OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Australian Journal of Political 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The use of social media in political mobilisation: the case of WeChat in New Zealand politics	24
Tax credits as a mechanism for political party funding in Aotearoa New Zealand: an exploratory study	15
From ‘Lost Decade’ to incomplete ‘transformation’: Australian climate policy via ideas, interests, and institutions	14
Narratives and counter-narratives of political strategy: revisiting Australia's carbon pollution reduction scheme	13
A typology of civil society organisation activities: a multi-grounded theory approach to what CSOs do	12
Religion and politics after marriage equality in Australia: contemporary challenges in the politics of religious freedom	12
Fake news and democracy: definitions, impact and response	9
The looks and likes of a political winner: do social media engagement and electoral success go together?	8
Framing sexual and gender-based violence: Australia Day, nationalism and conservative prime ministerial policy discourse	8
Transforming masculinities after scandal: the response to Australia’s war crimes in Afghanistan and the possibility of change in military masculinities	8
The politicising spark? Exploring the impact of #MeToo on the gender equality discourse in Australian print media	8
Securitisation via functional actors and authoritarian resilience: collapse of the Kurdish peace process in Turkey	7
Municipality size and political participation: evidence from Australia	7
The war on woke: continuity and change in Australian anti-elitist discourses	7
Mobilising LGBTIQA+ issues in Australian Liberal/National Party politics: from same-sex marriage to anti ‘gender ideology’	7
The third sector and democracy in Australia: neoliberal governance and the repression of advocacy	7
Interpretation and political science in Australia	6
What is misinformation and disinformation? Understanding multi-stakeholders’ perspectives in the Asia Pacific	6
Do voters support democracy at all costs? Input and output legitimacy in Australia and the United Kingdom	6
Prime-ministerial leadership rankings: the Australian experience	5
Populist politics, COVID-19, and fake news: The case of Craig Kelly	5
The Andrews government and the rise of Rentier capitalism in Victoria	5
How should we interpret narratives of political strategy for climate policy? A response to Pearse and Jackson	5
The relationship between neoliberal ideology and state practice: corporate power in the Australian mining industry	5
Legislators’ accountability for issue stances: evidence from Australia’s Marriage Law Postal Survey	5

Gendered mundanities: gender bias in student evaluations of teaching in political science	5
Agenda setting, framing and wage theft in Australia	5
Recognition but few rewards: a 40-year review of the impact of the Australian women in agriculture movement	4
Looking through the ‘Window on the House’: assessing the standard of Question Time in the Australian House of Representatives, 1991–2020	4
A return to the classics? The implementation of royal commissions in Australia	4
Evaluating Australia’s consular management of cases of wrongful and arbitrary detention	4
Beyond Robodebt and towards restored trust: exploring universal basic income as a counterpoint for Australian women	4
Large firms in Australian politics: the institutional dynamics of the government relations function	4
Climbing out from being thrown under the bus: queer faith futures in a transphobic political world	4
What can be learned about Australian values in comparing referendums on Indigenous inclusion and recognition?	4
What’s to know about politics? Positivism and tradition in Australian undergraduate programme and course descriptions	4
Singing from the same song sheet: paradiplomacy and federalism in an era of weaponised interdependence	3
The (un)lucky country: the problem of the single antipodean case study and what to do about it	3
Information and campaign effects in the 2023 Australian Voice referendum	3
More choice for women? A discursive formation of the Howard government’s tax and transfer reforms	3
Chinese students in Australian election campaigns	3
Unsettling emotions: settler innocence in Australia Day debates	3
Out online: an analysis of tweets posted to LGBTQIA + Australian politicians during the 2022 federal election	3
Organising Australian far-right parties: Pauline Hanson’s One Nation and Fraser Anning’s Conservative National Party	2
Reopening to the world: how safety, normality and trust in government shape young adults’ COVID-19 vaccine intentions	2
Doorknocks and dog bandanas: a new conception of field campaigning activities	2
Representing rural Australia: political representation and rural discontent	2
Egalitarian nationhoods: a political theory in defence of the voice to parliament in the Uluru Statement from the Heart	2
The parliamentary voting behaviour of ‘teal’ independent MPs	2
Democracy and belief in conspiracy theories in New Zealand	1
Reform after Robodebt: lessons from the Netherlands	1
Finding meaning and political strategy in narratives about Australia’s carbon price: a reply to Newman	1
Getting straight to the source: who evaluates the leadership skills of premiers in Canada and Australia?	1
Parties vs. partisans: the real contest about what memes mean in election campaigns	1
Bridging the expectation gap: a survey of Australian PhD candidates and supervisors in politics and international relations	1
What Brereton obscures: why the killing of prisoners is not the only kind of war crime to be addressed	1
Path contingency: advancing a spatial-institutionalist perspective on decision pathways for disaster risk governance	1
‘Outside the wire’: Brereton and the dehumanization of Afghan civilians	1
Ignoring harm, saving face: non-knowledge, senior public servants and the Robodebt scheme	1
Political representation of Asian Australians in liberal nationalist multiculturalism	1
Is uncivil disobedience ‘phenomenologically accurate’ and ‘politically useful’? Reflections on uncivil disobedience based on the 2019 Hong Kong Protests	1
Political ambition and party ambiguity: the dilemma of representation in Latin America	1