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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The rise and fall of exclusion: A longitudinal study of US attitudes toward immigration	29
New insights into the psychology of individuals and large groups in a world of changing conflicts	22
Online censorship and young people’s use of social media to get news	18
The public legitimacy of elite athletes’ political activism: German survey evidence	16
Change in armed conflict: An introduction	15
Media skepticism and reactions to political scandals: An analysis of the Trump–Ukraine case	15
Picturing deliberation: How dissatisfied citizens make sense of it	14
Thank You to Reviewers	13
The various facets of eliminationist politics: Conflict, nation-building, and forced migration	12
Germany and the Indo-Pacific in an age of superpower competition	11
Campaign expenditures and electoral outcomes in Israeli legislative primaries – A financial gender gap?	11
Understanding individual preferences over political appointees: Evidence from a conjoint experiment	11
Do bilateral investment treaties help post-coup countries attract foreign investment?	11
Does opinion really matter: World Trade Organization’s members’ stance on India’s anti-dumping policy?	9
Digital public governance and corruption: Analysis of a two-way relationship in Africa	9
Thank You to Reviewers	8
Cohabitation and presidential powers: A global examination of dual executives 1850–2022	8
Expanding anticipatory governance to legislatures: The emergence and global diffusion of legislature-based future institutions	8
Navigating new realities: Explaining programmatic transitions of mainstream and niche parties	8
The right man for the job? Dictators’ selection mode and their facial characteristics	8
Gendered punishment? How the corruption of female politicians affects public opinion of female political leadership	7
Introduction to special issue: Inclusion and commissions in peace processes	7
Can free academia withstand democratic backsliding? Why some universities wither while others survive	7
Introduction: War in Ukraine	7
Politics and corona lockdown regulations in 35 highly advanced democracies: The first wave	7

Conservatism, social isolation and political context: Why East Europeans would leave the EU in Exit referendums	6
The rise of research on independence referendums	6
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	5
Introduction: ‘The BRICS, Global Governance, and Challenges for South–South Cooperation in a Post-Western World’	5
Unintended environmental sustainability ramifications of US sanctions	5
People’s sense of political representation and national stories: The case of Israel	5
Does it pay to think about the future? Future orientation, ideology, age and vote earning among political candidates	5
The revenge of ‘democratic peace’	4
Introduction: A feminist international relations approach to the Middle East/North Africa	4
Policymaking under tough economic times: Parties, policy issues and the adoption of programmatic policies	4
Do populist presidents crowd out FDI inflows? The role of ideology and sectoral characteristics	4
The penetration of Russian disinformation related to the war in Ukraine: Evidence from Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia	4
The economic vote when there is no ruling party presidential candidate: Chile in 2021	4
Vanguard or business-as-usual? ‘New’ movement parties in comparative perspective	4
Conceptions of democracy in China: New evidence from the structural topic model	3
Political investorism: Conceptualising the political participation of shareholders and investors	3
Party policy responsiveness at the agenda-setting and decision-making stages: The mediating effect of the types of government and promise	3
States or social networks? Popular attitudes amid health crises in the Middle East and North Africa	3
‘Sour grapes and the seeds of discontent’: Citizens in ressentiment and the populist surge	3
Do aid projects from World Bank and China impact state legitimacy differently? An exploratory analysis in Tanzania	3
Comparative European legislative research in the age of large-scale computational text analysis: A review article	3
Are politically engaged citizens more democratic? A glimpse from Brazil	3
The relative effectiveness of overlapping international institutions: European Union versus United Nations regulations of air pollution	2
‘We’ve got this policy, now what?’ The security politics of implementing the Family Protection Law in Jordan	2
Sources of campaign funding for incumbents versus challengers in list proportional representation systems: The case of Colombia	2
Do populists practise what they preach? Intra-party democracy in populist parties	2
Institutional disruption and women’s substantive representation: the Senate of Canada as a case study	2
Hawkish leaders and foreign policy: A political psychological approach	2
Constructing the local woman peacebuilder in the Women, Peace and Security agenda: Iraqi women’s participation in local peacebuilding programmes	2
Populist attitudes and challenges towards liberal democracy: An empirical assessment of the Turkish case	2
The peacemaking role of independent commissions: The role of institutional design	2
Imaginative policy surveys in divided societies: Feasibility, effect and perceived legitimacy	2
The angry voter? The role of emotions in voting for the radical left and right at the 2019 Belgian elections	2
Femisocial capital: Homophily and bill sponsorship by South Korean female legislators	2
Ideology, financial circumstances, and attitudes toward public and private foreign aid	1
Explaining changes in women’s representation in peace processes: The adoption of a gender quota in the Agreement Monitoring Committee in Mali	1
Multidimensional poverty and conflict events in Nigeria over time	1
The deepest foundation of our democratic crisis	1
Are men and women contacted differently by electoral campaigns? A cross-national examination of gender gaps	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
Populist radical right-wing parties and the assault on political correctness: The impact of Vox in Spain	1
Direct democracy as a liberal political regime	1
Legalistic autocrats: How legislative rules shape term-limit compliance and evasion	1
The empire’s fading influence: United States soft power in Africa during the COVID-19 era	1
Competing perspectives on participatory arrangements: Explaining the attitudes of elected representatives	1
From football stadium to revolution and war frontlines: Ukrainian ultras and the conversion of their capital	1
Direct democracy and equality: A global perspective	1
Multi-bilateral aid for disease control	1
Varieties of local participation? A vignette survey on local executive politicians’ legitimacy perceptions towards different participatory arrangements	1

Supermarket politics: personality and political consumerism	1
Moving in parallel? Economic inequality and public demand for redistribution in unequal societies	1
Experts, coders and crowds: An analysis of substitutability	1
Rhetorical entrapment in international negotiations: A new pathway and mechanisms	1
The personalistic challenge: The rise of Bukele and the collapse of an ideologically structured party system in El Salvador	1
Europe in the Indo-Pacific: Economic, security, and normative engagement	1
Gendered leadership and political structures: A global analysis of crisis responses across 150 countries	1
Time to go: Paths of term limit resilience in sub-Saharan Africa	1
Improving referendums with deliberative democracy: A systematic literature review	1
Contingent gender gap: a cross-national study of female attitudes toward economic globalization	1