OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Annual Review of Political Science is 7. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Three Traditions of African American Political Thought: Realism, Reformism, and Nationalism	96
Does Democracy Matter?	95
Same Trend, Different Paths: Growth and Welfare Regimes Across Time and Space	91
The US Presidency: Power and Constraint	74
Race, Racism, and the Crisis of Democracy in Political Science	70
Political Control	65
Structure and Context: A Multi-Level Approach to Supply Chain Governance	62
Non-Western Visions of International Order	60
Democratic Norms and the Ethics of Resistance	53
Courts in the Global South	52
Testing Causal Theories with Learned Proxies	48
AI as Governance	47
Three Faces of Climate Justice	44
Rural Politics in the United States	43
How Lobbying Matters	40
The Political Economy of Racial Capitalism in the United States	38
Accountability in Developing Democracies: The Impact of the Internet, Social Media, and Polarization	37
The Political Role of Business Leaders	36
Emotion and Politics: Noncognitive Psychological Biases in Public Opinion	33
A Framework for the Study of Persuasion	30
Terra Incognita: The Governance of Artificial Intelligence in Global Perspective	29
Gender and Leadership in Executive Branch Politics	28
Authoritarian Power Sharing: Concepts, Mechanisms, and Strategies	28
Is War in Decline?	27
Women's Suffrage: Causes and Consequences	26

Race in International Relations: Beyond the “Norm Against Noticing”	24
Democracy and the Corporation: The Long View	24
Islamism and Armed Conflict	23
Revolution as Mass-Based Regime Change	22
The American Political Economy: Markets, Power, and the Meta Politics of US Economic Governance	22
Global Economic Sanctions	21
Non-Modernization: Power–Culture Trajectories and the Dynamics of Political Institutions	21
State Policy and Immigrant Integration	20
The Politics of Racist Dehumanization in the United States	17
Causal Inference, Agency, and the Problem of Inherent Endogeneity	16
Citizenship Studies: Policy Causes and Consequences	16
Elites in the Making and Breaking of Foreign Policy	16
Comparative Politics in Borderlands: Actors, Identities, and Strategies	15
Historical Political Economy: Past, Present, and Future	15
From Territorial Consolidation to Bureaucratic Dominance: The Long Arc of State Development	14
Bureaucratic Politics: Blind Spots and Opportunities in Political Science	12
Theories of Democratic Backsliding	12
Race and Redistricting	12
Intellectual Diary of an Iconoclast	11
Political Inequality in Rich Democracies	10
The Politics of Contagion: States, Societies, and the Control and Consequences of Infectious Diseases	10
The Politics of Childcare	9
The Power of Beliefs	9
Did Globalization Undermine Governance and Spur a Backlash?	9
Selection Neglect and Political Beliefs	8
Automation, Digitalization, and Artificial Intelligence in the Workplace: Implications for Political Behavior	8
The Politics of Reparations for Black Americans	8
Government Responsiveness in Developing Countries	8
Criminal Violence, the State, and Society	7
Beyond the Ballot Box: A Conversation About Democracy and Policing in the United States	7
Defining Bureaucratic Autonomy	7
Organizing and Democracy: Understanding the Possibilities for Transformative Collective Action	7
International Energy Politics in an Age of Climate Change	7
Asian Americans and the Politics of the Twenty-First Century	7
Africa's Unfinished Democratic Journey: My Modest Part	7