Journal of Peace 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.)
ArticleCitations
Coercion, governance, and political behavior in civil war148
The self-enforcing dynamics of crime and protection123
Rebel human rights abuses during civil wars: Introducing the rebel human rights violations dataset55
The motivating and mobilizing effects of inequality on civil conflict: Focusing on trade-induced labor market shocks39
Rewarding loyalty: Selective reassurance and enforcement of asymmetric alliances38
Corrigendum for Dawkins S. The problem of the missing dead36
Women’s roles and reproductive violence within armed rebellions30
Conflict exposure and democratic values: Evidence from wartime Ukraine28
Guest Editors’ introduction: Nonviolent resistance and its discontents26
Nationalist propaganda and support for war in an authoritarian context: Evidence from China25
The bridge to violence – Mapping and understanding conflict-related violence in postwar Mitrovica22
Democracy, reputation for resolve, and civil conflict20
Public opinion on trading with the enemy: Trade’s effects on the risk of war19
Butterfly effects in global trade: International borders, disputes, and trade disruption and diversion17
Inequality, elections, and communal riots in India16
When conflict becomes calamity: Understanding the role of armed conflict dynamics in natural disasters16
Democracy dismissed: When leaders and citizens choose election violence15
Quotidian crime, wartime violence and public goods preferences: Evidence from Liberia14
Human rights violations and public support for sanctions14
Explaining intentional cultural destruction in the Syrian Civil War14
Who leads peace operations? A new dataset on leadership positions in UN peace operations, 1948–201914
Beyond economic development? Foreign direct investment and pre-election violence13
Shock and awe: Economic sanctions and relative military spending13
Do we know it when we see it? (Re)-conceptualizing rebel-to-party transition13
CORRIGENDUM to Mitigating election violence locally: UN peacekeepers’ election-education campaigns in Côte d’Ivoire by Hannah Smidt13
Pulling through elections by pulling the plug: Internet disruptions and electoral violence in Uganda12
Introduction: Cyber-conflict – Moving from speculation to investigation12
International organizations, the EU and peace among member states: Bringing organization structure in12
If it bleeps it leads? Media coverage on cyber conflict and misperception11
Renting political violence: A political economy of rents, access and violence delegation11
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
Controlling a moving world: Territorial control, displacement and the spread of civilian targeting in Iraq11
Examining the ‘age of apology’: Insights from the Political Apology database11
How user language affects conflict fatality estimates in ChatGPT11
Targeting telecommunications: Why do rebel groups target information and communication technology infrastructure?10
De jure powersharing 1975–2019: Updating the Inclusion, Dispersion, and Constraints Dataset10
Access denied: Land alienation and pastoral conflicts9
Cyber and contentious politics: Evidence from the US radical environmental movement9
The political consequences of wartime sexual violence: Evidence from a list experiment9
Lethal brands: Terrorist groups’ logos and violence9
Polls of fear? Electoral violence, incumbent strength, and voter turnout in Côte d’Ivoire8
International recognition and support for violence among nonpartisans8
Law enforcement at the margin of the law: Information provision and support for militarization in Mexico8
The JPR Best Visualization Award 2021 goes to Gaku Ito8
Disaster diplomacy: The intricate links between disaster and conflict7
Political violence in democracies: An Introduction7
The JPR Best Visualization Award 2022 goes to Imane Chaara, Jean-Benoît Falisse & Julien Moriceau7
‘Those MONUSCO agents left while we were still pregnant’: Accountability and support for peacekeeper-fathered children in the DRC7
Political violence in a polarized democracy: Years of Lead (YoL) data on Italy 1969–19887
External coercion and public support: The case of the US–China trade war7
Descriptive representation and conflict reduction: Evidence from India’s Maoist rebellion7
How does violence deter? Functional and informational effects of preemptive repression7
Giving a hand to autocrats: Are Russia’s high-level visits for authoritarian durability?7
Motivations of diaspora support in homeland civil conflict7
Discriminatory coercion: Understanding the biases of EU and US sanctions7
Militarized state-building interventions and the survival of fragile states7
Blowback or overblown? Why civilians under threat support invasive foreign intervention7
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 package7
Bias mitigation in empirical peace and conflict studies: A short primer on posttreatment variables7
Introducing the Lynching in Latin America (LYLA) dataset7
Sports nationalism and xenophobia: When cheering turns into violence7
Oil discoveries, civil war, and preventive state repression7
Leader similarity and international conflict7
Predicting armed conflict using protest data7
Reliable knowledge claims on the recruitment and use of children: An empirical perspective6
Economic crisis and regime transitions from within6
Anger and support for retribution in Mexico’s drug war6
Women, political violence and economics6
Introducing the Latin American Transnational Surveillance (LATS) dataset6
Tailoring the message: A new dataset on the dyadic nature of NGO shaming in the media6
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 Concentration Camps (CCamps v1.0) dataset6
Trauma in world politics: Memory dynamics between different victim groups6
Many hurdles to take: Explaining peacekeepers’ ability to engage in human rights activities6
Windows of repression: Using COVID-19 policies against political dissidents?6
Incumbent takeovers6
Introducing the Proscription of Armed Actors Dataset6
Under God, indivisible? Religious salience and interstate territorial conflict5
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
When do natural disasters lead to negotiations in a civil war?5
Public perception of terrorism attacks: A conjoint experiment5
Sexual violence, gendered protection and support for intervention5
International Sanctions Termination, 1990–2018: Introducing the IST dataset5
Malnutrition and violent conflict in a heating world: A mediation analysis on the climate–conflict nexus in Nigeria5
The two faces of power-sharing5
Defending the fortress: How asset ownership shapes the desire to resist foreign aggression5
Fiscal conditions for multiparty elections in dictatorships5
Linking Ethnic Data from Africa (LEDA)5
Procedural ethics for social science research: Introducing the Research Ethics Governance dataset5
Retributive or reparative justice? Explaining post-conflict preferences in Kenya5
Coup d’état and a democratic signal: The connection between protests and coups after the Cold War5
A win or a flop? Measuring mass protest successfulness in authoritarian settings5
Can rising powers reassure? Shifting power, foreign economic policy and perceptions of revisionist intent5
Civil war mediation in the shadow of IGOs: The path to comprehensive peace agreements5
Introducing the parliamentary deployment votes database5
Political elite cues and attitude formation in post-conflict contexts5
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