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With the use of Altmetrics, the alternative to traditional citation impact metrics, we have gathered the top scoring articles* from our Politics, IR and Strategic Studies journals. These have been collated into one useful collection of articles that highlight the most popular topics within the field, as shared by you on Facebook, Twitter, blogs and other websites. Keep the discussion of these salient topics flowing by reading the articles below and letting us know your thoughts on Twitter at @Rout_PoliticsIR and @RStrategic.

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Top 10

• Advancing “Defence-in-depth”: Intelligence and Systems Dynamics

  • Defense & Security Analysis
  • Adam D.M. Svendsen

• Attributing Cyber Attacks

  • Journal of Strategic Studies
  • Thomas Rid & Ben Buchanan

• Pakistan's Dangerous Game With Religious Extremism

  • The Review of Faith & International Affairs
  • Knox Thames

• Partisan Differences in the Distributional Effects of Economic Growth: Stock Market Performance, Unemployment, and Political Control of the Presidency

  • Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties
  • Bryan J. Dettrey & Harvey D. Palmer

• Russian Full-Spectrum Conflict: An Appraisal After Ukraine

  • The Journal of Slavic Military Studies
  • Oscar Jonsson & Robert Seely

• Saudi Arabia: King Salman Faces the 21st Century

  • Strategic Analysis
  • Sandhya Jain

• The Coming Stability? The Decline of Warfare in Africa and Implications for International Security

  • Contemporary Security Policy
  • David T. Burbach & Christopher J. Fettweis

• The Jaws Effect: How Movie Narratives are Used to Influence Policy Responses to Shark Bites in Western Australia

  • Australian Journal of Political Science
  • Christopher Neff

• The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership and the Role of Computable General Equilibrium Modelling: An Exercise in ‘Managing Fictional Expectations’

  • New Political Economy
  • Ferdi De Ville & Gabriel Siles-Brügge

• The View from Nowhere? How Think Tanks Work to Shape Health Policy

  • Critical Policy Studies
  • Sara E. Shaw, Jill Russell, Wayne Parsons & Trisha Greenhalgh

Politics

• Abolishing the Audit Commission: Framing, Discourse Coalitions and Administrative Reform

  • Local Government Studies
  • Katherine Tonkiss & Chris Skelcher

• A Four-Party View of US Environmental Concern

  • Environmental Politics
  • Lawrence C. Hamilton & Kei Saito

• A Modern Tragedy? Institutional Causes and Democratic Consequenses of the Greek Crisis

  • Representation
  • Yannis Theocharis & Jan W. van Deth

• Between Movement and Party: Islamic Movements in Morocco and the Decision to Enter Party Politics

  • Democratization
  • Esen Kirdiş

• Bicameralism in the Republic of Ireland: The Seanad Abolition Referendum

  • Irish Political Studies
  • Muiris MacCarthaigh & Shane Martin

• Building a Gender and Methodology Curriculum: Integrated Skills, Exercises, and Practices

  • Journal of Political Science Education
  • Erin C. Cassese, Mirya R. Holman, Monica C. Schneider & Angela L. Bos

• Campzenship: Reimagining the Camp as a Social and Political Space

  • Citizenship Studies
  • Nando Sigona

• Can Markets Secure Economic and Social Human Rights?

  • International Critical Thought
  • Manuel Couret Branco

• Coherence or Forum Shopping in Biofuels Sustainability Schemes?

  • Nordic Journal of Human Rights
  • Hans Morten Haugen

• Criminal Justice Officials’ Views of Sex Offenders, Sex Offender Registration, Community Notification, and Residency Restrictions

  • Justice System Journal
  • Elizabeth Ehrhardt Mustaine, Richard Tewksbury, David Patrick Connor & Brian K. Payne

• Do Spoilers Make a Difference? Instrumental Manipulation of Political Parties in an Electoral Authoritarian Regime, the Case of Russia

  • East European Politics
  • Grigorii V. Golosov

• Does Modern Liberalism's Success Deny the Need for Esoteric Writing and Thus Refute Strauss?

  • Perspectives on Political Science
  • Larry Arnhart

• Foucault and Ancient Polizei: a Genealogy of the Military Pastorate

  • Journal of Political Power
  • Kevin Scott Jobe

• Gaming Together: When an Imaginary World Affects Generalized Trust

  • Journal of Information Technology & Politics
  • Sebastian Lundmark

• How to Assess Populist Discourse Through Three Current Approaches

  • Journal of Political Ideologies
  • Mario E. Poblete

• How to Manage a Party Brand: Empirical Perspectives on Electoral Probability and Internal Conflict

  • Journal of Political Marketing
  • Helmut Schneider & Frederik Ferié

• Is Local Office a Springboard for Women to Dáil Éireann?

  • Journal of Women, Politics & Policy
  • Fiona Buckley, Mack Mariani, Claire McGing & Timothy Whiteb

• Italy’s Path to Gas Liberalisation: Corporate Power, Monopoly Distortions and the Russia Factor

  • Contemporary Italian Politics
  • Morena Skalamera

• Lobbying in Oslo or in Brussels? The case of a European Economic Area country

  • Journal of European Public Policy
  • Anne Therese Gullberg

• Mis-coordination and political misalignments in ticket-splitting: the case of Chile, 2005–2009

  • Contemporary Politics
  • Patricio Navia & José Luis Saldaña

• Mutual Constitution or Convenient National interest? The Security Strategies of Canada and the United States Since 1991

  • Canadian Foreign Policy Journal
  • Tom Keating & Robert W. Murray

• Overlapping Forms of Knowledge in Environmental Governance: Comparing Environmental Policy Workers’ Perceptions

  • Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis
  • Brian Coffey

• Partisan Differences in the Distributional Effects of Economic Growth: Stock Market Performance, Unemployment, and Political Control of the Presidency

  • Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties
  • Bryan J. Dettrey & Harvey D. Palmer

• Polarising Pluralism: The Swedish Parliamentary Election of September 2014

  • West European Politics
  • Nicholas Aylott & Niklas Bolin

• Populism and Technocracy: Opposites or Complements?

  • Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy
  • Christopher Bickertona & Carlo Invernizzi Accetti

• Post-Fascist Continuity and Post-Communist Discontinuity in German Cinema

  • Socialism and Democracy
  • Ingar Solty

• Presidential Unilateral Actions: Constitutional and Political Checks

  • Congress & the Presidency
  • Louis Fisher

• Reframing Workplace Spirituality to Reduce Career and Social Costs to Women

  • Public Integrity
  • Margaret Stout, Leslie E. Tower & Mohamad G. Alkadry

• Revisiting the Epistemology of Fact-Checking

  • Critical Review
  • Michelle A. Amazeen

• Super-Foreigners and Sub-Citizens: Mapping Ethno-national Hierarchies of Foreignness and Citizenship in Europe

  • Ethnopolitics
  • Costica Dumbrava

• Tehran 1968 and Reform of the UN Human Rights System

  • Journal of Human Rights
  • Andrew S. Thompson

• The European Union and the Puzzle of Parliamentary Government

  • Journal of European Integration
  • Sergio Fabbrini

• The Extraordinary Politics of the Tunisian Revolution: The Process of Constitution Making

  • Mediterranean Politics
  • Sami Zemni

• The Impact of Online versus Offline Campaign Information on Citizens’ Knowledge, Attitudes and Political Behaviour: Comparing the German Federal Elections of 2005 and 2009

  • German Politics
  • Julia Partheymüller & Thorsten Faas

• The Jaws Effect: How Movie Narratives are used to Influence Policy Responses to Shark Bites in Western Australia

  • Australian Journal of Political Science
  • Christopher Neff

• The Public Legitimacy of the National Assembly for Wales

  • The Journal of Legislative Studies
  • Roger Scully & Richard Wyn Jones

• The Success of the Regionalist Parties in the 2014 Elections in Belgium

  • Regional and Federal Studies
  • Pierre Baudewyns, Régis Dandoy & Min Reuchamps

• The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership and the Role of Computable General Equilibrium Modelling: An Exercise in ‘Managing Fictional Expectations’

  • New Political Economy
  • Ferdi De Ville & Gabriel Siles-Brügge

• The View from Nowhere? How Think Tanks Work to Shape Health Policy

  • Critical Policy Studies
  • Sara E. Shaw, Jill Russell, Wayne Parsons & Trisha Greenhalgh

• The Watchdogs of ‘Washminster’ – Parliamentary Scrutiny of Executive Patronage in the UK

  • Commonwealth & Comparative Politics
  • Felicity Matthews & Matthew Flinders

• The Whiteness of Wisconsin's Wages: Racial Geography and the Defeat of Public Sector Labor Unions in Wisconsin

  • New Political Science
  • Hannah Walker & Dylan Bennett

• Tracking Rendition Aircraft as a way to Understand CIA Secret Detention and Torture in Europe

  • The International Journal of Human Rights
  • Sam Raphael, Crofton Black, Ruth Blakeley & Steve Kostas

• Why Partisan Warriors Don't Listen: The Gendered Dynamics of Intergroup Anxiety and Partisan Conflict

  • Politics, Groups, and Identities
  • Patrick R. Miller & Pamela Johnston Conover

International Relations

• “Ancient Volscian Border Dispute Flares” - Representation of Militarism, Masculinity and the Balkans in Ralph Fiennes' Coriolanus

  • International Feminist Journal of Politics
  • Catherine Baker

• Back down to Earth: reassembling Latour’s Anthropocenic geopolitics

  • Global Discourse
  • Philip Conway

• Changing the Rules of the Game: Comparing FIFA/UEFA and EU Attempts to Promote Reform of Power-Sharing Institutions in Bosnia-Herzegovina

  • Global Society
  • Laurence Cooley & Jasmin Mujanović

• Cracks in the Crescent: The Looming Sectarian Clash between Khilafah and Imamah

  • Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs
  • Dimitar Mihaylov

• Democracy promotion and the challenges of illiberal regional powers: introduction to the special issue

  • Democratization
  • Thomas Risse & Nelli Babayan

• Diffusion and adaptation: why even the Silicon Valley model is adapted as it diffuses to East Asia

  • The Pacific Review
  • Robyn Klingler-Vidra

• Ensuring that Africa keeps rising: The economic integration imperative

  • South African Journal of International Affairs
  • Adrian D. Saville & Lyal White

• Explaining France's NATO ‘normalisation’ under Nicolas Sarkozy (2007–2012)

  • The Journal of Transatlantic Studies
  • Frédéric Bozo

• Invasion by invitation: the role of alliances in the Asia-Pacific

  • Australian Journal of International Affairs
  • Mark Beeson

• Is the US-China Climate Agreement a Game-changer?

  • The International Spectator
  • Luigi Carafa

• Peace and Post-2015 – Into The Home Stretch

  • Journal of Peacebuilding & Development
  • Andrew Tomlinson

• Temporary and circular migration in the construction of European migration governance

  • Cambridge Review of International Affairs
  • Andrew Geddes

• The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development's Gender Action Plan and the Gendered Political Economy of Post-Communist Transition

  • Globalizations
  • Stuart Shields & Sara Wallin

• The impact of Syrian refugees on the labor market in neighboring countries: empirical evidence from Jordan

  • Defence and Peace Economics
  • Ali Fakih & May Ibrahim

• The R2P Is Dead, Long Live the R2P: The Successful Separation of Military Intervention from the Responsibility to Protect

  • International Peacekeeping
  • David Chandler

• The Unknown Terrain of Social Protests in China: ‘Exit', ‘Voice', ‘Loyalty', and ‘Shadow’

  • Journal of Civil Society
  • Johan Lagerkvist

• Turkey – from tutelary to delegative democracy

  • Third World Quarterly
  • Hakkı Taş

• Why Europe should care more about environmental degradation triggering insecurity

  • Global Affairs
  • Hartmut Behrend

• Women in the House (of Parliament) in Fiji: What’s Gender Got to Do with It?

  • The Round Table
  • Priya Chattier

Strategic Studies

• A Day in the “Swamp”: Understanding Discourse in the Online Counter-Jihad Nebula

  • Democracy and Security
  • Benjamin Lee

• Advancing “Defence-in-depth”: Intelligence and Systems Dynamics

  • Defense & Security Analysis
  • Adam D.M. Svendsen

• African Peacekeepers in Africa

  • African Security Review
  • Nikolas Emmanuel

• An Analysis of the Taliban in Khurasan's Azan (Issues 1–5)

  • Studies in Conflict & Terrorism
  • Haroro J. Ingram

• Army of Darkness: The Jihadist Training System in Pakistan and Afghanistan, 1996–2001

  • Small Wars & Insurgencies
  • Sean M. Maloney

• Assuring Japan and South Korea in the Second Nuclear Age

  • The Washington Quarterly
  • David Santoro & John K. Warden

• Attributing Cyber Attacks

  • Journal of Strategic Studies
  • Thomas Rid & Ben Buchanan

• Borrowed Scripts: Democratisation and Military Mutinies in West and Central Afric

  • Conflict, Security & Development
  • Maggie Dwyer

• ‘Bright spots’ for Estuary Management in Temperate Southern Australia

  • Australian Journal of Maritime & Ocean Affairs
  • Rebecca Koss, Geoff Wescott, James Fitzsimons & Lynne Hale

• Children, Violence, and Social Exclusion: Negotiation of Everyday Insecurity in a Colombian Barrio

  • Critical Studies on Security
  • Helen Berents

• China's 21st Century Maritime Silk Road Initiative, Energy Security and SLOC Access

  • Maritime Affairs
  • Christopher Len

• Climate Securitization in the Australian Political–Military Establishment

  • Global Change, Peace & Security
  • Michael Durant Thomas

• Coastguards in Peril: A Study of Arctic Defence Collaboration

  • Defence Studies
  • Andreas Østhagen

• Conceptualising Resilience in Norwegian Sámi Reindeer Pastoralism

  • Resilience
  • Hugo Reinert & Tor A. Benjaminsen

• Conditional Deterrence and Missile Defense

  • Comparative Strategy
  • John Gibilterra

• Cybersecurity: A Pre-History

  • Intelligence and National Security
  • Michael Warner

• Entry Point: Accessing Indigenous Perspectives During Complex Operations

  • Special Operations Journal
  • Matthew P. Dearing, James L. Jeffreys & Justin A. Depue

• Hidden Victims: A Call to Action on Sexual Violence Against Men in Conflict

  • Medicine, Conflict and Survival
  • Harry Apperley

• Hypersonic Boost-Glide Weapons

  • Science & Global Security
  • James M. Acton

• Is India a Great Power? Understanding Great Power Status in Contemporary International Relations

  • Asian Security
  • Manjeet S. Pardesi

• Money as a “Weapons System” and the Entrepreneurial Way of War

  • Critical Military Studies
  • Emily Gilbert

• Negotiating Reconciliation in Rwanda: Popular Challenges to the Official Discourse of Post-Genocide National Unity

  • Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding
  • Phil Clark

• Normative Power and Organized Hypocrisy: European Union Member States' Arms Export to Libya

  • European Security
  • Susanne Therese Hansen & Nicholas Marsh

• Pakistan's Dangerous Game With Religious Extremism

  • The Review of Faith & International Affairs
  • Knox Thames

• Prevent: Creating “Radicals” to Strengthen Anti-Muslim Narratives

  • Critical Studies on Terrorism
  • Asim Qureshi

• Rethinking Countering Violent Extremism: Implementing the Role of Civil Society

  • Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism
  • Anne Aly, Anne-Marie Balbi & Carmen Jacques

• Russian Full-Spectrum Conflict: An Appraisal After Ukraine

  • The Journal of Slavic Military Studies
  • Oscar Jonsson & Robert Seely

• Saudi Arabia: King Salman Faces the 21st Century

  • Strategic Analysis
  • Sandhya Jain

• Spanish Naval Strategy and the United States, 1763–1819

  • The Mariner’s Mirror
  • Ivan Valdez-Bubnov

• Spider Web: Al-Qaeda's Link to the Intelligence Agencies of the Major Powers

  • International Journal of Intelligence and Counter Intelligence
  • Sergio E. Sanchez

• The CIA and the Invention of Tradition

  • Journal of Intelligence History
  • Simon Willmetts

• The Coming Stability? The Decline of Warfare in Africa and Implications for International Security

  • Contemporary Security Policy
  • David T. Burbach & Christopher J. Fettweis

• The Evolution of Boko Haram: From Missionary Activism to Transnational Jihad and the Failure of the Nigerian Security Intelligence Agencies

  • African Security
  • Simon Gray & Ibikunle Adeakin

• The Strategic Robot Problem: Lethal Autonomous Weapons in War

  • Journal of Military Ethics
  • Heather M. Roff

• The Use of Force in UN Peacekeeping Operations

  • Journal on the Use of Force and International Law
  • Mats Berdal & David H Ucko

• Transnational Terrorism as an Unintended Consequence of a Military Footprint

  • Security Studies
  • Alex Braithwaite

• What Is a Terrorist Group? Conceptual Issues and Empirical Implications

  • Terrorism & Political Violence
  • Brian J. Phillips

• Forum: NATO and Russia

  • Survival
  • Steven Pifer, Lukasz Kulesa, Egon Bahr, Götz Neuneck, Mikhail Troitskiy & Matthew Kroenig