Journal of Peace Research

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Peace Research is 3. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Corrigendum for Dawkins S. The problem of the missing dead158
Women’s roles and reproductive violence within armed rebellions130
Conflict exposure and democratic values: Evidence from wartime Ukraine67
The motivating and mobilizing effects of inequality on civil conflict: Focusing on trade-induced labor market shocks42
The self-enforcing dynamics of crime and protection40
Coercion, governance, and political behavior in civil war39
Rewarding loyalty: Selective reassurance and enforcement of asymmetric alliances31
Rebel human rights abuses during civil wars: Introducing the rebel human rights violations dataset31
Public opinion on trading with the enemy: Trade’s effects on the risk of war29
Guest Editors’ introduction: Nonviolent resistance and its discontents27
Nationalist propaganda and support for war in an authoritarian context: Evidence from China23
When conflict becomes calamity: Understanding the role of armed conflict dynamics in natural disasters20
Butterfly effects in global trade: International borders, disputes, and trade disruption and diversion17
Democracy dismissed: When leaders and citizens choose election violence17
Inequality, elections, and communal riots in India17
The bridge to violence – Mapping and understanding conflict-related violence in postwar Mitrovica17
Explaining intentional cultural destruction in the Syrian Civil War16
Shock and awe: Economic sanctions and relative military spending15
Who leads peace operations? A new dataset on leadership positions in UN peace operations, 1948–201915
CORRIGENDUM to Mitigating election violence locally: UN peacekeepers’ election-education campaigns in Côte d’Ivoire by Hannah Smidt15
Pulling through elections by pulling the plug: Internet disruptions and electoral violence in Uganda14
Quotidian crime, wartime violence and public goods preferences: Evidence from Liberia14
Renting political violence: A political economy of rents, access and violence delegation14
Beyond economic development? Foreign direct investment and pre-election violence14
Multidimensional effects of conflict-induced violence on wartime migration decisions: evidence from Ukraine13
Human rights violations and public support for sanctions13
International organizations, the EU and peace among member states: Bringing organization structure in13
Controlling a moving world: Territorial control, displacement and the spread of civilian targeting in Iraq13
Do we know it when we see it? (Re)-conceptualizing rebel-to-party transition13
Introducing the Transitional Justice Evaluation Tools (TJET) database13
Introduction: Cyber-conflict – Moving from speculation to investigation13
Words to unite nations: The complete United Nations General Debate Corpus, 1946–present12
How user language affects conflict fatality estimates in ChatGPT12
The political consequences of wartime sexual violence: Evidence from a list experiment11
Targeting telecommunications: Why do rebel groups target information and communication technology infrastructure?11
Law enforcement at the margin of the law: Information provision and support for militarization in Mexico11
Introducing the African Peace Processes (APP) dataset: Negotiations and mediation in interstate, intrastate and non-state conflicts in Africa11
Polls of fear? Electoral violence, incumbent strength, and voter turnout in Côte d’Ivoire10
Cyber and contentious politics: Evidence from the US radical environmental movement10
Access denied: Land alienation and pastoral conflicts10
Giving a hand to autocrats: Are Russia’s high-level visits for authoritarian durability?9
The JPR Best Visualization Award 2021 goes to Gaku Ito9
The JPR Best Visualization Award 2022 goes to Imane Chaara, Jean-Benoît Falisse & Julien Moriceau9
Predicting armed conflict using protest data9
Lethal brands: Terrorist groups’ logos and violence9
De jure powersharing 1975–2019: Updating the Inclusion, Dispersion, and Constraints Dataset9
Introducing the Lynching in Latin America (LYLA) dataset9
If it bleeps it leads? Media coverage on cyber conflict and misperception9
The Journal of Peace Research is excited to announce that the 2024 JPR Best Visualization Award has been awarded to Masanori Kikuchi!8
Disaster diplomacy: The intricate links between disaster and conflict8
Blowback or overblown? Why civilians under threat support invasive foreign intervention8
Sports nationalism and xenophobia: When cheering turns into violence8
Repertoires of conflict-related sexual violence: Introducing the RSVAC data package8
How does violence deter? Functional and informational effects of preemptive repression8
Motivations of diaspora support in homeland civil conflict8
‘Those MONUSCO agents left while we were still pregnant’: Accountability and support for peacekeeper-fathered children in the DRC8
International recognition and support for violence among nonpartisans8
Descriptive representation and conflict reduction: Evidence from India’s Maoist rebellion8
Political violence in democracies: An Introduction8
Oil discoveries, civil war, and preventive state repression8
Bias mitigation in empirical peace and conflict studies: A short primer on posttreatment variables8
Reliable knowledge claims on the recruitment and use of children: An empirical perspective7
Trauma in world politics: Memory dynamics between different victim groups7
Economic crisis and regime transitions from within7
The impacts of armed conflict on child health: Evidence from 56 developing countries7
Introducing the Proscription of Armed Actors Dataset7
Political violence in a polarized democracy: Years of Lead (YoL) data on Italy 1969–19887
Tailoring the message: A new dataset on the dyadic nature of NGO shaming in the media7
Anger and support for retribution in Mexico’s drug war7
External coercion and public support: The case of the US–China trade war7
Does conflict experience affect participatory democracy after war? Evidence from Colombia7
Democratic elections and anti-immigration attitudes7
Windows of repression: Using COVID-19 policies against political dissidents?7
Many hurdles to take: Explaining peacekeepers’ ability to engage in human rights activities7
Militarized state-building interventions and the survival of fragile states7
Leader similarity and international conflict7
Women, political violence and economics7
Discriminatory coercion: Understanding the biases of EU and US sanctions7
Introducing the Latin American Transnational Surveillance (LATS) dataset6
Public perception of terrorism attacks: A conjoint experiment6
When do natural disasters lead to negotiations in a civil war?6
Linking Ethnic Data from Africa (LEDA)6
Introducing the Concentration Camps (CCamps v1.0) dataset6
International Sanctions Termination, 1990–2018: Introducing the IST dataset6
Contemporary slavery in armed conflict: Introducing the CSAC dataset, 1989–20166
Under God, indivisible? Religious salience and interstate territorial conflict6
Introducing the parliamentary deployment votes database6
Procedural ethics for social science research: Introducing the Research Ethics Governance dataset6
Incumbent takeovers6
Political elite cues and attitude formation in post-conflict contexts6
Protests and persuasion: Partisanships effect on evaluating nonviolent tactics in the United States5
Tactics of survival: Strategies of Resistance Data Project update5
Sexual violence, gendered protection and support for intervention5
The two faces of power-sharing5
A win or a flop? Measuring mass protest successfulness in authoritarian settings5
Organized violence 1989–2022, and the return of conflict between states5
Gender in elections: The consequences of killing women activists5
Remaining behind in the community: Rebel service provision and internal (non-)displacement of civilians in the former FATA, Pakistan5
The impact of negative oil shocks on military spending and democracy in the oil states of the greater Middle East: Implications for the oil sanctions5
Fiscal conditions for multiparty elections in dictatorships5
Civil war mediation in the shadow of IGOs: The path to comprehensive peace agreements5
Coup d’état and a democratic signal: The connection between protests and coups after the Cold War5
Who spies on whom? Unravelling the puzzle of state-sponsored cyber economic espionage5
Can rising powers reassure? Shifting power, foreign economic policy and perceptions of revisionist intent5
Denial and punishment in war5
Greed, grievance, or graduates? Why do men rebel?5
Supporting reparations after armed conflict: How discursive ‘memory battles’ affect political solidarity with Guatemalan Indigenous survivors5
Retributive or reparative justice? Explaining post-conflict preferences in Kenya5
Identity threats and ideas of superiority as drivers of religious violence? Evidence from a survey experiment in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania5
Malnutrition and violent conflict in a heating world: A mediation analysis on the climate–conflict nexus in Nigeria5
Defending the fortress: How asset ownership shapes the desire to resist foreign aggression5
Demographic features or spatial structures? Unpacking local variation during the 2022 Iranian protests4
Economic slowdowns and international conflict4
The Nils Petter Gleditsch JPR article of the Year Award 2021 goes to Alison Heslin4
Third-party countries in cyber conflict: Public opinion and conflict spillover in cyberspace4
The wedding bells of war: The influence of armed conflict on child marriages in West Africa4
Leader or lackey? Understanding the United Nations Secretary-General’s role in conflict diplomacy4
Private goods for peace: Economic provisions of peace agreements and the durability of peace4
How cyber operations can reduce escalation pressures: Evidence from an experimental wargame study4
Friends and partners: Estimating latent affinity networks with the graphical LASSO4
Joining forces: Social coalitions and democratic revolutions4
The prehistory of violence and war: Moving beyond the Hobbes–Rousseau quagmire4
2022 Reviewers4
The global economic burden of violent conflict4
Nuclear balance and the initiation of nuclear crises: Does superiority matter?4
The causes and consequences of fisheries conflict around the Horn of Africa4
Re-examining women leaders and military spending4
Social reintegration of former al-Shabaab militants: How formal channels help mitigate threat perceptions4
Disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration in peace agreements (1975–2021): Introducing the DDR dataset4
Where there’s a will, there’s a way: Border walls and refugees4
To compete or strategically retreat? The global diffusion of reconnaissance strike4
The gendered risks of defending rights in armed conflict: Evidence from Colombia4
The Journal of Peace Research is excited to announce that the Nils Petter Gleditsch Article of the Year Award for 2024 goes to Melanie Sauter!4
Domestic terrorism and the allocation of US overseas defense spending4
Politicized health emergencies and violent resistance against healthcare responders4
Bias and balance in civil war mediation4
Introducing the Online Political Influence Efforts dataset4
Recovering from economic coercion: Does the pain stop when sanctions end?4
Ghosts of the Black Decade: How legacies of violence shaped Algeria’s Hirak protests4
Protest against Covid-19 containment policies in European countries3
Take a chance: Trust-building across identity groups3
Can transparency strengthen the legitimacy of international institutions? Evidence from the UN Security Council3
Repression, backlash, and the duration of protests in Africa3
Organized violence 1989–2024, and the challenges of identifying civilian victims3
Women’s economic rights and sexual violence in civil conflict3
Resolving bargaining problems in civil conflicts: Goals, institutions and negotiations3
Data innovations on protests in the United States3
Party competition and the limits of electoral coercion: Evidence from Colombia3
The drawbacks of drones: The effects of UAVs on escalation and instability in Pakistan3
The election of former rebel women3
Modeling threats and promises: Explaining the Munich crisis of 19383
The democratic patience3
Cyber-enabled influence operations as a ‘center of gravity’ in cyberconflict: The example of Russian foreign interference in the 2016 US federal election3
Introducing MACEDA: New micro-data on an indigenous self-determination conflict3
Agricultural roots of social conflict in Southeast Asia3
Violence against civilians and public support for the state: The moderating role of governance and ideology3
The heterogeneous effects of conflict on education: A spatial analysis in Sub-Saharan Africa3
Does the military lose public confidence without compliance with civilian control? Experimental evidence from Japan3
War, social preferences, and anti-outgroup behavior: Experimental evidence from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine3
How does war affect cultural tolerance? Evidence from concert programs, 1900–603
Why voters (sometimes) punish repression3
Microfoundations of domestic audience costs in nondemocratic regimes: Experimental evidence from Putin’s Russia3
Regime change and religious discrimination after the Arab uprisings3
Police reform in the aftermath of armed conflict: How militarization and accountability affect police violence3
Peace scholarship and the local turn: Hierarchies in the production of knowledge about peace3
Allies and diffusion of state military cybercapacity3
Spatial patterns of communal violence in sub-Saharan Africa3
Infrastructure and authority at the state’s edge: The Border Crossings of the World dataset3
Upping the ante without taking up arms: Why mass movements escalate demands3
From plastic to peace: Overcoming public antipathy through environmental cooperation3
The supply side determinants of territory3
The long-term consequences of power-sharing for ethnic salience3
Caring is sharing: Why independent commissions in post-conflict societies have power-sharing arrangements3
A theory of jihadist beheadings3
International prices and continuing conflict: Theory and evidence from sub-Saharan Africa (1980–2017)3
State violence and participation in transitional justice: Evidence from Colombia3
Tactics of resistance and post-conflict judicial independence3
Episodes of regime transformation3
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