OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Human Rights Law Review is 1. 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
Reconciling the Dual-Faceted Mandates of Quasi-Judicial Human Rights Bodies: The Working Group on Arbitrary Detention’s Prima Facie Approach to Evidence	28
The anatomy of a valid waiver of human rights	23
Deference, Dignity and ‘Theoretical Crisis’: Justifying ECtHR Rights Between Prudence and Protection	18
Rethinking human rights: critical insights from Palestinian youth	16
Judicial Convergence and Fragmentation in International Human Rights Law: the Regional Systems and the United Nations Human Rights Committee	13
Judicial Activism and Judge-Made Law at the ECtHR	12
The Human Rights Implications of the Use of AI in the Digital Welfare State: Lessons Learned from the Dutch SyRI Case	9
The 2016 UN General Assembly Declaration on the Right to Peace: A Step towards Sustainable Positive Peace within Societies?	9
The Human Right to Land: A Peasant Struggle in the Human Rights System	8
‘Turning the Rights Lens Inwards’: The Case for Child Rights-Consistent Strategic Litigation Practice	8
Lisa McIntosh Sundstrom, Valerie Sperling, and Melike Sayoglu, Courting Gender Justice: Russia, Turkey, and the European Court of Human Rights (Oxford University Press, 2019, 296pp, £61.00) ISBN: 9780	6
Reconstructing the Roles of Human Rights Treaty Organs under the ‘Two-Tiered Bounded Deliberative Democracy’ Theory	5
Disability Discrimination in the Digital Realm: How the ICRPD Applies to Artificial Intelligence Decision-Making Processes and Helps in Determining the State of International Human Rights Law	5
Child Rights, Legal Theory and Social Advocacy	5
The Indivisibility of Human Rights: An Empirical Analysis	5
Truth commissions on disability institutions: towards a disability truth and repair framework	5
Tinker, Tailor, Twitter, Lie: Government Disinformation and Freedom of Expression in a Post-Truth Era	4
X Factors and Tipping Points in Eviction Cases: A Statistical Analysis of Eviction Litigation of the European Court of Human Rights	4
Human Rights and the Universal Periodic Review Mechanism: A Research Companion	4
Positive Obligations Under the European Convention on Human Rights: Within and Beyond Boundaries	4
Navigating the right to a fair trial for vulnerable suspects pretrial: a legal and psychological critique of the Strasbourg jurisprudence	4
Duties of persons with disabilities under the African disability rights protocol: a sceptical argument	4
Ensuring Data Science and Its Applications Benefit Humanity: Data Monetization and the Right to Science	4
Scholarship in Times of Constitutional Transformation: A View from Hong Kong	4
Women and International Human Rights in Modern Times: A Contemporary Casebook	3

Deconstructing the Eviction Protections Under the Revised European Social Charter: A Systematic Content Analysis of the Interplay Between the Right to Housing and the Right to Property	3
Hope’s Relations: A Theory of the ‘Right to Hope’ in European Human Rights Law	3
The Disappearing ‘Minimum Rights’ of Article 6 ECHR: the Unfortunate Legacy of Ibrahim and Beuze	3
Introduction to special edition: ‘the convention on the rights of persons with disability: next generation thinking’	3
Brazil and Climate Justice: Pioneering Climate Litigation for a Global Cause	3
Adaptive Protection of Human Rights: Stealth Institutionalisation of Scrutiny Functions in ASEAN’s Limited Regime	3
From common law duty of care to statutory mandatory human rights due diligence: the continuing challenge of holding parent companies liable for human rights abuses committed by subsidiary companies	3
Legal-Conflict Constellations. A Political Approach to the ‘Labour Rights-Human Rights’ Debate	3
The Right of the Child to Play: From Conception to Implementation	3
Catarina Woyames Dreher, A Legal Assessment of the Efficacy of Consultation with Indigenous Peoples: The Case of Brazil	2
Uncovering the Nature of ECHR Rights: An Analytical and Methodological Framework	2
Recognizing Early Childhood Education as a Human Right in International Law	2
Rendering International Human Rights Law Fit for Purpose on Climate Change	2
The Times and Temporalities of International Human Rights Law	2
The Committee on the Rights of the Child’s Admissibility Decisions in the ‘Syrian Camps Cases’ against France: a Critique from the Viewpoint of Treaty Interpretation	2
Borrowed Words and Judicial Gestalt: A Dialogical Reading of Hirst, the ECtHR and Prisoner Voting Rights	2
Sex and Gender in International Human Rights Law through the Prism of the ‘Women’ Category in Recent Case Law	2
Disability human rights standards before the European Court of Human Rights—false convergence and methodologically-driven divergence?	2
Lodestar in the Time of Coronavirus? Interpreting International Obligations to Realise the Right to Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic	2
Enforcing Rights Beyond Litigation: Mapping NGO Strategies in Monitoring ECtHR Judgement Implementation	2
Children’s Religious Identity in Alternative Care and Adoption: The Need to Recentre the Child’s Best Interest in International Human Rights Adjudication	2
Access to Courts for Asylum Seekers and Refugees: State Obligations under the 1951 Refugee Convention	2
Mental Capacity, Dignity and the Power of International Human Rights	2
Damian Etone, The Human Rights Council: The Impact of the Universal Periodic Review in Africa (Routledge, 2021, xv + 215 pp, £36.99) ISBN 9781032175317 (pb).	2
Vulnerability, Care Ethics and the Protection of Socioeconomic Rights via Article 3 ECHR	1
Beware of the siren’s call—the European right to hope and the challenge of old age behind bars	1
Allocating Human Rights Obligations in the ECHR	1
Exporting the European Convention on Human Rights	1
Filling the Accountability Gap: Misleading Conduct Law in Business and Human Rights	1
Taxation at the European Court of Human Rights	1
Article 8 ECHR, Family Reunification and the UK’s Supreme Court: Family Matters?	1
National security secrecy in ECtHR proceedings—the Court’s eroding toolbox against unjustified secrecy and abuse	1
Does the Practice of the European Convention on Human Rights Fit the Practical Conception of Human Rights?	1
The Draft Convention on the Right to Development: A New Dawn to the Recognition of the Right to Development as a Human Right?	1
A right to health case for access to affordable procreative assistance	1
Hate speech and the European Court of Human Rights	1
The human right to freedom of thought—operationalising a disputed right in the context of neurotechnologies	1
The Cambridge handbook of the right to freedom of thought	1
The Inconsistencies of Age-Related Incapacity Thresholds in International Law: Child Rape Victims at a Disadvantage	1
Who Manages Menstrual Health? The Untapped Potential of the Right to Health to Support a Comprehensive Right to Menstrual Health beyond Menstrual Hygiene Management	1
Correction to: Deconstructing the Eviction Protections Under the Revised European Social Charter: A Systematic Content Analysis of the Interplay Between the Right to Housing and the Right to Property	1
Protecting the Arctic Indigenous Peoples’ Livelihoods in the Face of Climate Change: The Potential of Regional Human Rights Law and the Law of the Sea	1
Patents, Human Rights, and Access to Medicines. By Emmanuel Kolawole Oke. (Cambridge University Press, 2022, 175 pp) Hardback, GBP 95, ISBN 9781108472104.	1
The Right to Research in Africa: Exploring the Copyright and Human Rights Interface	1
Proportionality, Stringency and Utility in the Jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights	1
Climate Change and the Modern Slavery Conundrum in Africa: Reimagining the Relevance of Human Rights Law	1
Free and Informed Elections? Disinformation and Democratic Elections Under Article 3 of Protocol 1 of the ECHR	1
Litigating the politics of human rights: contemporary U.S. culture wars on trial	1
Prisoner Lives Cut Short: The Need to Address Structural, Societal and Environmental Factors to Reduce Preventable Prisoner Deaths	1
From Doughnut Economics to Doughnut Jurisprudence: A Human Rights Perspective	1

Human Rights Defenders and the Law A Constitutional and International Legal Approach	1
The Universal Right to Legal Capacity—Clearing the Haze	1