OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of British Journal of Politics & International Relations 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Humbug and outrage: A study of performance, gender and affective atmosphere in the mediation of a critical parliamentary moment	50
The politics of journal content: Breadth, depth, flexibility and reflexivity in 25 years of BJPIR	32
Truthfulness, pluralism and the ethics of democratic representation	30
Petro-friends: Foreign ownership of oil and leadership survival	30
The erosion of democracy in an age of wealth inequality: Unravelling the impact of subjective socioeconomic stratification	30
Can independent regulatory agencies mend Europe’s democracy? The case of the European Medicines Agency’s public hearing on Valproate	29
‘Asset-based welfare’: The social policy corollary of the Anglo-liberal growth model?	24
Pop-socialism: A new radical left politics? Evaluating the rise and fall of the British and Italian left in the anti-austerity age	22
‘Taking the border out of politics’?: The 1973 Northern Ireland border poll and the political character of (de)politicisation	20
Tracing policy change: Intercurrent (de)politicisation and the decline of nationalisation in the 1970s	17
Democracy and public goods revisited: Local institutions, development, and access to water	17
Behind the British New Far-Right’s veil: Do individuals adopt strategic liberalism to appear more moderate or are they semi-liberal?	15
Policing the police: Why it is so hard to reform police departments in the United States?	13
Powellite nostalgia and racialised nationalist narratives: Connecting Global Britain and Little England	11
Life after Whitehall: The career moves of British special advisers	11
Not ‘my economy’: A political ethnographic study of interest in the economy	11
An bhfuil ár lá tagtha? Sinn Féin, special status and the politics of Brexit	10
Governing global challenges through quantified futures	9
The dynamics of negativity in media outlets during the Greek sovereign bond crisis	9
From multilateralism to bilateralism: Making sense of the UK’s security cooperation with EU member states after 2016	9
Situating realism, the ethnographic sensibility, and comparative political theory within the methodological turn in political theory	9
‘My enemy’s enemy is my friend’? European radical left parties’ response to Russia’s war in Ukraine	9
Radical democracy, the commons and everyday struggles during the Greek crisis	8
The origins of the Anglosphere idea and the contestation of Australian nationhood, 1991–2007	8
‘Get off your high horse and vote for us’: The anti-populist construction of the elite and the people	8

Looking for the International in international relations and political science: Evidence from author locations in the British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 1999-2023	8
Crowds and plebiscitary representation: Rituals of presence in the Orbán regime	8
The Queens’ gambit: Women leadership, gender expectations, and interstate conflict	8
Values and multilateralism in world politics	8
Quality not quantity: Lobbying institutions and the influence of asylum rights groups	8
The United Kingdom’s Rejoin movement: A post-Brexit analysis of framing strategies	8
Humorous parodies of popular culture as strategy in Boris Johnson’s populist communication	8
‘A threat to us’: The interplay of insecurity and enmity narratives in left-wing populism	7
The nature of a populist and radical-right foreign policy: Analysing the freedom party’s participation in the right-wing Austrian government	7
Promoting international labour standards: The ILO and national labour regulations	7
Ignorance, resistance, and strategy: Intersectional absences in British environmentalism	7
A worlds-eye view of the United Kingdom through parliamentary e-petitions	6
‘The personal touch’: Campaign personalisation in Britain	6
Labour, more or less? Policy reasoning in a fiscal register	6
Populism and the politicisation of foreign policy	6
The Autocrat’s Indispensable Service: How Russian Intelligence secured Vladimir Putin’s Regime after failing him in Ukraine	5
Inside the ‘secret garden’: Candidate selection at the 2019 UK general election	5
Juggling identities: Identification, collective memory, and practices of self-presentation in the United Nations General Debate	5
Theresa May’s disjunctive premiership: Choice and constraint in political time	5
Recasting technocracy theory and analysis: Avenues for a critical-qualitative research framework	5
Status Signalling in the Indo-Pacific: Strategic Spinning, Military Posturing, and Vaccine Diplomacy	5
The British Labour Party and the antisemitism crisis: Jeremy Corbyn and image repair theory	5
Zeitenwende as a foreign policy identity crisis: Germany and the travails of adaptation after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine	4
Myth and meaning: ‘Corbynism’ and the interpretation of political leadership	4
The case of Brexit: How to open a critical juncture without an exogenous shock?	4
Parliamentarians versus party members? Leadership selection systems in the British Conservative and Labour parties	4
Strategic partnerships and China’s diplomacy in Europe: Insights from Italy	4
South Korean foreign policy signalling: The rise and fall of unreciprocated costly signals between 2013 and 2023	4
Understanding the communicative strategies used in online political advertising and how the public views them	4
The ‘electoral presidentialization’ of Silvio Berlusconi and Boris Johnson: Chaos, controversy, and lost chances	4
J.S. Mill and the Indian land question: From the political economy of small proprietorship to the support of ryots and British Imperialism?	4
Reformingsuo tempore: Exploring the unintended consequences of the European Union’s ‘reform actorness’	4
Interpreting parliaments, but how?: Centring parliamentary actors and settings in ethnographic design and practice	4
Reframing centre-left neoliberalism: New Keynesian theory, Third Way ideology, and the construction of an elite consensus in the US, Britain, and Australia	4
The limits of cyberattacks in eroding political trust: A tripartite survey experiment	4