OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Conflict Resolution is 5. 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
Contributing to Peace	43
Of One’s Own Making: Leadership Legitimation Strategy and Human Rights	39
The Effect of Migration on Political Support for Co-ethnics: Evidence From Turkey	26
Your Reputation Precedes You: Ceasefires and Cooperative Credibility During Civil Conflict	24
Is Terrorism Really a Weapon of the Weak? Debunking the Conventional Wisdom	20
Inclusion, Recognition, and Inter-Group Comparisons: The Effects of Power-Sharing Institutions on Grievances	15
“Right-Peopling” the State: Nationalism, Historical Legacies, and Ethnic Cleansing in Europe, 1886-2020	15
The Economic Coercion Trilemma	14
The Impact of Ideological Ambiguity on Terrorist Organizations	13
Does Deplatforming Work?	13
Alliance Reliability and Dispute Escalation	12
Cohesion Among Whom? Stayees, Displaced, and Returnees in Conflict Contexts	12
Choosing Where to Fight: Do Social Networks Distinguish American ISIS Foreign Fighters from ISIS-Inspired Terrorists?	12
Returning Veterans’ Attitudes Toward Democracy: Evidence From a Survey of Ukraine’s ATO Veterans	12
What They Are Fighting For – Introducing the UCDP Conflict Issues Dataset	12
Terrorist Attacks and Trust in Institutions: Micro Evidence From Europe	12
Dovish Hawks: How Leaders’ Combat Experience Influences the End of Civil Conflicts in Peace Agreements	12
Measuring Human Rights Abuse from Access to Information Requests	12
Does Peacekeeping Mitigate the Impact of Aid on Conflict? Peacekeeping, Humanitarian Aid and Violence Against Civilians	12
Pathways to Cooperation: A Relational Theory of Rebel Alliance Formation	12
Indirect Governance at War: Delegation and Orchestration in Rebel Support	11
Institutional Change as a Response to Unrealized Threats: An Empirical Analysis	11
UN Security Council Elections as an Incentive for Compliance	11
The Long Arm and the Iron Fist: Authoritarian Crackdowns and Transnational Repression	11
State breakdown and Army-Splinter Rebellions	11

Plots, Attacks, and the Measurement of Terrorism	10
The Charitable Terrorist: State Capacity and the Support for the Pakistani Taliban	10
Biophysiological Risk-Factors for Political Violence	10
Do Proxies Provide Plausible Deniability? Evidence From Experiments on Three Surveys	10
Lingua Franca as a Hidden Barrier to Conflict Resolution	10
On Nuclear Superiority and National Security	10
The Meddling American Voter? How Norms, Interests, and Great Power Rivalries Affect U.S. Public Support for Partisan Electoral Interventions Abroad	10
Virtual Immersive Contact: A Field Experiment to Reduce Prejudice and Discrimination in Central African Republic	9
The Shadow of Deterrence: Why Capable Actors Engage in Contests Short of War	9
Gentrification and Social Unrest: The Blitz, Urban Change and the 2011 London Riots	9
Terrorism and Political Tolerance toward “Fellow Travelers”	9
The Power of Cabinet Appointments in Autocracies: Elite Cooptation and Anti-Regime Mass Uprisings	9
When Does Security Cooperation Increase Foreign Aid Allocation?	8
In the Army We Trust: Public Confidence in Global South Militaries	8
Building Partner Capacity: US Aid to Security Sector Actors	8
Contestation, Governance, and the Production of Violence Against Civilians: Coercive Political Order in Rural Colombia	8
Citizens in Peace Processes	8
Sanctions-Busting, Material Power, and Institutional Support for Economic Sanctions	8
The Dual Effect of COVID-19 on Intergroup Conflict in the Korean Peninsula	8
Does Violence Against Journalists Deter Detailed Reporting? Evidence From Mexico	8
Restitution or Retribution? Detainee Payments and Insurgent Violence	8
When Deterrence Backfires: House Demolitions, Palestinian Radicalization, and Israeli Fatalities	7
Painful Words: The Effect of Battlefield Activity on Conflict Negotiation Behavior	7
Wartime Sexual Violence, Social Stigmatization and Humanitarian Aid: Survey Evidence from eastern Democratic Republic of Congo	7
Due Process and Accountability Under Transitional Justice: Evidence from Mosul, Iraq	7
Electoral Integrity, the Concession of Power, and the Disciplining Role of Protests	7
Lockdown and Unrest: Inequality, Restrictions and Protests During COVID-19	7
Weapons of the Weak: Technological Change, Guerrilla Firepower, and Counterinsurgency Outcomes	7
Does the Bomb Really Embolden? Revisiting the Statistical Evidence for the Nuclear Emboldenment Thesis	7
Backgrounds With Benefits? Rebel Group Origins and Concessions During Civil Wars in Africa	7
Beyond Ransom and Political Concessions? Explaining Changes in Insurgents’ Kidnapping Involvement Versus Event-frequency	7
Conflict-Related Sexual Violence and the Perils of Impunity	7
The Determinants of Terrorist Listing	7
Armed Conflicts With Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State: The Role of Repression and State Capacity	6
Losing Hearts & Minds: Aid and Ideology	6
Achieving Minimum Deterrence: A New Dyadic Dataset on Strategic Nuclear Weapons Delivery Capabilities	6
Named and Shamed: International Advocacy and Public Support for Repressive Leaders	6
The Double-Edged Sword of Foreign Direct Investment on Domestic Terrorism	6
Commitment to the “National” in Post-Conflict Countries: Public and Private Security Provision in Lebanon	6
Past and Present Group Exclusion and Conflict: Group Marginalization, Opportunity, and Islamic State Foreign Fighter Mobilization	6
Race, Religion, and American Support for Humanitarian Intervention	6
The Effects of Economic Sanctions on Foreign Asset Expropriation	6
Does Language Foster Reconciliation? Evidence From the Former Yugoslavia	5
From Cooptation to Violence: Managing Competitive Authoritarian Elections	5
Faith-Based Discrimination and Violent Religious Hostilities: A Global Analysis	5
Triangles, Major Powers, and Rivalry Duration	5
Knowing What We Don’t: The Fundamental Problem of Data Quality in Conflict Research—and Methodological Solutions	5
Corrigendum to Sticks and Stones? Connecting Insurgent Propaganda with Violent Outcomes	5
Introducing the Peacekeeping Mandates (PEMA) Dataset	5
Pride and Prejudice: The Dual Effects of “Wolf Warrior Diplomacy” on Domestic and International Audiences	5

Titans that Clash and a State that Buffers	5
Rebel, Remain, or Resign? Military Elites’ Decision-Making at the Onset of the American Civil War	5