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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Three Traditions of African American Political Thought: Realism, Reformism, and Nationalism	71
Same Trend, Different Paths: Growth and Welfare Regimes Across Time and Space	64
The US Presidency: Power and Constraint	63
Race, Racism, and the Crisis of Democracy in Political Science	55
Conceptualizing and Measuring Geopolitical Alignments	52
Democratic Norms and the Ethics of Resistance	44
Structure and Context: A Multi-Level Approach to Supply Chain Governance	43
Non-Western Visions of International Order	42
Courts in the Global South	37
Monument Protection Laws and the Evolving American Monumental Landscape	34
AI as Governance	30
Rural Politics in the United States	28
The Political Economy of the Clean Energy Transition	25
The Political Economy of Racial Capitalism in the United States	24
How Lobbying Matters	23
Terra Incognita: The Governance of Artificial Intelligence in Global Perspective	22
Accountability in Developing Democracies: The Impact of the Internet, Social Media, and Polarization	22
The Political Role of Business Leaders	22
Is War in Decline?	21
Gender and Leadership in Executive Branch Politics	21
Women's Suffrage: Causes and Consequences	20
Authoritarian Power Sharing: Concepts, Mechanisms, and Strategies	20
Democracy and the Corporation: The Long View	17
Islamism and Armed Conflict	16
Causal Inference, Agency, and the Problem of Inherent Endogeneity	15

Revolution as Mass-Based Regime Change	15
Global Economic Sanctions	15
From Territorial Consolidation to Bureaucratic Dominance: The Long Arc of State Development	14
State Policy and Immigrant Integration	13
Historical Political Economy: Past, Present, and Future	13
The Politics of Racist Dehumanization in the United States	12
The Politics of Contagion: States, Societies, and the Control and Consequences of Infectious Diseases	11
Bureaucratic Politics: Blind Spots and Opportunities in Political Science	11
Intellectual Diary of an Iconoclast	11
Theories of Democratic Backsliding	11
Contesting LGBTQI Inclusion: Expansion, Contraction, and New Dilemmas	11
Citizenship Studies: Policy Causes and Consequences	11
Ethnography and Ethnographic Sensibility in Political Science	10
Political Inequality in Rich Democracies	9
Did Globalization Undermine Governance and Spur a Backlash?	8
Education as a Political Institution	8
Subaltern Mobilization in the Global South	8
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Selection Neglect and Political Beliefs	7
The Politics of Childcare	7
The Politics of Reparations for Black Americans	7
Fictive Politics	6
Organizing and Democracy: Understanding the Possibilities for Transformative Collective Action	6
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Defining Bureaucratic Autonomy	6
Asian Americans and the Politics of the Twenty-First Century	5
Democratic Duties	4
Conceptualizing Academic Freedom	4
Beyond the Ballot Box: A Conversation About Democracy and Policing in the United States	4
Relational Egalitarianism	4