OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Conflict Management and Peace Science 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
The conditions for war and peace in interstate crises: An Introduction to this special issue	17
Treaty legalization, security interests, and ratification of multilateral disarmament treaties	17
Double standard: Chinese public opinion on the Hong Kong protests	11
The duration of political imprisonment: Evidence from China	11
Revisiting the security–development nexus: Human security and the effects of IMF adjustment programmes	10
Fear, accessibility, and legitimacy: An examination of the effects of political violence on health security in Pakistan	9
Evaluating militant decision-making with information science: The Irish republican movement during the “Troubles”	8
Preface	7
The implementation of truth commission recommendations: Exploring the ‘beyond words’ database for Latin America	7
Judicial independence and refugee flights	6
How civilian attitudes respond to the state’s violence: Lessons from the Israel–Gaza conflict	6
Securing guarantees: How nuclear proliferation can strengthen great power commitments	5
States living in glasshouses …: Why fighting domestic insurgency changes how countries vote in the UN human rights council	5
Conditional cross-border effects of terrorism in China	5
The scars of violence and repression on founding elections: Evidence from Spain	5
The problem with accidental war	5
Morally opposed? A theory of public attitudes and emerging military technologies	4
Why gendered quantification trends are a problem: Post-traumatic growth arguments and the civil war malestream	4
Civil war and state support for conventional arms control	4
Ethnic preferences, domestic audiences and military coalition formation	4
The human cost of war: An experimental study of Taiwanese attitudes towards war casualties	4
Peace is in the air: Reducing conflict intensity with United Nations peacekeeping radio broadcasts	4
Arming to fight: Rebel-government militarization and the escalation of violence in civil wars	4
If we cooperate together, we intervene together: Defense cooperation agreements and support to conflict parties	4
Ideological motives and taxation by armed groups	3

Introduction to special issue: New research on leaders and peace science	3
Environmental shocks, civil conflict and aid effectiveness	3
The seasonality of conflict	3
Does a patron state's hardline posture reassure the public in an allied state?	3
Internal drivers of self-rule referendums	3
Trust, cooperation, and the tradeoffs of reciprocity	3
Threat perceptions, loyalties and attitudes towards peace: The effects of civilian victimization among Syrian refugees in Turkey	3
UN peacekeeping presence and local food security outcomes	3
Relative political capacity: A dataset to evaluate the performance of nations, 1960–2018	3
Hurting or healing? How conflict exposure and trauma (do not) shape support for truth commissions	3
Home market power and host market protection of foreign investment	2
Environmental pressures and pro-government militias: Evidence from the Philippines	2
`{peacesciencer}`: An R package for quantitative peace science research	2
The harsh face of the empire by invitation: Coups in the US world order	2
Explaining the conflicting behavior of inexperienced and experienced political elites	2
Politically active dyads revisited: An update through 2014	2
Economic crises, civilian mobilization, and repression in developing states	2
A certain gamble: Institutional change, leader turnover, and their effect on rivalry termination	2
Why incumbents perpetrate election violence during civil war	2
Media impact on perceptions in postwar societies: Insights from Nepal	2
A perfect match? The dampening effect of interethnic marriage on armed conflict in Africa	2
Women without a tactical advantage: Boko Haram's female suicide bombers	2
Exogenous factors and the crisis bargaining process	2
Measuring Chinese economic sanctions 1949–2020: Introducing the China TIES dataset	1
Major power politics and non-violent resistance movements	1
From participation to provision: How civil society secures procedural rights through peace negotiations	1
Female combatants and rebel group behaviour: Evidence from Nepal	1
Female fighters and the fates of rebellions: How mobilizing women influences conflict duration	1
Private military and security companies and human rights abuses: The impact of CEOs’ military background	1
Accountability and cyber conflict: examining institutional constraints on the use of cyber proxies	1
To sanction or not to sanction: Public attitudes on sanctioning human rights violations	1
Scientific intelligence, nuclear assistance, and bargaining	1
School of influence: Human rights challenges in US foreign military training	1
The die is cast? The origins of territorial claims & their escalation to military hostilities	1
The Militarized Interstate Events (MIE) dataset, 1816–2014	1
How leader's type shapes the effect of nuclear latency on dispute involvement	1
Against polarization	1
US global military deployments, 1950–2020^*	1
The importance of immigrants on American intervention in international crises	1
Preventive war and sovereign debt	1
The effect of economic coercion on companies’ foreign direct investment decisions: Evidence from sanctions against Russia	1
Trickledown politics: Do excluded ethnic groups benefit from non-violent national resistance campaigns?	1
Financial contributions to United Nations peacekeeping, 1990–2010: A new dataset	1
Fear of campaign violence and support for democracy and autocracy	1
Rugged terrain, forest coverage, and insurgency in Myanmar	1
Alliances, state preferences, and trade networks: The impact of United States sanctions on dual-use trade	1
Intervention, war expansion, and the international sources of civil war	1
Talking bodies: Hostage concessions in civil war	1
Punishment and blame: How core beliefs affect support for the use of force in a nuclear crisis	1
When do leader backgrounds matter? Evidence from the President’s Daily Brief	1

Rebel network theory: The case of Moro Islamic Liberation Front