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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Fighting over International Legitimacy: Testing Israel’s Image War Strategies During the 2023–24 War Between Hamas and Israel	23
Blueprints for Red Insurgencies: Revolutionary Ideology and Strategy in India and Colombia	16
Examining the Outcome of Investigations and Prosecutions of Extremism in the United States	15
Too Close for Comfort: Cyber Terrorism and Information Security across National Policies and International Diplomacy	13
Financing of Non-State Armed Groups in the Middle East: Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) as a Case Study	12
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	12
Violent and Nonviolent Strategies of Terrorist Organizations: How Do Mixed Strategies Influence Terrorist Recruitment and Lethality?	11
Supply and Demand: Drivers of Women Non-Combat Participation in Rebel Groups	11
The Order of Nine Angles: Cosmology, Practice & Movement	10
The Elusive Promise of “Over-the-Horizon” Counterterrorism	10
Understanding the Role of the Internet in the Process of Radicalisation: An Analysis of Convicted Extremists in England and Wales	9
How Proximity and Space Matter: Exploring Geographical & Social Contexts of Radicalization in Northern Ireland	9
Conventional Insurgents: Understanding al-Shabaab’s Mass Attacks against African Union Bases in Somalia	9
“ 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?	8
Exploring the Motivation of the United Kingdom’s Domestic Extremist Informants	8
Post-Fordism and the Transformation of Transatlantic Counter-Terrorism	8
Policing of the Far-Right Online: The Cases of the UK and Hungary	8
Refugees, Perceived Threat & Domestic Terrorism	8
Examining Online Behaviors of Violent and Non-Violent Right-Wing Extremists During Peak Posting Days	8
Gender, Agency, and Accountability for ISIS Violence: Public Perspectives from Mosul, Iraq	8
The Social Identity Analytical Method: Facilitating Social Science-Based Practitioner Analysis of Violent Substate Conflict	8
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
Research Note: Pathways of Foreign Fighters: An in-Depth and Comparative Study Based on Dutch Probation Files	7
Special Issue on Radical and Militant Islamism in Indonesia	7

Reviewed Work: Weaponized Words: The Strategic Role of Persuasion in Violent Radicalization and Counter-Radicalization by Kurt Braddock	7
Maintaining Course or Righting the Ship? Examining Adjustments in Al-Qaeda’s Communicative Approach	7
“The Road to Jerusalem Goes through Cairo”: Exploring Israel’s Counter-Militancy Efforts against Sinai Peninsula-Based Threats	6
The Logic of Non-State Armed Groups Survival in Syria: A Contemporary Framework of Analysis	6
Pragmatism and Purism in Jihadist Governance: The Islamic Emirate of Azawad Revisited	6
From Superiority to Supremacy: Exploring the Vulnerability of Military and Police Special Forces to Extreme Right Radicalization	6
Is the U.S. Heading for a Civil War? Scenarios for 2024-25	5
The (Non) Deus-Ex Machina: A Realistic Assessment of Machine Learning for Countering Domestic Terrorism	5
How Members of the Islamic State-Linked Ripoll Cell Grouped, Radicalized and Plotted Mass Casualty Terrorist Attacks in Barcelona	5
Outbreak: A Comprehensive Analysis of Biological Terrorism^♦	5
Women in Militant Movements: The Role of the State in Driving Recruitment	5
Hay’at Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS) from an Insurgent Group to a Local Authority: Emergence, Development and Social Support Base	5
Reasons behind Reasons: A Communitarian Reading of Women’s Radicalization and Family Bombings in Southeast Asia	5
Threat Perception, Policy Diffusion, and the Logic of Terrorist Group Designation	4
The Ideological Indoctrination through ISIS Textbooks	4
The ONA Network and the Transnationalization of Neo-Nazi-Satanism	4
How Do Offender Ideology and Offense Severity Impact Punitive Attitudes Toward Politically Motivated Offenders in the U.S.?	4
Real or Imagined Consolidation? The Case of Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces	4
What Do Overrepresented and Underrepresented Groups Tell Us About Risks for Involvement in Islamist Extremism?	4
Willingness to Engage in Religious Collective Action: The Role of Group Identification and Identity Fusion	4
The Trouble with Numbers: Difficult Decision Making in Identifying Right-Wing Terrorism Cases. An Investigative Look at Open Source Social Scientific and Legal Data	4
Maintaining Dominance: Explaining the Rise of Late-Entering Insurgent Groups in El Salvador and Guatemala	4
Redefining Global Jihad and Its Termination: The Subjugation of al-Qaeda by Its Former Franchise in Syria	4
We Protect Us: Cyber Persistent Digital Antifascism and Dual Use Knowledge	4
Emotional Trials in Terrorism Research: Running Risks When Accessing Salafi-Jihadist Foreign Fighter Returnees and Their Social Milieu	4
Moral Policing of Gender Norms: Honor-Based Violence as a Mobilizing Factor Towards Militant Islamism	3
Community, More than Conviction: Understanding Radicalisation Factors for Young People in Australia	3
The False Promise of Foreign Fighters: The Effect of Somali Foreign Fighters on Civilian Victimization	3
The Kurdish Protection Units in Northern Syria: A Deviant Case of Peaceful Cohabitation between Foreign Fighters and Local Civilians?	3
Is He /ourguy/, a False Flag, or Something Else? Debating Breivik’s and Tarrant’s Terrorism on 4chan’s /pol/ Board	3
Developing a Responsive Regulatory Approach to Online Terrorist Content on Tech Platforms	3
Beyond “Leaderless Resistance”? Toward a Typology for White Supremacist Extremist Leadership	3
The Effects of Social Media, Elites, and Political Polarization on Civil Conflict	3
Assessing Evaluative Practice in Protective Security	3
The Wagner Group in Africa: Russia’s Quasi-State Agent of Influence	3
Masculinities and Disengagement from Jihadi Networks: The Case of Indonesian Militant Islamists	3
Foreign Military Aid, War-Induced Economy, and Terrorism in Afghanistan	3
Postage Stamps as Political and Religious Propaganda: The Case of Hamas	3
Warscapes and Reticulating Inhumanities: Ethnographic Lessons from Shia Militancy	3
Supreme Men, Subjected Women: Gender Inequality and Violence in Jihadist, Far Right and Male Supremacist Ideologies	3
Blended Legacies : Vietnamese and Other Foreign Influences on the FARC-EP	3
The Crime-Terror Nexus and the Illicit Trade in Drugs	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
Under the Hood – Learning and Innovation in the Islamic State’s Suicide Vehicle Industry	2
From Control to Conflict: A Spectrum and Framework for Understanding Government-Militia Relationships	2
Counter-Terrorism: The Risk of Performativity in Big Data-Based Mass Surveillance	2
A Peaceful Interpretation of Jihad in the Qur’an	2
Down the “Rabbit Hole” of Conspiracy-Fueled White Nationalism: Linking Outgroup Threat and Uncertainty to Conspiracy Beliefs and Prejudice Toward Immigrants	2
Operation Jungle Fire: The Consolidation of the Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy	2
Networks, Marriage, and Socioeconomics: Comparing the Men and Women of the Islamic State	2

Queering Terrorism	2
Comparing Online Posting Typologies among Violent and Nonviolent Right-Wing Extremists	2
Ulsterisation vs De-Baathification: Precedents in Local Security During Counterinsurgency	2
The “Disaster Business”: Natural Disasters and Human Trafficking	2
TamTam: The Online Drums of Hate	2
Countering the Financing of Terrorists’ Salaries	2
The Fast & The Furious…Torturous? : Examining the Impact of Torture Scenes in Popular Films on Public Perceptions of Torture Policy	2
Socio-Semantic Network Analysis for Extremist and Terrorist Online Ecosystems	2
Militant Animal Rights Activity: Terrorism, Extremism or Something Else?	2
Spurious Correlations in Terrorism Studies	2
From Mobilization to Annihilation: The Strategic Logics of Bioterrorism	2
Confluences of War and Crime: Trajectories into Paramilitary Groups in Colombia	2
The Benefits and Challenges of Classroom-Based Surveys for the Study of Radicalization and Extremism among Adolescents	2
3D-Printed Firearms: Global Proliferation Trends and Analyses	2
Recommendations for Assessing Vulnerabilities in Soft Targets and Crowded Places	2
Risk of Romani Radicalization in the Balkans: Freeing the Shackles of a Marginalized Identity	2
Blowin’ in the Wind? The Musical Response to the War on Terror	2
Data Collection in Online Terrorism and Extremism Research: Strengths, Limitations, and Future Directions	2
Legitimation through Collectivization: Al Qaeda and US Discourses on the Use of Force	2
Eco-Fascism Online: Conceptualizing Far-Right Actors’ Response to Climate Change on Stormfront	2
Textual Messaging of ISIS’s al-Naba and the Context Drivers That Correspond to Strategic Changes	2
Exposure to Extremist Content and Public Sympathy for ISIS	2
From the PYD-YPG to the SDF: the Consolidation of Power in Kurdish-Controlled Northeast Syria	2
Countering Violent Islamist Extremism in Muslim Mindanao the 4M Way: The Role of Alternative Narratives	2
Beyond Healthy Skepticism: Exploring German News Media Framing of Terrorism-Affiliated Women Returnees	2
The “Lightning” Brigade: Security Force Assistance and the Fight Against al-Shabaab	2
The European Union as a Maritime Security Provider – The Naval Diplomacy Perspective	2
Radicalization Discourse: Consensus Points, Evidence Base and Blind Spots	2
The Devil is in the Detail: Assessing Threat-Framing in Violent Extremist Discourses	2
From Democratic Resistance to Hostility against a “Covid-Regime” – Conspiracy Theories as Cross-Milieu Catalysts of Radicalization	2
Gaza’s Subterranean Warfare: Palestinian Resistance Tunnels vs. Israel’s Military Strategy	2
The Evolution of Far-Right Terrorist Tactics and Targeting	2