OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Armed Forces & Society is 2. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Book Review: Training and deployment of America’s nuclear cold warriors in Asia: Keepers of Armageddon RabsonS. (2022). Training and deployment of America’s nuclear cold warriors in Asia: Keepers of A	21
How Does Military Experience Affect Employment: Evidence From China	18
Just Paying Lip Service? Public Trust and Public Support for Armed Forces in Germany	14
“Leaning In” or “Taking a Knee”: Career Trajectories of Senior Leaders in the Canadian Armed Forces	13
Book Review: “German Warriors: From the Empire to the Berlin Republic—A Military History.”Deutsche Krieger: Vom Kaiserreich zur Berliner Republik—Eine Militärgeschichte by Sönke Neitzel	12
“She Clearly Thought That Something Bad Had Happened to Her”: How Military Lawyers Construct Narratives of Victim Legitimacy and Perceived Harm in Sexual Assault Cases	11
U.S. Army Reserve and National Guard Soldiers’ Motivations for Joining the Military and Their Effects on Post-Deployment Mental Health	11
Sentiment Analysis of Russian-Language Social Media Posts Discussing the 2022 Russian Invasion of Ukraine	10
Calling out the Troops to Manage Environmental and Health Crises in Australia: Public Understandings of Domestic Armed Forces Operations	10
Academic–Military Relations in U.S. and Allied Professional Military Education Organizations, 1991–2024: A Comparative Analysis and Proposed Typology	10
Developing Effective Small Team Army Leaders: A Quasi-Randomized Controlled Trial of the Squad Leader Development Course	9
Perceptions of Women in U.S. Army Combat Units: A Mixed-Methods Study Post-Gender Integration	9
Introduction to the Symposium on National Security and Social Science	8
Commentary on: Military Institutions and Citizenship in Western Societies	7
Income Security for Vietnam-Era Veterans: A Research Note	7
Why Did the Taliban Win?	7
Who Lost Afghanistan? Samuel Huntington and the Decline of Strategic Thinking	7
Civil–Military Relations and Education of Military Elites in Türkiye: Lessons Learned From the Past	6
Access and Equity Among Veterans During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Research Note	6
Substance Use Service Utilization and Barriers to Access Among Homeless Veterans: A Scoping Review	6
If You’ll Be My Bodyguard: Presidential Guard Units and Leader Capture During Coups d’état	6
My Commander in Chief is Black! The Mental Health Significance of Barack Obama’s 2008 Presidential Election for Military Veterans	6
Do Elections Cause Military Spending to Go Up or Down? New International Evidence	6
Adjudicating Competing Theories: Does Civilian Control Over the Military Decrease Conflict?	5
Theories of Democratic Civil–Military Relations and the Enduring Value of the Citizen-Soldier Ideal	5

American Civil–Military Relations and Presidential Power of Removal	5
Subjective and Objective Measurement of Underemployment and Income Among Post-9/11 Veterans	5
Mortality Among Individuals Released From U.S. Prisons: Does Military History Matter?	5
Motivated to Fight: Diverse Motivations of Foreign Fighters in the Russia–Ukraine War	5
Brothers in Arms? Estonia’s Defense Forces and the Trojan Horse Dilemma	5
Neither a Conscript Army nor an All-Volunteer Force: Emerging Recruiting Models	5
“Mom Calling the Commanding Officer”: The Changing Relationship Between Mothers and Their Sons Serving in Israel Defense Forces	4
Multinational Military Cooperation in the Global South	4
Book Review: Teaching and Learning the West Point Way by Ender, M. G., Kimball, R. A., Sondheimer, R. M., & Bruhl, J. C.	4
How Mandatory Military Service Can Divide Rather Than Unite: Conscription, Gender, and Military Trust in South Korea 2003–2021	4
The Health and Quality of Life of Dutch Peacekeeping Veterans, 40 Years After the Mission, and Their Association With Deployment-Related Stressors	4
Visualizing the Ties That Bind Us: A Cross-Sectional Thematic and Visual Analysis of Cohesion Across Three British Military Formations	4
Commentary on the Standard Model of Military Group Cohesion	4
Women in the Military: Navigating Through Female Life Stages and Military Career by “Acting Normally”	3
The Afghanistan War’s Legacy: The Reimagining of the Outsourcing of War and Security	3
Rural Military Veterans of Color and STEM Occupational Outcomes	3
Book Review: The art of military innovation: Lessons from the Israel Defense Forces by Luttwak, E. N., & Shamir, E.	3
Navigating Change From Within: The Impact and Challenges of a Women’s Virtual Community in Transforming Gender Dynamics in the Israel Defense Forces	3
Virtuous Shirking and Social Distance: Concept Measurement in the Context of Militarized Response to Nonviolent Revolution	3
“A Hidden Community”: The Experiences of Help-Seeking and Receiving Mental Health Treatment in U.K. Women Veterans. A Qualitative Study	3
Family Welfare During the Deployment of Ghana Armed Forces in Peacekeeping Missions: Exploring the Role of “Military Surrogacy”	3
Stabilization of Anti-U.S. Military Bases Sentiment: Japan’s Evolving Compensation Policies and Base Politics in Okinawa	3
The Cult of the Irrelevant or Political Narrative?	3
Stolen Valor: The Legal Story Behind Impersonating Military Personnel	3
Workplace Stress in Military Women During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Brazil: A Research Note	3
The Science of Charles C. Moskos: From Institution to Occupation	3
The Propensity of Veteran-Owned Firms to Provide Employee Benefit Programs: A Test of Military Imprinting Versus Business Pragmatism	3
A Problem in the Huntingtonian Universe: The Military Side of the Gap	3
Armed Forces as an Employer of Choice: The Role of Gender and Person–Organization Fit	3
Editor’s Note: Afghan Scholars’ Response to Perspectives on the Afghanistan War: Arrogant Conquest; Disgraceful Withdrawal	3
Trump(ing) Tradition: Old Laws, New Norms, and the Danger to Civil–Military Relations	3
The Military and the Family as Greedy Institutions: Then and Now	3
The Empirical Determinants of Violent Nonstate Actor Drone Adoption	3
The Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society 70 Years Later: Alive and Kicking	3
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Reproductive Health Outcomes Among Women Veterans: A Research Note	3
Mental Health of Canadian Children Growing Up in Military Families: The Child Perspective	2
The Growing Conservatism of White Veterans Since the 1970s	2
Reserve Soldiers as Transmigrants—Two Decades On: A Research Note	2
The Varieties of Civilian Praetorianism: Evidence From Sudan’s Coup Politics	2
Boko Haram, security architecture and counterinsurgency in North-East, Nigeria	2
Revisiting Military as a Total Institution: The Case of Conscript Service in Estonia	2
Gender on the Front Line: Representations of Female Military Personnel on Ukrainian Social Media	2
Moral Injury: A Framework for Understanding Conflict-Related Sexual Violence Against Men	2
Book Review: Embracing senior leadership: Three critical factors needed to reach the C-suite and thrive by James W. Browning	2
Unequal Suffering of War: Combat Participation, Regime Type, and Leaders’ Health	2
Book Review: Threat multiplier: Climate, military leadership, and the fight for global security	2
The Rebel and the Politician: Developing a Typology of Insurgent Civil–Military Relations	2
Two World Views? How Regular and Reserve Royal Marines Perceive Each Other	2
Book Review: Military politics: New perspectives CrosbieT. (Ed.). (2023). Military politics: New perspectives. Berghahn Books. 262 pp. $135.00. ISBN: 978-1-80539-023-7	2
Do the Best and Brightest West Point Officers Stay in or Leave the Army?	2

Narratives Around Civil–Military Cooperation: How Institutionalized Discourses Influence Learning in Peace Operations	2
State-Building 101: Hard Lessons From Afghanistan	2
A Playstation Mentality to Killing? Adverse Psychological Consequences in Drone Pilots and the Stigmatization thereof in the Military	2
A Mediated Model of Female Navy Personnel’s Personality Traits, Sexism, and Bystander Attitude Toward Sexual Harassment in Taiwan	2
Re-examining Willingness to Fight for One’s Country: Exploring Nature of Conflict and Citizenship Status Effects in the United States and Canada	2
Book Review: Corporate Security Surveillance: An Assessment of Host Country Vulnerability to Terrorism by Chasdi, R.J.	2
Gender Disparities in Active Duty Air Force Parents’ Childcare Access: Pre-Pandemic Costs, Utilization, and Career Impacts	2
Afghan Scholars’ Response to Perspectives on the Afghanistan War: Arrogant Conquest; Disgraceful Withdrawal	2
Right or Wrong? The Civil–Military Problematique and Armed Forces & Society’s 50th	2
Armed Non-State Actor-Perpetrated Civilian Victimization in Armed Conflict: An Opportunity Cost Argument	2
The Best They Could Do? Assessing U.S. Military Effectiveness in the Afghanistan War	2
Concordance Theory: A Retrospective on the Creation of New Civil–Military Relations Theory	2
A Knowledge Taxonomy for Military Interoperability: The United States and Brazil in Peacekeeping and Stabilization Operations	2
Crisis Response and Institutional Learning in the Israeli Military: Negotiating Transparency and Security in the Aftermath of the Tze’elim Training Accidents	2
NATO’s Struggle for Intelligence in Afghanistan	2
Book Review: Thanks for your service: The causes and consequences of public confidence in the U.S. military by Feaver, P. D.	2
Committed to its Founding Principles: 50 Years of Armed Forces & Society Journal	2
Citizenship, Enmity, and the Normative Theory of Domestic Military Use	2
Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment in Military Services: Culture, Hypermasculinity, and the Futility of Zero-Tolerance Approaches	2
Perspectives on Military Culture Among Veterans With a Recent Suicide Attempt: Illustrating Gender Differences and Informing Suicide Prevention	2
Soldier Retention in the Indian Military: Unraveling the Role of Pay, Promotion and Job Satisfaction	2
The Military Covenant, Contractual Relations, and Social Cohesion in Democracies: Estonia as an Exploratory Case Study	2
U.K. Veterans in Prison: Attitudes Toward Authority, Legitimacy and Compliance With Regime	2
Digital Agenda-Building on X: A Case Study of the U.S. Department of Defense’s Communication During the Chinese Spy Balloon Crisis	2