OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Peace Research is 4. 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.)

Article	Citations
To compete or strategically retreat? The global diffusion of reconnaissance strike	126
Blowback or overblown? Why civilians under threat support invasive foreign intervention	105
Introducing the Online Political Influence Efforts dataset	101
Drafting restraint: Are military recruitment policies associated with interstate conflict initiation?	34
Foreign interests and state repression: Theory and evidence from the Armenian genocide	33
From plastic to peace: Overcoming public antipathy through environmental cooperation	31
Introducing Native American Conflict History (NACH) data	27
Disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration in peace agreements (1975–2021): Introducing the DDR dataset	24
Motivations of diaspora support in homeland civil conflict	22
‘Those MONUSCO agents left while we were still pregnant’: Accountability and support for peacekeeper-fathered children in the DRC	22
Introducing Regular Turnover Details, 1960–2015: A dataset on world leaders’ legal removal from office	17
Violence against civilians and public support for the state: The moderating role of governance and ideology	16
Religion and terrorism: Evidence from Ramadan fasting	16
Corrigendum for Dawkins S. The problem of the missing dead	15
Disasters and intergroup peace in sub-Saharan Africa	14
The supply side determinants of territory	14
Sports nationalism and xenophobia: When cheering turns into violence	14
State capacity matters in ‘the middle:’ A new perspective on domestic terrorism	13
No paradox here? Improving theory and testing of the nuclear stability–instability paradox with synthetic counterfactuals	12
Re-examining women leaders and military spending	12
Ethnic trust, minority status, and public goods in post-conflict societies	12
Terrorism and emergency constitutions in the Muslim world	12
Going, going, gone? Varieties of dissent and leader exit	11
Friends and partners: Estimating latent affinity networks with the graphical LASSO	11
Introducing MACEDA: New micro-data on an indigenous self-determination conflict	10

Bias and balance in civil war mediation	10
Secessionist conflict and affective polarization: Evidence from Catalonia	10
Demographic features or spatial structures? Unpacking local variation during the 2022 Iranian protests	10
Do nonproliferation agreements constrain?	10
Strongmen cry too: The effect of aerial bombing on voting for the incumbent in competitive autocracies	10
Recovering from economic coercion: Does the pain stop when sanctions end?	10
Coercion, governance, and political behavior in civil war	10
The self-enforcing dynamics of crime and protection	9
Discriminatory coercion: Understanding the biases of EU and US sanctions	9
Agricultural roots of social conflict in Southeast Asia	9
Rewarding loyalty: Selective reassurance and enforcement of asymmetric alliances	9
How critical junctures shape secessionist movement cohesion: Strategies, framing processes, and interorganizational relations before and after the 2017 referendum in Catalonia	9
The political viability of AI on the battlefield: Examining US public support, trust, and blame dynamics	9
Disasters and the dynamics of interstate rivalry	9
Where there’s a will, there’s a way: Border walls and refugees	8
The motivating and mobilizing effects of inequality on civil conflict: Focusing on trade-induced labor market shocks	7
Rebel human rights abuses during civil wars: Introducing the rebel human rights violations dataset	7
How cyber operations can reduce escalation pressures: Evidence from an experimental wargame study	7
Public opinion on trading with the enemy: Trade’s effects on the risk of war	7
Social reintegration of former al-Shabaab militants: How formal channels help mitigate threat perceptions	7
Oil discoveries, civil war, and preventive state repression	7
Can transparency strengthen the legitimacy of international institutions? Evidence from the UN Security Council	7
The women and men that make peace: Introducing the Mediating Individuals (M-IND) dataset	6
Politicized health emergencies and violent resistance against healthcare responders	6
When conflict becomes calamity: Understanding the role of armed conflict dynamics in natural disasters	6
Tailoring the message: A new dataset on the dyadic nature of NGO shaming in the media	6
Swords into ploughshares? Why human rights abuses persist after resistance campaigns	6
Militarized state-building interventions and the survival of fragile states	6
Network analysis of international cooperation in space 1958–2023: Evidence of space blocs	6
Anti-austerity riots in late developing states: Evidence from the 1977 Egyptian Bread Intifada	6
Does legal aid improve access to justice in ‘fragile’ settings? Evidence from Burundi	6
2022 Reviewers	6
Did Egypt’s post-uprising crime wave increase support for authoritarian rule?	6
The bridge to violence – Mapping and understanding conflict-related violence in postwar Mitrovica	5
The long-term electoral implications of conflict escalation: Doubtful doves and the breakdown of Israel’s left–right dichotomy	5
Local ethno-political polarization and election violence in majoritarian vs. proportional systems	5
Co-ethnic bias and policing in an electoral authoritarian regime: Experimental evidence from Uganda	5
Furthering relational approaches to peace	5
2021 reviewers	5
Do apologies promote the reintegration of former combatants? Lessons from a video experiment in Colombia	5
Leader or lackey? Understanding the United Nations Secretary-General’s role in conflict diplomacy	5
Who commits the most to NATO? It depends on how we measure commitment	5
Environmental protection after civil war: A difference-in-geographic-discontinuity approach	5
Democracy, reputation for resolve, and civil conflict	5
Disaggregated defense spending: Introduction to data	5
Windows of repression: Using COVID-19 policies against political dissidents?	5
Leader similarity and international conflict	5
The impacts of armed conflict on child health: Evidence from 56 developing countries	5
Economic crisis and regime transitions from within	5
The references of the nations: Introducing a corpus of United Nations General Assembly resolutions since 1946 and their citation network	5

Updating nonviolent campaigns: Introducing NAVCO 2.1	5
Inequality, elections, and communal riots in India	5
Nationalist propaganda and support for war in an authoritarian context: Evidence from China	4
Explaining the timeliness of implementation of truth commission recommendations	4
Many hurdles to take: Explaining peacekeepers’ ability to engage in human rights activities	4
Anger and support for retribution in Mexico’s drug war	4
Divided loyalty: Are broadly recruited militaries less likely to repress nonviolent antigovernment protests?	4
Talk of shame: Conflict-related sexual violence and bilateral critique within the United Nations	4
Third-party countries in cyber conflict: Public opinion and conflict spillover in cyberspace	4
The wedding bells of war: The influence of armed conflict on child marriages in West Africa	4
Dynamics of organized violence in the wake of tropical cyclones	4
Trauma in world politics: Memory dynamics between different victim groups	4
Urban Social Disorder 3.0: A global, city-level event dataset of political mobilization and disorder	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 war	4
The causes and consequences of fisheries conflict around the Horn of Africa	4
Butterfly effects in global trade: International borders, disputes, and trade disruption and diversion	4
Introducing the new CPOST dataset on suicide attacks	4
The prehistory of violence and war: Moving beyond the Hobbes–Rousseau quagmire	4
Guest Editors’ introduction: Nonviolent resistance and its discontents	4
Take a chance: Trust-building across identity groups	4