OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Peace Research 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Coercion, governance, and political behavior in civil war	148
The self-enforcing dynamics of crime and protection	123
Rebel human rights abuses during civil wars: Introducing the rebel human rights violations dataset	55
The motivating and mobilizing effects of inequality on civil conflict: Focusing on trade-induced labor market shocks	39
Rewarding loyalty: Selective reassurance and enforcement of asymmetric alliances	38
Corrigendum for Dawkins S. The problem of the missing dead	36
Women’s roles and reproductive violence within armed rebellions	30
Conflict exposure and democratic values: Evidence from wartime Ukraine	28
Guest Editors’ introduction: Nonviolent resistance and its discontents	26
Nationalist propaganda and support for war in an authoritarian context: Evidence from China	25
The bridge to violence – Mapping and understanding conflict-related violence in postwar Mitrovica	22
Democracy, reputation for resolve, and civil conflict	20
Public opinion on trading with the enemy: Trade’s effects on the risk of war	19
Butterfly effects in global trade: International borders, disputes, and trade disruption and diversion	17
Inequality, elections, and communal riots in India	16
When conflict becomes calamity: Understanding the role of armed conflict dynamics in natural disasters	16
Democracy dismissed: When leaders and citizens choose election violence	15
Quotidian crime, wartime violence and public goods preferences: Evidence from Liberia	14
Human rights violations and public support for sanctions	14
Explaining intentional cultural destruction in the Syrian Civil War	14
Who leads peace operations? A new dataset on leadership positions in UN peace operations, 1948–2019	14
Beyond economic development? Foreign direct investment and pre-election violence	13
Shock and awe: Economic sanctions and relative military spending	13
Do we know it when we see it? (Re)-conceptualizing rebel-to-party transition	13
CORRIGENDUM to Mitigating election violence locally: UN peacekeepers’ election-education campaigns in Côte d’Ivoire by Hannah Smidt	13

Pulling through elections by pulling the plug: Internet disruptions and electoral violence in Uganda	12
Introduction: Cyber-conflict – Moving from speculation to investigation	12
International organizations, the EU and peace among member states: Bringing organization structure in	12
How user language affects conflict fatality estimates in ChatGPT	11
If it bleeps it leads? Media coverage on cyber conflict and misperception	11
Renting political violence: A political economy of rents, access and violence delegation	11
Words to unite nations: The complete United Nations General Debate Corpus, 1946–present	11
Introducing the African Peace Processes (APP) dataset: Negotiations and mediation in interstate, intrastate and non-state conflicts in Africa	11
Multidimensional effects of conflict-induced violence on wartime migration decisions: evidence from Ukraine	11
Controlling a moving world: Territorial control, displacement and the spread of civilian targeting in Iraq	11
Examining the ‘age of apology’: Insights from the Political Apology database	11
De jure powersharing 1975–2019: Updating the Inclusion, Dispersion, and Constraints Dataset	10
Targeting telecommunications: Why do rebel groups target information and communication technology infrastructure?	10
Access denied: Land alienation and pastoral conflicts	9
Cyber and contentious politics: Evidence from the US radical environmental movement	9
The political consequences of wartime sexual violence: Evidence from a list experiment	9
Lethal brands: Terrorist groups’ logos and violence	9
Polls of fear? Electoral violence, incumbent strength, and voter turnout in Côte d’Ivoire	8
International recognition and support for violence among nonpartisans	8
Law enforcement at the margin of the law: Information provision and support for militarization in Mexico	8
The JPR Best Visualization Award 2021 goes to Gaku Ito	8
Predicting armed conflict using protest data	7
Disaster diplomacy: The intricate links between disaster and conflict	7
Political violence in democracies: An Introduction	7
The JPR Best Visualization Award 2022 goes to Imane Chaara, Jean-Benoît Falisse & Julien Moriceau	7
‘Those MONUSCO agents left while we were still pregnant’: Accountability and support for peacekeeper-fathered children in the DRC	7
Political violence in a polarized democracy: Years of Lead (YoL) data on Italy 1969–1988	7
External coercion and public support: The case of the US–China trade war	7
Descriptive representation and conflict reduction: Evidence from India’s Maoist rebellion	7
How does violence deter? Functional and informational effects of preemptive repression	7
Giving a hand to autocrats: Are Russia’s high-level visits for authoritarian durability?	7
Motivations of diaspora support in homeland civil conflict	7
Discriminatory coercion: Understanding the biases of EU and US sanctions	7
Militarized state-building interventions and the survival of fragile states	7
Blowback or overblown? Why civilians under threat support invasive foreign intervention	7
The Journal of Peace Research is excited to announce that the 2024 JPR Best Visualization Award has been awarded to Masanori Kikuchi!	7
Repertoires of conflict-related sexual violence: Introducing the RSVAC data package	7
Bias mitigation in empirical peace and conflict studies: A short primer on posttreatment variables	7
Introducing the Lynching in Latin America (LYLA) dataset	7
Sports nationalism and xenophobia: When cheering turns into violence	7
Oil discoveries, civil war, and preventive state repression	7
Leader similarity and international conflict	7
Introducing the Proscription of Armed Actors Dataset	6
Reliable knowledge claims on the recruitment and use of children: An empirical perspective	6
Economic crisis and regime transitions from within	6
Anger and support for retribution in Mexico’s drug war	6
Women, political violence and economics	6
Introducing the Latin American Transnational Surveillance (LATS) dataset	6
Tailoring the message: A new dataset on the dyadic nature of NGO shaming in the media	6
The impacts of armed conflict on child health: Evidence from 56 developing countries	6

Does conflict experience affect participatory democracy after war? Evidence from Colombia	6
Introducing the Concentration Camps (CCamps v1.0) dataset	6
Trauma in world politics: Memory dynamics between different victim groups	6
Many hurdles to take: Explaining peacekeepers’ ability to engage in human rights activities	6
Windows of repression: Using COVID-19 policies against political dissidents?	6
Incumbent takeovers	6
Civil war mediation in the shadow of IGOs: The path to comprehensive peace agreements	5
Introducing the parliamentary deployment votes database	5
Contemporary slavery in armed conflict: Introducing the CSAC dataset, 1989–2016	5
Political elite cues and attitude formation in post-conflict contexts	5
Supporting reparations after armed conflict: How discursive ‘memory battles’ affect political solidarity with Guatemalan Indigenous survivors	5
Under God, indivisible? Religious salience and interstate territorial conflict	5
When do natural disasters lead to negotiations in a civil war?	5
Malnutrition and violent conflict in a heating world: A mediation analysis on the climate–conflict nexus in Nigeria	5
Public perception of terrorism attacks: A conjoint experiment	5
The two faces of power-sharing	5
Sexual violence, gendered protection and support for intervention	5
Defending the fortress: How asset ownership shapes the desire to resist foreign aggression	5
International Sanctions Termination, 1990–2018: Introducing the IST dataset	5
Fiscal conditions for multiparty elections in dictatorships	5
Linking Ethnic Data from Africa (LEDA)	5
A win or a flop? Measuring mass protest successfulness in authoritarian settings	5
Procedural ethics for social science research: Introducing the Research Ethics Governance dataset	5
Can rising powers reassure? Shifting power, foreign economic policy and perceptions of revisionist intent	5
Retributive or reparative justice? Explaining post-conflict preferences in Kenya	5
Coup d’état and a democratic signal: The connection between protests and coups after the Cold War	5