OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Annual Review of Political Science is 24. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Three Traditions of African American Political Thought: Realism, Reformism, and Nationalism	112
Does Democracy Matter?	110
Same Trend, Different Paths: Growth and Welfare Regimes Across Time and Space	104
Conceptualizing and Measuring Geopolitical Alignments	89
Race, Racism, and the Crisis of Democracy in Political Science	88
Political Control	81
The US Presidency: Power and Constraint	78
Democratic Norms and the Ethics of Resistance	76
Structure and Context: A Multi-Level Approach to Supply Chain Governance	64
Non-Western Visions of International Order	58
Testing Causal Theories with Learned Proxies	56
Courts in the Global South	56
Three Faces of Climate Justice	55
AI as Governance	51
Monument Protection Laws and the Evolving American Monumental Landscape	49
The Political Economy of Racial Capitalism in the United States	47
Rural Politics in the United States	45
How Lobbying Matters	39
The Political Economy of the Clean Energy Transition	38
Terra Incognita: The Governance of Artificial Intelligence in Global Perspective	37
Accountability in Developing Democracies: The Impact of the Internet, Social Media, and Polarization	34
The Political Role of Business Leaders	33
Emotion and Politics: Noncognitive Psychological Biases in Public Opinion	31
Gender and Leadership in Executive Branch Politics	30
A Framework for the Study of Persuasion	30

Authoritarian Power Sharing: Concepts, Mechanisms, and Strategies	29
Is War in Decline?	29
Revolution as Mass-Based Regime Change	27
Race in International Relations: Beyond the “Norm Against Noticing”	27
The American Political Economy: Markets, Power, and the Meta Politics of US Economic Governance	27
Women's Suffrage: Causes and Consequences	27
Islamism and Armed Conflict	25
Non-Modernization: Power–Culture Trajectories and the Dynamics of Political Institutions	24
Democracy and the Corporation: The Long View	24