OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Conflict Resolution 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Do States Constrain Non-State Hackers? International Telecommunication Union Elections and Non-State Cyber Aggression	38
Bruce Russett Award for Article of the Year in JCR for 2021	36
Militant Splinter Groups and the Use of Violence	22
Weapons of the Weak: Technological Change, Guerrilla Firepower, and Counterinsurgency Outcomes	22
Inconstant Care: Public Attitudes Towards Force Protection and Civilian Casualties in the United States, United Kingdom, and Israel	22
Inclusion, Recognition, and Inter-Group Comparisons: The Effects of Power-Sharing Institutions on Grievances	20
Contributing to Peace	17
Interstate Conflict Can Reduce Support for Incumbents: Evidence from the Israeli Electorate and the Yom Kippur War	15
Tolerant Solidarity With Violent Protesters: Evidence From a Survey Experiment	15
Incumbent-Aligned Terrorism and Voting Behavior: Evidence from Argentina’s 1973 Elections	14
Who Punishes Leaders for Lying About the Use of Force? Evaluating The Microfoundations of Domestic Deception Costs	12
Conflict Events Worldwide Since 1468BC: Introducing the Historical Conflict Event Dataset	12
Less Is More? Shifting Power and Third-Party Military Assistance	12
The Enforcement of U.S. Economic Sanctions and Global De-risking Behavior	12
The Determinants of Terrorist Listing	12
Electoral Integrity, the Concession of Power, and the Disciplining Role of Protests	12
Is Terrorism Really a Weapon of the Weak? Debunking the Conventional Wisdom	12
Local Ceasefires and De-escalation: Evidence From the Syrian Civil War	11
Institutional Design, Information Transmission, and Public Opinion: Making the Case for Trade	11
Does the Bomb Really Embolden? Revisiting the Statistical Evidence for the Nuclear Emboldenment Thesis	11
“Right-Peopling” the State: Nationalism, Historical Legacies, and Ethnic Cleansing in Europe, 1886-2020	11
Us and Them: Foreign Threat and Domestic Polarization	11
Natural Experiments of the Rally 'Round the Flag Effects Using Worldwide Surveys	10
The Effects of Economic Sanctions on Foreign Asset Expropriation	10
Symbolic Conflict Resolution and Ingroup Favoritism	10

Capture the Fort: Explaining the Timing of Rebel Assaults on Cities During Wartime	10
A Brutality-Based Approach to Identifying State-Led Atrocities	10
The Effect of Migration on Political Support for Co-ethnics: Evidence From Turkey	10
A Liberal Peace?: The Growth of Liberal Norms and the Decline of Interstate Violence	9
The Double-Edged Sword: How State Capacity Prolongs Autocratic Tenure but Hastens Democratization	9
Political Imprisonment and Protest Mobilization: Evidence From the GDR	9
Organized Crime and Foreign Direct Investment: Evidence From Criminal Groups in Mexico	9
U.S. Military Should Not Be in My Backyard: Conjoint Experiments in Japan	9
Changes in Perceptions of Border Security Influence Desired Levels of Immigration	9
Whom to Repress: Tall Poppies, Key Players, and Weakest Links	9
Of One’s Own Making: Leadership Legitimation Strategy and Human Rights	9
Peace Negotiations and Civilian Targeting	8
Rainy Friday: Religious Participation and Protests	8
Personalist Regime and Rebel Sponsorship in Civil Conflicts	8
The Warm War: The Effect of Ukrainian President’s Communal Personality Traits on Empathy and Pro-Social Behavior towards the Ukrainians	8
Bruce Russett Award for Article of the Year in JCR for 2020	8
“Twice the Citizen”: How Military Attitudes of Superiority Undermine Civilian Control in the United States	8
Is China-Taiwan Rapprochement Possible? Experimental Evidence From Taiwan	8
Can Western Donors Constrain Repressive Governments? Evidence from Debt Relief Negotiations in Africa	8
Knowing is Half the Battle: How Education Decreases the Fear of Terrorism	8
Does India Use Development Finance to Compete With China? A Subnational Analysis	7
Correction Notice	7
The Logic of Transitional Justice and State Repression: The Effects of Human Rights Prosecutions in Post-Conflict States	7
What it Takes to Return: UN Peacekeeping and the Safe Return of Displaced People	7
Conflict-Related Sexual Violence and the Perils of Impunity	7
Your Reputation Precedes You: Ceasefires and Cooperative Credibility During Civil Conflict	7
Wartime Sexual Violence, Social Stigmatization and Humanitarian Aid: Survey Evidence from eastern Democratic Republic of Congo	7
The Impact of Domestic Surveillance on Political Imprisonment: Evidence from the German Democratic Republic	7
Due Process and Accountability Under Transitional Justice: Evidence from Mosul, Iraq	7
The Economic Coercion Trilemma	6
The Double-Edged Sword of Foreign Direct Investment on Domestic Terrorism	6
Wargame of Drones: Remotely Piloted Aircraft and Crisis Escalation	6
Fighting in Cyberspace: Internet Access and the Substitutability of Cyber and Military Operations	6
Nonproliferation Information and Attitude Change: Evidence From South Korea	6
What They Are Fighting For – Introducing the UCDP Conflict Issues Dataset	6
Crises and Consequences: The Role of U.S. Support in International Bond Markets	6
Secret Police Organizations and State Repression	6
Examining UN PKO contributions at multiple levels	6
Race, Religion, and American Support for Humanitarian Intervention	6
New Estimates of Over 500 Years of Historic GDP and Population Data	6
Losing Hearts & Minds: Aid and Ideology	5
Does Deplatforming Work?	5
Cohesion Among Whom? Stayees, Displaced, and Returnees in Conflict Contexts	5
Targeting Quality or Quantity? The Divergent Effects of Targeting Upper Verses Lower-Tier Leaders of Militant Organizations	5
International Peacekeeping Encourages Foreign Direct Investment: Subnational Evidence From Liberia’s Extractive Sector	5
Credibility, Organizational Politics, and Crisis Decision Making	4
Does Peacekeeping Mitigate the Impact of Aid on Conflict? Peacekeeping, Humanitarian Aid and Violence Against Civilians	4
Policing and Political Violence	4
The Commercial Military Actor Database	4
Sanctions and Third-party Compliance with US Foreign Policy Preferences: An Analysis of Dual-use Trade	4

The Long-run Impact of Childhood Wartime Violence on Preferences for Nuclear Proliferation	4
Past and Present Group Exclusion and Conflict: Group Marginalization, Opportunity, and Islamic State Foreign Fighter Mobilization	4
Armed Conflicts With Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State: The Role of Repression and State Capacity	4
Can a Sense of Shared War Experience Increase Refugee Acceptance?	4
Bureaucracy at the Border: The Fragmentation of United States Foreign Aid	4
Putting Terror in Its Place: An Experiment on Mitigating Fears of Terrorism among the American Public	4
Named and Shamed: International Advocacy and Public Support for Repressive Leaders	4
The Impact of Ideological Ambiguity on Terrorist Organizations	4
Is Theory Useful for Conflict Prediction? A Response to Beger, Morgan, and Ward	4
Achieving Minimum Deterrence: A New Dyadic Dataset on Strategic Nuclear Weapons Delivery Capabilities	4
Commitment to the “National” in Post-Conflict Countries: Public and Private Security Provision in Lebanon	4
Signaling Strength with Handicaps	4
Peacekeeping, Mediation, and the Conclusion of Local Ceasefires in Non-State Conflicts	4
State Security or Exploitation: A Theory of Military Involvement in the Economy	4
Does Language Foster Reconciliation? Evidence From the Former Yugoslavia	4
Triangles, Major Powers, and Rivalry Duration	4
Measuring Human Rights Abuse from Access to Information Requests	4