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

Article	Citations
Conditional cross-border effects of terrorism in China	21
The duration of political imprisonment: Evidence from China	18
Undivine intervention: How social networks mediate the relationship between religious repression and political violence	12
Morally opposed? A theory of public attitudes and emerging military technologies	12
Revisiting the security–development nexus: Human security and the effects of IMF adjustment programmes	12
Does a patron state's hardline posture reassure the public in an allied state?	11
Politically active dyads revisited: An update through 2014	8
A certain gamble: Institutional change, leader turnover, and their effect on rivalry termination	8
When do leader backgrounds matter? Evidence from the President’s Daily Brief	7
The die is cast? The origins of territorial claims & their escalation to military hostilities	7
Rebel network theory: The case of Moro Islamic Liberation Front	7
From participation to provision: How civil society secures procedural rights through peace negotiations	7
Fear of campaign violence and support for democracy and autocracy	6
Donor political preferences and the allocation of aid: Patterns in recipient type	5
Punishment and blame: How core beliefs affect support for the use of force in a nuclear crisis	5
Unique offerings: Ideological competition and rebel governance	5
Nuclear weapons and interstate conflict behavior: The moderating influence of civil–military relations	5
The limits of shame: UN shaming, NGO repression, and women's protests	5
Rainfall shocks and state repression: How rainfall shocks incentivize governments to commit human rights abuses	4
Securing guarantees: How nuclear proliferation can strengthen great power commitments	4
Double standard: Chinese public opinion on the Hong Kong protests	4
Environmental pressures and pro-government militias: Evidence from the Philippines	4
Remittances, terrorism, and democracy	4
Judicial independence and refugee flights	4
Treaty legalization, security interests, and ratification of multilateral disarmament treaties	4

The conditions for war and peace in interstate crises: An Introduction to this special issue	4
Insecure fisheries: How illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing affects piracy	4
Crisis bargaining, domestic politics and Russia's invasion of Ukraine	4
Life after exile: Introducing a new dataset on post-exile fate	4
Hurting or healing? How conflict exposure and trauma (do not) shape support for truth commissions	4
Female combatants and rebel group behaviour: Evidence from Nepal	3
Financial contributions to United Nations peacekeeping, 1990–2010: A new dataset	3
Exogenous factors and the crisis bargaining process	3
Rebel institutions and negotiated peace	3
Assessing border walls’ varied impacts on terrorist group diffusion	3
Private military and security companies and human rights abuses: The impact of CEOs’ military background	3
If we cooperate together, we intervene together: Defense cooperation agreements and support to conflict parties	3
Regional approaches to conflict prevention: The effectiveness of rhetorical and diplomatic tools	3
Turning the lights on to keep them in the fold: How governments preempt secession attempts	3
Intervention, war expansion, and the international sources of civil war	3
Using committee amendments to improve estimates of state foreign policy preferences	3
Endogenous military strategy and crisis bargaining	3
Beyond deterrence: Uncertain stability in the nuclear era	3
The problem with accidental war	2
Delegative peacebuilding: Explaining post-conflict selective violence	2
Ethnic preferences, domestic audiences and military coalition formation	2
How leader's type shapes the effect of nuclear latency on dispute involvement	2
The implementation of truth commission recommendations: Exploring the ‘beyond words’ database for Latin America	2
The human cost of war: An experimental study of Taiwanese attitudes towards war casualties	2
The harsh face of the empire by invitation: Coups in the US world order	2
A perfect match? The dampening effect of interethnic marriage on armed conflict in Africa	2
Secessionist conflict as diversion from inequality: The missing link between grievance and repression	2
Hitting back or holding back in cyberspace: Experimental evidence regarding Americans’ responses to cyberattacks	2
Relative political capacity: A dataset to evaluate the performance of nations, 1960–2018	2
Why gendered quantification trends are a problem: Post-traumatic growth arguments and the civil war malestream	2
Ripe moments for terror attacks: Opportunity benefits–reputation tradeoff	1
Attention beyond the battlefield: Voters’ responses to foreign military investments	1
Why incumbents perpetrate election violence during civil war	1
Talking bodies: Hostage concessions in civil war	1
Measuring Chinese economic sanctions 1949–2020: Introducing the China TIES dataset	1
International virtue signaling: How female combatants shape state support for armed rebellion	1
Violence, co-optation, and postwar voting in Guatemala	1
Creating (with) community: The value of collaboration in peace Science	1
States living in glasshouses …: Why fighting domestic insurgency changes how countries vote in the UN human rights council	1
Pro-government militias and civil war termination	1
Preventive war and sovereign debt	1
`{peacesciencer}`: An R package for quantitative peace science research	1
Peacekeeping operations and shadow economy growth in host countries	1
The scars of violence and repression on founding elections: Evidence from Spain	1
External intelligence assistance and the recipient government’s violence against civilians	1
Lethal aid and human security: The effects of US security assistance on civilian harm in low- and middle-income countries	1
The asymmetry of war support: Evidence from private donations to Ukraine	1
Rugged terrain, forest coverage, and insurgency in Myanmar	1
How exposure to wartime violence shapes conflict resolution preferences	1
US global military deployments, 1950–2020^*	1

Human rights organizations and transitional justice agenda-setting: Evidence from peace agreement provisions	1
The Ethnic Stacking in Africa Dataset: When leaders use ascriptive identity to build military loyalty	1