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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The rise and fall of exclusion: A longitudinal study of US attitudes toward immigration	26
Change in armed conflict: An introduction	18
Online censorship and young people’s use of social media to get news	17
New insights into the psychology of individuals and large groups in a world of changing conflicts	16
The public legitimacy of elite athletes’ political activism: German survey evidence	15
The various facets of eliminationist politics: Conflict, nation-building, and forced migration	14
Thank You to Reviewers	14
Do bilateral investment treaties help post-coup countries attract foreign investment?	13
Germany and the Indo-Pacific in an age of superpower competition	13
Picturing deliberation: How dissatisfied citizens make sense of it	13
Campaign expenditures and electoral outcomes in Israeli legislative primaries – A financial gender gap?	12
Does opinion really matter: World Trade Organization’s members’ stance on India’s anti-dumping policy?	12
Cohabitation and presidential powers: A global examination of dual executives 1850–2022	11
Understanding individual preferences over political appointees: Evidence from a conjoint experiment	10
Introduction to special issue: Inclusion and commissions in peace processes	9
Thank You to Reviewers	9
Can institutional quality reduce geopolitical risk? Evidence from G20 countries	9
Digital public governance and corruption: Analysis of a two-way relationship in Africa	9
Expanding anticipatory governance to legislatures: The emergence and global diffusion of legislature-based future institutions	9
The right man for the job? Dictators’ selection mode and their facial characteristics	9
Navigating new realities: Explaining programmatic transitions of mainstream and niche parties	9
Can free academia withstand democratic backsliding? Why some universities wither while others survive	8
Pathways to democracy after authoritarian breakdown: Comparative case selection and lessons from the past	7
People’s sense of political representation and national stories: The case of Israel	7
The road to citizenship: How discussing politics shapes political interest across the lifespan	7

Electoral rules and the two-party system: A methodological inquiry with reference to Duverger’s law	7
Gendered punishment? How the corruption of female politicians affects public opinion of female political leadership	7
The law of group polarization revisited: Using transcripts from a deliberative poll to examine the influence of imbalance in the argument pool	7
Introduction: War in Ukraine	7
The forgotten protest dynamics: The politics of non-repressive state responses to mobilization	6
Does it pay to think about the future? Future orientation, ideology, age and vote earning among political candidates	6
Gated pathways: Gendered networks and the relational politics of local candidacy in Palestine	6
Unintended environmental sustainability ramifications of US sanctions	6
Is there more strategic voting under plurality or majority runoff? Survey evidence from presidential elections worldwide	5
Shaking up the vote: The electoral impact of induced earthquakes	5
The penetration of Russian disinformation related to the war in Ukraine: Evidence from Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia	5
The egalitarian paradox: Democratic values, perceived inequality and political support	5
The revenge of ‘democratic peace’	5
The economic vote when there is no ruling party presidential candidate: Chile in 2021	5
Policymaking under tough economic times: Parties, policy issues and the adoption of programmatic policies	5
Does (dis)liking the governing parties correlate with democratic (dis)satisfaction?	4
States or social networks? Popular attitudes amid health crises in the Middle East and North Africa	4
Conceptions of democracy in China: New evidence from the structural topic model	4
Illiberal democracy and the erosion of academic freedom in the ‘new’ Türkiye	4
Do aid projects from World Bank and China impact state legitimacy differently? An exploratory analysis in Tanzania	4
Introduction: A feminist international relations approach to the Middle East/North Africa	4
Do populist presidents crowd out FDI inflows? The role of ideology and sectoral characteristics	4
‘Sour grapes and the seeds of discontent’: Citizens in ressentiment and the populist surge	3
The relative effectiveness of overlapping international institutions: European Union versus United Nations regulations of air pollution	3
Comparative European legislative research in the age of large-scale computational text analysis: A review article	3
Civic engagement moving online: Empirical examination of its antecedents during the COVID-19 pandemic	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
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
Gendered leadership and political structures: A global analysis of crisis responses across 150 countries	2
Populist attitudes and challenges towards liberal democracy: An empirical assessment of the Turkish case	2
‘We’ve got this policy, now what?’ The security politics of implementing the Family Protection Law in Jordan	2
The peacemaking role of independent commissions: The role of institutional design	2
Do populists practise what they preach? Intra-party democracy in populist parties	2
Improving referendums with deliberative democracy: A systematic literature review	2
Time to go: Paths of term limit resilience in sub-Saharan Africa	2
Direct democracy as a liberal political regime	2
Institutional disruption and women’s substantive representation: the Senate of Canada as a case study	2
Sources of campaign funding for incumbents versus challengers in list proportional representation systems: The case of Colombia	2
Hawkish leaders and foreign policy: A political psychological approach	2
Supermarket politics: personality and political consumerism	2
The politics of legislative term limits: A comparative analysis in Latin America and Southeast Asia	2
Moving in parallel? Economic inequality and public demand for redistribution in unequal societies	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
The angry voter? The role of emotions in voting for the radical left and right at the 2019 Belgian elections	2
Contingent gender gap: a cross-national study of female attitudes toward economic globalization	1
Multidimensional poverty and conflict events in Nigeria over time	1
Culturalization as a governance logic: Reconciliation in Norway	1

The personalistic challenge: The rise of Bukele and the collapse of an ideologically structured party system in El Salvador	1
The empire’s fading influence: United States soft power in Africa during the COVID-19 era	1
The language of protest: A scientific mapping of cross-national protest themes, narratives, and success patterns	1
Are men and women contacted differently by electoral campaigns? A cross-national examination of gender gaps	1
From football stadium to revolution and war frontlines: Ukrainian ultras and the conversion of their capital	1
Elite domination by design? Comparing the rules of the game within Parliamentary Party Groups	1
Foreign policy decision-making within authoritarian contexts: Al-Sisi’s foreign policy (2014–2024)	1
Competing perspectives on participatory arrangements: Explaining the attitudes of elected representatives	1
Transboundary Air Pollution and Public Opinions on Neighbouring Countries: Evidence from South Korea	1
Europe in the Indo-Pacific: Economic, security, and normative engagement	1
Legalistic autocrats: How legislative rules shape term-limit compliance and evasion	1
The deepest foundation of our democratic crisis	1
Rhetorical entrapment in international negotiations: A new pathway and mechanisms	1
Ideology, financial circumstances, and attitudes toward public and private foreign aid	1
Elite cues and public climate attitudes: The influence of the Trump presidency on republicans’ attitudes toward global warming	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
Affective polarization and institutional confidence in Canada	1