OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of European Public Policy is 34. 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
Solidarity in the European Union and the resilience of the state as a communicative frame	187
Polarisation or convergence? How the economy shapes party policy positions	115
Justifying European border policies: a quantitative content analysis of German government communication 2013-2023	113
Democratic governance and policy complexity: revisiting the intelligence of democracy	108
Who supports whom? Citizens’ support for affirmative action policies in recruitment processes towards four underrepresented groups	107
Puzzling or powering? How fiscal communication reflects the politicisation of the European Central Bank	94
Tackling blind spots in Europeanisation research: the impact of EU legislation on national policy portfolios	88
Democratic backsliding and support for public good provision in the European Union	87
Constructing expertise: the front- and back-door regulation of AI’s military applications in the European Union	73
Liberal-democratic self-defense through rights restrictions: the European Court of Human Rights between enabling self-defense and constraining governmental overreach	71
How policy capacities shape the green transition: explaining the use of EU sustainable finance in the EU’s Central and Eastern European member states	66
Unpacking the European Commission's fiscal policy response to crisis: mapping and explaining economic ideas in the European Semester 2011–2022	66
A sentence-based approach to measuring EU regulatory activity	65
Filtering politicisation towards a more social Europe? The European Parliament and EU social legislation	63
Missed opportunities: the impact of internal compartmentalisation on EU diplomacy across the international regime complex on climate change	62
Social dialogue in professional sports in Europe: towards democratic governance between the European Sport Model and national industrial relations?	60
Making a difference – a tribute to Jeremy	60
When coping becomes structure: organizational corrosion under sustained administrative overload	59
Fueling opposition? Yellow vests, urban elites, and fuel taxation	56
The rise and fall of technocratic democracies: unstable majorities and delegation to technocrats	51
Mind the gap! UK employment policy both during and beyond EU membership: from policy layering to policy drift	50
The European Council’s playbooks for dealing with major challenges	50
The kids are Alt right? Age, authoritarian attitudes and far-right support in Europe	46
‘When in a hole, keep digging’. How the EUCO system process managed its way to an energy price cap	45
Democracy and discontent: institutional trust and evaluations of system performance among core and peripheral far right voters	44

Managing constraint: frugal opposition to European fiscal solidarity	44
‘Guns versus butter’ in public opinion: the politicization of the warfare-welfare trade-off	43
Regional crises and European fiscal preferences: how regional Covid-19, economic downturn, and migration shape support for EU risk sharing	42
Representation in times of crisis: women’s executive presence and gender-sensitive policy responses to crises	42
Testing theories of policy growth: public demands, interest group politics, electoral competition, and institutional fragmentation	40
The universalist divide: cleavages, identities, and party preferences in the EU	38
Bargaining hard or hardly bargaining? Brexit and the populist renegotiation of international agreements	37
In this together? Support for European fiscal integration in the COVID-19 crisis	35
Introduction: a symposium on the behavioural limits of the state	35
Healthcare provision and attitudes towards redistribution. A regional analysis across Europe	34
When do crises centralise decision-making? The core executive in the Greek economic crisis	34