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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Online censorship and young people’s use of social media to get news	44
The public legitimacy of elite athletes’ political activism: German survey evidence	26
New insights into the psychology of individuals and large groups in a world of changing conflicts	22
Change in armed conflict: An introduction	21
Media skepticism and reactions to political scandals: An analysis of the Trump–Ukraine case	16
Picturing deliberation: How dissatisfied citizens make sense of it	14
Campaign expenditures and electoral outcomes in Israeli legislative primaries – A financial gender gap?	14
Thank You to Reviewers	14
Editorial introduction: Gender and political financing	14
Class voting or economic voting? Electoral support for chavismo (1998–2015)	13
The various facets of eliminationist politics: Conflict, nation-building, and forced migration	12
Do bilateral investment treaties help post-coup countries attract foreign investment?	12
Germany and the Indo-Pacific in an age of superpower competition	12
Digital public governance and corruption: Analysis of a two-way relationship in Africa	11
Understanding individual preferences over political appointees: Evidence from a conjoint experiment	11
Does opinion really matter: World Trade Organization’s members’ stance on India’s anti-dumping policy?	11
Navigating new realities: Explaining programmatic transitions of mainstream and niche parties	10
The internal and external institutionalization of the BRICS countries: The case of the New Development Bank	10
BRICS, G20 and global economic governance reform	9
Thank You to Reviewers	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
Expanding anticipatory governance to legislatures: The emergence and global diffusion of legislature-based future institutions	8
Introduction: War in Ukraine	7
Conservatism, social isolation and political context: Why East Europeans would leave the EU in Exit referendums	7

People’s sense of political representation and national stories: The case of Israel	6
Special issue introduction: The political ramifications of COVID-19	6
The rise of research on independence referendums	6
Does it pay to think about the future? Future orientation, ideology, age and vote earning among political candidates	6
Gendered punishment? How the corruption of female politicians affects public opinion of female political leadership	6
Pathways to democracy after authoritarian breakdown: Comparative case selection and lessons from the past	6
Introduction: ‘The BRICS, Global Governance, and Challenges for South–South Cooperation in a Post-Western World’	6
The revenge of ‘democratic peace’	5
Unintended environmental sustainability ramifications of US sanctions	5
The penetration of Russian disinformation related to the war in Ukraine: Evidence from Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia	5
Natural resource wealth and the informal economy	5
Policymaking under tough economic times: Parties, policy issues and the adoption of programmatic policies	5
Electoral rules and the two-party system: A methodological inquiry with reference to Duverger’s law	5
Introduction: A feminist international relations approach to the Middle East/North Africa	4
Do aid projects from World Bank and China impact state legitimacy differently? An exploratory analysis in Tanzania	4
The economic vote when there is no ruling party presidential candidate: Chile in 2021	4
Time is of the essence: Explaining the duration of European Union lawmaking under the co-decision procedure	4
Conceptions of democracy in China: New evidence from the structural topic model	4
Domestic legal traditions and international cooperation: Insights from domestic and international qualification systems	4
Do populist presidents crowd out FDI inflows? The role of ideology and sectoral characteristics	4
The relative effectiveness of overlapping international institutions: European Union versus United Nations regulations of air pollution	3
Party policy responsiveness at the agenda-setting and decision-making stages: The mediating effect of the types of government and promise	3
Political investorism: Conceptualising the political participation of shareholders and investors	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
States or social networks? Popular attitudes amid health crises in the Middle East and North Africa	3
Constructing the local woman peacebuilder in the Women, Peace and Security agenda: Iraqi women’s participation in local peacebuilding programmes	3
Imaginative policy surveys in divided societies: Feasibility, effect and perceived legitimacy	3
Vanguard or business-as-usual? ‘New’ movement parties in comparative perspective	3
Comparative European legislative research in the age of large-scale computational text analysis: A review article	3
Can women dynasty politicians disrupt social norms of political leadership? A proposed typology of normative change	2
A whole-of-nation approach to COVID-19: Taiwan’s National Epidemic Prevention Team	2
Should we conduct correspondence study field experiments with political elites?	2
Populist radical right-wing parties and the assault on political correctness: The impact of Vox in Spain	2
Time to go: Paths of term limit resilience in sub-Saharan Africa	2
Sources of campaign funding for incumbents versus challengers in list proportional representation systems: The case of Colombia	2
Funding demands and gender in political recruitment: What parties do in Cabo Verde and Ghana	2
Hawkish leaders and foreign policy: A political psychological approach	2
Improving referendums with deliberative democracy: A systematic literature review	2
Populist attitudes and challenges towards liberal democracy: An empirical assessment of the Turkish case	2
Femisocial capital: Homophily and bill sponsorship by South Korean female legislators	2
‘We’ve got this policy, now what?’ The security politics of implementing the Family Protection Law in Jordan	2
The angry voter? The role of emotions in voting for the radical left and right at the 2019 Belgian elections	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
Supermarket politics: personality and political consumerism	2
Thank you to Reviewers	1
Contingent gender gap: a cross-national study of female attitudes toward economic globalization	1
Experts, coders and crowds: An analysis of substitutability	1
Are men and women contacted differently by electoral campaigns? A cross-national examination of gender gaps	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
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
Direct democracy as a liberal political regime	1
Legalistic autocrats: How legislative rules shape term-limit compliance and evasion	1
Europe in the Indo-Pacific: Economic, security, and normative engagement	1
Moving in parallel? Economic inequality and public demand for redistribution in unequal societies	1
Multi-bilateral aid for disease control	1
‘It’s a total no-no’: The strategic silence about gender in the European Parliament’s economic governance policies	1
The deepest foundation of our democratic crisis	1
The Brexit effect: Political implications of the exit of the United Kingdom from the European Union	1
Gendered leadership and political structures: A global analysis of crisis responses across 150 countries	1
Varieties of local participation? A vignette survey on local executive politicians’ legitimacy perceptions towards different participatory arrangements	1