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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Who Enters Politics and Why?	237
The Politics of the Black Power Movement	162
The Politics of Reparations for Black Americans	125
Asian Americans and the Politics of the Twenty-First Century	105
From Imperialism to the “Golden Age” to the Great Lockdown: The Politics of Global Health Governance	75
Defining Bureaucratic Autonomy	69
Race and Redistricting	64
From Foes to Friends: The Causes of Interstate Rapprochement and Conciliation	61
Organizing and Democracy: Understanding the Possibilities for Transformative Collective Action	54
Corruption and Social Norms: A New Arrow in the Quiver	53
NIMBYs, YIMBYs, and the Politics of Land Use in American Cities	51
Presidential Unilateral Power	47
Conflict-Related Sexual Violence	43
Violence Against Civilians During Armed Conflict: Moving Beyond the Macro- and Micro-Level Divide	42
Selection Neglect and Political Beliefs	41
Three Traditions of African American Political Thought: Realism, Reformism, and Nationalism	40
Bureaucratic Politics: Blind Spots and Opportunities in Political Science	40
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Terra Incognita: The Governance of Artificial Intelligence in Global Perspective	34
Intellectual Diary of an Iconoclast	34
The Politics of Contagion: States, Societies, and the Control and Consequences of Infectious Diseases	32
Beyond the Ballot Box: A Conversation About Democracy and Policing in the United States	31
How Do Electoral Gender Quotas Affect Policy?	30
Political Inequality in Rich Democracies	25
Emotion and Politics: Noncognitive Psychological Biases in Public Opinion	24

External Validity	24
The Political Role of Business Leaders	24
A Framework for the Study of Persuasion	24
Political Risk and International Investment Law	22
International Statebuilding and the Domestic Politics of State Development	21
Does Democracy Matter?	21
Expert Knowledge in Democracies: Promises, Limits, and Conflict	19
International Energy Politics in an Age of Climate Change	18
The State and Trust	18
Disability in Political Science	18
Measuring Liberalism, Confronting Evil: A Retrospective	18
Territory and Self-Determination	16
Formal Theories of Special Interest Influence	15
Indigenous Sovereignty and Political Science: Building an Indigenous Politics Subfield	15
Historical Persistence	15
Gender and Leadership in Executive Branch Politics	14
Is War in Decline?	14
Education and Political Participation	13
Same Trend, Different Paths: Growth and Welfare Regimes Across Time and Space	13
Social Protection and State–Society Relations in Environments of Low and Uneven State Capacity	13
Authoritarian Power Sharing: Concepts, Mechanisms, and Strategies	13
Nationalism: What We Know and What We Still Need to Know	11
Networks of Conflict and Cooperation	11
The Causes of Populism in the West	10
The Power of Beliefs	9
The US Presidency: Power and Constraint	9
The Continuing Dilemma of Race and Class in the Study of American Political Behavior	7
Las Vidas Negras Importan: Centering Blackness and Racial Politics in Latin American Research	7
Property Righting: The Politics of Rights Over Land and Labor	7
Political Control	7
The Rise of Local Politics: A Global Review	7