OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Human Rights is 2. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Criminalization and rhetorical nondiscrimination: Sex work and sexual diversity politics in Rwanda	16
Caught in the crossfire: Children’s rights under backsliding and backlash	15
Rethinking work, the right to work, and automation	13
The primacy of care for global security	13
How torturers are made: Evidence from Saddam Hussein’s Iraq	12
Hindsight is 2020: Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic for future human rights research	11
Ambiguous marital identity and conflict: A study of the half-widows in Jammu and Kashmir	10
Global perceptions of South Korea's COVID-19 policy responses: Topic modeling with tweets	9
The future of human rights	9
How closing civil society space affects NGO-Government interactions	7
Truth commissions and democratic transitions: Neither truth and reconciliation nor democratization in Nepal	7
Social media and genocide: The case for home state responsibility	6
Critical human rights research	6
Meanings of the human rights concept: Tunisian activism in the 1970s	6
From human rights to “righteous humans”: Brazilian foreign policy in the Bolsonaro era	6
How climate volatility influences human rights	6
How to consolidate quickly: The cases of Algeria and Tunisia	6
When the stick fails to work: The effects of sanctions on government sexual violence in armed conflict	5
Who is a legitimate actor under international human rights law? A story about women’s mobilization against enforced disappearances	5
Economic sanctions, repression capacity, and human rights	4
Practitioner’s perspective on human rights education: Key resources	4
Between negotiation and legitimation: The international criminal court and the political use of sovereignty challenges	4
Naming and shaming, government messaging, and backlash effects: Experimental evidence from the Convention Against Torture	4
To know in the subjunctive: New abolitionistimagetextsand the specter of modern slavery	4
Transitional justice for the “war on terror?”	4

The ICC beyond the courtroom: Activities, warnings, and impact	4
Child soldiers as contemporary slaves: A human rights approach	4
A new hope for human rights	4
‘It was supposed to be fair here’: Human rights and recourse mechanisms in the Dominican Republic’s prison reform process	4
Legal waivers in settlement agreements: Implications on access to remedies in business and human rights	3
The politics of hunger	3
Using images as data in political violence research	3
The troubled world of hate speech regulation	3
Child labor and unfree labor: Evidence from the palm oil sector in Sabah (East Malaysia)	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
New evidence that naming and shaming influences state human rights practices	3
Correction	3
Perceptions of a human rights lens in relation to the training of social work field educators	2
Where were the listeners? Witnessing among Holocaust survivors	2
The governance authority of non-state actors in the business and human rights regime	2
Localizing human rights through the Sustainable Development Goals: The case of Los Angeles	2
Do human rights treaty obligations matter for ratification?	2
Translocal lessons from transitional justice in Colombia: Truth, art, and memory to advance human rights and transform societies	2
Introduction to a special issue on beyond complacency and acrimony: Studying human rights in a post-COVID-19 world	2
Vernacularizing human rights: A review essay	2
Belgium’s “Truth Commission” on its overseas colonial legacy: An expressivist analysis of transitional justice in consolidated democracies	2
Criminal justice in Ghana as experienced by people with disabilities: An analysis of the availability, accessibility, acceptability, and quality of services	2
Human rights globalization: How local and global actions institutionalize human rights	2
The dictator’s dilemma: Why communist regimes oppress their citizens while military regimes torture and kill	2