OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Review of International Organizations 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 2021-06-01 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
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
Ronny Patz and Klaus H. Goetz. 2019. Managing Money and Discord in the UN: Budgeting and Bureaucracy (Oxford: Oxford University Press)	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
Zombies ahead: Explaining the rise of low-quality election monitoring	16
The global governance complexity cube: Varieties of institutional complexity in global governance	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
The power of having powerful friends: Evidence from a new dataset of IMF negotiating missions, 1985-2020	13
Balancing justice: Damages awarded by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights	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

Why settle?: Partisan-based explanation of investor-state dispute outcomes	9
Introducing the Intergovernmental Policy Output Dataset (IPOD)	9
Governments as borrowers and regulators	9
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
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
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
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
International rankings and public opinion: Compliance, dismissal, or backlash?	6
Leader ideology and state commitment to multilateral treaties	6
Closing time: Reputational constraints on capital account policy in emerging markets	6