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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The primacy of care for global security	19
Who is a legitimate actor under international human rights law? A story about women’s mobilization against enforced disappearances	17
Reducing mass atrocities through transitional justice	16
Vernacularizing human rights: A review essay	16
Naming and shaming, government messaging, and backlash effects: Experimental evidence from the Convention Against Torture	16
Where were the listeners? Witnessing among Holocaust survivors	15
Policy-specific human rights shaming: Evidence from the other letters of the UN Special Procedures	14
Introduction to a special issue on beyond complacency and acrimony: Studying human rights in a post-COVID-19 world	14
Human rights globalization: How local and global actions institutionalize human rights	13
Perceptions of a human rights lens in relation to the training of social work field educators	13
The spatial dynamics of freedom of foreign movement and human trafficking	12
Making or breaking the cycle of corruption: Exploring the impact of transitional justice on corruption in postconflict countries	12
How does transitional justice matter? Expanding and refining quantitative research on the effects of transitional justice policies	11
“It’s like living in a black hole”: Reevaluating the use of solitary confinement during COVID-19	10
The International Criminal Court at 25	9
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
Nothing changed after Rome: Continuity in state support for the International Criminal Court	6
Public acceptance of gender-based violence as torture	6
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
The evolution of the global movement to end child marriage	5
A BIT of help? The divergent effect of bilateral investment treaties on women’s rights	5
Development of the right to fair trial principles in the African human rights system	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	4
Harming those doing good? The role of anti-aid rhetoric in explaining aid worker attacks	4
Digital feminism: In the aftermath of #MeToo, what’s next for workplace equity for women?	4
NGO repression as a predictor of worsening human rights abuses	4
New frame for an old issue: How organizations view frame choice, embedding, and efficacy about child, early, and forced marriage	4
International human rights teachers in Myanmar universities: The individual constraints of structure on intermediaries	4
Overlapping institutions in the UN human rights system: Mutually strengthening or undermining?	4
Negotiated rights: UN treaty negotiation, socialization, and human rights	4
Practitioner’s perspective on human rights education: Key resources	3
Indigenous vs. Peasants’ rights? Lhaka Honhat v. Argentina and the role of the Inter-American Human Rights System in communal interethnic conflicts	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
Economic sanctions, repression capacity, and human rights	3
Fashioning the self: Arguing for a right to dress under the freedom of expression in international human rights law	3
Perceptions of human rights complaint mechanisms: The case of German international development cooperation	3
Corporate influence and indigenous resistance: A postcolonial analysis of development projects in Africa	3
Rethinking work, the right to work, and automation	3
The economic origins of democratic civil liberties: A cross-country analysis	3