OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Studies in Conflict & Terrorism is 3. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Financing of Non-State Armed Groups in the Middle East: Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) as a Case Study	37
Look Mom I’m On TV: Crowd-Sourced Policing, Social Media, and the Prosecution of January 6 Capitol Defendants	35
Fighting over International Legitimacy: Testing Israel’s Image War Strategies During the 2023–24 War Between Hamas and Israel	25
Supply and Demand: Drivers of Women Non-Combat Participation in Rebel Groups	22
Complicating Convergence: A Micro-Ethnography of Neo-Fascist Accelerationist Views of Militant Islam on Terrorgram	21
Policing of the Far-Right Online: The Cases of the UK and Hungary	16
The Elusive Promise of “Over-the-Horizon” Counterterrorism	14
How Governments Ensure the Loyalty of Pro-Government Militias: Evidence from Chechnya	14
Conventional Insurgents: Understanding al-Shabaab’s Mass Attacks against African Union Bases in Somalia	13
Who is “Rustam”: Enablers’ Role in the Islamic State Khorasan’s Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures	13
Under the Radar: Exploring the Salafi-Jihadi Terrorist Information Ecosystem on TikTok	12
“ 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?	12
The Order of Nine Angles: Cosmology, Practice & Movement	12
Maintaining Course or Righting the Ship? Examining Adjustments in Al-Qaeda’s Communicative Approach	11
Exploring the Motivation of the United Kingdom’s Domestic Extremist Informants	11
Examining Online Behaviors of Violent and Non-Violent Right-Wing Extremists During Peak Posting Days	10
The Social Identity Analytical Method: Facilitating Social Science-Based Practitioner Analysis of Violent Substate Conflict	9
“The Road to Jerusalem Goes through Cairo”: Exploring Israel’s Counter-Militancy Efforts against Sinai Peninsula-Based Threats	8
Gender, Agency, and Accountability for ISIS Violence: Public Perspectives from Mosul, Iraq	8
Rebel Recruitment and Governance: Examining the Relationship Between Mobilization Strategies and the Provision of Social Services to Civilians	8
Remembering a Road: How One U.S. Development Project Provides Insight into America’s Complicated Legacy in Afghanistan	8
Special Issue on Radical and Militant Islamism in Indonesia	8
Pathways of Foreign Fighters: An in-Depth and Comparative Study Based on Dutch Probation Files	7
Conflict, Corruption, and White-Collar Crime: Understanding Illicit Practices in War-Torn Areas	7
Reviewed Work: Weaponized Words: The Strategic Role of Persuasion in Violent Radicalization and Counter-Radicalization by Kurt Braddock	7

Counterproductive Counterinsurgents: The Link Between Military Politicization and Counterinsurgency Effectiveness	6
The Ideological Indoctrination through ISIS Textbooks	6
Is the U.S. Heading for a Civil War? Scenarios for 2024-25	6
Women in Militant Movements: The Role of the State in Driving Recruitment	6
Reassessing Core Perceptions of Evolving Threats Following the October 7th Attacks	6
Online and Social Media News Usage, Conspiratorial Attitudes and Fear of Terrorism	6
What Do Overrepresented and Underrepresented Groups Tell Us About Risks for Involvement in Islamist Extremism?	6
We Protect Us: Cyber Persistent Digital Antifascism and Dual Use Knowledge	5
How Do Offender Ideology and Offense Severity Impact Punitive Attitudes Toward Politically Motivated Offenders in the U.S.?	5
Foreign Military Aid, War-Induced Economy, and Terrorism in Afghanistan	5
Beyond “Leaderless Resistance”? Toward a Typology for White Supremacist Extremist Leadership	5
Warscapes and Reticulating Inhumanities: Ethnographic Lessons from Shia Militancy	4
Assessing Evaluative Practice in Protective Security	4
Developing a Responsive Regulatory Approach to Online Terrorist Content on Tech Platforms	4
Postage Stamps as Political and Religious Propaganda: The Case of Hamas	4
“Among the World’s Most Powerful”: Analyzing the Evolution of Iran’s Cyber Espionage, Disruption, and Information Operations Capabilities	4
The Strategic Origins of Hamas’s October 7 Attack	4
Moral Policing of Gender Norms: Honor-Based Violence as a Mobilizing Factor Towards Militant Islamism	4
The Effects of Social Media, Elites, and Political Polarization on Civil Conflict	4
Time to Bear Arms: An Exploration of Time Suspensions Between Lone Mass Shooting Attacks in the US and When the Perpetrator Acquired Their Weapons	4
Is He /ourguy/, a False Flag, or Something Else? Debating Breivik’s and Tarrant’s Terrorism on 4chan’s /pol/ Board	4
Blended Legacies : Vietnamese and Other Foreign Influences on the FARC-EP	4
Community, More than Conviction: Understanding Radicalisation Factors for Young People in Australia	3
Socio-Semantic Network Analysis for Extremist and Terrorist Online Ecosystems	3
From Control to Conflict: A Spectrum and Framework for Understanding Government-Militia Relationships	3
Red Pill Stories: British Neo-Nazis’ Narratives of Radicalization	3
TamTam: The Online Drums of Hate	3
Risk of Romani Radicalization in the Balkans: Freeing the Shackles of a Marginalized Identity	3
3D-Printed Firearms: Global Proliferation Trends and Analyses	3
The False Promise of Foreign Fighters: The Effect of Somali Foreign Fighters on Civilian Victimization	3
Spurious Correlations in Terrorism Studies	3
From Democratic Resistance to Hostility against a “Covid-Regime” – Conspiracy Theories as Cross-Milieu Catalysts of Radicalization	3
The Benefits and Challenges of Classroom-Based Surveys for the Study of Radicalization and Extremism among Adolescents	3
Outsourcing Terror: How the Islamic State Tried to Spread Terrorism to Neighboring Jordan	3
Data Collection in Online Terrorism and Extremism Research: Strengths, Limitations, and Future Directions	3
Hardship is Part of Jihad: ISIS-Affiliated Women in the Al-Hol Camp Dealing with Military Defeat Through Social Media “Prison Writings”	3
Textual Messaging of ISIS’s al-Naba and the Context Drivers That Correspond to Strategic Changes	3
The Wagner Group in Africa: Russia’s Quasi-State Agent of Influence	3
A Target-Centric Approach to Distinguishing Between Terrorism and Guerrilla Warfare	3
Beyond Overt Extremism: Borderline Content, Cultural Narratives and the Normalization of the Far-Right Online	3
The Crime-Terror Nexus and the Illicit Trade in Drugs	3
Ulsterisation vs De-Baathification: Precedents in Local Security During Counterinsurgency	3
Eco-Fascism Online: Conceptualizing Far-Right Actors’ Response to Climate Change on Stormfront	3
Countering the Financing of Terrorists’ Salaries	3
Militant Animal Rights Activity: Terrorism, Extremism or Something Else?	3
The Convergence of Artificial Intelligence and Terrorism: A Systematic Review of the Literature	3
Counter-Terrorism: The Risk of Performativity in Big Data-Based Mass Surveillance	3
Confluences of War and Crime: Trajectories into Paramilitary Groups in Colombia	3
Pathways Out of Violent Extremism: A Qualitative Analysis of Push and Pull Factors	3
Radicalization Discourse: Consensus Points, Evidence Base and Blind Spots	3