OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Peace Research is 6. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Corrigendum for Dawkins S. The problem of the missing dead	164
The motivating and mobilizing effects of inequality on civil conflict: Focusing on trade-induced labor market shocks	135
The self-enforcing dynamics of crime and protection	76
Coercion, governance, and political behavior in civil war	44
Women’s roles and reproductive violence within armed rebellions	43
Rewarding loyalty: Selective reassurance and enforcement of asymmetric alliances	39
Rebel human rights abuses during civil wars: Introducing the rebel human rights violations dataset	32
Not-so-average after all: Individual vs. aggregate effects in substantive research	31
Conflict exposure and democratic values: Evidence from wartime Ukraine	31
Public opinion on trading with the enemy: Trade’s effects on the risk of war	28
Guest Editors’ introduction: Nonviolent resistance and its discontents	24
Democracy dismissed: When leaders and citizens choose election violence	19
Inequality, elections, and communal riots in India	19
The bridge to violence – Mapping and understanding conflict-related violence in postwar Mitrovica	17
Butterfly effects in global trade: International borders, disputes, and trade disruption and diversion	17
Nationalist propaganda and support for war in an authoritarian context: Evidence from China	17
When conflict becomes calamity: Understanding the role of armed conflict dynamics in natural disasters	16
Explaining intentional cultural destruction in the Syrian Civil War	16
Who leads peace operations? A new dataset on leadership positions in UN peace operations, 1948–2019	15
CORRIGENDUM to Mitigating election violence locally: UN peacekeepers’ election-education campaigns in Côte d’Ivoire by Hannah Smidt	15
International organizations, the EU and peace among member states: Bringing organization structure in	14
Quotidian crime, wartime violence and public goods preferences: Evidence from Liberia	14
Renting political violence: A political economy of rents, access and violence delegation	14
Beyond economic development? Foreign direct investment and pre-election violence	14
Introducing the Transitional Justice Evaluation Tools (TJET) database	13

Shock and awe: Economic sanctions and relative military spending	13
Human rights violations and public support for sanctions	13
Pulling through elections by pulling the plug: Internet disruptions and electoral violence in Uganda	13
Do we know it when we see it? (Re)-conceptualizing rebel-to-party transition	13
Introduction: Cyber-conflict – Moving from speculation to investigation	13
Words to unite nations: The complete United Nations General Debate Corpus, 1946–present	12
How user language affects conflict fatality estimates in ChatGPT	12
Controlling a moving world: Territorial control, displacement and the spread of civilian targeting in Iraq	12
Multidimensional effects of conflict-induced violence on wartime migration decisions: evidence from Ukraine	12
Targeting telecommunications: Why do rebel groups target information and communication technology infrastructure?	11
Introducing the African Peace Processes (APP) dataset: Negotiations and mediation in interstate, intrastate and non-state conflicts in Africa	11
Law enforcement at the margin of the law: Information provision and support for militarization in Mexico	10
Polls of fear? Electoral violence, incumbent strength, and voter turnout in Côte d’Ivoire	10
De jure powersharing 1975–2019: Updating the Inclusion, Dispersion, and Constraints Dataset	10
Cyber and contentious politics: Evidence from the US radical environmental movement	10
If it bleeps it leads? Media coverage on cyber conflict and misperception	10
The political consequences of wartime sexual violence: Evidence from a list experiment	10
Access denied: Land alienation and pastoral conflicts	10
Descriptive representation and conflict reduction: Evidence from India’s Maoist rebellion	9
The Journal of Peace Research is excited to announce that the 2024 JPR Best Visualization Award has been awarded to Masanori Kikuchi!	9
The JPR Best Visualization Award 2021 goes to Gaku Ito	9
Giving a hand to autocrats: Are Russia’s high-level visits for authoritarian durability?	9
Political violence in democracies: An Introduction	9
The JPR Best Visualization Award 2022 goes to Imane Chaara, Jean-Benoît Falisse & Julien Moriceau	9
Predicting armed conflict using protest data	9
International recognition and support for violence among nonpartisans	9
Lethal brands: Terrorist groups’ logos and violence	9
Introducing the Lynching in Latin America (LYLA) dataset	9
How does violence deter? Functional and informational effects of preemptive repression	8
Oil discoveries, civil war, and preventive state repression	8
Motivations of diaspora support in homeland civil conflict	8
Bias mitigation in empirical peace and conflict studies: A short primer on posttreatment variables	8
Sports nationalism and xenophobia: When cheering turns into violence	8
Discriminatory coercion: Understanding the biases of EU and US sanctions	8
Political violence in a polarized democracy: Years of Lead (YoL) data on Italy 1969–1988	8
Disaster diplomacy: The intricate links between disaster and conflict	8
‘Those MONUSCO agents left while we were still pregnant’: Accountability and support for peacekeeper-fathered children in the DRC	8
Explaining election violence: A meta-analysis	8
Leader similarity and international conflict	7
Democratic elections and anti-immigration attitudes	7
Reliable knowledge claims on the recruitment and use of children: An empirical perspective	7
Many hurdles to take: Explaining peacekeepers’ ability to engage in human rights activities	7
Women, political violence and economics	7
Militarized state-building interventions and the survival of fragile states	7
The impacts of armed conflict on child health: Evidence from 56 developing countries	7
Economic crisis and regime transitions from within	7
Windows of repression: Using COVID-19 policies against political dissidents?	7
Anger and support for retribution in Mexico’s drug war	7
External coercion and public support: The case of the US–China trade war	7
Tailoring the message: A new dataset on the dyadic nature of NGO shaming in the media	7

Don’t blame it on ethnicity: The role of group identities and climate risks in farmer–herder relations in Senegal	7
Trauma in world politics: Memory dynamics between different victim groups	7
Does conflict experience affect participatory democracy after war? Evidence from Colombia	7
Introducing the parliamentary deployment votes database	6
Introducing the Concentration Camps (CCamps v1.0) dataset	6
Introducing the Proscription of Armed Actors Dataset	6
Political elite cues and attitude formation in post-conflict contexts	6
Public perception of terrorism attacks: A conjoint experiment	6
Incumbent takeovers	6
Under God, indivisible? Religious salience and interstate territorial conflict	6
Civil war mediation in the shadow of IGOs: The path to comprehensive peace agreements	6
Introducing the Latin American Transnational Surveillance (LATS) dataset	6
Procedural ethics for social science research: Introducing the Research Ethics Governance dataset	6
Contemporary slavery in armed conflict: Introducing the CSAC dataset, 1989–2016	6