OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Annual Review of Political Science is 4. 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
Three Traditions of African American Political Thought: Realism, Reformism, and Nationalism	80
Does Democracy Matter?	71
Same Trend, Different Paths: Growth and Welfare Regimes Across Time and Space	57
The US Presidency: Power and Constraint	55
Race, Racism, and the Crisis of Democracy in Political Science	47
Political Control	46
Democratic Norms and the Ethics of Resistance	43
Structure and Context: A Multi-Level Approach to Supply Chain Governance	42
Courts in the Global South	37
Three Faces of Climate Justice	35
Testing Causal Theories with Learned Proxies	35
How Lobbying Matters	34
The Political Economy of Racial Capitalism in the United States	31
Accountability in Developing Democracies: The Impact of the Internet, Social Media, and Polarization	30
The Political Role of Business Leaders	28
A Framework for the Study of Persuasion	27
Emotion and Politics: Noncognitive Psychological Biases in Public Opinion	25
Terra Incognita: The Governance of Artificial Intelligence in Global Perspective	24
Is War in Decline?	23
Authoritarian Power Sharing: Concepts, Mechanisms, and Strategies	21
Gender and Leadership in Executive Branch Politics	21
Race in International Relations: Beyond the “Norm Against Noticing”	20
Democracy and the Corporation: The Long View	19
Islamism and Armed Conflict	18
Global Economic Sanctions	16

The American Political Economy: Markets, Power, and the Meta Politics of US Economic Governance	13
From Territorial Consolidation to Bureaucratic Dominance: The Long Arc of State Development	13
Non-Modernization: Power–Culture Trajectories and the Dynamics of Political Institutions	13
The Politics of Racist Dehumanization in the United States	12
State Policy and Immigrant Integration	12
Comparative Politics in Borderlands: Actors, Identities, and Strategies	11
Citizenship Studies: Policy Causes and Consequences	11
Historical Political Economy: Past, Present, and Future	11
Elites in the Making and Breaking of Foreign Policy	10
Theories of Democratic Backsliding	10
Race and Redistricting	9
The Politics of Contagion: States, Societies, and the Control and Consequences of Infectious Diseases	9
Bureaucratic Politics: Blind Spots and Opportunities in Political Science	9
Intellectual Diary of an Iconoclast	8
The Politics of Childcare	8
The Power of Beliefs	8
Political Inequality in Rich Democracies	8
Automation, Digitalization, and Artificial Intelligence in the Workplace: Implications for Political Behavior	7
Defining Bureaucratic Autonomy	6
Government Responsiveness in Developing Countries	6
Organizing and Democracy: Understanding the Possibilities for Transformative Collective Action	5
Beyond the Ballot Box: A Conversation About Democracy and Policing in the United States	5
The Politics of Reparations for Black Americans	5
Asian Americans and the Politics of the Twenty-First Century	5
Selection Neglect and Political Beliefs	5
International Energy Politics in an Age of Climate Change	4
The State and Trust	4
Criminal Violence, the State, and Society	4
Africa's Unfinished Democratic Journey: My Modest Part	4