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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Blueprints for Red Insurgencies: Revolutionary Ideology and Strategy in India and Colombia	36
Financing of Non-State Armed Groups in the Middle East: Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) as a Case Study	29
Look Mom I’m On TV: Crowd-Sourced Policing, Social Media, and the Prosecution of January 6 Capitol Defendants	24
Complicating Convergence: A Micro-Ethnography of Neo-Fascist Accelerationist Views of Militant Islam on Terrorgram	21
Fighting over International Legitimacy: Testing Israel’s Image War Strategies During the 2023–24 War Between Hamas and Israel	20
Supply and Demand: Drivers of Women Non-Combat Participation in Rebel Groups	20
How Proximity and Space Matter: Exploring Geographical & Social Contexts of Radicalization in Northern Ireland	16
Policing of the Far-Right Online: The Cases of the UK and Hungary	15
How Governments Ensure the Loyalty of Pro-Government Militias: Evidence from Chechnya	14
The Elusive Promise of “Over-the-Horizon” Counterterrorism	13
“ 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
Conventional Insurgents: Understanding al-Shabaab’s Mass Attacks against African Union Bases in Somalia	12
Who is “Rustam”: Enablers’ Role in the Islamic State Khorasan’s Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures	11
The Order of Nine Angles: Cosmology, Practice & Movement	11
Under the Radar: Exploring the Salafi-Jihadi Terrorist Information Ecosystem on TikTok	11
Gender, Agency, and Accountability for ISIS Violence: Public Perspectives from Mosul, Iraq	10
Special Issue on Radical and Militant Islamism in Indonesia	10
The Social Identity Analytical Method: Facilitating Social Science-Based Practitioner Analysis of Violent Substate Conflict	10
Examining Online Behaviors of Violent and Non-Violent Right-Wing Extremists During Peak Posting Days	9
Rebel Recruitment and Governance: Examining the Relationship Between Mobilization Strategies and the Provision of Social Services to Civilians	8
Exploring the Motivation of the United Kingdom’s Domestic Extremist Informants	8
Maintaining Course or Righting the Ship? Examining Adjustments in Al-Qaeda’s Communicative Approach	8
Pathways of Foreign Fighters: An in-Depth and Comparative Study Based on Dutch Probation Files	7
Reviewed Work: Weaponized Words: The Strategic Role of Persuasion in Violent Radicalization and Counter-Radicalization by Kurt Braddock	7
Online and Social Media News Usage, Conspiratorial Attitudes and Fear of Terrorism	7

Remembering a Road: How One U.S. Development Project Provides Insight into America’s Complicated Legacy in Afghanistan	7
Conflict, Corruption, and White-Collar Crime: Understanding Illicit Practices in War-Torn Areas	7
“The Road to Jerusalem Goes through Cairo”: Exploring Israel’s Counter-Militancy Efforts against Sinai Peninsula-Based Threats	7
How Members of the Islamic State-Linked Ripoll Cell Grouped, Radicalized and Plotted Mass Casualty Terrorist Attacks in Barcelona	6
The Logic of Non-State Armed Groups Survival in Syria: A Contemporary Framework of Analysis	6
How Do Offender Ideology and Offense Severity Impact Punitive Attitudes Toward Politically Motivated Offenders in the U.S.?	5
Reassessing Core Perceptions of Evolving Threats Following the October 7th Attacks	5
Is the U.S. Heading for a Civil War? Scenarios for 2024-25	5
The Ideological Indoctrination through ISIS Textbooks	5
From Superiority to Supremacy: Exploring the Vulnerability of Military and Police Special Forces to Extreme Right Radicalization	5
Women in Militant Movements: The Role of the State in Driving Recruitment	5
What Do Overrepresented and Underrepresented Groups Tell Us About Risks for Involvement in Islamist Extremism?	5
Hay’at Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS) from an Insurgent Group to a Local Authority: Emergence, Development and Social Support Base	5
We Protect Us: Cyber Persistent Digital Antifascism and Dual Use Knowledge	4
Community, More than Conviction: Understanding Radicalisation Factors for Young People in Australia	4
Warscapes and Reticulating Inhumanities: Ethnographic Lessons from Shia Militancy	4
Beyond “Leaderless Resistance”? Toward a Typology for White Supremacist Extremist Leadership	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
Foreign Military Aid, War-Induced Economy, and Terrorism in Afghanistan	4
“Among the World’s Most Powerful”: Analyzing the Evolution of Iran’s Cyber Espionage, Disruption, and Information Operations Capabilities	4
Blended Legacies : Vietnamese and Other Foreign Influences on the FARC-EP	4
Spurious Correlations in Terrorism Studies	3
Postage Stamps as Political and Religious Propaganda: The Case of Hamas	3
The Wagner Group in Africa: Russia’s Quasi-State Agent of Influence	3
Is He /ourguy/, a False Flag, or Something Else? Debating Breivik’s and Tarrant’s Terrorism on 4chan’s /pol/ Board	3
The False Promise of Foreign Fighters: The Effect of Somali Foreign Fighters on Civilian Victimization	3
Radicalization Discourse: Consensus Points, Evidence Base and Blind Spots	3
The Benefits and Challenges of Classroom-Based Surveys for the Study of Radicalization and Extremism among Adolescents	3
Hardship is Part of Jihad: ISIS-Affiliated Women in the Al-Hol Camp Dealing with Military Defeat Through Social Media “Prison Writings”	3
Confluences of War and Crime: Trajectories into Paramilitary Groups in Colombia	3
Moral Policing of Gender Norms: Honor-Based Violence as a Mobilizing Factor Towards Militant Islamism	3
The Strategic Origins of Hamas’s October 7 Attack	3
The Crime-Terror Nexus and the Illicit Trade in Drugs	3
The Kurdish Protection Units in Northern Syria: A Deviant Case of Peaceful Cohabitation between Foreign Fighters and Local Civilians?	3
From Democratic Resistance to Hostility against a “Covid-Regime” – Conspiracy Theories as Cross-Milieu Catalysts of Radicalization	3
Supreme Men, Subjected Women: Gender Inequality and Violence in Jihadist, Far Right and Male Supremacist Ideologies	3
The Convergence of Artificial Intelligence and Terrorism: A Systematic Review of the Literature	3
Ulsterisation vs De-Baathification: Precedents in Local Security During Counterinsurgency	3
Assessing Evaluative Practice in Protective Security	3
The Effects of Social Media, Elites, and Political Polarization on Civil Conflict	3
Developing a Responsive Regulatory Approach to Online Terrorist Content on Tech Platforms	3
Beyond Overt Extremism: Borderline Content, Cultural Narratives and the Normalization of the Far-Right Online	3
A Target-Centric Approach to Distinguishing Between Terrorism and Guerrilla Warfare	3
3D-Printed Firearms: Global Proliferation Trends and Analyses	3
Risk of Romani Radicalization in the Balkans: Freeing the Shackles of a Marginalized Identity	3
Textual Messaging of ISIS’s al-Naba and the Context Drivers That Correspond to Strategic Changes	3