OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Human Rights is 3. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
The primacy of care for global security	21
Who is a legitimate actor under international human rights law? A story about women’s mobilization against enforced disappearances	17
Naming and shaming, government messaging, and backlash effects: Experimental evidence from the Convention Against Torture	16
Reducing mass atrocities through transitional justice	16
Vernacularizing human rights: A review essay	16
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	15
Policy-specific human rights shaming: Evidence from the other letters of the UN Special Procedures	15
Perceptions of a human rights lens in relation to the training of social work field educators	14
Making or breaking the cycle of corruption: Exploring the impact of transitional justice on corruption in postconflict countries	14
The spatial dynamics of freedom of foreign movement and human trafficking	13
Human rights globalization: How local and global actions institutionalize human rights	12
How does transitional justice matter? Expanding and refining quantitative research on the effects of transitional justice policies	11
The International Criminal Court at 25	10
Measuring absence: Narrative obstacles to counting contemporary enforced disappearances in Latin America	9
Introduction to human rights on the edge: The future of international human rights law and practice	9
#ForeignersMustGo versus “in favorem libertatis”: Human rights violations and procedural irregularities in South African immigration detention law	7
Nothing changed after Rome: Continuity in state support for the International Criminal Court	7
Can nonviolent resistance survive COVID-19?	6
Public acceptance of gender-based violence as torture	6
A BIT of help? The divergent effect of bilateral investment treaties on women’s rights	6
International human rights teachers in Myanmar universities: The individual constraints of structure on intermediaries	5
“It’s like living in a black hole”: Reevaluating the use of solitary confinement during COVID-19	5
Overlapping institutions in the UN human rights system: Mutually strengthening or undermining?	5
The evolution of the global movement to end child marriage	5

Children’s and young people’s human rights education in school: Cardinal complications and a middle ground	5
From ‘evil doers’ to ‘very fine people’: The politics of shifting counterterrorism targets	5
Development of the right to fair trial principles in the African human rights system	5
Negotiated rights: UN treaty negotiation, socialization, and human rights	4
Harming those doing good? The role of anti-aid rhetoric in explaining aid worker attacks	4
NGO repression as a predictor of worsening human rights abuses	4
Fashioning the self: Arguing for a right to dress under the freedom of expression in international human rights law	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
Perceptions of human rights complaint mechanisms: The case of German international development cooperation	3
Economic sanctions, repression capacity, and human rights	3
Practitioner’s perspective on human rights education: Key resources	3
Does responsibility matter in domestic discourses on human rights due diligence legislation? Analyzing interest groups’ discourse on Germany’s Supply Chain Act	3
Meanings of the human rights concept: Tunisian activism in the 1970s	3
Corporate influence and indigenous resistance: A postcolonial analysis of development projects in Africa	3
New frame for an old issue: How organizations view frame choice, embedding, and efficacy about child, early, and forced marriage	3
Indigenous vs. Peasants’ rights? Lhaka Honhat v. Argentina and the role of the Inter-American Human Rights System in communal interethnic conflicts	3
A decade of revitalizing UN work concerning freedom of religion or belief (2010–2020)	3