OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of European Public Policy is 30. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Who supports whom? Citizens’ support for affirmative action policies in recruitment processes towards four underrepresented groups	114
How policy capacities shape the green transition: explaining the use of EU sustainable finance in the EU’s Central and Eastern European member states	93
Liberal-democratic self-defense through rights restrictions: the European Court of Human Rights between enabling self-defense and constraining governmental overreach	86
Democratic governance and policy complexity: revisiting the intelligence of democracy	76
Unpacking the European Commission's fiscal policy response to crisis: mapping and explaining economic ideas in the European Semester 2011–2022	71
Polarisation or convergence? How the economy shapes party policy positions	70
Tackling blind spots in Europeanisation research: the impact of EU legislation on national policy portfolios	68
Constructing expertise: the front- and back-door regulation of AI’s military applications in the European Union	63
Democratic backsliding and support for public good provision in the European Union	54
Solidarity in the European Union and the resilience of the state as a communicative frame	53
Justifying European border policies: a quantitative content analysis of German government communication 2013-2023	52
Editorial announcement - JEPP Reviewer Prize 2021	51
Filtering politicisation towards a more social Europe? The European Parliament and EU social legislation	46
A sentence-based approach to measuring EU regulatory activity	46
Social dialogue in professional sports in Europe: towards democratic governance between the European Sport Model and national industrial relations?	44
The kids are Alt right? Age, authoritarian attitudes and far-right support in Europe	44
‘Guns versus butter’ in public opinion: the politicization of the warfare-welfare trade-off	43
Missed opportunities: the impact of internal compartmentalisation on EU diplomacy across the international regime complex on climate change	43
‘When in a hole, keep digging’. How the EUCO system process managed its way to an energy price cap	42
Making a difference – a tribute to Jeremy	39
The rise and fall of technocratic democracies: unstable majorities and delegation to technocrats	37
Mind the gap! UK employment policy both during and beyond EU membership: from policy layering to policy drift	37
Managing constraint: frugal opposition to European fiscal solidarity	37
Democracy and discontent: institutional trust and evaluations of system performance among core and peripheral far right voters	36
Fueling opposition? Yellow vests, urban elites, and fuel taxation	34

Introduction: a symposium on the behavioural limits of the state	32
Healthcare provision and attitudes towards redistribution. A regional analysis across Europe	31
Testing theories of policy growth: public demands, interest group politics, electoral competition, and institutional fragmentation	31
When do crises centralise decision-making? The core executive in the Greek economic crisis	31
Representation in times of crisis: women’s executive presence and gender-sensitive policy responses to crises	30
Regional crises and European fiscal preferences: how regional Covid-19, economic downturn, and migration shape support for EU risk sharing	30
The universalist divide: cleavages, identities, and party preferences in the EU	30