OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Review of International Studies is 3. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Economisation as boundary work: Integrating climate change into IMF surveillance	44
RIS volume 49 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	44
Problematising entanglement fetishism in IR: On the possibility of being without being in relation	40
Constructing victims: Suffering and status in modern world order	31
Climate change on a fluid earth: The movement of matter in the spaces of global politics	24
Post-growth agrifood systems: Towards an emancipatory politics	22
Anti-colonial raced capitalism in Malaysia: Contested logics, gendered repertoires	20
Violations of the heart: Parental harm in war and oppression – ADDENDUM	19
Towards an abolitionist feminist peace: State violence, anti-militarism, and the Women, Peace and Security agenda	17
Ontological security, myth, and existentialism	17
Torturous journeys: Cruelty, international law, and pushbacks and pullbacks over the Mediterranean Sea	16
RIS volume 47 issue 5 Cover and Back matter	15
Communities of practice and what they can do for International Relations	14
A narrative approach to analysis of covert action	14
Film, narrative agency, and the politics of care in veteran Britain	14
Subject matters: Imperialism and the constitution of International Relations	13
Follow the money: Assessing Women, Peace, and Security through financing for gender-inclusive peace	13
Reproducing socio-ecological life from below: Towards a planetary political economy of the global majority	13
How a Nazi occupied India’s first chair in International Relations	13
The future is just another past	12
Armed group formation in civil war: ‘Movement’, ‘insurgent’, and ‘state splinter’ origins	12
Pathways to socialisation: China, Russia, and competitive norm socialisation in a changing global order	12
Growth hegemony and post-growth futures: A complex hegemony approach	12
Interspecies cosmopolitanism: Non-human power and the grounds of world order in the Anthropocene	12
RIS volume 48 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	12

Maternalism. Care and control in diplomatic engagements with civil society	11
RIS volume 49 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	11
State violence against migrant women: Ontological security, threat, and legitimacy	11
Chelsea Manning, national security, and the cishetero/homonormative logics of protection	11
Introduction to the Special Issue: Pluriversal relationality	10
Introduction to the Special Section: Disruption by design	10
Interspecies politics and the global rat: Ecology, extermination, experiment	10
Degrowth, green growth, and climate justice for Africa	10
Pan-African gender governance: The politics of aspiration at the African Union	10
The messy practice of decolonising a concept: Everyday humanitarianism in Tanzania	10
Variation in states’ discursive (de)legitimation of international institutions: The case of the Arctic Council	9
Peacemaking in a shifting world order: A macro-level analysis of UN mediation in Syria	9
RIS volume 50 issue 5 Cover and Back matter	9
Gothic visibilities and International Relations: Uncanny icons, critical comics, and the politics of abjection in Aleppo	9
Affective sovereignty: A decolonising politics of emotion in Palestine	9
Industrial policy and the green state: Forging a world after growth	9
The double-helix entanglements of transnational advocacy: Moral conservative resistance to LGBTI rights	9
Obliged to hate: The successful stigmatisation of anti-war voices in Azerbaijan	9
The Rousseauian roots of neorealism	8
Status cues and normative change: How the Academy Awards facilitated Chile's gender identity law	8
‘No one around to shut the dead eyes of the human race’: Sartre, Aron, and the limits of existentialism in the Nuclear Age	8
Comparative Regionalism beyond Europe versus the rest	8
Capacitating militarised masculinity: Genitourinary injuries, sex/sexuality, and US military medicine	8
The future of control/The control of the future: Global (dis)order and the weaponisation of everywhere in 2074	8
The non-anthropocentric informational agents: Codes, software, and the logic of emergence in cybersecurity	7
Imperial power, anti-imperial resistance, and the shaping of international hierarchies: Lessons from 1930s Persia	7
A choking(?) engine of war: Human agency in military targeting reconsidered – CORRIGENDUM	7
RIS volume 51 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	7
Violations of the heart: Parental harm in war and oppression	7
Emotions, International Relations, and the everyday: Individuals’ emotional attachments to international organisations	7
On being Chinese and being complexified: Chinese IR as a transcultural project	7
‘Emperor at home, king abroad’: Legitimising authority in early modern East Asia	6
A brotherhood of nations: Imagining the nation-based order during the Springtime of Nations (1848)	6
Between race and animality: European borders, ‘colonial dogs’, and the policing of humanity	6
‘Here there be monsters’: Confronting the (post)coloniality of Britain’s borders – ERRATUM	6
RIS volume 48 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	6
Negotiating regime complexity: Following a regime complex in the making	6
Playing doomsday: Video games and the politics of nuclear weapons	6
Dissenting at the United Nations: Interaction orders and Venezuelan contestation practices (2015–16)	5
Decolonising to reimagine International Relations: An introduction	5
Ordering disorder: The making of world politics	5
How should IR deal with the “end of the world”? Existential anxieties and possibilities in the Anthropocene	5
Governing on par with states: Private power and practices of political normalisation	5
The plasma of violence: Towards a preventive medicine for political evil	5
Heritage as power: History and tradition in constructing Brazil’s far-right populism	4
RIS volume 48 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	4
RIS volume 49 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	4
Elusive decolonisation of IR in the Arab world	4
Beyond production: Following nomadic space in IR	4
Imperial power, anti-imperial resistance, and the shaping of international hierarchies: Lessons from 1930s Persia – ERRATUM	4

Pluriversal sovereignty and the state of IR	4
The intellectual and institutional challenges for International Political Economy in the UK: Findings from Practitioner Survey Data	4
Jesting international politics: The productive power and limitations of humorous practices in an age of entertainment politics	4
Civil wars as critical junctures: Conceptual grounding and empirical potential	3
Beyond the numbers on women’s representation: Recognition of women’s leadership in global governance	3
A choking(?) engine of war: Human agency in military targeting reconsidered	3
The difference multiplicity makes: The American Civil War as passive revolution	3
‘Pirates’, ports, politics: The Gulf (khalīj) & international society’s expansion	3
Radical Islam in the Western Academy	3
Agonistic peace agreements? Analytical tools and dilemmas	3
Indigenous peoples at the heritage–climate change nexus: Examining the effectiveness of UNESCO and the IPCC’s boundary work	3
Recrafting ontology	3
Beyond formal powers: Understanding the African Union's authority on the ground	3
Polycentric governance of transit migration: A relational perspective from the Balkans and the Middle East	3
Perforating colour lines: Japan and the problem of race in the ‘non-West’	3
Poverty is not ‘another culture’: Against a right of children to work to live	3