Journal of Peace Research

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Peace Research is 2. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)
ArticleCitations
Coercion, governance, and political behavior in civil war154
Conflict exposure and democratic values: Evidence from wartime Ukraine127
Rebel human rights abuses during civil wars: Introducing the rebel human rights violations dataset60
The self-enforcing dynamics of crime and protection41
Women’s roles and reproductive violence within armed rebellions38
Corrigendum for Dawkins S. The problem of the missing dead38
The motivating and mobilizing effects of inequality on civil conflict: Focusing on trade-induced labor market shocks30
Rewarding loyalty: Selective reassurance and enforcement of asymmetric alliances29
Guest Editors’ introduction: Nonviolent resistance and its discontents27
Democracy, reputation for resolve, and civil conflict24
Inequality, elections, and communal riots in India20
Public opinion on trading with the enemy: Trade’s effects on the risk of war20
Butterfly effects in global trade: International borders, disputes, and trade disruption and diversion17
Democracy dismissed: When leaders and citizens choose election violence16
The bridge to violence – Mapping and understanding conflict-related violence in postwar Mitrovica16
Nationalist propaganda and support for war in an authoritarian context: Evidence from China16
When conflict becomes calamity: Understanding the role of armed conflict dynamics in natural disasters16
Who leads peace operations? A new dataset on leadership positions in UN peace operations, 1948–201914
CORRIGENDUM to Mitigating election violence locally: UN peacekeepers’ election-education campaigns in Côte d’Ivoire by Hannah Smidt14
Explaining intentional cultural destruction in the Syrian Civil War14
Shock and awe: Economic sanctions and relative military spending14
International organizations, the EU and peace among member states: Bringing organization structure in13
Introduction: Cyber-conflict – Moving from speculation to investigation13
Quotidian crime, wartime violence and public goods preferences: Evidence from Liberia13
Pulling through elections by pulling the plug: Internet disruptions and electoral violence in Uganda13
Do we know it when we see it? (Re)-conceptualizing rebel-to-party transition13
Human rights violations and public support for sanctions13
Controlling a moving world: Territorial control, displacement and the spread of civilian targeting in Iraq12
Beyond economic development? Foreign direct investment and pre-election violence12
How user language affects conflict fatality estimates in ChatGPT12
Renting political violence: A political economy of rents, access and violence delegation12
If it bleeps it leads? Media coverage on cyber conflict and misperception11
Words to unite nations: The complete United Nations General Debate Corpus, 1946–present11
Introducing the African Peace Processes (APP) dataset: Negotiations and mediation in interstate, intrastate and non-state conflicts in Africa11
Multidimensional effects of conflict-induced violence on wartime migration decisions: evidence from Ukraine11
Cyber and contentious politics: Evidence from the US radical environmental movement10
Targeting telecommunications: Why do rebel groups target information and communication technology infrastructure?10
The political consequences of wartime sexual violence: Evidence from a list experiment10
De jure powersharing 1975–2019: Updating the Inclusion, Dispersion, and Constraints Dataset10
The JPR Best Visualization Award 2021 goes to Gaku Ito9
Law enforcement at the margin of the law: Information provision and support for militarization in Mexico9
International recognition and support for violence among nonpartisans9
Access denied: Land alienation and pastoral conflicts9
Polls of fear? Electoral violence, incumbent strength, and voter turnout in Côte d’Ivoire9
Lethal brands: Terrorist groups’ logos and violence9
Predicting armed conflict using protest data8
The Journal of Peace Research is excited to announce that the 2024 JPR Best Visualization Award has been awarded to Masanori Kikuchi!8
Bias mitigation in empirical peace and conflict studies: A short primer on posttreatment variables8
Descriptive representation and conflict reduction: Evidence from India’s Maoist rebellion8
Repertoires of conflict-related sexual violence: Introducing the RSVAC data package8
Introducing the Lynching in Latin America (LYLA) dataset8
Political violence in democracies: An Introduction8
The JPR Best Visualization Award 2022 goes to Imane Chaara, Jean-Benoît Falisse & Julien Moriceau8
How does violence deter? Functional and informational effects of preemptive repression8
Disaster diplomacy: The intricate links between disaster and conflict8
Giving a hand to autocrats: Are Russia’s high-level visits for authoritarian durability?8
Oil discoveries, civil war, and preventive state repression7
Political violence in a polarized democracy: Years of Lead (YoL) data on Italy 1969–19887
Leader similarity and international conflict7
Reliable knowledge claims on the recruitment and use of children: An empirical perspective7
Militarized state-building interventions and the survival of fragile states7
Motivations of diaspora support in homeland civil conflict7
Discriminatory coercion: Understanding the biases of EU and US sanctions7
Windows of repression: Using COVID-19 policies against political dissidents?7
External coercion and public support: The case of the US–China trade war7
Tailoring the message: A new dataset on the dyadic nature of NGO shaming in the media7
‘Those MONUSCO agents left while we were still pregnant’: Accountability and support for peacekeeper-fathered children in the DRC7
Sports nationalism and xenophobia: When cheering turns into violence7
Economic crisis and regime transitions from within7
Trauma in world politics: Memory dynamics between different victim groups7
Many hurdles to take: Explaining peacekeepers’ ability to engage in human rights activities7
Blowback or overblown? Why civilians under threat support invasive foreign intervention7
The impacts of armed conflict on child health: Evidence from 56 developing countries6
Does conflict experience affect participatory democracy after war? Evidence from Colombia6
Introducing the Latin American Transnational Surveillance (LATS) dataset6
Procedural ethics for social science research: Introducing the Research Ethics Governance dataset6
Democratic elections and anti-immigration attitudes6
Women, political violence and economics6
Introducing the Concentration Camps (CCamps v1.0) dataset6
Introducing the parliamentary deployment votes database6
Anger and support for retribution in Mexico’s drug war6
Public perception of terrorism attacks: A conjoint experiment6
Introducing the Proscription of Armed Actors Dataset6
Incumbent takeovers6
Under God, indivisible? Religious salience and interstate territorial conflict5
Civil war mediation in the shadow of IGOs: The path to comprehensive peace agreements5
The two faces of power-sharing5
Who spies on whom? Unravelling the puzzle of state-sponsored cyber economic espionage5
Political elite cues and attitude formation in post-conflict contexts5
When do natural disasters lead to negotiations in a civil war?5
Contemporary slavery in armed conflict: Introducing the CSAC dataset, 1989–20165
Supporting reparations after armed conflict: How discursive ‘memory battles’ affect political solidarity with Guatemalan Indigenous survivors5
Can rising powers reassure? Shifting power, foreign economic policy and perceptions of revisionist intent5
Sexual violence, gendered protection and support for intervention5
Linking Ethnic Data from Africa (LEDA)5
Retributive or reparative justice? Explaining post-conflict preferences in Kenya5
Fiscal conditions for multiparty elections in dictatorships5
Coup d’état and a democratic signal: The connection between protests and coups after the Cold War5
Defending the fortress: How asset ownership shapes the desire to resist foreign aggression5
Malnutrition and violent conflict in a heating world: A mediation analysis on the climate–conflict nexus in Nigeria5
International Sanctions Termination, 1990–2018: Introducing the IST dataset5
Denial and punishment in war4
Protests and persuasion: Partisanships effect on evaluating nonviolent tactics in the United States4
A win or a flop? Measuring mass protest successfulness in authoritarian settings4
Greed, grievance, or graduates? Why do men rebel?4
Where there’s a will, there’s a way: Border walls and refugees4
Recovering from economic coercion: Does the pain stop when sanctions end?4
Friends and partners: Estimating latent affinity networks with the graphical LASSO4
Social reintegration of former al-Shabaab militants: How formal channels help mitigate threat perceptions4
Tactics of survival: Strategies of Resistance Data Project update4
Identity threats and ideas of superiority as drivers of religious violence? Evidence from a survey experiment in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania4
Gender in elections: The consequences of killing women activists4
Remaining behind in the community: Rebel service provision and internal (non-)displacement of civilians in the former FATA, Pakistan4
Ghosts of the Black Decade: How legacies of violence shaped Algeria’s Hirak protests4
Re-examining women leaders and military spending4
Disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration in peace agreements (1975–2021): Introducing the DDR dataset4
Joining forces: Social coalitions and democratic revolutions4
Organized violence 1989–2022, and the return of conflict between states4
The impact of negative oil shocks on military spending and democracy in the oil states of the greater Middle East: Implications for the oil sanctions4
Demographic features or spatial structures? Unpacking local variation during the 2022 Iranian protests4
Introducing the Online Political Influence Efforts dataset4
To compete or strategically retreat? The global diffusion of reconnaissance strike4
How cyber operations can reduce escalation pressures: Evidence from an experimental wargame study4
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!3
Data innovations on protests in the United States3
The gendered risks of defending rights in armed conflict: Evidence from Colombia3
The election of former rebel women3
Leader or lackey? Understanding the United Nations Secretary-General’s role in conflict diplomacy3
Private goods for peace: Economic provisions of peace agreements and the durability of peace3
Politicized health emergencies and violent resistance against healthcare responders3
Spatial patterns of communal violence in sub-Saharan Africa3
Peace scholarship and the local turn: Hierarchies in the production of knowledge about peace3
The drawbacks of drones: The effects of UAVs on escalation and instability in Pakistan3
Protest against Covid-19 containment policies in European countries3
The democratic patience3
Upping the ante without taking up arms: Why mass movements escalate demands3
Regime change and religious discrimination after the Arab uprisings3
Police reform in the aftermath of armed conflict: How militarization and accountability affect police violence3
Nuclear balance and the initiation of nuclear crises: Does superiority matter?3
Allies and diffusion of state military cybercapacity3
Third-party countries in cyber conflict: Public opinion and conflict spillover in cyberspace3
The wedding bells of war: The influence of armed conflict on child marriages in West Africa3
2022 Reviewers3
Bias and balance in civil war mediation3
The global economic burden of violent conflict3
Organized violence 1989–2024, and the challenges of identifying civilian victims3
Infrastructure and authority at the state’s edge: The Border Crossings of the World dataset3
Women’s economic rights and sexual violence in civil conflict3
Caring is sharing: Why independent commissions in post-conflict societies have power-sharing arrangements3
Episodes of regime transformation3
Tactics of resistance and post-conflict judicial independence3
The Nils Petter Gleditsch JPR article of the Year Award 2021 goes to Alison Heslin3
Modeling threats and promises: Explaining the Munich crisis of 19383
The causes and consequences of fisheries conflict around the Horn of Africa3
Economic slowdowns and international conflict3
The prehistory of violence and war: Moving beyond the Hobbes–Rousseau quagmire3
Domestic terrorism and the allocation of US overseas defense spending3
State violence and participation in transitional justice: Evidence from Colombia3
Cyber-enabled influence operations as a ‘center of gravity’ in cyberconflict: The example of Russian foreign interference in the 2016 US federal election3
International prices and continuing conflict: Theory and evidence from sub-Saharan Africa (1980–2017)3
War, social preferences, and anti-outgroup behavior: Experimental evidence from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine3
The supply side determinants of territory2
Agricultural roots of social conflict in Southeast Asia2
The heterogeneous effects of conflict on education: A spatial analysis in Sub-Saharan Africa2
Introducing the Government-Sponsored Mass Expulsion Dataset2
Repression, backlash, and the duration of protests in Africa2
Blessing or curse? Assessing the local impacts of foreign direct investment on conflict in Africa2
Take a chance: Trust-building across identity groups2
Your space or mine? Competition, control, and the spatial profile of militant violence against civilians2
Introducing MACEDA: New micro-data on an indigenous self-determination conflict2
Co-ethnic bias and policing in an electoral authoritarian regime: Experimental evidence from Uganda2
The role of subgroup leaders in combatant socialization and resocialization: The British re-education program for German POWs (1946–1948)2
Microfoundations of domestic audience costs in nondemocratic regimes: Experimental evidence from Putin’s Russia2
Can transparency strengthen the legitimacy of international institutions? Evidence from the UN Security Council2
From plastic to peace: Overcoming public antipathy through environmental cooperation2
The long-term consequences of power-sharing for ethnic salience2
Unpacking the concepts: Examining the link between women’s status and terrorism2
How does war affect cultural tolerance? Evidence from concert programs, 1900–602
Evidence of the unthinkable: Experimental wargaming at the nuclear threshold2
Resolving bargaining problems in civil conflicts: Goals, institutions and negotiations2
Updating nonviolent campaigns: Introducing NAVCO 2.12
Dynamics of organized violence in the wake of tropical cyclones2
Disaggregated defense spending: Introduction to data2
Don’t turn around, der Kommissar’s in town: Political officers and coups d’état in authoritarian regimes2
Did Egypt’s post-uprising crime wave increase support for authoritarian rule?2
Violence against civilians and public support for the state: The moderating role of governance and ideology2
Does the military lose public confidence without compliance with civilian control? Experimental evidence from Japan2
Abducted by hackers: Using the case of Bletchley Park to construct a theory of intelligence performance that generalizes to cybersecurity2
A theory of jihadist beheadings2
Avoiding fallout from terrorist attacks: The role of local politics and governments2
Party competition and the limits of electoral coercion: Evidence from Colombia2
Disasters and civilian victimization: Exploring the dynamic effect in Africa, 1997–20172
The long-term electoral implications of conflict escalation: Doubtful doves and the breakdown of Israel’s left–right dichotomy2
Swords into ploughshares? Why human rights abuses persist after resistance campaigns2
Does legal aid improve access to justice in ‘fragile’ settings? Evidence from Burundi2
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