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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Contributing to Peace	52
Your Reputation Precedes You: Ceasefires and Cooperative Credibility During Civil Conflict	41
Is Terrorism Really a Weapon of the Weak? Debunking the Conventional Wisdom	29
The Effect of Migration on Political Support for Co-ethnics: Evidence From Turkey	24
Inclusion, Recognition, and Inter-Group Comparisons: The Effects of Power-Sharing Institutions on Grievances	21
Insurgency, Border Contiguity, and Social Conflict in Neighbor Countries	16
“Right-Peopling” the State: Nationalism, Historical Legacies, and Ethnic Cleansing in Europe, 1886-2020	16
Of One’s Own Making: Leadership Legitimation Strategy and Human Rights	15
The Impact of Ideological Ambiguity on Terrorist Organizations	14
I Still Haven’t Found what I’m Looking for: Predicting Security-Related Incidents and Conflict Fatalities with Google Trends and Wikipedia Data	14
Does Deplatforming Work?	14
Does Peacekeeping Mitigate the Impact of Aid on Conflict? Peacekeeping, Humanitarian Aid and Violence Against Civilians	13
The Economic Coercion Trilemma	13
What They Are Fighting For – Introducing the UCDP Conflict Issues Dataset	13
Measuring Human Rights Abuse from Access to Information Requests	13
Returning Veterans’ Attitudes Toward Democracy: Evidence From a Survey of Ukraine’s ATO Veterans	13
Cohesion Among Whom? Stayees, Displaced, and Returnees in Conflict Contexts	12
Alliance Reliability and Dispute Escalation	12
State breakdown and Army-Splinter Rebellions	12
Pathways to Cooperation: A Relational Theory of Rebel Alliance Formation	12
Dovish Hawks: How Leaders’ Combat Experience Influences the End of Civil Conflicts in Peace Agreements	11
Institutional Change as a Response to Unrealized Threats: An Empirical Analysis	11
Terrorist Attacks and Trust in Institutions: Micro Evidence From Europe	11
Choosing Where to Fight: Do Social Networks Distinguish American ISIS Foreign Fighters from ISIS-Inspired Terrorists?	11
UN Security Council Elections as an Incentive for Compliance	11

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

Rebel, Remain, or Resign? Military Elites’ Decision-Making at the Onset of the American Civil War	5
Corrigendum to Sticks and Stones? Connecting Insurgent Propaganda with Violent Outcomes	5
The Double-Edged Sword of Foreign Direct Investment on Domestic Terrorism	5
Erratum to “Disaggregating Defection: Dissent Campaign Strategies and Security Force Disloyalty”	5
Titans that Clash and a State that Buffers	5