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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Rebel human rights abuses during civil wars: Introducing the rebel human rights violations dataset198
The motivating and mobilizing effects of inequality on civil conflict: Focusing on trade-induced labor market shocks148
Rewarding loyalty: Selective reassurance and enforcement of asymmetric alliances111
Not-so-average after all: Individual vs. aggregate effects in substantive research53
Women’s roles and reproductive violence within armed rebellions48
Corrigendum for Dawkins S. The problem of the missing dead38
The self-enforcing dynamics of crime and protection35
Coercion, governance, and political behavior in civil war30
The bridge to violence – Mapping and understanding conflict-related violence in postwar Mitrovica29
Conflict exposure and democratic values: Evidence from wartime Ukraine29
When conflict becomes calamity: Understanding the role of armed conflict dynamics in natural disasters24
Inequality, elections, and communal riots in India24
Public opinion on trading with the enemy: Trade’s effects on the risk of war20
Guest Editors’ introduction: Nonviolent resistance and its discontents20
Nationalist propaganda and support for war in an authoritarian context: Evidence from China19
Democracy dismissed: When leaders and citizens choose election violence19
Introduction: Cyber-conflict – Moving from speculation to investigation18
Quotidian crime, wartime violence and public goods preferences: Evidence from Liberia18
Butterfly effects in global trade: International borders, disputes, and trade disruption and diversion18
Human rights violations and public support for sanctions17
International organizations, the EU and peace among member states: Bringing organization structure in16
Pulling through elections by pulling the plug: Internet disruptions and electoral violence in Uganda15
Shock and awe: Economic sanctions and relative military spending15
CORRIGENDUM to Mitigating election violence locally: UN peacekeepers’ election-education campaigns in Côte d’Ivoire by Hannah Smidt15
Renting political violence: A political economy of rents, access and violence delegation15
Introducing the Transitional Justice Evaluation Tools (TJET) database14
Do we know it when we see it? (Re)-conceptualizing rebel-to-party transition14
Beyond economic development? Foreign direct investment and pre-election violence13
Multidimensional effects of conflict-induced violence on wartime migration decisions: evidence from Ukraine13
De jure powersharing 1975–2019: Updating the Inclusion, Dispersion, and Constraints Dataset13
Who leads peace operations? A new dataset on leadership positions in UN peace operations, 1948–201913
Words to unite nations: The complete United Nations General Debate Corpus, 1946–present13
Controlling a moving world: Territorial control, displacement and the spread of civilian targeting in Iraq13
How user language affects conflict fatality estimates in ChatGPT13
Lethal brands: Terrorist groups’ logos and violence12
Cyber and contentious politics: Evidence from the US radical environmental movement12
Law enforcement at the margin of the law: Information provision and support for militarization in Mexico12
Introducing the African Peace Processes (APP) dataset: Negotiations and mediation in interstate, intrastate and non-state conflicts in Africa11
Access denied: Land alienation and pastoral conflicts11
International recognition and support for violence among nonpartisans11
Polls of fear? Electoral violence, incumbent strength, and voter turnout in Côte d’Ivoire11
If it bleeps it leads? Media coverage on cyber conflict and misperception11
The JPR Best Visualization Award 2022 goes to Imane Chaara, Jean-Benoît Falisse & Julien Moriceau11
The Journal of Peace Research is excited to announce that the 2024 JPR Best Visualization Award has been awarded to Masanori Kikuchi!11
Targeting telecommunications: Why do rebel groups target information and communication technology infrastructure?11
The political consequences of wartime sexual violence: Evidence from a list experiment11
Descriptive representation and conflict reduction: Evidence from India’s Maoist rebellion11
Bias mitigation in empirical peace and conflict studies: A short primer on posttreatment variables10
Giving a hand to autocrats: Are Russia’s high-level visits for authoritarian durability?10
Introducing the Lynching in Latin America (LYLA) dataset10
Political violence in democracies: An Introduction10
How does violence deter? Functional and informational effects of preemptive repression10
Predicting armed conflict using protest data9
Political violence in a polarized democracy: Years of Lead (YoL) data on Italy 1969–19889
Leader similarity and international conflict9
Economic crisis and regime transitions from within9
‘Those MONUSCO agents left while we were still pregnant’: Accountability and support for peacekeeper-fathered children in the DRC9
Discriminatory coercion: Understanding the biases of EU and US sanctions9
Trauma in world politics: Memory dynamics between different victim groups9
Motivations of diaspora support in homeland civil conflict9
Explaining election violence: A meta-analysis9
Sports nationalism and xenophobia: When cheering turns into violence9
Militarized state-building interventions and the survival of fragile states9
External coercion and public support: The case of the US–China trade war8
Introducing the Latin American Transnational Surveillance (LATS) dataset8
Don’t blame it on ethnicity: The role of group identities and climate risks in farmer–herder relations in Senegal8
Many hurdles to take: Explaining peacekeepers’ ability to engage in human rights activities8
Introducing the Concentration Camps (CCamps v1.0) dataset8
Does conflict experience affect participatory democracy after war? Evidence from Colombia8
Reliable knowledge claims on the recruitment and use of children: An empirical perspective8
Anger and support for retribution in Mexico’s drug war8
Women, political violence and economics8
Introducing the Proscription of Armed Actors Dataset8
Democratic elections and anti-immigration attitudes8
Tailoring the message: A new dataset on the dyadic nature of NGO shaming in the media8
Procedural ethics for social science research: Introducing the Research Ethics Governance dataset7
Fiscal conditions for multiparty elections in dictatorships7
Civil war mediation in the shadow of IGOs: The path to comprehensive peace agreements7
International Sanctions Termination, 1990–2018: Introducing the IST dataset7
Incumbent takeovers7
Introducing the parliamentary deployment votes database7
Political elite cues and attitude formation in post-conflict contexts7
Sexual violence, gendered protection and support for intervention7
Retributive or reparative justice? Explaining post-conflict preferences in Kenya7
Public perception of terrorism attacks: A conjoint experiment7
Under God, indivisible? Religious salience and interstate territorial conflict7
Contemporary slavery in armed conflict: Introducing the CSAC dataset, 1989–20167
State repression and elite support for international human rights: Evidence from South Korean legislators’ democratization experiences6
Tactics of survival: Strategies of Resistance Data Project update6
Private goods for peace: Economic provisions of peace agreements and the durability of peace6
Who spies on whom? Unravelling the puzzle of state-sponsored cyber economic espionage6
Can rising powers reassure? Shifting power, foreign economic policy and perceptions of revisionist intent6
Supporting reparations after armed conflict: How discursive ‘memory battles’ affect political solidarity with Guatemalan Indigenous survivors6
Malnutrition and violent conflict in a heating world: A mediation analysis on the climate–conflict nexus in Nigeria6
Remaining behind in the community: Rebel service provision and internal (non-)displacement of civilians in the former FATA, Pakistan6
Bias and balance in civil war mediation6
Introducing the Online Political Influence Efforts dataset6
Ghosts of the Black Decade: How legacies of violence shaped Algeria’s Hirak protests6
Organized violence 1989–2022, and the return of conflict between states6
The impact of negative oil shocks on military spending and democracy in the oil states of the greater Middle East: Implications for the oil sanctions6
Protests and persuasion: Partisanships effect on evaluating nonviolent tactics in the United States6
Gender in elections: The consequences of killing women activists6
Joining forces: Social coalitions and democratic revolutions6
To compete or strategically retreat? The global diffusion of reconnaissance strike6
Demographic features or spatial structures? Unpacking local variation during the 2022 Iranian protests6
Defending the fortress: How asset ownership shapes the desire to resist foreign aggression6
Researching human rights violations: Assessing research-related stress among research assistants6
A win or a flop? Measuring mass protest successfulness in authoritarian settings6
The prehistory of violence and war: Moving beyond the Hobbes–Rousseau quagmire5
Social reintegration of former al-Shabaab militants: How formal channels help mitigate threat perceptions5
Friends and partners: Estimating latent affinity networks with the graphical LASSO5
Where there’s a will, there’s a way: Border walls and refugees5
Leader or lackey? Understanding the United Nations Secretary-General’s role in conflict diplomacy5
Nuclear balance and the initiation of nuclear crises: Does superiority matter?5
Peace scholarship and the local turn: Hierarchies in the production of knowledge about peace5
Politicized health emergencies and violent resistance against healthcare responders5
Recovering from economic coercion: Does the pain stop when sanctions end?5
How cyber operations can reduce escalation pressures: Evidence from an experimental wargame study5
Third-party countries in cyber conflict: Public opinion and conflict spillover in cyberspace5
The wedding bells of war: The influence of armed conflict on child marriages in West Africa5
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!5
Modeling threats and promises: Explaining the Munich crisis of 19385
Domestic terrorism and the allocation of US overseas defense spending5
Disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration in peace agreements (1975–2021): Introducing the DDR dataset5
2022 Reviewers5
The gendered risks of defending rights in armed conflict: Evidence from Colombia5
Economic slowdowns and international conflict5
Episodes of regime transformation5
Regime change and religious discrimination after the Arab uprisings5
War, social preferences, and anti-outgroup behavior: Experimental evidence from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine4
State violence and participation in transitional justice: Evidence from Colombia4
Caring is sharing: Why independent commissions in post-conflict societies have power-sharing arrangements4
Women’s economic rights and sexual violence in civil conflict4
Cyber-enabled influence operations as a ‘center of gravity’ in cyberconflict: The example of Russian foreign interference in the 2016 US federal election4
How does war affect cultural tolerance? Evidence from concert programs, 1900–604
A theory of jihadist beheadings4
International prices and continuing conflict: Theory and evidence from sub-Saharan Africa (1980–2017)4
Police reform in the aftermath of armed conflict: How militarization and accountability affect police violence4
Spatial patterns of communal violence in sub-Saharan Africa4
The election of former rebel women4
Data innovations on protests in the United States4
Protest against Covid-19 containment policies in European countries4
Does the military lose public confidence without compliance with civilian control? Experimental evidence from Japan4
Infrastructure and authority at the state’s edge: The Border Crossings of the World dataset4
Why voters (sometimes) punish repression4
Tactics of resistance and post-conflict judicial independence4
The conditions for reducing electoral violence through constitutional reform4
Allies and diffusion of state military cybercapacity4
The democratic patience4
Upping the ante without taking up arms: Why mass movements escalate demands4
Party competition and the limits of electoral coercion: Evidence from Colombia4
Unpacking the concepts: Examining the link between women’s status and terrorism3
Don’t turn around, der Kommissar’s in town: Political officers and coups d’état in authoritarian regimes3
Introducing the Government-Sponsored Mass Expulsion Dataset3
Avoiding fallout from terrorist attacks: The role of local politics and governments3
The role of subgroup leaders in combatant socialization and resocialization: The British re-education program for German POWs (1946–1948)3
Swords into ploughshares? Why human rights abuses persist after resistance campaigns3
The heterogeneous effects of conflict on education: A spatial analysis in Sub-Saharan Africa3
The supply side determinants of territory3
Repression, backlash, and the duration of protests in Africa3
Organized violence 1989–2024, and the challenges of identifying civilian victims3
Why some districts march more: Protest mobilization in the wake of US representatives’ election denial3
Updating nonviolent campaigns: Introducing NAVCO 2.13
Blessing or curse? Assessing the local impacts of foreign direct investment on conflict in Africa3
Revisiting the puzzle of endogenous nuclear proliferation3
Evidence of the unthinkable: Experimental wargaming at the nuclear threshold3
Dynamics of organized violence in the wake of tropical cyclones3
Disaggregated defense spending: Introduction to data3
Microfoundations of domestic audience costs in nondemocratic regimes: Experimental evidence from Putin’s Russia3
The long-term electoral implications of conflict escalation: Doubtful doves and the breakdown of Israel’s left–right dichotomy3
From plastic to peace: Overcoming public antipathy through environmental cooperation3
International economic sanctions and conflict prevention in self-determination disputes3
Extreme weather and contentious elections3
Your space or mine? Competition, control, and the spatial profile of militant violence against civilians3
Different fears, same alliance: Multilateralism, assurance and the origins of the 1951 United States–New Zealand–Australia alliance3
Abducted by hackers: Using the case of Bletchley Park to construct a theory of intelligence performance that generalizes to cybersecurity3
A difficult test for hard propaganda: Evidence from a choice experiment in Venezuela3
Can transparency strengthen the legitimacy of international institutions? Evidence from the UN Security Council3
Bad apples just for friends: A large language model approach to research on the strategic framing in government’s human rights advocacy narratives3
Resolving bargaining problems in civil conflicts: Goals, institutions and negotiations3
Violence against civilians and public support for the state: The moderating role of governance and ideology3
The long-term consequences of power-sharing for ethnic salience3
Agricultural roots of social conflict in Southeast Asia3
Co-ethnic bias and policing in an electoral authoritarian regime: Experimental evidence from Uganda3
Economic origins of border fortifications3
Choosing tactics: The efficacy of violence and nonviolence in self-determination disputes3
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