OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Studies Perspectives is 1. 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
Targaryen Thought Experiments: Do Science Fiction and Fantasy Examples Aid or Obfuscate Student Learning?	18
#GlobalJustice?: Social Media, Pedagogy, and Activism	18
What Are the Challenges to Peace? A Workshop on Conflict Analysis to Understand Middle East Politics	12
Student-Designed Simulation: Teaching Global Governance in Practice through a Student-Led Role-Play for Practitioners	10
Cooperation and Conflict Studies in Chinese IR	8
Non-State Participation in International Organizations 1998–2017: Introducing a New Dataset	6
Upholding Hierarchies of Knowledge Production: Mundane Obstacles to Global International Relations	6
Toward Pedagogies of Decoloniality: Evaluating Teaching Practice and Syllabus Design in IR Undergraduate Modules	6
Forum: Russia's Invasion of Ukraine: What Did We Miss?	6
Forum: Youth as Boundary Actors in International Studies	5
Do People Want Democracy Aid? Survey Experimental Evidence from Africa	5
Methodology Matters: Emplotting Interpretivism in Contemporary Political Science and International Studies	5
Let the People Speak! What Kind of Civil Society Inclusion Leads to Durable Peace?	5
Implementing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals on Campus: An Exercise in Problem-Based Learning for a Sustainable University	4
Forum: Did “America First” Construct America Irrelevant?	4
Role Theory in Practice: US–Turkey Relations in Their Worst Decade	4
The Three AREs: How Authors, Reviewers, and Editors Can Better Address Alternative Explanations in Scholarly Research	3
Correction to: Introspective Journeys and Lessons Learned: Narratives of Self-Care in Academia	3
Reimagining Conflict Management Pedagogy through Fantastical Role-Play Simulations	3
Getting Inside the Mind of Leaders and Advisers: A Data Collection Strategy for Historical Case Studies in IR	3
Bridging the Gap in a Changing World: New Opportunities and Challenges for Engaging Practitioners and the Public	3
The Myth of the Eclectic IR Scholar?	3
Forum: Promise and Peril of Being a SLAC Professor	3
Gendering Zoom Diplomacy: Women’s Participation in Digital Diplomacy	3
Conducting Care-full Research: Collaborative Research amidst Corona, a Coup, and Other Crises	2

Why International Organizations Differ in Their Output Productivity: A Comparative Study	2
Training for the United Nations in the Twenty-First Century; Professionalism Training on Leadership, Negotiation, and Gender for Model United Nations Simulations	2
Teaching/Learning through “Black Earth Rising”: Poststructural, Decolonial, and Feminist Readings	2
Democratization and Peace after Civil War—What Difference Can International Engagement Make? Insights from Liberia	2
Teaching Trade during COVID: Conducting a WTO Simulation through Remote Delivery	2
Promoting Diversity and Inclusion in Professional Associations: Experiences from Security Studies	2
Subversive Knowledge in Times of Global Political Crisis: A Manifesto for Ethnography in the Study of International Relations	1
Forum: Dead-Ends, Disasters, Delays? Reflecting on Research Failure in International Studies and Ways to Avoid It	1
Can Increasing Awareness of Gender Gaps in International Relations Help Close Them? Evidence from a Scholar Ranking Experiment	1
Leveraging Country Expertise: How Scholars in International Studies Can Support the Asylum Process	1
The Limited Scope of the Democratic Peace: What We Are Missing	1
Increasing Inclusion in Classroom Discussion: The Raised Block as a Classroom Response System in International Studies	1
States as Role Models: Why Some Countries’ Policies Matter More than Others	1
Developing Students’ “Soft Skills” through the Flipped Classroom: Evidence from an International Studies Class	1
Ready to Manage a Global Pandemic? Explaining the Involvement of the EU in the 2013–2016 Ebola Outbreak	1
Hiding in Plain Sight: Pedagogy and Power	1
Forum: Gendered Dynamics of Academic Networks	1
Democratic Ties That Bind? US–China Conflict and Foreign Policy Opinion in Japan and Korea	1
Political and International Affairs Simulations and College Students’ Civic Development	1
Forum: Introspective Journeys and Lessons Learned: Narratives of Self-Care in Academia	1
Anxiety and the Onset of COVID-19: Examining Concerns of Historically Excluded Scholars	1
Unethical Issues in Twenty-First Century International Development and Global Health Policy	1
Climate Change in the UN Security Council: An Analysis of Discourses and Organizational Trends	1
Gender and Violence in International Relations: Evidence from the Statecraft Simulation	1
To Hell with the Cell: The Case for Immersive Statecraft Education	1
The State of the Discipline: How Far Along Are We in Developing an IR Theory Based on Southeast Asia’s Experiences	1
Re-Imagining Peace Education: Using Critical Pedagogy as a Transformative Tool	1
The Resurgence of Ideology under Xi Jinping and International Relations Scholarship in China	1
Digital Peacebuilding: A Framework for Critical–Reflexive Engagement	1
Reflexive Pluralism in IR: Canadian Contributions to Worlding the Global South	1
The Use of Popular Songs and Cartoons in Teaching Introduction to International Relations and Comparative Politics	1
Active Learning and Interpersonal Skills Development among First-Generation College Students	1
What We Talk About When We Talk About Soft Power	1