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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Three Traditions of African American Political Thought: Realism, Reformism, and Nationalism	92
Does Democracy Matter?	88
Same Trend, Different Paths: Growth and Welfare Regimes Across Time and Space	81
Race, Racism, and the Crisis of Democracy in Political Science	67
The US Presidency: Power and Constraint	63
Political Control	60
Structure and Context: A Multi-Level Approach to Supply Chain Governance	57
Democratic Norms and the Ethics of Resistance	56
Testing Causal Theories with Learned Proxies	49
Courts in the Global South	48
AI as Governance	43
Three Faces of Climate Justice	41
The Political Economy of Racial Capitalism in the United States	40
Rural Politics in the United States	38
How Lobbying Matters	38
The Political Role of Business Leaders	33
Accountability in Developing Democracies: The Impact of the Internet, Social Media, and Polarization	32
A Framework for the Study of Persuasion	32
Terra Incognita: The Governance of Artificial Intelligence in Global Perspective	32
Emotion and Politics: Noncognitive Psychological Biases in Public Opinion	27
Gender and Leadership in Executive Branch Politics	27
Authoritarian Power Sharing: Concepts, Mechanisms, and Strategies	26
Is War in Decline?	24
Race in International Relations: Beyond the “Norm Against Noticing”	23
Women's Suffrage: Causes and Consequences	23

The American Political Economy: Markets, Power, and the Meta Politics of US Economic Governance	22
Islamism and Armed Conflict	21
Global Economic Sanctions	21
Democracy and the Corporation: The Long View	20
Non-Modernization: Power–Culture Trajectories and the Dynamics of Political Institutions	19
Revolution as Mass-Based Regime Change	19
Comparative Politics in Borderlands: Actors, Identities, and Strategies	18
From Territorial Consolidation to Bureaucratic Dominance: The Long Arc of State Development	16
Theories of Democratic Backsliding	16
The Politics of Racist Dehumanization in the United States	15
Elites in the Making and Breaking of Foreign Policy	15
State Policy and Immigrant Integration	14
Citizenship Studies: Policy Causes and Consequences	14
Race and Redistricting	12
Historical Political Economy: Past, Present, and Future	12
Bureaucratic Politics: Blind Spots and Opportunities in Political Science	11
Political Inequality in Rich Democracies	10
Intellectual Diary of an Iconoclast	10
The Politics of Childcare	9
The Power of Beliefs	9
Government Responsiveness in Developing Countries	9
The Politics of Contagion: States, Societies, and the Control and Consequences of Infectious Diseases	9
Asian Americans and the Politics of the Twenty-First Century	8
Automation, Digitalization, and Artificial Intelligence in the Workplace: Implications for Political Behavior	8
Selection Neglect and Political Beliefs	8
Beyond the Ballot Box: A Conversation About Democracy and Policing in the United States	7
International Energy Politics in an Age of Climate Change	7
The Politics of Reparations for Black Americans	7
Organizing and Democracy: Understanding the Possibilities for Transformative Collective Action	7
The State and Trust	7
Defining Bureaucratic Autonomy	7
Criminal Violence, the State, and Society	7