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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
The Backlash Against Globalization	141
The Changing Cleavage Politics of Western Europe	135
Ethnic Diversity and Social Trust: A Narrative and Meta-Analytical Review	112
Machine Learning for Social Science: An Agnostic Approach	97
Political Misinformation	92
Identity Politics and Populism in Europe	77
The Causes of Populism in the West	67
External Validity	62
Transnational Actors and Transnational Governance in Global Environmental Politics	51
Resilience to Online Censorship	51
Clientelism's Red Herrings: Dead Ends and New Directions in the Study of Nonprogrammatic Politics	48
Studying Leaders and Elites: The Personal Biography Approach	46
The Fluidity of Racial Classifications	45
Madison's Constitution Under Stress: A Developmental Analysis of Political Polarization	45
Violence Against Civilians During Armed Conflict: Moving Beyond the Macro- and Micro-Level Divide	39
Understanding the Role of Racism in Contemporary US Public Opinion	39
Populism, Democracy, and Party System Change in Europe	38
Nationalism: What We Know and What We Still Need to Know	37
Experiments and Surveys on Political Elites	35
Who Enters Politics and Why?	35
How Do Electoral Gender Quotas Affect Policy?	32
Automation, Digitalization, and Artificial Intelligence in the Workplace: Implications for Political Behavior	32
Beyond War and Contracts: The Medieval and Religious Roots of the European State	31
Do Emerging Military Technologies Matter for International Politics?	26
Economic Development and Democracy: Predispositions and Triggers	25

Survey Experiments in International Political Economy: What We (Don't) Know About the Backlash Against Globalization	25
Political Control	23
Authoritarian-Led Democratization	22
The Political Theory of Parties and Partisanship: Catching Up	22
Conflict-Related Sexual Violence	22
Emotion and Politics: Noncognitive Psychological Biases in Public Opinion	21
Party and Ideology in American Local Government: An Appraisal	20
Economic Geography, Politics, and Policy	20
Government Responsiveness in Developing Countries	20
Three Faces of Climate Justice	19
Historical Persistence	17
Comparative Bureaucratic Politics	17
A Framework for the Study of Persuasion	16
Education and Political Participation	15
Understanding Multilateral Institutions in Easy and Hard Times	14
Media and Policy Making in the Digital Age	13
How International Actors Help Enforce Domestic Deals	13
Elites in the Making and Breaking of Foreign Policy	13
Social Protection and State–Society Relations in Environments of Low and Uneven State Capacity	13
Ethics of Field Experiments	13
Presidential Unilateral Power	12
The Rise of Local Politics: A Global Review	11
Non-Modernization: Power–Culture Trajectories and the Dynamics of Political Institutions	10
The American Political Economy: Markets, Power, and the Meta Politics of US Economic Governance	10
Does Democracy Matter?	10
Partisan Gerrymandering and Political Science	9
What Can We Learn from Written Constitutions?	9
Networks of Conflict and Cooperation	8
Secrecy in International Relations and Foreign Policy	8
Race in International Relations: Beyond the “Norm Against Noticing”	8
The Continuing Dilemma of Race and Class in the Study of American Political Behavior	7
Immigration and Globalization (and Deglobalization)	7
The Persistence of Racial Cues and Appeals in American Elections	7