OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Review of International Organizations is 2. 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
Statistical capacity and corrupt bureaucracies	52
Instrumental or intrinsic? Human rights alignment in intergovernmental organizations	37
Susan Park. 2022. The Good Hegemon: US Power, Accountability as Justice, and the Multilateral Development Banks. (Oxford: Oxford University Press)	33
Re-contracting intergovernmental organizations: Membership change and the creation of linked intergovernmental organizations	27
Influence and support for foreign aid: Evidence from the United States and China	25
Ronny Patz and Klaus H. Goetz. 2019. Managing Money and Discord in the UN: Budgeting and Bureaucracy (Oxford: Oxford University Press)	20
Is context pretext? Institutionalized commitments and the situational politics of foreign economic policy	20
The sources of influence in multilateral diplomacy: Replaceability and intergovernmental networks in international organizations	20
Who adjusts? Exchange rate regimes and finance versus labor under IMF programs	18
Christina L. Davis. 2023. Discriminatory Clubs: The Geopolitics of International Organizations. (Princeton: Princeton University Press)	17
The global governance complexity cube: Varieties of institutional complexity in global governance	16
Zombies ahead: Explaining the rise of low-quality election monitoring	16
How negative institutional power moderates contestation: Explaining dissatisfied powers’ strategies towards international institutions	15
Erik Voeten. 2021. Ideology and International Institutions (Princeton: Princeton University Press)	15
Balancing justice: Damages awarded by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights	13
The power of having powerful friends: Evidence from a new dataset of IMF negotiating missions, 1985-2020	13
Investment with insecure property rights: Capital outflow openness under dictatorship	12
Correction to: Emulate or Differentiate? Chinese development finance, competition, and World Bank infrastructure funding	11
Correction to: EU services trade liberalization and economic regulation: Complements or substitutes?	11
The possibilities and limits of international status: Evidence from foreign aid and public opinion	11
The defocalizing effect of international courts: Evidence from maritime delimitation practices	10
Alexandra Zeitz. 2024. The Financial Statecraft of Borrowers: African Governments and External Finance. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press)	10
Discovering cooperation: Endogenous change in international organizations	10
Public support for withdrawal from international organizations: Experimental evidence from the US	10
Illiberal regimes and international organizations	10

Governments as borrowers and regulators	9
Why settle?: Partisan-based explanation of investor-state dispute outcomes	9
Introducing the Intergovernmental Policy Output Dataset (IPOD)	9
The impact of unilateral BIT terminations on FDI: Quasi-experimental evidence from India	8
How do higher-order punishment institutions shape cooperation and norm-enforcement?	8
Correction to: Courtney Hillebrecht. 2021. Saving the international justice regime. Beyond backlash against international courts (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press)	8
Global banking and the spillovers from political shocks at the core of the world economy	8
Bureaucratic capacity and preference attainment in international economic negotiations	8
How foreign multinationals benefit from acquiring domestic firms with political experience	7
Less is more: Property rights and dictators’ demand for foreign direct investment	7
A matter of trust: Public support for country ownership over aid	7
Hannah Hughes. 2024. The IPCC and the Politics of Writing Climate Change. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press)	7
The only living guerrillero in New York: Cuba and the brokerage power of a resilient revisionist state	7
Muyang Chen. 2024. The Latecomer’s Rise: Policy Banks and the Globalization of China’s Development Finance. (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press)	7
Closing time: Reputational constraints on capital account policy in emerging markets	6
International rankings and public opinion: Compliance, dismissal, or backlash?	6
Leader ideology and state commitment to multilateral treaties	6
From grievances to civil war: The impact of geopolitics	5
Public preferences for international law compliance: Respecting legal obligations or conforming to common practices?	5
Protecting home: how firms’ investment plans affect the formation of bilateral investment treaties	5
Analyzing international organizations: How the concepts we use affect the answers we get	5
Erin R. Graham. 2023. Transforming International Institutions. How Money Quietly Sidelined Multilateralism at the United Nations. (Oxford: Oxford University Press)	5
Rohan Mukherjee. 2022. Ascending Order: Rising Powers and the Politics of Status in International Institutions. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press)	5
Trade Wars and Election Interference	5
Measuring precision precisely: A dictionary-based measure of imprecision	5
Ideological cleavages beyond the nation-state: The emergence of transnational political groups in international parliaments	5
Decolonization legacies and financial contributions to international organizations	5
Commitment ambiguity and ambition in climate pledges	4
Empowering your victims: Why repressive regimes allow individual petitions in international organizations	4
The politics of international testing	4
The unintended consequences of IMF programs: Women left behind in the labor market	4
Courtney Hillebrecht. 2021. Saving the international justice regime. Beyond backlash against international courts (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press)	4
Does cultural diversity hinder the implementation of IMF-supported programs? An empirical investigation	4
Correction to: Migration governance through trade agreements: insights from the MITA dataset	4
Leaders in the United Nations General Assembly: Revitalization or politicization?	4
IOs’ selective adoption of NGO information: Evidence from the Universal Periodic Review	4
Richard Clark. 2025. Cooperative Complexity: The Next Level of Global Economic Governance. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press)	4
Reconsidering the costs of commitment: Learning and state acceptance of the UN human rights treaties’ individual complaint procedures	4
Do Voters Reward Politicians for Trade Liberalization? Evidence from South Korea	4
The state does not live by warfare alone: War and revenue in the long nineteenth century	3
International organizations in national parliamentary debates	3
Cooperation between international organizations: Demand, supply, and restraint	3
Undermining U.S. reputation: Chinese vaccines and aid and the alternative provision of public goods during COVID-19	3
Migration and development finance: A survey experiment on diaspora bonds	3
Institutional Overlap in Global Governance and the Design of Intergovernmental Organizations	3
Global value chains and the design of trade agreements	3
Constraints and incentives in the investment regime: How bargaining power shapes BIT reform	3
Can IOs influence attitudes about regulating “Big Tech”?	3
Renegotiating in good faith: How international treaty revisions can deepen cooperation	3
Domestic politics and international organizations	3

Economic crises and the survival of international organizations	3
International constitutional advising: Introducing a new dataset	3
Power by Proxy: Participation as a Resource in Global Governance	3
Do corporate regulations deter or stimulate investment? The effect of the OECD anti-bribery convention on FDI	2
Institutional innovation in response to backlash: How members are circumventing the WTO impasse	2
Elusive collaboration? The determinants of lead donorship in international development	2
Exploiting treaty ambiguity: Public health exceptions in the WTO TRIPS agreement	2
Sharing rivals, sending weapons: Rivalry and cooperation in the international arms trade, 1920–1939	2
Cosmopolitan identity, authority, and domestic support of international organizations	2
China and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB): Chinese Influence Over Membership Shares?	2
Publisher Correction to: Managing performance and winning trust: how world bank staff shape recipient performance	2
Vytautas Jankauskas and Steffen Eckhard. 2023. The Politics of Evaluation in International Organizations (Oxford: Oxford University Press)	2
Mapping China’s influence at the United Nations	2
Effective climate clubs require ambition, leverage and insulation: Theorizing issue linkage in climate change and trade	2