led Growth in Europe's Southern Periphery	8
Plan B for Europe: The Birth of ‘Disobedient Euroscepticism’?	8
Triggers and Hierarchies of Social Identities in the European Parliament	8
Grand Strategy in 10 Words: A Guide to Great Power Politics in the 21st Century, by S.Biscop (Bristol: Bristol University Press, 2021, ISBN 9781529217506); xii+250 pp., £75.00 hb.	8
Sectoral Governance under the EU's Bilateral Agreements and the Limits of Joint Institutional Frameworks: Insights from EU‐Swiss Bilateralism for Post‐Brexit Relations with the UK	8
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From Eurorealism to Europhilia? The 2021 Dutch Elections and the New Approach of the Netherlands in EU Politics	7
Policy Learning and European Integration	7
The Future of British Foreign Policy: Security and Diplomacy in a World after Brexit, by C.Hill (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2019, ISBN 9781509524617); xiii+223 pp., £50.00 hb.	7
Issue Information	7
Towards a Critical Democracy Promotion Agenda? Liminal Allyship in EU–Tunisian Relations	7
An EU Sustainable Migration: Institutional Discourse and Migration Politics	7
Issue Information	7
Perpetuating Crisis as a Supply Strategy: The Role of (Nativist) Populist Governments in EU Policymaking on Refugee Distribution	7
How Implementation Affects Revision: EU Decision‐Making on Changing the Posting of Workers Directive*	7
Politics of Stigmatization: Poland as a ‘Latecomer’ in the European Union, by M.Krasnodębska (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021, ISBN 9783030515232); xiv+248pp., €71.00 pb.	7
Brexit Rhapsody: Exploring Patterns of Issue Salience in the Negotiations	7
EU Industrial Policy and Convergent Development in EU Peripheries: An Assessment of the ‘Important Project of Common European Interest’ (IPCEI) Template	7
Organizational Overlap and Bureaucratic Actors: How EU–NATO Relations Empower the European Commission	7
Does Populism Matter in EU–China Relations? The Cases of Italy and Czechia	7
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The Challenge of Right‐Wing Populism in Europe: Response to Reviews	7
Unveiling Inconsistency: Consensus and Contestation along the Council–Comitology Cycle of EU Policy‐Making	7
Working with the EU: How Discourses Shape the Application of EU State Aid Rules	7
Capturing Women's Standpoint in EU–Turkey Studies: The Evolution of Gendered Publication and Citation Patterns	6
A Matter of Prescriptive Clarity? Analysing How Swedish Judges' Motives for Action Vary in the Preliminary Ruling Procedure	6
Spot the Difference: Differentiated Co‐operation and Differentiated Integration in the European Union	6
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Feeling the Heat: Emotions, Politicization, and the European Union	6
Correction to ‘Quid Pro Quo. The Effect of Issue Linkage on Member States' Bargaining Success in European Union Lawmaking’	6
Where Have All the ‘Exiters’ Gone? Contextualising the Concept of Hard Euroscepticism	6
Mapping Corporate Investments Between China and Europe in an Era of Geoeconomic Competition	6
European Development Co‐operation via Technical Assistance: An Outside‐in Perspective	6
Third Country Influence on EU Law and Policy‐making: Setting the Scene	6
Queering European Union Foreign and Security Policy: Invisibility, Heteronormativity and Binaries in the EU's Approach to Women, Peace and Security	6
Divergent Attitudes of Eurosceptic Parties Towards Intergovernmental and Supranational EU Institutions	6
The Routledge Handbook of Differentiation in the European Union, by B.Leruth, S.Gänzle, and J.Trondal (Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2022, ISBN 9780429054136); xx+749 pp., £32.00 ebook.	6
When Expertise Is Not Enough: Explaining the European Commission's Non‐success in the Integration of Public Sector Accounting	6
From Europhilia to Eurorealism: The 2022 General Election in Italy	6
Third Country Access to EU Agencies: Exploring Spaces for Influence	6
The Risks and Benefits of Differentiated Integration in the European Union as Perceived by Academic Experts	6
Ritual and Affect in Europe Day Celebrations: Institutional Practices of European Identity Construction in Crisis	6
The European Semester as Goldilocks: Macroeconomic Policy Coordination and the Recovery and Resilience Facility	6
The European Union in a Changing World Order: Interdisciplinary European Studies, edited by A.Bakardjieva Engelbrekt, N.Bremberg, A.Michalski and L.Oxelheim (Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 202	6
External Contestations of Europe: Russia and Turkey as Normative Challengers?*	6
Continuity and Change of Party Democracies in Europe, edited by S.Bukow and U.Jun (Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 2020, ISBN 9783658289874); x+366pp., €66.00 pb.	6