OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Annual Review of Political Science is 21. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Three Traditions of African American Political Thought: Realism, Reformism, and Nationalism	95
Does Democracy Matter?	92
Same Trend, Different Paths: Growth and Welfare Regimes Across Time and Space	88
The US Presidency: Power and Constraint	71
Political Control	66
Democratic Norms and the Ethics of Resistance	62
Race, Racism, and the Crisis of Democracy in Political Science	62
Non-Western Visions of International Order	59
Structure and Context: A Multi-Level Approach to Supply Chain Governance	50
Testing Causal Theories with Learned Proxies	49
AI as Governance	46
Courts in the Global South	44
The Political Economy of Racial Capitalism in the United States	40
Three Faces of Climate Justice	40
Rural Politics in the United States	38
How Lobbying Matters	36
Accountability in Developing Democracies: The Impact of the Internet, Social Media, and Polarization	34
The Political Role of Business Leaders	32
Terra Incognita: The Governance of Artificial Intelligence in Global Perspective	32
A Framework for the Study of Persuasion	29
Emotion and Politics: Noncognitive Psychological Biases in Public Opinion	28
Is War in Decline?	27
Authoritarian Power Sharing: Concepts, Mechanisms, and Strategies	27
Gender and Leadership in Executive Branch Politics	25
Women's Suffrage: Causes and Consequences	24

Democracy and the Corporation: The Long View	22
Race in International Relations: Beyond the “Norm Against Noticing”	22
Islamism and Armed Conflict	21
Global Economic Sanctions	21