OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Studies in Conflict & Terrorism 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
A Front Row Seat at the End of History: In Memoriam David Martin Jones	24
From Mobilization to Annihilation: The Strategic Logics of Bioterrorism	23
Using Agent Based Modelling to Advance Evaluation Research in Radicalization and Recruitment to Terrorism: Prospects and Problems	13
We Protect Us: Cyber Persistent Digital Antifascism and Dual Use Knowledge	13
Anatomy of Terrorist Cells: A Critical Examination and Identified Gaps in Current Research	11
How Do Offender Ideology and Offense Severity Impact Punitive Attitudes Toward Politically Motivated Offenders in the U.S.?	10
Investigating the Influence of Islamic State’s Discourse in Jordan	10
Debates and Controversies over the Legitimacy of “Internet Sources” in Scholarship on Jihadism: The Online Dimension in the Persistence of the “Al-Qaeda Narrative” in Boko Haram Studies	10
Disengaging from Left-Wing Terrorism and Extremism: Field Experiences from Germany and Research Gaps	10
Composite Violent Extremism: Conceptualizing Attackers Who Increasingly Challenge Traditional Categories of Terrorism	10
Siege: “Sheer Political Terror”	9
From Spiral to Stasis? United Kingdom Counter-Terrorism Legislation and Extreme Right-Wing Terrorism	9
A Mixed Methods Exploration of the Relationship between Target Hardening and Differential Terrorist Attack Outcomes	8
Examining the Outcome of Investigations and Prosecutions of Extremism in the United States	8
The ONA Network and the Transnationalization of Neo-Nazi-Satanism	8
Discussing Terrorism in the Classroom – Adopting an Empathizing and Historical Perspective: A Research Note	7
Beyond Healthy Skepticism: Exploring German News Media Framing of Terrorism-Affiliated Women Returnees	7
The COVID-19 Pandemic: Catalyst or Complication for Bioterrorism?	7
The Trouble with Numbers: Difficult Decision Making in Identifying Right-Wing Terrorism Cases. An Investigative Look at Open Source Social Scientific and Legal Data	7
Violent Extremism in Bima, Indonesia: Radical Milieu and Peacebuilding Efforts	7
Inter-Secular Party Competition and the (Non-)Formation of Salafi-Jihadist Milieus: Evidence from Tanzania and Kenya	7
Fragile States, Technological Capacity, and Increased Terrorist Activity	6
Too Close for Comfort: Cyber Terrorism and Information Security across National Policies and International Diplomacy	6
State Accompli: The Political Consolidation of the Islamic State Prior to the Caliphate	6
Listening to the “Voice of Islam”: The Turkestan Islamic Party’s Online Propaganda Strategy	6

Female Combatants and Durability of Civil War	6
Keeping the Ex-Enemy Close but Not in My Backyard	6
The Model Muslim Minority: Wasatiyah (Justly-Balanced) as a Counter-Ideology Tool in Singapore	5
Jihadist Ideological Conflict and Local Governance in Mali	5
Supply and Demand: Drivers of Women Non-Combat Participation in Rebel Groups	5
Fighting over International Legitimacy: Testing Israel’s Image War Strategies During the 2023–24 War Between Hamas and Israel	5
Transnational Jihad as a Bundled Conflict-Constellation	5
Blueprints for Red Insurgencies: Revolutionary Ideology and Strategy in India and Colombia	4
Social Cohesion and Collective Violence: Latent Variable Approach to Explaining Riots in East Jerusalem	4
Financing of Non-State Armed Groups in the Middle East: Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) as a Case Study	4
Looking for Individual-Level Evidence for the Ethnic Security Dilemma Revisited: A Study of Balochistan	4
Willingness to Engage in Religious Collective Action: The Role of Group Identification and Identity Fusion	4
Two Sides of the Same Coin? A Largescale Comparative Analysis of Extreme Right and Jihadi Online Text(s)	4
Complexity, Lethality, and the Perverse Imagination: Modelling Nonstate Actors’ Means of Attack	4
A Framework for Explaining National P/CVE Programs: A Case Study of Kazakhstan	4
Down the “Rabbit Hole” of Conspiracy-Fueled White Nationalism: Linking Outgroup Threat and Uncertainty to Conspiracy Beliefs and Prejudice Toward Immigrants	3
How Proximity and Space Matter: Exploring Geographical & Social Contexts of Radicalization in Northern Ireland	3
Violent and Nonviolent Strategies of Terrorist Organizations: How Do Mixed Strategies Influence Terrorist Recruitment and Lethality?	3
“ The Smallest Act You Do in Their Lands is More Beloved to Us than the Biggest Act Done Here”: When Do an Armed Movement’s Transnational Supporters Turn to Terrorism at Home?	3
Barriers to Entry to Jihadist Activism on the Internet	3
The Ideology That Binds Us: Homophily in Ideology and Terrorists Collaborations	3
Developing a Responsive Regulatory Approach to Online Terrorist Content on Tech Platforms	3
Artificial Intelligence as a Terrorism Enabler? Understanding the Potential Impact of Chatbots and Image Generators on Online Terrorist Activities	3
Bangsamoro Separatism and Classical Counterinsurgency: Reconsidering Revolutionary War in the Southern Philippines	3
Strengths and Weaknesses of Using Register Data to Study Extremism and Terrorism	3
Time to Bear Arms: An Exploration of Time Suspensions Between Lone Mass Shooting Attacks in the US and When the Perpetrator Acquired Their Weapons	3
Violent Islamism and Shame-Inducing Narratives	3
Blended Legacies : Vietnamese and Other Foreign Influences on the FARC-EP	3
Influences of Islamist Radicalization: A Configurational Analysis of Balkan Foreign Fighters in Syria	3
The Role of Socioeconomic Marginalization in the Radicalization of Jihadi Foreign Fighters from Europe	3
How War in Yemen Transformed the Iran-Houthi Partnership	3
Explaining the Rise of Antisemitism in the United States	3
Fight or Hide: Why Organized Criminal Groups Go to War with the State	3
The Ghost in the Machine: Counterterrorism in the Age of Artificial Intelligence	3
Nobody More Terrible than the Desperate: Conflict Conditions and Rebel Demand for Foreign Fighters	3
Policing of the Far-Right Online: The Cases of the UK and Hungary	3
Counterterrorism and Modern White Supremacy	3
Contested Victimhood: (Un)Courting Victims of Terrorism in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict	3
Indonesian Jihadi Training Camps: Home and Away	2
Mechanisms of 3N Model on Radicalization: Testing the Mediation by Group Identity and Ideology of the Relationship between Need for Significance and Violent Extremism	2
Hospital Attacks Since 9/11: An Analysis of Terrorism Targeting Healthcare Facilities and Workers	2
Palestinian Lone Assailants, 2015–2023: Suicide, Legitimacy Communities and Duped Attackers	2
Moral Policing of Gender Norms: Honor-Based Violence as a Mobilizing Factor Towards Militant Islamism	2
Civil-Military Relations and Civilian Victimization in Civil War	2
Postage Stamps as Political and Religious Propaganda: The Case of Hamas	2
Five Decades of Research on Women and Terrorism	2
Warscapes and Reticulating Inhumanities: Ethnographic Lessons from Shia Militancy	2
Understanding PKK, Kurdish Hezbollah and ISIS Recruitment in Southeastern Turkey	2
The Islamic State’s Visions of Political Community and Statehood and Their Articulation Vis-à-Vis Nationalism	2
Masculinities and Disengagement from Jihadi Networks: The Case of Indonesian Militant Islamists	2

The Elusive Promise of “Over-the-Horizon” Counterterrorism	2
The Effects of Social Media, Elites, and Political Polarization on Civil Conflict	2
The Wagner Group in Africa: Russia’s Quasi-State Agent of Influence	2
Refugees, Perceived Threat & Domestic Terrorism	2
Assessing Evaluative Practice in Protective Security	2
The Order of Nine Angles: Cosmology, Practice & Movement	2
Primed for Violence: Intrareligious Conflict and the State in Sectarian Societies	2
Exploring the Nexus between Armed Groups and the Trafficking and Smuggling of Human Beings in the Central Sahel and Libya	2
Community, More than Conviction: Understanding Radicalisation Factors for Young People in Australia	2
Tugging on Superman’s Cape: Why Some Insurgencies Are Targets of Foreign Militaries	2
Social Cleavages and Armed Group Consolidation: The Case of Khalifa Haftar’s Libyan Arab Armed Forces	2
Is He /ourguy/, a False Flag, or Something Else? Debating Breivik’s and Tarrant’s Terrorism on 4chan’s /pol/ Board	2
The Constraints Hypothesis: Rethinking Causality in Deradicalisation, Disengagement and Reintegration Pathways. A Complex Systems Perspective	2
And the Last Straw Falls: The Cumulative Influence of Disillusionment among Former Viet Cong Insurgents	2
State Legitimacy and Counterinsurgency: A Comparative Perspective	2
Foreshadowing Terror: Exploring the Time of Online Manifestos Prior to Lone Wolf Attacks	2
Conventional Insurgents: Understanding al-Shabaab’s Mass Attacks against African Union Bases in Somalia	2
Beyond “Leaderless Resistance”? Toward a Typology for White Supremacist Extremist Leadership	2