OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Problems of Post-Communism 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
The Politics of Pseudoscience: Power and Knowledge in Contemporary Russia	36
Paradoxes of Green Transition and Developmentalism: The Case of EV Battery Production in Hungary	30
Alla Pugacheva: Russian High-Profile Celebrity As a Mediator of Anti-War Sentiment	24
The Symphony is Over? The Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Russian Orthodox Church–State Relations	23
Before and After the Fall of Communism: The Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact and Soviet Foreign Policy in 1939–1940 in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russian Textbooks	19
The Long-Term Governmental Parties in Post-Communist Democracies	18
Electoral Success of Independents under Authoritarianism: Evidence from Russia’s Local Elections, 2014–2018	17
Change without Change: Remaking Mental Health Advocacy in Bulgaria	16
The Dis/Articulation of Anti-Gender Politics in Eastern Europe: Introduction	15
“Eastern Opening” Policy as Political Marketing: Populism and Hungary’s Relations with China under the Orbán Government	14
Ideology Strikes Back: China’s Lessons of the Soviet Collapse, 1992–2022	12
Ukrainization and the Effect of Russian Language on the Web: The Google Trends Case Study	12
Economic Discontent and Anti-System Political Parties in the Czech Republic	12
“What We Murmur behind Their Backs”: Hidden Transcripts of the North Korean Ruling Elite	11
Governing the Economy Under Populist Rule: The Cases of Hungary and Poland	11
Shaping Digital Sovereignty in Russia: Actors and Debates	10
Securitization of Immigration in the Czech Republic and Its Impact on the Czech Migration Policy: Experts’ Perceptions	10
Framing the Polish-Belarusian Border in 2021. The Case of Public Service Television (TVP)	10
Morphological Analysis of Narratives of the Russian-Ukrainian Conflict in Western Academia and Think-Tank Community	9
The Clash of Collective Memories in Postwar Chechnya	9
Stalin’s Terror, the Gulag, and Soviet Repression in Russia’s Museums: Editorial Introduction	8
Offsetting Audience Costs: Intra-Regime Bargaining during Russia’s Full-Scale Invasion of Ukraine	8
“The Last Push from the South?” Explaining the Spread of Russia’s Cossack Movement	7
Armenia Post-2020: From the Bridge to the Hub?	7
Understanding Russia’s Brain Drain in the 2010s	7

Environmental Challenges and Political Regime Transition: The Role of Historical Legacies and the European Union in Eurasia	7
Retrogressive Mobilization in the 2018 “Referendum for Family” in Romania	6
Eclipsing Stalin: The GULAG History Museum in Moscow as a Manifestation of Russia’s Official Memory of Soviet Repression	5
I Don’t Like It Unless It’s for Me: Voters’ Perceptions of Pork-Barrel Politics in Central and Eastern Europe	5
An Ideal President’s Personality: Understanding the Expectations of Russian Citizens	5
Foreign Policy, National Interests, and Environmental Positioning: Russia’s Post Paris Climate Change Actions, Discourse, and Engagement	4
Lessons that Lead to War: Foreign Policy Learning and Military Escalation in the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict	4
Regime, Climate, and Region in Transition: Russian Participation in the Arctic Council	4
Russia as a Norm Entrepreneur: Crimea and Humanitarian Intervention	4
Undivided Ukraine: Evidence of Rallying Effects and an Emerging National Consensus	4
War and the Willingness to Resist and Fight in Ukraine	4
The Spoken and “Unspoken” Political Agenda in the Virtual Space of Russian Muslims	4
Instrumentalization of the Fight against the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Politics of Moldova	3
Promoting or Shattering Populism: The Case of Political Comedy and Satire in Ukrainian Media	3
Recognition of the EU’s Actorness in the Karabakh Peace Process by Azerbaijan	3
Diminishing Justice and Third-Party Intervention: Explaining Russia’s Impartial Stance During the 2020 Karabakh War	3
Regulating Competition in the Digital Platform Economy: Russia and China Compared	3
Rooftop Exploration and the Creation of Alternative Spaces in St. Petersburg	3
From the Chicago Boys to Hjalmar Schacht: The Trajectory of the (Neo)liberal Economic Expertise in Russia	3
Social Mobilization in Belarus - The Polish Perspective	3
Russia’s War Against Ukraine: Context, Causes, and Consequences	3
Antigovernment Protests and Commitment to Democratic Principles	3
From Repression to Prevention in Central Europe: Football Anti-Hooligan Policies in the Czech Republic, Poland, and Slovakia	3
COVID-19 and Azerbaijan: Is the System Resilient Enough to Withstand the Perfect Storm?	3
Russia’s Domestication of Disability Inclusion	3
Russia’s War on Ukraine, the EU, and Its Eastern Neighborhood: Layers of Liminality	3