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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Social media and genocide: The case for home state responsibility	16
Who is a legitimate actor under international human rights law? A story about women’s mobilization against enforced disappearances	15
The primacy of care for global security	14
Naming and shaming, government messaging, and backlash effects: Experimental evidence from the Convention Against Torture	13
Vernacularizing human rights: A review essay	12
Where were the listeners? Witnessing among Holocaust survivors	12
Policy-specific human rights shaming: Evidence from the other letters of the UN Special Procedures	11
Introduction to a special issue on beyond complacency and acrimony: Studying human rights in a post-COVID-19 world	11
Reducing mass atrocities through transitional justice	10
How does transitional justice matter? Expanding and refining quantitative research on the effects of transitional justice policies	9
Closing chapters of the past? Rhetorical strategies in political apologies for human rights violations across the world	8
Human rights globalization: How local and global actions institutionalize human rights	8
Making or breaking the cycle of corruption: Exploring the impact of transitional justice on corruption in postconflict countries	8
Perceptions of a human rights lens in relation to the training of social work field educators	8
Children’s and young people’s human rights education in school: Cardinal complications and a middle ground	7
Can nonviolent resistance survive COVID-19?	7
The spatial dynamics of freedom of foreign movement and human trafficking	7
“It’s like living in a black hole”: Reevaluating the use of solitary confinement during COVID-19	6
The International Criminal Court at 25	6
#ForeignersMustGo versus “in favorem libertatis”: Human rights violations and procedural irregularities in South African immigration detention law	6
Introduction to human rights on the edge: The future of international human rights law and practice	5
Nothing changed after Rome: Continuity in state support for the International Criminal Court	5
A BIT of help? The divergent effect of bilateral investment treaties on women’s rights	5
Overlapping institutions in the UN human rights system: Mutually strengthening or undermining?	4
Can national human rights institutions make a difference? Discourse, accountability, and the Egyptian National Council for Human Rights	4

Public acceptance of gender-based violence as torture	4
From ‘evil doers’ to ‘very fine people’: The politics of shifting counterterrorism targets	4
The evolution of the global movement to end child marriage	4
Measuring absence: Narrative obstacles to counting contemporary enforced disappearances in Latin America	4
International human rights teachers in Myanmar universities: The individual constraints of structure on intermediaries	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	3
Rethinking work, the right to work, and automation	3
International socialization, international politics, and the spread of state bureaucracies for women’s advancement	3
Harming those doing good? The role of anti-aid rhetoric in explaining aid worker attacks	3
Meanings of the human rights concept: Tunisian activism in the 1970s	3
NGO repression as a predictor of worsening human rights abuses	3
Negotiated rights: UN treaty negotiation, socialization, and human rights	3
Perceptions of human rights complaint mechanisms: The case of German international development cooperation	3
Economic sanctions, repression capacity, and human rights	2
Layered localization of international human rights law: Signaling and contestation in the context of Thailand	2
Where you stand depends on where you sit: The effect of status and evaluative identities on human rights perception	2
Translocal lessons from transitional justice in Colombia: Truth, art, and memory to advance human rights and transform societies	2
Indigenous vs. Peasants’ rights? Lhaka Honhat v. Argentina and the role of the Inter-American Human Rights System in communal interethnic conflicts	2
Using images as data in political violence research	2
Broadening the British idealist approach to human rights: J. S. Mackenzie’s list of political, economic, and social rights	2
Human rights cities and the expanding global toolkit for decolonization and racial justice	2
A decade of revitalizing UN work concerning freedom of religion or belief (2010–2020)	2
Practitioner’s perspective on human rights education: Key resources	2
Food oppression in the United Kingdom: A study of structural race and income-based food access inequalities	2
Constructing an international legal order under the shadow of colonial domination	2
When the stick fails to work: The effects of sanctions on government sexual violence in armed conflict	1
Communication at the margins: Online homophobia from the perspectives of LGBTQ + social media users	1
Managed death: IO legitimacy and evolving human rights	1
Researching under constraints: Recent books on post-genocide Rwanda	1
New evidence that naming and shaming influences state human rights practices	1
The evolution of funding for the International Criminal Court: Budgets, donors and gender justice	1
Casting a shadow over war zones? Hard truths about the ICC’s efforts to deter wartime atrocities	1
The future of human rights: A research agenda	1
“Adding fuel to the fire”: Unconditional early release of perpetrators convicted by the ICTY, views from Bosnia and Herzegovina	1
Criminalization and rhetorical nondiscrimination: Sex work and sexual diversity politics in Rwanda	1
Stop blaming the farmer: Dispelling the myths of ‘misuse’ and ‘safe’ use of pesticides to protect health and human rights	1
Shifting police strategies: US aid and repression by public safety institutions in Latin America	1
How closing civil society space affects NGO-Government interactions	1
A fox in the henhouse: China, normative change, and the UN Human Rights Council	1
Transitional justice for the “war on terror?”	1
An investigation of incident reports from the detention center Nauru: Has Australia breached the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?	1
The governance authority of non-state actors in the business and human rights regime	1
Child labor and unfree labor: Evidence from the palm oil sector in Sabah (East Malaysia)	1
How torturers are made: Evidence from Saddam Hussein’s Iraq	1
Critical human rights research	1
Intersectionality as method for human rights research: Identifying who is made stateless and how through UN treaty body reviews	1
Copy thy neighbor: Spatial interdependences in the democracy-repression nexus	1
Examining the effects of democratic backsliding on human rights conditions	1
The dictator’s dilemma: Why communist regimes oppress their citizens while military regimes torture and kill	1

Pandemic patriarchy: The impact of a global health crisis on women’s rights	1
Correction	1
Social ecologies of health and conflict-related sexual violence: Translating “healthworlds” into transitional justice	1
The gendered politics of recognition and recognizability through political apology	1