OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Human Rights 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
The primacy of care for global security	17
Who is a legitimate actor under international human rights law? A story about women’s mobilization against enforced disappearances	16
Vernacularizing human rights: A review essay	16
Naming and shaming, government messaging, and backlash effects: Experimental evidence from the Convention Against Torture	16
Reducing mass atrocities through transitional justice	15
Where were the listeners? Witnessing among Holocaust survivors	15
Introduction to a special issue on beyond complacency and acrimony: Studying human rights in a post-COVID-19 world	14
Policy-specific human rights shaming: Evidence from the other letters of the UN Special Procedures	14
Perceptions of a human rights lens in relation to the training of social work field educators	13
Human rights globalization: How local and global actions institutionalize human rights	12
Making or breaking the cycle of corruption: Exploring the impact of transitional justice on corruption in postconflict countries	11
The spatial dynamics of freedom of foreign movement and human trafficking	11
How does transitional justice matter? Expanding and refining quantitative research on the effects of transitional justice policies	10
Closing chapters of the past? Rhetorical strategies in political apologies for human rights violations across the world	10
“It’s like living in a black hole”: Reevaluating the use of solitary confinement during COVID-19	9
The International Criminal Court at 25	8
Measuring absence: Narrative obstacles to counting contemporary enforced disappearances in Latin America	8
Introduction to human rights on the edge: The future of international human rights law and practice	7
Can nonviolent resistance survive COVID-19?	6
#ForeignersMustGo versus “in favorem libertatis”: Human rights violations and procedural irregularities in South African immigration detention law	6
Public acceptance of gender-based violence as torture	6
Nothing changed after Rome: Continuity in state support for the International Criminal Court	6
NGO repression as a predictor of worsening human rights abuses	5
Children’s and young people’s human rights education in school: Cardinal complications and a middle ground	5
Development of the right to fair trial principles in the African human rights system	5

A BIT of help? The divergent effect of bilateral investment treaties on women’s rights	5
From ‘evil doers’ to ‘very fine people’: The politics of shifting counterterrorism targets	4
Digital feminism: In the aftermath of #MeToo, what’s next for workplace equity for women?	4
The economic origins of democratic civil liberties: A cross-country analysis	4
Rethinking work, the right to work, and automation	4
The evolution of the global movement to end child marriage	4
International human rights teachers in Myanmar universities: The individual constraints of structure on intermediaries	4
New frame for an old issue: How organizations view frame choice, embedding, and efficacy about child, early, and forced marriage	4
Harming those doing good? The role of anti-aid rhetoric in explaining aid worker attacks	4
Overlapping institutions in the UN human rights system: Mutually strengthening or undermining?	4
Negotiated rights: UN treaty negotiation, socialization, and human rights	4
Perceptions of human rights complaint mechanisms: The case of German international development cooperation	4
Translocal lessons from transitional justice in Colombia: Truth, art, and memory to advance human rights and transform societies	3
Practitioner’s perspective on human rights education: Key resources	3
Corporate influence and indigenous resistance: A postcolonial analysis of development projects in Africa	3
A decade of revitalizing UN work concerning freedom of religion or belief (2010–2020)	3
Indigenous vs. Peasants’ rights? Lhaka Honhat v. Argentina and the role of the Inter-American Human Rights System in communal interethnic conflicts	3
Rights education and the children’s university	3
Economic sanctions, repression capacity, and human rights	3
Meanings of the human rights concept: Tunisian activism in the 1970s	3
Food oppression in the United Kingdom: A study of structural race and income-based food access inequalities	2
Where you stand depends on where you sit: The effect of status and evaluative identities on human rights perception	2
Intersectionality as method for human rights research: Identifying who is made stateless and how through UN treaty body reviews	2
Examining the effects of democratic backsliding on human rights conditions	2
Layered localization of international human rights law: Signaling and contestation in the context of Thailand	2
Copy thy neighbor: Spatial interdependences in the democracy-repression nexus	2
Constructing an international legal order under the shadow of colonial domination	2
Managed death: IO legitimacy and evolving human rights	2
Social practice of human rights: Insights on decolonization and development for Africa and people of African descent	2
Human rights cities and the expanding global toolkit for decolonization and racial justice	2
Broadening the British idealist approach to human rights: J. S. Mackenzie’s list of political, economic, and social rights	2
Shifting police strategies: US aid and repression by public safety institutions in Latin America	2
Researching under constraints: Recent books on post-genocide Rwanda	2
Stop blaming the farmer: Dispelling the myths of ‘misuse’ and ‘safe’ use of pesticides to protect health and human rights	1
How closing civil society space affects NGO-Government interactions	1
“Adding fuel to the fire”: Unconditional early release of perpetrators convicted by the ICTY, views from Bosnia and Herzegovina	1
The future of human rights: A research agenda	1
Pandemic patriarchy: The impact of a global health crisis on women’s rights	1
The governance authority of non-state actors in the business and human rights regime	1
The dictator’s dilemma: Why communist regimes oppress their citizens while military regimes torture and kill	1
Critical human rights research	1
Communication at the margins: Online homophobia from the perspectives of LGBTQ + social media users	1
Social ecologies of health and conflict-related sexual violence: Translating “healthworlds” into transitional justice	1
A fox in the henhouse: China, normative change, and the UN Human Rights Council	1
Casting a shadow over war zones? Hard truths about the ICC’s efforts to deter wartime atrocities	1
Reflections on a research agenda: The rise of abuse against information workers – Public goods dimensions	1
Correction	1
Transitional justice for the “war on terror?”	1
Above politics: The construction of human rights in the negotiation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights	1
Criminalization and rhetorical nondiscrimination: Sex work and sexual diversity politics in Rwanda	1

Child labor and unfree labor: Evidence from the palm oil sector in Sabah (East Malaysia)	1
The evolution of funding for the International Criminal Court: Budgets, donors and gender justice	1
Addressing the impacts of climate change on human rights through adaptation-focused litigation: Cases before the African Union’s human rights bodies	1
The case for human rights realism and restraint in the new era	1
The gendered politics of recognition and recognizability through political apology	1
New evidence that naming and shaming influences state human rights practices	1
When the stick fails to work: The effects of sanctions on government sexual violence in armed conflict	1