OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of European Integration is 5. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Populism in power and regional (dis-)integration: charting paths of populist regionalism in Europe and Latin America	46
Reappraising the EU-Turkey Refugee Statement within the Human Rights and Neoliberalism Nexus	41
Who holds the elephant to account? Executive power political accountability in the EU	34
Leaving the dragon’s shadow – Normative Power Europe and the emergence of a Taiwan policy in the EU?	33
External shocks, policy spillovers, and veto players: (post)exceptionalist common agricultural policy and the case of the 2023-2027 reform	29
Europe after the crises: toward an optimum financial area?	29
The European Union and the governance of contested Global Spaces	28
The European Union’s polar ambitions: regional geo-policies yet limited geo-strategic vision	28
Agonistic reflections on the legitimacy of EU referenda	26
Federal fiscal capacity and the challenge of the green transition in the EU	24
Russia’s war in Ukraine and transformation of EU public diplomacy: challenges and opportunities	23
The coral reefs of global governance: how formal IOs make informality work	23
Human rights sanctions and the role of black knights: Evidence from the EU’s post-Soviet neighbours	21
De facto differentiation in the EU’s economic and monetary union - A rationalist explanation	20
So much promise, so little delivery: evidence-based policy-making in the EU approach to migrant smuggling	19
Post-Brexit council: winners and losers after the UK’s withdrawal from the EU	19
Emotions and norms in the Syrian refugee crisis: the comparative responses of the EU and Turkey	18
Resisting domestic and external pressure towards de-Europeanization of foreign policy? The case of Estonia	18
Expertise, turnover and refreshment within the committees of the European Parliament: as much like Sisyphus pushing the boulder up the mountain as we may think?	17
Developing banking union’s common supervisory culture: a look into the ‘black box’ of joint supervisory teams	15
From projection to introspection: enlargement discourses since the ‘big bang’ accession	14
Do euro area institutions benefit the small member states?	14
Trans-governmental regulatory networks and the European Union’s involvement in global governance: an occasional instrument?	13
How ‘European sovereignty’ became mainstream: the geopoliticisation of the EU’s ’sovereign turn’ by pro-EU executive actors	12
‘J’accuse!’: whistleblowing, critical citizenship and the EU directive on whistleblowers’ protection	12

Analysing the European Union-Japan dialogue through the lenses of knowledge for development	11
Moral Hazard, central bankers, and Banking Union: professional dissensus and the politics of European financial system stability	11
Reform of global trade governance: the role of the European Union	11
Supranational authorities and private actors as drivers of single market integration? The state of the Union in electricity and banking	11
De-Europeanisation of Czech policy towards Eastern Partnership countries under populist leaders	11
Defending Europe from below: pro-European activism in Germany and the UK and its contribution to the politicisation of Europe	10
The parliamentary politics of the rule of law crisis in the EU	10
European solidarity and social class. An uneasy alliance	9
Explaining different usages of policy monitoring in the EU	9
The ECB as a banking supervisor: transparent compared to what?	9
Cross-border regionalism in the EU and ASEAN: another dimension of the “varieties of regionalism”	9
Embedding past, present and future crises: time and the political construction of the Covid-19 pandemic in the EU	9
A European labour market and nationally bounded welfare states. EU emigration and challenges to social citizenship	9
Back to the future: Twenty-five years later, relaunching the project of transforming the EU into an Area of Freedom, Security and Justice?	8
Crisis and paradigm change in the European semester: from austerity to investment-oriented policy ideas	8
From streets to parliament: understanding the mechanisms of protest impact on the policy-making process in the European Parliament’s TTIP debate	8
Running out the digital clock: transatlantic privacy politics and veto points in time	7
The EU’s different faces in climate diplomacy: leadership, interests, and responsibilities	7
The return of the commission social entrepreneurship before and after the Covid-19 pandemic	7
Knowledge power Europe	7
The COVID-19 pandemic and institutional change in the EU’s financial assistance regime: the governance of the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF)	7
Progressing regressively: conditional convergence and Europeanisation of tax mixes	6
The EU hotspot approach in Italy: strengthening agency governance in the wake of the migration crisis?	6
The European union: assessing global leadership through actorness in artificial intelligence	6
The European Union’s leadership in the eyes of others at the UN Human Rights Council	6
When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers: the Russo-Ukrainian conflict and the decentring-recentring conundrum in EU-Africa relations	6
Quiet early bird or loud late riser? Parliamentary activities and types of European Parliament involvement during the negotiation of international agreements	6
Competition policy and agent discretion: transatlantic regulatory cooperation in the digital economy	6
Bringing Independence and Accountability Together: Mission Impossible for the European Central Bank?	6
In Europe we trust: selecting and empowering EU institutions in disruptive circumstances	6
Strategising solidarity: an examination of the Visegrád group’s role and motivations in EU migration policies	6
The European Parliament and Fridays for Future: analysing reactions to a new environmental movement by Europe’s climate policy champion	6
The role of the European Central Bank in response to COVID19. An evaluation of its mandate	6
De facto differentiated disintegration in the European Union. The case of Poland	6
Watering down the ‘nuclear option’? The Council and the Article 7 dilemma	6
Europe, the MENA region and knowledge production	6
The path towards sustainable development in Europe: SDGs, EU institutions, and smart cities	5
The evolution of EU–US cybersecurity law and policy: on drivers of convergence	5
The growing pains of actorness: the European Union in global investment governance	5
Explaining the EU’s policy shift toward China: an institutional approach	5
It’s (not only) the economy, stupid: examining the European Central Bank’s marginal attention to the human and social implications of austerity during the euro-area crisis through the lens of organiza	5
Correction	5
The European Union’s nascent role in the field of collective defense: between deliberate and emergent strategy	5
Navigating widening and deepening: the European Council, geopolitical motives, and Union enlargement	5