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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Enforced disappearances: on universal responses to a worldwide phenomenon	20
The anatomy of a valid waiver of human rights	11
Reconciling the Dual-Faceted Mandates of Quasi-Judicial Human Rights Bodies: The Working Group on Arbitrary Detention’s Prima Facie Approach to Evidence	10
Rethinking human rights: critical insights from Palestinian youth	9
Judicial Convergence and Fragmentation in International Human Rights Law: the Regional Systems and the United Nations Human Rights Committee	8
Deference, Dignity and ‘Theoretical Crisis’: Justifying ECtHR Rights Between Prudence and Protection	7
The Human Right to Land: A Peasant Struggle in the Human Rights System	6
Child Rights, Legal Theory and Social Advocacy	6
‘Turning the Rights Lens Inwards’: The Case for Child Rights-Consistent Strategic Litigation Practice	6
Judicial Activism and Judge-Made Law at the ECtHR	6
The 2016 UN General Assembly Declaration on the Right to Peace: A Step towards Sustainable Positive Peace within Societies?	6
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
The customary prohibition of the mandatory death penalty in international law	5
The Indivisibility of Human Rights: An Empirical Analysis	5
Truth commissions on disability institutions: towards a disability truth and repair framework	5
Strengthening the rule of law: the necessity of protecting human rights defenders from criminalisation	5
Human Rights and the Universal Periodic Review Mechanism: A Research Companion	4
Scholarship in Times of Constitutional Transformation: A View from Hong Kong	4
X Factors and Tipping Points in Eviction Cases: A Statistical Analysis of Eviction Litigation of the European Court of Human Rights	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
Women and International Human Rights in Modern Times: A Contemporary Casebook	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
The Right of the Child to Play: From Conception to Implementation	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
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
The Disappearing ‘Minimum Rights’ of Article 6 ECHR: the Unfortunate Legacy of Ibrahim and Beuze	3
Brazil and Climate Justice: Pioneering Climate Litigation for a Global Cause	3
Rethinking the predominant purpose test under Article 18 ECHR—lessons from the détournement de pouvoir à la française	3
Adaptive Protection of Human Rights: Stealth Institutionalisation of Scrutiny Functions in ASEAN’s Limited Regime	3
Introduction to special edition: ‘the convention on the rights of persons with disability: next generation thinking’	3
Catarina Woyames Dreher, A Legal Assessment of the Efficacy of Consultation with Indigenous Peoples: The Case of Brazil	2
Legal-Conflict Constellations. A Political Approach to the ‘Labour Rights-Human Rights’ Debate	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
Patents, Human Rights, and Access to Medicines. By Emmanuel Kolawole Oke. (Cambridge University Press, 2022, 175 pp) Hardback, GBP 95, ISBN 9781108472104.	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
The intersubjective dimension of human dignity—from philosophical theorizing to case law examples from the European Court of Human Rights	2
The Times and Temporalities of International Human Rights Law	2
Sex and Gender in International Human Rights Law through the Prism of the ‘Women’ Category in Recent Case Law	2
Does the Practice of the European Convention on Human Rights Fit the Practical Conception of Human Rights?	2
Borrowed Words and Judicial Gestalt: A Dialogical Reading of Hirst, the ECtHR and Prisoner Voting Rights	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
Uncovering the Nature of ECHR Rights: An Analytical and Methodological Framework	2
Lodestar in the Time of Coronavirus? Interpreting International Obligations to Realise the Right to Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic	2
Rendering International Human Rights Law Fit for Purpose on Climate Change	2
Recognizing Early Childhood Education as a Human Right in International Law	2
The Right to Research in Africa: Exploring the Copyright and Human Rights Interface	1
Prisoner Lives Cut Short: The Need to Address Structural, Societal and Environmental Factors to Reduce Preventable Prisoner Deaths	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
Human Rights Defenders and the Law A Constitutional and International Legal Approach	1
Hidden, indirect and ulterior purpose review by regional human rights courts: comparing the cases against Azerbaijan and Venezuela	1
Litigating the politics of human rights: contemporary U.S. culture wars on trial	1
The Cambridge handbook of the right to freedom of thought	1
Hate speech and the European Court of Human Rights	1
Continuing confusion? The UN Human Rights Committee’s jurisprudence on continuing violations and jurisdiction ratione temporis	1
Exporting the European Convention on Human Rights	1
Allocating Human Rights Obligations in the ECHR	1
The Universal Right to Legal Capacity—Clearing the Haze	1
From Doughnut Economics to Doughnut Jurisprudence: A Human Rights Perspective	1
National security secrecy in ECtHR proceedings—the Court’s eroding toolbox against unjustified secrecy and abuse	1
Rights experimentalism under uncertainty: transnational law and human rights for neurotechnologies	1
A right to health case for access to affordable procreative assistance	1
Misappropriation of Children’s Rights as a Legitimate Aim?: Comparing the Responses of the European Court of Human Rights and the UN Human Rights Committee to LGBTQ+ Rights Backlash	1
Vulnerability, Care Ethics and the Protection of Socioeconomic Rights via Article 3 ECHR	1
Climate Change and the Modern Slavery Conundrum in Africa: Reimagining the Relevance of Human Rights Law	1
The human right to freedom of thought—operationalising a disputed right in the context of neurotechnologies	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
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
Disability human rights standards before the European Court of Human Rights—false convergence and methodologically-driven divergence?	1
Enforcing international judgments domestically: the case of the inter-American court of human rights	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

Free and Informed Elections? Disinformation and Democratic Elections Under Article 3 of Protocol 1 of the ECHR	1
Bridging the business–human rights divide: the multi-dimensional dynamics of transnational access to justice in mass tort litigation	1
The ambiguous complementarity of twins: co-operation between the European Union and the Council of Europe	1
Proportionality, Stringency and Utility in the Jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights	1