Journal of Peace Research

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Peace Research is 1. 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.)
ArticleCitations
To compete or strategically retreat? The global diffusion of reconnaissance strike126
Blowback or overblown? Why civilians under threat support invasive foreign intervention105
Introducing the Online Political Influence Efforts dataset101
Drafting restraint: Are military recruitment policies associated with interstate conflict initiation?34
Foreign interests and state repression: Theory and evidence from the Armenian genocide33
From plastic to peace: Overcoming public antipathy through environmental cooperation31
Introducing Native American Conflict History (NACH) data27
Disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration in peace agreements (1975–2021): Introducing the DDR dataset24
‘Those MONUSCO agents left while we were still pregnant’: Accountability and support for peacekeeper-fathered children in the DRC22
Motivations of diaspora support in homeland civil conflict22
Introducing Regular Turnover Details, 1960–2015: A dataset on world leaders’ legal removal from office17
Religion and terrorism: Evidence from Ramadan fasting16
Violence against civilians and public support for the state: The moderating role of governance and ideology16
Corrigendum for Dawkins S. The problem of the missing dead15
Sports nationalism and xenophobia: When cheering turns into violence14
Disasters and intergroup peace in sub-Saharan Africa14
The supply side determinants of territory14
State capacity matters in ‘the middle:’ A new perspective on domestic terrorism13
Terrorism and emergency constitutions in the Muslim world12
No paradox here? Improving theory and testing of the nuclear stability–instability paradox with synthetic counterfactuals12
Re-examining women leaders and military spending12
Ethnic trust, minority status, and public goods in post-conflict societies12
Friends and partners: Estimating latent affinity networks with the graphical LASSO11
Going, going, gone? Varieties of dissent and leader exit11
Strongmen cry too: The effect of aerial bombing on voting for the incumbent in competitive autocracies10
Recovering from economic coercion: Does the pain stop when sanctions end?10
Coercion, governance, and political behavior in civil war10
Introducing MACEDA: New micro-data on an indigenous self-determination conflict10
Bias and balance in civil war mediation10
Secessionist conflict and affective polarization: Evidence from Catalonia10
Demographic features or spatial structures? Unpacking local variation during the 2022 Iranian protests10
Do nonproliferation agreements constrain?10
The political viability of AI on the battlefield: Examining US public support, trust, and blame dynamics9
Disasters and the dynamics of interstate rivalry9
The self-enforcing dynamics of crime and protection9
Discriminatory coercion: Understanding the biases of EU and US sanctions9
Agricultural roots of social conflict in Southeast Asia9
Rewarding loyalty: Selective reassurance and enforcement of asymmetric alliances9
How critical junctures shape secessionist movement cohesion: Strategies, framing processes, and interorganizational relations before and after the 2017 referendum in Catalonia9
Where there’s a will, there’s a way: Border walls and refugees8
Social reintegration of former al-Shabaab militants: How formal channels help mitigate threat perceptions7
Oil discoveries, civil war, and preventive state repression7
Can transparency strengthen the legitimacy of international institutions? Evidence from the UN Security Council7
The motivating and mobilizing effects of inequality on civil conflict: Focusing on trade-induced labor market shocks7
Rebel human rights abuses during civil wars: Introducing the rebel human rights violations dataset7
How cyber operations can reduce escalation pressures: Evidence from an experimental wargame study7
Public opinion on trading with the enemy: Trade’s effects on the risk of war7
Does legal aid improve access to justice in ‘fragile’ settings? Evidence from Burundi6
2022 Reviewers6
Did Egypt’s post-uprising crime wave increase support for authoritarian rule?6
The women and men that make peace: Introducing the Mediating Individuals (M-IND) dataset6
Politicized health emergencies and violent resistance against healthcare responders6
When conflict becomes calamity: Understanding the role of armed conflict dynamics in natural disasters6
Tailoring the message: A new dataset on the dyadic nature of NGO shaming in the media6
Swords into ploughshares? Why human rights abuses persist after resistance campaigns6
Militarized state-building interventions and the survival of fragile states6
Network analysis of international cooperation in space 1958–2023: Evidence of space blocs6
Anti-austerity riots in late developing states: Evidence from the 1977 Egyptian Bread Intifada6
Leader similarity and international conflict5
The impacts of armed conflict on child health: Evidence from 56 developing countries5
Economic crisis and regime transitions from within5
The references of the nations: Introducing a corpus of United Nations General Assembly resolutions since 1946 and their citation network5
Updating nonviolent campaigns: Introducing NAVCO 2.15
Inequality, elections, and communal riots in India5
The bridge to violence – Mapping and understanding conflict-related violence in postwar Mitrovica5
The long-term electoral implications of conflict escalation: Doubtful doves and the breakdown of Israel’s left–right dichotomy5
Local ethno-political polarization and election violence in majoritarian vs. proportional systems5
Co-ethnic bias and policing in an electoral authoritarian regime: Experimental evidence from Uganda5
Furthering relational approaches to peace5
2021 reviewers5
Do apologies promote the reintegration of former combatants? Lessons from a video experiment in Colombia5
Leader or lackey? Understanding the United Nations Secretary-General’s role in conflict diplomacy5
Who commits the most to NATO? It depends on how we measure commitment5
Environmental protection after civil war: A difference-in-geographic-discontinuity approach5
Democracy, reputation for resolve, and civil conflict5
Disaggregated defense spending: Introduction to data5
Windows of repression: Using COVID-19 policies against political dissidents?5
The causes and consequences of fisheries conflict around the Horn of Africa4
Dynamics of organized violence in the wake of tropical cyclones4
Guest Editors’ introduction: Nonviolent resistance and its discontents4
Trauma in world politics: Memory dynamics between different victim groups4
Take a chance: Trust-building across identity groups4
Nationalist propaganda and support for war in an authoritarian context: Evidence from China4
Explaining the timeliness of implementation of truth commission recommendations4
Butterfly effects in global trade: International borders, disputes, and trade disruption and diversion4
Introducing the new CPOST dataset on suicide attacks4
The prehistory of violence and war: Moving beyond the Hobbes–Rousseau quagmire4
Talk of shame: Conflict-related sexual violence and bilateral critique within the United Nations4
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
Many hurdles to take: Explaining peacekeepers’ ability to engage in human rights activities4
Urban Social Disorder 3.0: A global, city-level event dataset of political mobilization and disorder4
Anger and support for retribution in Mexico’s drug war4
Divided loyalty: Are broadly recruited militaries less likely to repress nonviolent antigovernment protests?4
The role of subgroup leaders in combatant socialization and resocialization: The British re-education program for German POWs (1946–1948)4
External coercion and public support: The case of the US–China trade war4
The Nils Petter Gleditsch JPR article of the Year Award 2021 goes to Alison Heslin3
Who uses Internet propaganda in civil wars and why?3
Perceived threats and the trade-off between security and human rights3
Your space or mine? Competition, control, and the spatial profile of militant violence against civilians3
Sending the B team: The impact of lesser signals of resolve3
International organizations, the EU and peace among member states: Bringing organization structure in3
Effect of group status and conflict on national identity: Evidence from the Brexit referendum in Northern Ireland3
Susceptibility to threatening information and attitudes toward refugee resettlement: The case of Japan3
Pulling through elections by pulling the plug: Internet disruptions and electoral violence in Uganda3
Economic slowdowns and international conflict3
Peace agreements and women’s political rights following civil war3
Supporting rebels and hosting refugees: Explaining the variation in refugee flows in civil conflicts3
Introducing a new dataset on Designated Terrorist Organizations (DTO)3
Incumbent takeovers3
Procedural ethics for social science research: Introducing the Research Ethics Governance dataset3
The global economic burden of violent conflict3
Emerging diasporas: Exploring mobilization outside the homeland3
Whose trade follows the flag? Institutional constraints and economic responses to bilateral relations3
The fiscal reckoning of war: Contemporary armed conflict and progressive income taxation3
Mapping advocacy support: Geographic proximity to outgroups and human rights promotion3
What is rebel governance? Introducing a new dataset on rebel institutions, 1945–20123
Human rights violations and public support for sanctions2
Introducing the Concentration Camps (CCamps v1.0) dataset2
National identity, willingness to fight, and collective action2
Blessing or curse? Assessing the local impacts of foreign direct investment on conflict in Africa2
CORRIGENDUM to ‘How (wo)men rebel: Exploring the effect of gender equality on nonviolent and armed conflict onset’2
The gendered risks of defending rights in armed conflict: Evidence from Colombia2
Election violence prevention during democratic transitions: A field experiment with youth and police in Liberia2
Beyond economic development? Foreign direct investment and pre-election violence2
Cyber scares and prophylactic policies: Crossnational evidence on the effect of cyberattacks on public support for surveillance2
What drives attitudes towards the reintegration of former fighters? Insights from a conjoint experiment in Nigeria2
Without an army: How ICC indictments reduce atrocities2
Introducing the Proscription of Armed Actors Dataset2
Avoiding fallout from terrorist attacks: The role of local politics and governments2
Don’t turn around, der Kommissar’s in town: Political officers and coups d’état in authoritarian regimes2
Explaining intentional cultural destruction in the Syrian Civil War2
Do we know it when we see it? (Re)-conceptualizing rebel-to-party transition2
Revisiting the puzzle of endogenous nuclear proliferation2
Introducing the Latin American Transnational Surveillance (LATS) dataset2
The effects of state presence on the mental mapping of security: Evidence from an experiment in Kashmir2
A difficult test for hard propaganda: Evidence from a choice experiment in Venezuela2
Women, political violence and economics2
Ambivalent allies: How inconsistent foreign support dooms new democracies2
Abducted by hackers: Using the case of Bletchley Park to construct a theory of intelligence performance that generalizes to cybersecurity2
Evidence of the unthinkable: Experimental wargaming at the nuclear threshold2
The magical practices of rebel organizations: Introducing the Magical Acts by Groups in Civil Conflicts dataset2
Disasters and civilian victimization: Exploring the dynamic effect in Africa, 1997–20172
Introducing the Government-Sponsored Mass Expulsion Dataset2
High-risk participation: Demanding peace and justice amid criminal violence2
Unpacking the concepts: Examining the link between women’s status and terrorism2
The Issue Correlates of War (ICOW) Identity Claims Dataset, 1946-20212
Introduction: Cyber-conflict – Moving from speculation to investigation2
Public perception of terrorism attacks: A conjoint experiment2
2024 Reviewers2
How the process of discovering cyberattacks biases our understanding of cybersecurity2
Quotidian crime, wartime violence and public goods preferences: Evidence from Liberia2
Does conflict experience affect participatory democracy after war? Evidence from Colombia2
Nuclear balance and the initiation of nuclear crises: Does superiority matter?2
Who leads peace operations? A new dataset on leadership positions in UN peace operations, 1948–20192
Election proximity and the effectiveness of economic sanctions1
Introducing the UNSCRA dataset: authoring Security Council draft resolutions, 1990–20231
Latent territorial threat and democratic regime reversals1
Regime change and religious discrimination after the Arab uprisings1
Central banks and civil war termination1
Political elite cues and attitude formation in post-conflict contexts1
Interventions and repression following civil conflict1
The election of former rebel women1
Introducing new data on UN Special Political Mission Mandated Tasks (UNSPMMT)1
Moral reasoning and support for punitive violence after crime1
Domestic accountability and non-compliance with international law: Evidence from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights1
Identity concessions in ethnic civil wars: When are they given and with what outcomes for peace?1
When do natural disasters lead to negotiations in a civil war?1
Introducing the Jihadi Plots in Europe Dataset (JPED)1
Introducing the Women’s Activities in Armed Rebellion (WAAR) project, 1946–20151
Nationalism and torture1
State violence and participation in transitional justice: Evidence from Colombia1
International Sanctions Termination, 1990–2018: Introducing the IST dataset1
Economic origins of border fortifications1
Is governmental and societal discrimination against Muslim minorities behind foreign fighters in Syria and Iraq?1
Bargaining in intrastate conflicts: The shifting role of ceasefires1
Contemporary slavery in armed conflict: Introducing the CSAC dataset, 1989–20161
External threats and state support for arms control1
Words to unite nations: The complete United Nations General Debate Corpus, 1946–present1
Cheap talk or costly commitment? Leader statements and the implementation of civil war peace agreements1
Breaking taboos: Why insurgents pursue and use CBRN weapons1
Asymmetric burden-sharing and the restraining and deterrence effects of alliances1
Choosing tactics: The efficacy of violence and nonviolence in self-determination disputes1
Different fears, same alliance: Multilateralism, assurance and the origins of the 1951 United States–New Zealand–Australia alliance1
Tactics of resistance and post-conflict judicial independence1
Introducing the Mapping Attitudes, Perceptions and Support (MAPS) dataset on the Colombian peace process1
How user language affects conflict fatality estimates in ChatGPT1
Spatial patterns of communal violence in sub-Saharan Africa1
The military before the march: Civil-military grand bargains and the emergence of nonviolent resistance in autocracies1
Contentious politics in the borderlands: How nonviolence and migrant characteristics affect public attitudes1
Extreme weather and contentious elections1
Retributive or reparative justice? Explaining post-conflict preferences in Kenya1
Introducing the parliamentary deployment votes database1
Sexual violence, gendered protection and support for intervention1
The drawbacks of drones: The effects of UAVs on escalation and instability in Pakistan1
Episodes of regime transformation1
The composition of UN peacekeeping operations and aid worker security1
Modeling threats and promises: Explaining the Munich crisis of 19381
The Nils Petter Gleditsch JPR article of the Year Award, 2022, goes to Sandra Ley1
Peace scholarship and the local turn: Hierarchies in the production of knowledge about peace1
Examining the ‘age of apology’: Insights from the Political Apology database1
From doctrine to detonation: Ideology, competition, and terrorism in campaigns of mass resistance1
Police reform in the aftermath of armed conflict: How militarization and accountability affect police violence1
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