OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Studies Review 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Global Autocracies: Strategies of Transnational Repression, Legitimation, and Co-Optation in World Politics	48
Consequences of Economic Sanctions: The State of the Art and Paths Forward	33
Who Publishes Where? Exploring the Geographic Diversity of Global IR Journals	29
Practice Approaches to the Digital Transformations of Diplomacy: Toward a New Research Agenda	24
Status Matters in World Politics	23
Friends, Fellows, and Foes: A New Framework for Studying Relational Peace	23
Taking Love and Care Seriously: An Emergent Research Agenda for Remaking Worlds in the Wake of Violence	22
“Hanging Out” while Studying “Up”: Doing Ethnographic Fieldwork in International Relations	21
Forum: Rethinking Neoclassical Realism at Theory's End	21
Connecting International Relations and Public Administration: Toward A Joint Research Agenda for the Study of International Bureaucracy	21
The Concept of Anxiety in Ontological Security Studies	20
Where We At? New Directions for Research on Popular Culture and World Politics	18
Beyond Visible Entanglements: Connected Histories of the International	15
The Return of National Self-Sufficiency? Excavating Autarkic Thought in a De-Globalizing Era	15
The Misogyny of Authoritarians in Contemporary Democracies	15
The Great Divides: Incommensurability, the Impossibility of Mixed-Methodology, and What to Do about It	15
Weaving Worlds:Cosmopraxisas Relational Sensibility	15
Reframing Climate-Induced Socio-Environmental Conflicts: A Systematic Review	14
FORUM: COVID-19 and IR Scholarship: One Profession, Many Voices	14
Forum: Nonuse of Nuclear Weapons in World Politics: Toward the Third Generation of “Nuclear Taboo” Research	14
Beyond “Bouncing”: Resilience as an Expansion–Contraction Dynamic within a Holonic Frame	12
Natural Disasters, Forced Migration, and Conflict: The Importance of Government Policy Responses	12
Emergency Politics After Globalization	12
Coping with Complexity: Toward Epistemological Pluralism in Climate–Conflict Scholarship	12
Positive Peace Pillars and Sustainability Dimensions: An Analytical Framework	12

Leader Influence in Role Selection Choices: Fulfilling Role Theory's Potential for Foreign Policy Analysis	12
On the Impact of Inequality on Growth, Human Development, and Governance	11
NGO Accountability: A Conceptual Review across the Engaged Disciplines	11
The Rankings Game: A Relational Approach to Country Performance Indicators	11
South–South Knowledge Production and Hegemony: Searching for Africa in Chinese Theories of IR	10
Keeping Your Enemies Close? The Variety of Social Movements’ Reactions to International Organizations’ Opening Up	10
Slow Progress on UN Rapid Deployment: The Pitfalls of Policy Paradigms in International Organizations	10
QCA in International Relations: A Review of Strengths, Pitfalls, and Empirical Applications	10
Contesting Legitimacy of Global Governance Institutions: The Case of the World Health Organization During the Coronavirus Pandemic	10
Refusing to Cooperate with Armed GroupsCivilian Agency and Civilian Noncooperation in Armed Conflicts	10
The United States, China, and the Politics of Hegemonic Ordering in East Asia	10
Governing Complexity: Design Principles for the Governance of Complex Global Catastrophic Risks	9
The Visual International Relations Project	9
Pinioning the Peacekeepers: Sovereignty, Host-State Resistance against Peacekeeping Missions, and Violence against Civilians	8
Revolt and Rule: Learning about Governance from Rebel Groups	7
Field Research: A Graduate Student's Guide	7
Saving National IR from Exceptionalism: The Dialogic Spirit and Self-Reflection in Chinese IR Theory	7
Forum: Conflict Delegation in Civil Wars	6
Contesting the “Corrupt Elites,” Creating the “Pure People,” and Renegotiating the Hierarchies of the International Order? Populism and Foreign Policy-Making in Turkey and Hungary	6
Forum: Militarization 2.0: Communication and the Normalization of Political Violence in the Digital Age	6
The Politics of Data Access in Studying Violence across Methodological Boundaries: What We Can Learn from Each Other?	6
It's Ordered Chaos: What Really Makes Polycentrism Work	6
Reevaluating Constructivist Norm Theory: A Three-Dimensional Norms Research Program	6
China's New Multilateral Institutions: A Framework and Research Agenda	6
The Researcher and the Researched: Navigating the Challenges of Research in Conflict-Affected Environments	6
Pathways to Violence in Civil Wars: Combatant Socialization and the Drivers of Participation in Civilian Targeting	6
Peacebuilding with “Chinese Characteristics”? Insights from China's Engagement in Myanmar's Peace Process	6
IR Theory and the Core–Periphery Structure of Global IR: Lessons from Citation Analysis	6
Making Sense of China's Belt and Road Initiative: A Review Essay	5
Navigating Multiple Identities: Decentering International Relations	5
Queering Gender-Based Violence Scholarship: An Integrated Research Agenda	5
WhatsApp with Diplomatic Practices in Geneva? Diplomats, Digital Technologies, and Adaptation in Practice	5
Economic Lawfare: The Logic and Dynamics of Using Law to Exercise Economic Power	5
Claiming Equality: The African Union's Contestation of the Anti-Impunity Norm	5
The Cold War Origins of Global IR. The Rockefeller Foundation and Realism in Latin America	5
How to Pay Attention to the Words We Use: The Reflexive Review as a Method for Linguistic Reflexivity	5
The Dog That Did Not Bark, the Dog That Did Bark, and the Dog That Should Have Barked: A Methodology for Cyber Deterrence Research	4
Forum: Interlingual Relations: Approaches, Conflicts, and Lessons in the Translation Of Global Politics	4
The Shortcomings of International Humanitarian Law in Access Negotiations: New Strategies and Ways Forward	4
How Did Environmental Governance Become Complex? Understanding Mutualism Between Environmental NGOs and International Organizations	4
Talk from the Top: Leadership and Self-Legitimation in International Organizations	4
Forum: Thinking Theoretically in Unsettled Times: COVID-19 and Beyond	4
Can Men Do Feminist Fieldwork and Research?	4
Is the Public Backlash against Globalization a Backlash against Legalization and Judicialization?	4
Theory of Irrational Politics: Classical Realist Lessons on Foreign Policy Analysis	4
Globalization and Nationalism: Contending Forces in World Politics	4
Choosing to Fight, Choosing to Die: Examining How ISIS Foreign Fighters Select Their Operational Roles	4
International Relations Theory and the Future of European Integration	4
Reconsidering the Contested State in Post-1945 International Relations: An Ontological Approach	4
The Death of the Democratic Advantage?	3

Integrating the Quantitative Research on the Onset and Incidence of Violent Intrastate Conflicts	3
Do Eyes in the Sky Ensure Peace on the Ground? The Uncertain Contributions of Remote Sensing to Ceasefire Compliance	3
Where is Conflict Research? Western Bias in the Literature on Armed Violence	3
Intermediation between International Society and World Society: The Pope and the UN Secretary-General on “the Figure of the Refugee”	3
Compliance in Time: Lessons from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights	3
False Readiness: Expanding the Concept of Readiness in Conflict Resolution Theory	3
Lateral Relations in World Politics: Rethinking Interactions and Change among Fields, Systems, and Sectors	3
Legislative Process in International Organizations	3
New Directions in the Study of Populism in International Relations	3
Contributions and Blind Spots of Constructivist Norms Research in International Relations, 1980–2018: A Systematic Evidence and Gap Analysis	3
Forum: A Coup At the Capitol? Conceptualizing Coups and Other Antidemocratic Actions	3
“Negotiated Coexistence”: Indian and Chinese Engagement in the Global Governance of Peacebuilding	3
Nationalism, Populism, and Trade Agreements	3
Embrace IR Anxieties (or, Morgenthau's Approach to Power, and the Challenge of Combining the Three Domains of IR Theorizing)	3
Tracking Climate Securitization: Framings of Climate Security by Civil and Defense Ministries	3
Ceasefire Violations: Why They Occur and How They Relate to Strategic Decision-Making Processes	3
Sustaining Capitalism and Democracy: Lessons from Global Competition Policy	3
Patchwork of Counterterrorism: Analyzing European Types of Cooperation in Sahel	3