OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Studies Review is 6. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Fallacies of Democratic State-Building	61
Why Do We—or Don’t We—Fight?	49
Practices of (De)Legitimation in World Politics	44
War without Boots	39
Practices of Policy Orientation: A Study of the Heterogeneous Field of Democracy Promotion Research	33
Forum: Conflict Delegation in Civil Wars	29
Teaching and Researching Human Rights in Hostile US Spaces	22
Queering Gender-Based Violence Scholarship: An Integrated Research Agenda	22
Regionalism and the Politics of Identity in Russia	22
Correction to: International Studies and Struggles for Inclusion	21
Introduction to the Presidential Special Issue	19
Feminist Commitments Towards a Horizontal Women, Peace, and Security Critical Learning Community	19
Wither the Trade Regime?	18
The International Origins of Unconsolidated Sovereignty	18
The Climate Challenge for International Studies	17
Intermediation between International Society and World Society: The Pope and the UN Secretary-General on “the Figure of the Refugee”	17
Can Men Do Feminist Fieldwork and Research?	15
Reimagining Comparisons in International Relations through Reflexivity	15
Why Westphalia Still Matters: Territorial Rights under Empire	15
How to Pay Attention to the Words We Use: The Reflexive Review as a Method for Linguistic Reflexivity	15
Calculations in Small Circles: Factors Influencing Russian Foreign Policy-Making	14
Ceasefire Violations: Why They Occur and How They Relate to Strategic Decision-Making Processes	13
Tracking Climate Securitization: Framings of Climate Security by Civil and Defense Ministries	12
European Regional International Society and the Political Economy of the Global Sugar Regime	12
How Religious Are “Religious” Conflicts?	11

COVID-19 and Gendered Risk: A Case Study of Yemeni Women Peacebuilders	11
“The More, the Merrier”: Three Ways of Case Universe Extension—Reflections on Bringing Shia into Islamism Studies	11
“Eliding Joy” No More: Bringing Joy Back to Human Rights	11
Understanding German Foreign Policy in the (Post-)Merkel Era—Review Essay	11
Collective Memory and Problems of Scale in International Relations	10
The International Recognition of Governments in Practice(s): Creatures, Mirages, and Dilemmas in Post-2011 Libya	10
Who’s Afraid of the Bomb?: The Euromissiles Crisis and Nuclear Weapons in Europe, Past and Present	10
Talk from the Top: Leadership and Self-Legitimation in International Organizations	10
NGOs and States: Exploring National Diversity and Global Liberalism	9
Systemism and International Relations: How a Graphic Method Can Enhance Communication	9
Issues and Strategies in a Managed Rivalry	9
Christopher Clary, the Difficult Politics of Peace: Rivalry in Modern South Asia, OUP, 2022 and Surinder Mohan, Complex Rivalry: The Dynamics of India-Pakistan Conflict, University of Michigan Press,	9
Why States Arm and Why, Sometimes, They Do So Together	9
Contested Facts: The Politics and Practice of International Fact-Finding Missions	9
Conditions in Which Small States Improve Their Influence	8
Revolt and Rule: Learning about Governance from Rebel Groups	8
Activists in International Courts: Theorizing the Roles of Rights Activists between International Human Rights Courts, States, and Societies	8
Is the Public Backlash against Globalization a Backlash against Legalization and Judicialization?	7
The Concept of Anxiety in Ontological Security Studies	7
Civilian Agency in Civil War? Militia Formation and Diffusion in Mozambique	7
Fake News and Gendered Public Labor: Burundian Peace Activists Combat COVID-19 Disinformation	7
Contesting Legitimacy of Global Governance Institutions: The Case of the World Health Organization During the Coronavirus Pandemic	7
Correction to: Reassembling the Social in the Study of Religion and International Relations	7
Classified and Secret: Understanding the Literature on Diversity in the Intelligence Sector	7
What Is Christendom to Us? Making Better Sense of Christianity in Global Politics	7
Cult of the Irrelevant: The Waning Influence of Social Science on National Security	6
Global Crisis and the Liberal International Order: Critical Nodes in a Totality	6
Where is Conflict Research? Western Bias in the Literature on Armed Violence	6
Deter, Disrupt, or Deceive: Assessing Cyber Conflict as an Intelligence Contest	6
A New Model of “Taboo”: Disgust, Stigmatization, and Fetishization	6
Exposure to Violence as Explanatory Variable: Meaning, Measurement, and Theoretical Implications of Different Indicators	6
Review of Making International Institutions Work: The Politics of Performance	6