OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Terrorism and Political Violence is 2. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Understanding Territorial Withdrawal: Israeli Occupations and Exits	42
Selective Visibility: How Newsworthiness Shapes Unattributed Violence Across Terrorist Tactics in Open-Source Data	37
The Mathematics of Political Mayhem: A Computational Model for Predicting Stochastic Violence	32
The Peace Formula: Voice, Work and Warranties, Not Violence	27
Exploring the Intersection of Environmental Events and Domestic Political Violence in the United States	21
Social Learning Theory and Racial Extremist Ideologies: Differing Learning Processes for Youth/Young Adults Compared to Older Adults	17
Image Content Indicators of Extremist Group Evolution: A Comparative Study of MENA-Based and Far-Right Groups	16
Losing Hearts and Minds: Civil Conflict, Counterinsurgency Policing and Postwar Crime in Insurgent Strongholds	16
The Relational Dimension of Radicalization: Context and Tie Formation in Dutch Salafi-Jihadi Networks	16
Mobilizing for Jihad: How Political Exclusion and Organized Protest Contribute to Foreign Fighter Outflows	14
Assessing Violence Risk among Far-Right Extremists: A New Role for Natural Language Processing	14
Racist and Anti-diversity Attitudes as Predictors of Support for Political Violence among Supporters of Mainstream Political Parties	13
Citizenship, Family Law, and the Repatriation of Islamic State Affiliates in MENA	12
Four Typologies of Leadership Applied to a Survey of the Provisional IRA and Sinn Féin in the Troubles	12
A Call to Dissent: Defending Democracy Against Extremism and Populism	11
Psychopathologies Among European Women Involved in Islamist Radicalization: A Review	10
How do Militant Organizations Respond to Counterterrorism? Introducing the LIVE Typology, with Examples from Proscription in Pakistan	10
Ideology and Cognitive Complexity in Terrorism: Insights from a Terrorist Rehabilitation Program	10
Climate Migration: Adding Fuel to the Ethnocentric Fire	9
Deconstructing Fears of Terrorism: A Comparison between Fear from Domestic and International Terrorist Groups	9
“Why We Have Become Revolutionaries and Murderers”: Radicalization, Terrorism, and Fascism in the Ustaša–Croatian Revolutionary Organization	9
The Rhetoric of Radicalism: The Anti-Colonial Inspiration Behind Osama bin Laden’s Ideology	9
Countering ISIS Finances: A New Paradigm of Success	8
Time Is of the Essence: Temporality and Competition as Drivers of Terrorist Credit-Taking	8
Foreign Fighter Mobilization: YPG Volunteers in Their Own Words	8

Ceasefires: Stopping the Violence and Negotiating Peace	7
Developmental and Biographical Issues in Radicalization Pathways: A Comparative Case Analysis of Homegrown German Convicts of Islamist Terrorism-Related Offenses	7
The Coercion-Manipulation-Persuasion Framework: Analyzing the Modus Operandi of Systems of Non-State Actors	7
Elections and Anti-Refugee Violence in Germany from 2014-2020	7
The Word and the Bullet: Out-Grouping and Threat Framing as Predictors of Islamic State Targeting, 2015–2020	7
A Conversation with Professor Max Taylor	6
Politico-Ideological Mobilisation and Violence in the Arab World: All In	6
Portugal’s Forgotten Overseas Wars in the 20th Century	6
South Sudan’s Injustice System. Law and Activism on the Frontline	6
When Do Radical Flanks Use Violence? Conditions for Violent Protest in Radical Left-Libertarian Activism in Sweden, 1997–2016	6
Belief and Behavior in Radicalization: Clarifying the Link in Response to Peels	6
The Radical Redemption Model: Terrorist Beliefs and Narratives	6
Croatian Radical Separatism and Diaspora Terrorism During the Cold War	6
When Home Disappears: South Asia and the Growing Risk of Climate Conflict	6
Assessing the Validity of Open-Source Biographical Data in Terrorism Research	6
Innovation and Organisational Survival in Terrorist Groups: Evidence from the PKK	6
Correction	5
Public Perceptions of What Qualifies as Terrorism Across Similar Countries with Diverse Terrorism Experiences	5
Predicting Novel Terrorism: Media Coverage as Early-Warning System of Novelty in Terror Attacks	5
Retribution versus Rehabilitation for Children within Insurgency: Public Attitudes Toward ISIS-Affiliated Youth in Mosul, Iraq	5
Theories of Civilian Victimization: Constraint, Control, or Contestation? Evidence from Afghanistan	5
Boko Haram’s Child Soldiers: Media Mujahids, Martyrs, and Militants	5
Religious Redemption as the Motivation for the Jihadist Crime-Terrorism Nexus: A Critical Inquiry	4
Dogs and Cats Living Together? Explaining the Crime-Terror Nexus	4
Measuring the Potential for Hateful Behaviours: Development and Validation of the Hate Behaviours Scale (HBS)	4
Gathering Storm: An Introduction to the Special Issue on Climate Change and Terrorism	4
How Terror Evolves: The Emergence and Spread of Terrorist Techniques	4
Success or Shirking in Terror: Control Mechanisms in State Sponsored Terrorism	4
What Is Deradicalization? Translating Security Practices in the Maghreb and the Sahel	4
Conceptualizing Election-Related Violence	4
What Drives Counter-Extremism? The Extent of P/CVE Policies in the West and Their Structural Correlates	4
Killing Strangers: How Political Violence Became Modern	3
PTSD and Coping Strategies Among Palestinian University Students During Political Violence: A Cross Sectional Study	3
Shaykh Yusuf al-Qaradawi: Spiritual Mentor of Wasati Salafism	3
Examining the Persisting and Desisting Online Posting Behaviors of Violent and Non-Violent Right-Wing Extremists	3
White Jihad: Fused Extremism?	3
Seeing through Troubled Water: Proposing a Narrow Focus on Behavioral Warning Signals for the Prevention of Terrorist Violence	3
Watching Murder: ISIS, Death Videos and Radicalization Watching Murder: ISIS, Death Videos and Radicalization , by Simon Cottee, New York, NY, Routledge, 2022, 156 pp.,	3
Perceived Policy Illegitimacy Leads to Acceptance of Political Violence: Evidence from a Nationally Representative Survey Experiment in Denmark	3
Part-Time Foreign Jihadist Fighters in the Syrian Civil War	3
Does Incapacitation Effectively Deter the Occurrence of Terror Attacks? Israel as a Case Study	3
(De)legitimization of Private Soldiers without Legal Status: The Case of Ukraine	3
The Gangster and the Bride: The Media Representation of Masculinity and Femininity in News Coverage of Jihadi Terrorists	3
Super Mad at Everything All the Time: Political Media and Our National Anger	3
To Be Experienced or Not? Unpacking the Relationship between Leader Tenure and Counterinsurgency Efforts	3
Perspectives on Violent Extremism: Insights from Swedish Population Registers in a Global Comparison	3
Contentious Rituals: Parading the Nation in Northern Ireland	3
Silent Sympathy: News Attention, Subtle Support for Far-Right Extremism, and Negative Attitudes Toward Muslims	3
Targeting Taxonomy and Patterns of Political Violence in Stable Societies: Evidence from the Far Right in Italy	3
How to Make Sense of it All: A Feasibility Study of Meaning-Centered Interventions in Deradicalization Counseling	3

Drone Activity and Cyber Terrorism Cyber Enigma: Unravelling the Terror in the Cyber World , by E. Dilipraj, New York, NY Routledge, 2019, 262 pp., $155.00 (hardcover),	2
Why Do Online Countering Violent Extremism Strategies Not Work? The Case of Digital Jihad	2
Assessing Racial and Ethnically Motivated Extremist Cyberattacks Using Open Source Data	2
Non-Western Responses to Terrorism Non-Western Responses to Terrorism , edited by Michael J. Boyle, Manchester, England, Manchester University Press, 2019, 504 pp., $36.	2
Psychological Dynamics of Terrorism: Insights from Individuals Exposed to Extremist Activities Embedded in Conflict-Prone Environments	2
Regime Type of Foreign Supporters of Resistance Movements and its Impact on State Repression	2
“What Made Me Change”: Transformative Experiences in the Jihadist Radicalization Process	2
Reluctant Spies: The Role of Neighbourhood Leaders in Indonesia’s PVE Strategy	2
U.S. Homegrown Political Violence and Terrorism	2
The Representational Strategies of Lionization and Victimization in ISIS’s Online Magazine, Dabiq	2
Monsters to Destroy: Understanding the War on Terror	2
Needs, Rights and Systems: Increasing Canadian Intimate Bystander Reporting on Radicalizing to Violence	2
Why They Fight: Ideology and Terrorist Motivation	2
Never-Ending War on Terror	2
Hate Crime in Northern Ireland: The Need for Legislation and a Bespoke Version of the Prevent Strategy	2
Local Conditions for Anti-immigrant Violence: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) of Asylum Housing Attacks in Sweden	2
Cognitive Distortions in Men Who Have Exited White Supremacist Groups	2
Linking Conspiracy Beliefs and Violent Anti-Government Extremism: Mitigating the Threat with Procedurally Just Governance	2
Why do Insurgents Target Religion? The Case of Shining Path in Peru	2
The Role of Honeypots and Sabotage in State-Based Operations Against Online Jihadism, 2001-2020	2
Expressions of Radicalization: Global Politics, Processes and Practices	2
Nativist and Islamist Radicalism: Anger and Anxiety	2
Non-State Special Operations: Capabilities and Effects	2
The Violence of Peace: Post Good Friday Agreement Paramilitary Vigilantism in Northern Ireland	2
Longevity of Partnering Terrorist Organization: An Empirical Study Using A Network Diffusion Model	2
Pulling the Brakes on Political Violence: How Internal Brakes Limited Violent Escalation from the Provisional IRA in Pre- and Post-Good Friday Northern Ireland	2
Islam, State, and Terrorism: A Quantitative Analysis	2
Gendered Narratives and Misogyny as Motivators Towards Violent Extremism: The Case of Far-Right Extremism in the UK and Australia	2
Deterring Terrorism: A Model for Strategic Deterrence	2
Automating Terror: The Role and Impact of Telegram Bots in the Islamic State’s Online Ecosystem	2