Journal of Human Rights

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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
The primacy of care for global security22
Naming and shaming, government messaging, and backlash effects: Experimental evidence from the Convention Against Torture17
Reducing mass atrocities through transitional justice17
Who is a legitimate actor under international human rights law? A story about women’s mobilization against enforced disappearances17
Vernacularizing human rights: A review essay17
Where were the listeners? Witnessing among Holocaust survivors16
Policy-specific human rights shaming: Evidence from the other letters of the UN Special Procedures16
Perceptions of a human rights lens in relation to the training of social work field educators15
Introduction to a special issue on beyond complacency and acrimony: Studying human rights in a post-COVID-19 world15
Human rights globalization: How local and global actions institutionalize human rights14
Making or breaking the cycle of corruption: Exploring the impact of transitional justice on corruption in postconflict countries13
The spatial dynamics of freedom of foreign movement and human trafficking12
How does transitional justice matter? Expanding and refining quantitative research on the effects of transitional justice policies12
The International Criminal Court at 2510
Measuring absence: Narrative obstacles to counting contemporary enforced disappearances in Latin America9
#ForeignersMustGo versus “in favorem libertatis”: Human rights violations and procedural irregularities in South African immigration detention law9
Introduction to human rights on the edge: The future of international human rights law and practice9
Nothing changed after Rome: Continuity in state support for the International Criminal Court8
Can nonviolent resistance survive COVID-19?6
Public acceptance of gender-based violence as torture6
Children’s and young people’s human rights education in school: Cardinal complications and a middle ground6
A BIT of help? The divergent effect of bilateral investment treaties on women’s rights6
“It’s like living in a black hole”: Reevaluating the use of solitary confinement during COVID-196
Development of the right to fair trial principles in the African human rights system5
International human rights teachers in Myanmar universities: The individual constraints of structure on intermediaries5
NGO repression as a predictor of worsening human rights abuses5
The evolution of the global movement to end child marriage5
Digital feminism: In the aftermath of #MeToo, what’s next for workplace equity for women?5
Harming those doing good? The role of anti-aid rhetoric in explaining aid worker attacks4
Fashioning the self: Arguing for a right to dress under the freedom of expression in international human rights law4
From ‘evil doers’ to ‘very fine people’: The politics of shifting counterterrorism targets4
Negotiated rights: UN treaty negotiation, socialization, and human rights4
Overlapping institutions in the UN human rights system: Mutually strengthening or undermining?4
Does responsibility matter in domestic discourses on human rights due diligence legislation? Analyzing interest groups’ discourse on Germany’s Supply Chain Act4
New frame for an old issue: How organizations view frame choice, embedding, and efficacy about child, early, and forced marriage3
Practitioner’s perspective on human rights education: Key resources3
Economic sanctions, repression capacity, and human rights3
Corporate influence and indigenous resistance: A postcolonial analysis of development projects in Africa3
The economic origins of democratic civil liberties: A cross-country analysis3
Perceptions of human rights complaint mechanisms: The case of German international development cooperation3
Translocal lessons from transitional justice in Colombia: Truth, art, and memory to advance human rights and transform societies3
Indigenous vs. Peasants’ rights? Lhaka Honhat v. Argentina and the role of the Inter-American Human Rights System in communal interethnic conflicts3
Meanings of the human rights concept: Tunisian activism in the 1970s3
A decade of revitalizing UN work concerning freedom of religion or belief (2010–2020)3
Rights education and the children’s university3
Copy thy neighbor: Spatial interdependences in the democracy-repression nexus2
Constructing an international legal order under the shadow of colonial domination2
Communication at the margins: Online homophobia from the perspectives of LGBTQ + social media users2
Layered localization of international human rights law: Signaling and contestation in the context of Thailand2
Human rights cities and the expanding global toolkit for decolonization and racial justice2
Shifting police strategies: US aid and repression by public safety institutions in Latin America2
Barriers to justice for survivors of egregious human rights violations: A transdisciplinary approach2
Researching under constraints: Recent books on post-genocide Rwanda2
Food oppression in the United Kingdom: A study of structural race and income-based food access inequalities2
Where you stand depends on where you sit: The effect of status and evaluative identities on human rights perception2
Intersectionality as method for human rights research: Identifying who is made stateless and how through UN treaty body reviews2
Managed death: IO legitimacy and evolving human rights2
Social practice of human rights: Insights on decolonization and development for Africa and people of African descent2
Measuring technology presence in trafficking: Introducing the Social Media and the Internet in Trafficking of Humans (SMITH) data project2
Transitional justice for the “war on terror?”1
When the stick fails to work: The effects of sanctions on government sexual violence in armed conflict1
Examining the effects of democratic backsliding on human rights conditions1
Above politics: The construction of human rights in the negotiation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights1
Reflections on a research agenda: The rise of abuse against information workers – Public goods dimensions1
A fox in the henhouse: China, normative change, and the UN Human Rights Council1
Pandemic patriarchy: The impact of a global health crisis on women’s rights1
Social ecologies of health and conflict-related sexual violence: Translating “healthworlds” into transitional justice1
Child labor and unfree labor: Evidence from the palm oil sector in Sabah (East Malaysia)1
The dictator’s dilemma: Why communist regimes oppress their citizens while military regimes torture and kill1
Criminalization and rhetorical nondiscrimination: Sex work and sexual diversity politics in Rwanda1
Stop blaming the farmer: Dispelling the myths of ‘misuse’ and ‘safe’ use of pesticides to protect health and human rights1
“Adding fuel to the fire”: Unconditional early release of perpetrators convicted by the ICTY, views from Bosnia and Herzegovina1
The COVID-19 pandemic and authoritarian consolidation in North Africa1
The evolution of funding for the International Criminal Court: Budgets, donors and gender justice1
The case for human rights realism and restraint in the new era1
The governance authority of non-state actors in the business and human rights regime1
New evidence that naming and shaming influences state human rights practices1
How closing civil society space affects NGO-Government interactions1
Critical human rights research1
Addressing the impacts of climate change on human rights through adaptation-focused litigation: Cases before the African Union’s human rights bodies1
Casting a shadow over war zones? Hard truths about the ICC’s efforts to deter wartime atrocities1
Institutionalizing human rights in the United States: Advocacy for a national human rights institution1
The future of human rights: A research agenda1
Correction1
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