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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
The primacy of care for global security	16
Who is a legitimate actor under international human rights law? A story about women’s mobilization against enforced disappearances	16
Naming and shaming, government messaging, and backlash effects: Experimental evidence from the Convention Against Torture	15
Social media and genocide: The case for home state responsibility	15
Vernacularizing human rights: A review essay	14
Where were the listeners? Witnessing among Holocaust survivors	12
Reducing mass atrocities through transitional justice	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	10
Human rights globalization: How local and global actions institutionalize human rights	9
How does transitional justice matter? Expanding and refining quantitative research on the effects of transitional justice policies	9
Perceptions of a human rights lens in relation to the training of social work field educators	9
Making or breaking the cycle of corruption: Exploring the impact of transitional justice on corruption in postconflict countries	8
Closing chapters of the past? Rhetorical strategies in political apologies for human rights violations across the world	8
The spatial dynamics of freedom of foreign movement and human trafficking	8
Can nonviolent resistance survive COVID-19?	8
“It’s like living in a black hole”: Reevaluating the use of solitary confinement during COVID-19	7
Children’s and young people’s human rights education in school: Cardinal complications and a middle ground	7
The International Criminal Court at 25	7
Measuring absence: Narrative obstacles to counting contemporary enforced disappearances in Latin America	6
Introduction to human rights on the edge: The future of international human rights law and practice	6
Nothing changed after Rome: Continuity in state support for the International Criminal Court	5
From ‘evil doers’ to ‘very fine people’: The politics of shifting counterterrorism targets	5
#ForeignersMustGo versus “in favorem libertatis”: Human rights violations and procedural irregularities in South African immigration detention law	5
A BIT of help? The divergent effect of bilateral investment treaties on women’s rights	5

Public acceptance of gender-based violence as torture	5
The evolution of the global movement to end child marriage	4
Harming those doing good? The role of anti-aid rhetoric in explaining aid worker attacks	4
International human rights teachers in Myanmar universities: The individual constraints of structure on intermediaries	4
Can national human rights institutions make a difference? Discourse, accountability, and the Egyptian National Council for Human Rights	4
NGO repression as a predictor of worsening human rights abuses	4
Overlapping institutions in the UN human rights system: Mutually strengthening or undermining?	4
Digital feminism: In the aftermath of #MeToo, what’s next for workplace equity for women?	4
Negotiated rights: UN treaty negotiation, socialization, and human rights	4
The economic origins of democratic civil liberties: A cross-country analysis	3
Economic sanctions, repression capacity, and human rights	3
Corporate influence and indigenous resistance: A postcolonial analysis of development projects in Africa	3
Perceptions of human rights complaint mechanisms: The case of German international development cooperation	3
Rethinking work, the right to work, and automation	3
Practitioner’s perspective on human rights education: Key resources	3
International socialization, international politics, and the spread of state bureaucracies for women’s advancement	3
Meanings of the human rights concept: Tunisian activism in the 1970s	3
Indigenous vs. Peasants’ rights? Lhaka Honhat v. Argentina and the role of the Inter-American Human Rights System in communal interethnic conflicts	3