OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of European Integration is 7. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
The parliamentary politics of the rule of law crisis in the EU	71
From streets to parliament: understanding the mechanisms of protest impact on the policy-making process in the European Parliament’s TTIP debate	61
Player and playground: Europe in US–China competition	55
Developing banking union’s common supervisory culture: a look into the ‘black box’ of joint supervisory teams	52
So much promise, so little delivery: evidence-based policy-making in the EU approach to migrant smuggling	48
Knowledge power Europe	38
Trans-governmental regulatory networks and the European Union’s involvement in global governance: an occasional instrument?	37
The COVID-19 pandemic and institutional change in the EU’s financial assistance regime: the governance of the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF)	32
How ‘European sovereignty’ became mainstream: the geopoliticisation of the EU’s ’sovereign turn’ by pro-EU executive actors	32
In Europe we trust: selecting and empowering EU institutions in disruptive circumstances	31
The European Union’s leadership in the eyes of others at the UN Human Rights Council	29
The mismatch between regulatory ideals and practical implementation: the challenges faced by national regulatory bodies in pursuit of the single European railway area	28
Quiet early bird or loud late riser? Parliamentary activities and types of European Parliament involvement during the negotiation of international agreements	25
Investigating the politics of democratic legitimacy in EU climate policymaking: the special case of Fit for 55	22
In every crisis an opportunity? European Union integration in defence and the War on Ukraine	20
Strategising solidarity: an examination of the Visegrád group’s role and motivations in EU migration policies	20
War and integration. The Russian attack on Ukraine and the institutional development of the EU	20
Bridging Normative and Market Power Europe: The EU’s Diffusion of Market-related Norms and Policies in ASEAN	19
National identity as a cultural filter: External perceptions of the EU in Israel	19
Bank supervision between risk reduction and economic renewal	18
Principal-agent relations, politics of discretion, and the Africa-EU Partnership on Peace and Security	18
Public finance and the dynamic of European integration: an expanding galaxy	17
How the climate movement shaped the EU: protest cycles and democratic spaces in the European green deal	17
A limited green criminological turn in the EU approach to climate change? Mapping representations of climate change as ecocide	17
Third time lucky? Reconciling EU climate and external energy policy during energy security crises	15

Turnabout or continuity? The German Zeitenwende and the reaction of the V4 countries to it	15
The EU’s interactions with formal intergovernmental organizations: a big data analysis of news media	14
In the shadow of the EU’s crises: the changing dynamics of the European knowledge area, 2014–25	14
Candidate turnover in EP- versus national elections: a new perspective on the second-order logic? A comparative analysis	14
Is it all about distribution? – Debating the Green Deal in the European Parliament	14
The impact of Brexit: polity, politics, policy	14
Synchronizing out of gridlock: how the Council of the EU reached agreement on the New Pact on Migration and Asylum	13
Neverland: the strange non-death of cakeism in conservative European thought	13
Towards a political economy of the green transition	13
Stalled by design: New paradoxes in the European Union’s single financial market	12
The European Green Deal and the democratic imagination	12
What do citizens in tax havens think? The EU blacklist and public opinion in Switzerland	12
A moving target. EU actorness and the Russian invasion of Ukraine	11
From NGEU to REPowerEU: policy steering and budgetary innovation in the EU	11
Filling the EU information deficit mitigates negative EU attitudes among the least knowledgeable. Evidence from a population-based survey experiment	11
Explaining transformative change in EU climate policy: multilevel problems, policies, and politics	11
Getting Article 7 done: coalition-building against Hungary in the European Parliament	11
The recovery and resilience facility as a new legal technology of European governance	10
Supranational authorities and private actors as drivers of single market integration? The state of the Union in electricity and banking	10
National satisfaction vs. European support? Explaining attitudes towards the EU in candidate member states	10
No fences, good neighbors: measuring and explaining integration in European cross-border regions	10
The European Central Bank in the Single Supervisory Mechanism: The Maturing of the European Regulatory State	10
Explaining different usages of policy monitoring in the EU	9
Leaving the dragon’s shadow – Normative Power Europe and the emergence of a Taiwan policy in the EU?	9
The ECB as a banking supervisor: transparent compared to what?	9
Back to the future: Twenty-five years later, relaunching the project of transforming the EU into an Area of Freedom, Security and Justice?	9
External shocks, policy spillovers, and veto players: (post)exceptionalist common agricultural policy and the case of the 2023-2027 reform	9
Reform of global trade governance: the role of the European Union	8
Europe after the crises: toward an optimum financial area?	8
Federal fiscal capacity and the challenge of the green transition in the EU	8
From cohesion to differentiation? The effect of Cohesion Policy on the citizens’ preferences for differentiated integration	8
Cross-border regionalism in the EU and ASEAN: another dimension of the “varieties of regionalism”	8
Post-Brexit council: winners and losers after the UK’s withdrawal from the EU	8
The European union: assessing global leadership through actorness in artificial intelligence	7
Constructing an ‘emotional community’ in times of crisis: the EU’s response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022	7
The partnership that failed: EU-Russia relations and the war in Ukraine	7
Democracy and European Union: beyond the dichotomy	7
Navigating widening and deepening: the European Council, geopolitical motives, and Union enlargement	7
Europe, the MENA region and knowledge production	7
The EU’s different faces in climate diplomacy: leadership, interests, and responsibilities	7
Negotiating and governing the economic and monetary union	7
Emotional politics of norm hierarchy in EU’s external relations: the case of climate crisis and the EU’s arctic policy	7
Correction	7
Wedging, binding and Europe in the US-China competition: theoretical and policy implications	7
Multilevel governance in the temporal protection and integration of Ukrainians within the European Union: the case of Estonia	7
Between processes and norms. Understanding EU development cooperation beyond EU institutions	7