OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Hague Journal on the Rule of Law 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Dual Dynamics of Chinese Constitutional Review: Coexistence and Tension Between Rule of Law and Party’s Leadership	43
The Court of Justice of the European Union in the Case Law of the Polish Constitutional Court: The Current Breakdown in View of Polish Constitutional Jurisprudence Pre-2016	39
Chile’s New Constitution: What Right to Health?	17
Well-Tempered Power: ‘A Cultural Achievement of Universal Significance’	13
Reconciling Theory and Practice of the Rule of Law in the European Union	10
Purging the Judiciary After a Transition: Between a Rock and a Hard Place	9
Heterodox Protest, the Conservative Right, and the Law	8
China’s Foreign-Related ‘Rule of Law’: The Evolution of an Idea	8
Private Power, the Rule of Law and the European Union	8
The Rule of Law Under Pressure: A Transnational Perspective	8
Pre-enlargement Reform Failures in the Western Balkans: Social and Economic Preconditions of the Rule of Law	6
Rule of Law and the Criteria for Appointment of Judges: A Case for Judicial Virtues	5
Correction: Triangulation of Theoretical and Empirical Conceptualizations Related to the Rule of Law	5
The Rule of Law as a Well-Established and Well-Defined Principle of EU Law	5
Informal Concentration of Powers in Illiberal Constitutionalism: The Case of Hungary	5
Chile’s ‘Procedurally Regulated’ Constitution-Making Process	4
Aristocrats in Arbitration: Did Class Affect Inter-state Arbitration Before or After the 1899 Hague Peace Conference?	4
Special Issue of the Hague Journal on the Rule of Law on Populism, Democracy, and the Rule of Law in Central and Eastern Europe	4
The Authority Trap: Constitutional Erosion of Reproductive Rights in Poland	4
Informal Exercise of Power: Undermining Democracy Under the EU’s Radar in Hungary and Poland	4
Courts and Populist Electoral Politics – the Case of Hungary	4
Academic Freedom as a Defensive Right	4
Correction: International and European Law and the Catalan Secession Process: Rule of Law, Human Rights and Democracy at Stake?	3
Reclaiming Political Rights During a Rule of Law Crisis: The Role of the UN Human Rights Committee	3
To Live and to Learn: The EU Commission’s Failure to Recognise Rule of Law Deficiencies in Lithuania	3

Amnesties, Transitional Justice and the Rule of Law	3
Quick Fix Solutions-Anticorruption as Core/Peripheral Modality of the ‘Rule of Law’	3
Rule of Law and Political Representation	3
Maritime Rule of Law: Some Preliminaries	3
Rule of Law Through the ‘Urban Turn’ in South African Constitutionalism	3
An Inquiry into the Implementing Mechanism of Xi Jinping Thought on Rule of Law	3
Rule of Law Compliance Beyond Ticking Boxes	3
How Political Narratives Affect the Self-Enforcing Nature of Interim Constitutions	3
Between a Rock-Hard Reality and a Pious Wish Place: Postema on the Rule of Law Beyond Borders	3
False Analogies? Rule of Law ‘Backsliding’ and Identitarian Claims in Hungary, Poland, and Romania	3
Triangulation of Theoretical and Empirical Conceptualizations Related to the Rule of Law	3