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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Change in armed conflict: An introduction	26
New insights into the psychology of individuals and large groups in a world of changing conflicts	18
The public legitimacy of elite athletes’ political activism: German survey evidence	17
Online censorship and young people’s use of social media to get news	17
The contentious politics of academic freedom: Some reflections on recent threats in the context of the protests for a Free Palestine	15
The rise and fall of exclusion: A longitudinal study of US attitudes toward immigration	15
The various facets of eliminationist politics: Conflict, nation-building, and forced migration	14
Picturing deliberation: How dissatisfied citizens make sense of it	13
Do bilateral investment treaties help post-coup countries attract foreign investment?	13
Does opinion really matter: World Trade Organization’s members’ stance on India’s anti-dumping policy?	12
Thank You to Reviewers	12
Germany and the Indo-Pacific in an age of superpower competition	12
Cohabitation and presidential powers: A global examination of dual executives 1850–2022	10
Digital public governance and corruption: Analysis of a two-way relationship in Africa	10
The road to citizenship: How discussing politics shapes political interest across the lifespan	9
Navigating new realities: Explaining programmatic transitions of mainstream and niche parties	9
Introduction to special issue: Inclusion and commissions in peace processes	9
Understanding individual preferences over political appointees: Evidence from a conjoint experiment	9
Old boys, church mates, childhood friends: How social relations form and sustain the multi-ethnic political elite in Africa	9
Can free academia withstand democratic backsliding? Why some universities wither while others survive	8
Thank You to Reviewers	8
Gendered punishment? How the corruption of female politicians affects public opinion of female political leadership	7
Expanding anticipatory governance to legislatures: The emergence and global diffusion of legislature-based future institutions	7
The law of group polarization revisited: Using transcripts from a deliberative poll to examine the influence of imbalance in the argument pool	7
Can institutional quality reduce geopolitical risk? Evidence from G20 countries	7

Introduction: War in Ukraine	7
The right man for the job? Dictators’ selection mode and their facial characteristics	7
People’s sense of political representation and national stories: The case of Israel	7
Electoral rules and the two-party system: A methodological inquiry with reference to Duverger’s law	6
The penetration of Russian disinformation related to the war in Ukraine: Evidence from Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia	6
Pathways to democracy after authoritarian breakdown: Comparative case selection and lessons from the past	6
The revenge of ‘democratic peace’	5
Gated pathways: Gendered networks and the relational politics of local candidacy in Palestine	5
Unintended environmental sustainability ramifications of US sanctions	5
Does it pay to think about the future? Future orientation, ideology, age and vote earning among political candidates	5
Shaking up the vote: The electoral impact of induced earthquakes	5
The forgotten protest dynamics: The politics of non-repressive state responses to mobilization	5
The economic vote when there is no ruling party presidential candidate: Chile in 2021	4
Do populist presidents crowd out FDI inflows? The role of ideology and sectoral characteristics	4
The egalitarian paradox: Democratic values, perceived inequality and political support	4
Is there more strategic voting under plurality or majority runoff? Survey evidence from presidential elections worldwide	4
Conceptions of democracy in China: New evidence from the structural topic model	4
Policymaking under tough economic times: Parties, policy issues and the adoption of programmatic policies	4
Does (dis)liking the governing parties correlate with democratic (dis)satisfaction?	4
Do aid projects from World Bank and China impact state legitimacy differently? An exploratory analysis in Tanzania	3
‘Sour grapes and the seeds of discontent’: Citizens in ressentiment and the populist surge	3
Illiberal democracy and the erosion of academic freedom in the ‘new’ Türkiye	3
Introduction: A feminist international relations approach to the Middle East/North Africa	3
States or social networks? Popular attitudes amid health crises in the Middle East and North Africa	3
The power of ‘big brothers’: political leaders and regime changes in authoritarian states	3
Political investorism: Conceptualising the political participation of shareholders and investors	3
Populist radical right-wing parties and the assault on political correctness: The impact of Vox in Spain	2
Varieties of local participation? A vignette survey on local executive politicians’ legitimacy perceptions towards different participatory arrangements	2
The angry voter? The role of emotions in voting for the radical left and right at the 2019 Belgian elections	2
The relative effectiveness of overlapping international institutions: European Union versus United Nations regulations of air pollution	2
Hawkish leaders and foreign policy: A political psychological approach	2
‘We’ve got this policy, now what?’ The security politics of implementing the Family Protection Law in Jordan	2
Do populists practise what they preach? Intra-party democracy in populist parties	2
Populist attitudes and challenges towards liberal democracy: An empirical assessment of the Turkish case	2
The politics of legislative term limits: A comparative analysis in Latin America and Southeast Asia	2
Comparative European legislative research in the age of large-scale computational text analysis: A review article	2
Civic engagement moving online: Empirical examination of its antecedents during the COVID-19 pandemic	2
Imaginative policy surveys in divided societies: Feasibility, effect and perceived legitimacy	2
Constructing the local woman peacebuilder in the Women, Peace and Security agenda: Iraqi women’s participation in local peacebuilding programmes	2
Supermarket politics: personality and political consumerism	2
Moving in parallel? Economic inequality and public demand for redistribution in unequal societies	2
Time to go: Paths of term limit resilience in sub-Saharan Africa	2
Party policy responsiveness at the agenda-setting and decision-making stages: The mediating effect of the types of government and promise	2
Institutional disruption and women’s substantive representation: the Senate of Canada as a case study	2
The peacemaking role of independent commissions: The role of institutional design	2
Improving referendums with deliberative democracy: A systematic literature review	2
Europe in the Indo-Pacific: Economic, security, and normative engagement	1
Competing perspectives on participatory arrangements: Explaining the attitudes of elected representatives	1
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

Experts, coders and crowds: An analysis of substitutability	1
Ethnic voting and agenda framing under authoritarian reversal: a survey experiment in Myanmar	1
Are men and women contacted differently by electoral campaigns? A cross-national examination of gender gaps	1
Gendered leadership and political structures: A global analysis of crisis responses across 150 countries	1
Legalistic autocrats: How legislative rules shape term-limit compliance and evasion	1
Multidimensional poverty and conflict events in Nigeria over time	1
The empire’s fading influence: United States soft power in Africa during the COVID-19 era	1
Culturalization as a governance logic: Reconciliation in Norway	1
The language of protest: A scientific mapping of cross-national protest themes, narratives, and success patterns	1
From football stadium to revolution and war frontlines: Ukrainian ultras and the conversion of their capital	1
Direct democracy as a liberal political regime	1
How issue opinions relate to individual-level affective polarization: Exploring the psychological mechanisms of affective polarization regarding immigration in a multi-party setting	1
Affective polarization and institutional confidence in Canada	1
Elite domination by design? Comparing the rules of the game within Parliamentary Party Groups	1
Elite cues and public climate attitudes: The influence of the Trump presidency on republicans’ attitudes toward global warming	1
The deepest foundation of our democratic crisis	1
The personalistic challenge: The rise of Bukele and the collapse of an ideologically structured party system in El Salvador	1
Transboundary Air Pollution and Public Opinions on Neighbouring Countries: Evidence from South Korea	1
Rhetorical entrapment in international negotiations: A new pathway and mechanisms	1
Contingent gender gap: a cross-national study of female attitudes toward economic globalization	1