OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of PS-Political Science & Politics 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Toward a Theory of Office: Authority, Separability, Ministry, Accountability	30
What We Do and Do Not Know about Democratic Backsliding	26
Negative Sentiment and Congressional Cue-Taking on Social Media	19
Reviewing and the State of the Discipline	18
The Representation of LGBTQ+ People in the US Labor Movement	15
Citations to the Publications of Male and Female Political Scientists Revisited	14
Legislative-Executive Paralysis in Kuwait	13
The Messenger Matters: Religious Leaders and Overcoming COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy	13
Movement and Countermovement Mobilization in the US Abortion Conflict	13
Measuring Gender in Comparative Survey Research	12
Rainbow Voices: LGBTQ Respondents in the 2020 Collaborative Multiracial Postelection Survey	12
Academic Solidarity in the Wake of Disaster: Blueprint for an Online Writing Support Group	9
Building Inclusion, Equity, and Diversity into Graduate Student Coauthorship	9
Developing a Critical Understanding of Environmental Activism through Active Learning	8
PSC volume 56 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	8
Wikipedia Edit-A-Thons: Sites of Struggle, Resistance, and Responsibility	8
PSC volume 57 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	8
From “Lab Rats” to “Mad Scientists”: Cultivating Agentic Learning Through Student-Led Simulation Redesign	8
Measuring Transgender and Nonbinary Identities in Online Surveys: Evidence from Two National Election Studies	7
Capturing Ethnic Diversity Among Black Respondents: A Black Immigrant Oversample	7
Combining Forecasts for the 2025 German Federal Election: The PollyVote	7
PSC volume 56 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	7
A Tool for Healthy Critique: Community Spaces for the Development of Non-Tenured Women of Color in Political Science	6
Scholarship on the Middle East in Political Science and International Relations: A Reassessment	6
What Happens When Mini-Publics Are Held in a Deeply Divided Place? Evidence from Northern Ireland	6

Party Ratings and Electoral Forecasting: The Case of the French Presidential Election of 2022	6
Murder in the Archive	6
House Republican Decision Making Following the Capitol Riot	6
Fostering Academic Excellence in Political Science: Insights from the European Research Council Grants	6
The Alphabet Mafia: Effectiveness of LGBTQ+ Interest Groups in Congress	6
Forecasting Popular Vote and Electoral College Vote Results: Partisan-Bounded Economic Model	6
Citizen Forecasting: The 2022 French Presidential Election	5
Defining Civically Engaged Research as Scholarship in Political Science	5
Academic Solidarity and the Culture War in Orbán’s Hungary	5
Norway: Strong Parliament Facing New Challenges	5
Data and Code Availability in Political Science Publications from 1995 to 2022 – ADDENDUM	5
Teaching Chinese Politics in the “New Cold War”: A Survey of Faculty	5
Creating Resource Pathways: Considering Opportunities and Funding Sources for Women of Color in the Discipline	5
Department Research Productivity in 19 Scholarly Political Science Journals (1990–2018)	5
Who Is Perceived as Deserving? How Social Identities Shape Attitudes about Disaster Assistance in the United States	5
What, Where, Who, and Why? An Empirical Investigation of Positionality in Political Science Field Experiments	5
Disproportionate Service: Considering the Impacts of George Floyd’s Death and the Coronavirus Pandemic for Women Academics and Faculty of Color	5
Governing Texas	5
Conclusion to the Spotlight “Dynamics in Legislative-Executive Relations: Global Outline for 2019-2024”	5
Multidimensional Constructions of Target Groups and Their Political Implications: The Case of Immigrant (Il)Legality	5
Research Adaptivity in Times of Disruption: Zig-Zagging Your Way through the Field During the COVID-19 Pandemic	4
A Call to APSA Part 1: Learn about Community College Faculty	4
Be Explicit: Identifying and Addressing Misaligned Goals in Collaborative Research Teams	4
Predicting Popular-vote Shares in US Presidential Elections: A Model-based Strategy Relying on Anes Data	4
The Fragility of the Local News Trust Advantage: Evidence from Republican Attacks on Local News	4
The Effect of Populist Incumbents on Democracy	4
How Divided Is Britain? Symbolic Boundaries and Social Cohesion in Post-Brexit Britain	4
Field Experiments in the Global South: Assessing Risks, Localizing Benefits, and Addressing Positionality	4
The Invincible Gender Gap in Political Ambition	4
The Substantive Effects of Descriptive Representation: Gay and Lesbian Members of Congress Are More Supportive of Gay Rights	4
A Baker’s Dozen: Insights into Taxation and Public Policy	4
Populists in Opposition: A Neglected Threat to Liberal Democracy?	4
The Impacts of Exclusion and Disproportionate Service on Women and Faculty of Color in Political Science	4
Minority Politics Online Seminar Series	4
Reclaiming Our Time and Labor: Contesting and Reframing Productivity Narratives in Political Science	4
Populism and democracy: The road ahead	4
PSC volume 56 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	3
Best Practices and the Need for Research on MA Degree Programs in Political Science	3
Learning by Doing: Using an Undergraduate Research Lab to Promote Diversity and Inclusion	3
Productive Learning Through Labs: Data Laboratories and Their Value in Undergraduate Education and Scholarly Research	3
Combatting Sexual Harassment in the Field Is Fundamental to the Research Enterprise – CORRIGENDUM	3
Gender Identification and Survey Weighting: A Shifting Landscape	3
PSC volume 57 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	3
Reciprocity, Incentives, and Off-Ramps: Faculty–Undergraduate Collaboration and Comparative Politics Research	3
The Publication Gender Gap, Collaboration, and an Index of Inclusion for Scholars Publishing Peer-Reviewed Research	3
A Message from the Guest Editors	3
Workshops Without Borders: Building an Online Community of Japan Scholars	3
Integrating Civic Engagement Into Scholarly Reward Systems	3
Democracies Not in Peril: Globalization and Tax Revenue	3
The Resilience of Democracy’s Third Wave	3

Still Marginalized? Gender and LGBTQIA+ Scholarship in Top Political Science Journals	3
The Textbook Road Taken	3
Climate Security: How to Write About the Future Without Lapsing into Prophecy	3
Collaborating on Research with Undergraduate Students: A Comparative Institutional-Racial Analysis	3
Introduction: The Politics of Abortion in the Americas	3
Escalating Political Violence and the Intersectional Impacts on Latinas in National Politics	3
The South African Parliament’s Capacity to Constrain the Executive Branch Weakened by a Dominant Party System	3
The Malapportionment of the US House of Representatives: 1940–2020	3
Introduction: The Import of Equity and Equality for All Political Scientists	3
On the Replicability of Data Collection Using Online News Databases	3
Introduction: Pandemic and Post-Pandemic Publication Patterns in Political Science	3
Examining Native Hawaiians Self-Identification and Political Relevance: Insights from the 2020 Collaborative Multicultural Post-Election Survey Native Hawaiians Oversample	3
Methodological Impasses: Facing Interrogation and Silence While Gathering Data on Sexual Violence in India	3
Integrating Digital and On-Site Fieldwork: Practical Solutions for Scholars with Limited On-Site Access	3
Teaching Undergraduates Research Methods: A “Methods Lab” Approach	3
Concrete Diversity Initiatives in Political Science: A Faculty Workload Intervention Program	3
Empowering Students to Have Difficult Conversations	3
Risk and Realism: Using a Board Game Mobile App to Illustrate an International Relations Theory	3
Integrating the Use of Statistical Software into Undergraduate Political Methodology Courses	3
Lisa Wedeen: Appreciations and Queries	3
Forecasting the 2022 French Presidential Election with a SUR Regionalized Model	3
The Physical Proximity of the Executive Branch to the Legislature: How close is too close? The Case of Australia	3
Hard Work and You Can’t Get It: An International Comparative Analysis of Gender, Career Aspirations, and Preparedness Among Politics and International Relations PhD Students	3
Politics and Religion’s Resilience During the COVID-19 Pandemic	2
A Political History Forecast of Bloc Support in the 2025 German Federal Election	2
PSC volume 56 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	2
Unequal Power Relations at the Center of Social Vulnerability to Climate Change: Empirical Insights from Coastal Bangladesh	2
On Research Ethics and Ethical Responsibilities: Facing Up to Sexual Harassment and Assault During Field Research	2
Synthesize This: Meta-Analysis as a Dissertation Tool	2
Clashes Involving National Popular Vote, Hare (“RCV”), Maine, Alaska	2
“Does it Matter…?” Political Theory in the Archives of William F. Buckley, Jr.	2
Accidental Scientists: How Undergraduate Research in Political Science Can Help to Patch the “Leaky Pipeline” in STEM Education	2
It’s all about the Money: Understanding how Black Women Fund their Campaigns	2
High-Tech Exports and Governance Institutions	2
Can Autocracy Handle Climate Change?	2
A Global Ranking of Research Productivity of Political Science Departments	2
Early-Career Graduate Preparation through the Gender and Political Participation Graduate Working Group	2
Explaining Gender Gap Variation in Political Science Knowledge Production	2
Community Engagement and State Legislative Research	2
Increasing Public Support for Transgender Rights through Superordinate LGBT+ Rights Framing: Evidence from a US Survey Experiment on Transgender Participation in Sports	2
Context Matters: Understanding Student Usage, Skills, and Attitudes Toward AI to Inform Classroom Policies	2
New Voices of Inquiry: How the Inclusive Classroom Catalyzes Innovative Research	2
Between Hope and Disaffection: The Chilean Constitution-Making Process and the Intermediation Crisis	2
Statement of Philosophy and Mission	2
Conclusion: What we Learned and the Path Forward	2
Forecasting Bloc Support in German Federal Elections: A Political-History Model	2
Teaching Econometrics Dynamically with R-Shiny	2
Teamwork within a Senior Capstone Course: Implementation and Assessment	2
Software Citations in Political Science	2
Constitution-Making in the 21st Century: Lessons from the Chilean Process	2
Thoughts on Textbook Writing	2
China on Campus: A Conversation with China Scholars of Asian Heritage	2
The Disruptive Effects of Polarization on the Law-Making Process	2
Climate, Conflict, and Context: Reevaluating Americans’ Support for Refugees	2
Underestimated but Undeterred: The 27th Amendment and the Power of Tenacious Citizenship	2
Everywhere and Nowhere: Information Literacy in the Political Science Classroom	2
A Call to APSA Part 2: Bring in Community College Faculty	2
Funding-Model Changes at Hungarian Universities: Greater Autonomy?	2
The Legislative–Executive Relations in Poland in 2019–2024: A Multilevel Perspective	2
Who Sets the Agenda? Participation Asymmetries in the Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress in the 116th Congress	2
Choosing Reviewers: Predictors of Undergraduate Manuscript Evaluations	2
Forecasting Partisan Collective Accountability during the 2024 US Presidential and Congressional Elections	2
Role-Play Simulations for Decision Making in Contexts of Uncertainty: Challenges and Strategies When Engaging Elites as Participants	2
How the Media Uses the Phrase “Identity Politics”	2
The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education: The Case of Armenia	2
“Less Stress, More Confidence”: Supporting Junior Scholars Online at the Graduate Student International Political Economy Workshop	2
Explaining Partisan Gaps in Satisfaction with Democracy after Contentious Elections: Evidence from a US 2020 Election Panel Survey	2
Experiences of Scholars Working at the Nexus of Legislative Studies and REP Research: A Message from the Guest Editors	2
Cultivating a Beginner’s Mind: How Textbook Writing Improves Our Undergraduate Teaching	2
The Trump Effect: How 2016 Campaign Rallies Explain Spikes in Hate	2
Political Scientists’ Public Involvement and the Meanings of Democratic Education: Critical Questions from Poland	2
Introduction: Diversity and Inclusion in Political Science as a Profession	2
Teaching Computational Social Science for All	2
Organizational Identity and Positionality in Randomized Control Trials: Considerations and Advice for Collaborative Research Teams	2
Testing ChatGPT in International Relations Classrooms: Potentialities, Limitations, and What’s Next	2
A Global Ranking of Research Productivity of Political Science Departments – CORRIGENDUM	2