OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Political Science Review is 1. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Online censorship and young people’s use of social media to get news	26
Media skepticism and reactions to political scandals: An analysis of the Trump–Ukraine case	23
Change in armed conflict: An introduction	19
New insights into the psychology of individuals and large groups in a world of changing conflicts	17
The public legitimacy of elite athletes’ political activism: German survey evidence	16
Thank You to Reviewers	15
Picturing deliberation: How dissatisfied citizens make sense of it	15
Editorial introduction: Gender and political financing	14
Do bilateral investment treaties help post-coup countries attract foreign investment?	13
Campaign expenditures and electoral outcomes in Israeli legislative primaries – A financial gender gap?	13
The various facets of eliminationist politics: Conflict, nation-building, and forced migration	11
Navigating new realities: Explaining programmatic transitions of mainstream and niche parties	10
Digital public governance and corruption: Analysis of a two-way relationship in Africa	10
Germany and the Indo-Pacific in an age of superpower competition	10
BRICS, G20 and global economic governance reform	10
Understanding individual preferences over political appointees: Evidence from a conjoint experiment	9
Cohabitation and presidential powers: A global examination of dual executives 1850–2022	9
Politics and corona lockdown regulations in 35 highly advanced democracies: The first wave	8
Thank You to Reviewers	8
The right man for the job? Dictators’ selection mode and their facial characteristics	8
Expanding anticipatory governance to legislatures: The emergence and global diffusion of legislature-based future institutions	8
Does opinion really matter: World Trade Organization’s members’ stance on India’s anti-dumping policy?	8
Gendered punishment? How the corruption of female politicians affects public opinion of female political leadership	7
Conservatism, social isolation and political context: Why East Europeans would leave the EU in Exit referendums	7
Introduction to special issue: Inclusion and commissions in peace processes	7

Introduction: War in Ukraine	7
Pathways to democracy after authoritarian breakdown: Comparative case selection and lessons from the past	6
Electoral rules and the two-party system: A methodological inquiry with reference to Duverger’s law	6
Introduction: ‘The BRICS, Global Governance, and Challenges for South–South Cooperation in a Post-Western World’	6
People’s sense of political representation and national stories: The case of Israel	6
The rise of research on independence referendums	6
Policymaking under tough economic times: Parties, policy issues and the adoption of programmatic policies	5
The penetration of Russian disinformation related to the war in Ukraine: Evidence from Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia	5
Domestic legal traditions and international cooperation: Insights from domestic and international qualification systems	5
The revenge of ‘democratic peace’	5
Does it pay to think about the future? Future orientation, ideology, age and vote earning among political candidates	5
The economic vote when there is no ruling party presidential candidate: Chile in 2021	5
Unintended environmental sustainability ramifications of US sanctions	5
Do aid projects from World Bank and China impact state legitimacy differently? An exploratory analysis in Tanzania	4
Conceptions of democracy in China: New evidence from the structural topic model	4
Time is of the essence: Explaining the duration of European Union lawmaking under the co-decision procedure	4
Introduction: A feminist international relations approach to the Middle East/North Africa	4
Vanguard or business-as-usual? ‘New’ movement parties in comparative perspective	4
Political investorism: Conceptualising the political participation of shareholders and investors	3
Institutional disruption and women’s substantive representation: the Senate of Canada as a case study	3
‘We’ve got this policy, now what?’ The security politics of implementing the Family Protection Law in Jordan	3
Comparative European legislative research in the age of large-scale computational text analysis: A review article	3
Party policy responsiveness at the agenda-setting and decision-making stages: The mediating effect of the types of government and promise	3
Constructing the local woman peacebuilder in the Women, Peace and Security agenda: Iraqi women’s participation in local peacebuilding programmes	3
The relative effectiveness of overlapping international institutions: European Union versus United Nations regulations of air pollution	3
Do populist presidents crowd out FDI inflows? The role of ideology and sectoral characteristics	3
‘Sour grapes and the seeds of discontent’: Citizens in ressentiment and the populist surge	3
Are politically engaged citizens more democratic? A glimpse from Brazil	3
Imaginative policy surveys in divided societies: Feasibility, effect and perceived legitimacy	3
States or social networks? Popular attitudes amid health crises in the Middle East and North Africa	3
Sources of campaign funding for incumbents versus challengers in list proportional representation systems: The case of Colombia	2
Femisocial capital: Homophily and bill sponsorship by South Korean female legislators	2
Populist attitudes and challenges towards liberal democracy: An empirical assessment of the Turkish case	2
Do populists practise what they preach? Intra-party democracy in populist parties	2
Can women dynasty politicians disrupt social norms of political leadership? A proposed typology of normative change	2
Hawkish leaders and foreign policy: A political psychological approach	2
The angry voter? The role of emotions in voting for the radical left and right at the 2019 Belgian elections	2
Improving referendums with deliberative democracy: A systematic literature review	2
Funding demands and gender in political recruitment: What parties do in Cabo Verde and Ghana	2
The peacemaking role of independent commissions: The role of institutional design	2
Populist radical right-wing parties and the assault on political correctness: The impact of Vox in Spain	2
Supermarket politics: personality and political consumerism	2
Varieties of local participation? A vignette survey on local executive politicians’ legitimacy perceptions towards different participatory arrangements	1
Multi-bilateral aid for disease control	1
Are men and women contacted differently by electoral campaigns? A cross-national examination of gender gaps	1
Experts, coders and crowds: An analysis of substitutability	1
From football stadium to revolution and war frontlines: Ukrainian ultras and the conversion of their capital	1
Competing perspectives on participatory arrangements: Explaining the attitudes of elected representatives	1
Time to go: Paths of term limit resilience in sub-Saharan Africa	1
Free market capitalism and societal inequities: Assessing the effects of economic freedom on income inequality and the equity of access to opportunity, 1990–2017	1

Gendered leadership and political structures: A global analysis of crisis responses across 150 countries	1
The deepest foundation of our democratic crisis	1
Europe in the Indo-Pacific: Economic, security, and normative engagement	1
Multidimensional poverty and conflict events in Nigeria over time	1
The structural power of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) in multilateral development finance: A case study of the New Development Bank	1
Moving in parallel? Economic inequality and public demand for redistribution in unequal societies	1
Legalistic autocrats: How legislative rules shape term-limit compliance and evasion	1
Contingent gender gap: a cross-national study of female attitudes toward economic globalization	1
The Brexit effect: Political implications of the exit of the United Kingdom from the European Union	1
Regional patterns of multilateral treaty cooperation: Is there a Latin American ‘commitment gap’?	1
Direct democracy as a liberal political regime	1