A friend wrote today to draw my attention to a ranking obtained from Scopus of the 25 most cited article published since 2011 in Communist and Post-Communist Studies. My “Vigilante Justice,” an article I wrote after being intrigued by some disparate cases I stumbled upon almost accidentally, is the 20th. Not a small feat, in a list overwhelmed by titles about the former Soviet Union.

The ranking, which is available at http://www.journals.elsevier.com/communist-and-post-communist-studies/most-cited-articles, provides the following ranking in descending order, I presume:

Slovene commercial diplomacy in the Western Balkan countries

Volume 44, Issue 4, December 2011, Pages 357-368

Boštjan Udovič

The paradigm of nationalism in Kyrgyzstan. Evolving narrative, the sovereignty issue, and political agenda

Volume 45, Issues 1-2, March 2012, Pages 39-49

Marlène Laruelle

Assessing civil society in Putin’s Russia: The plight of women’s crisis centers

Volume 44, Issue 1, March 2011, Pages 41-52

Janet Elise Johnson | Aino Saarinen

Welfare reforms and socio-economic trends in the 10 new EU member states of Central and Eastern Europe

Volume 44, Issue 3, September 2011, Pages 211-219

Jolanta Aidukaite

Energy security and Russia’s gas strategy: The symbiotic relationship between the state and firms

Volume 44, Issue 2, June 2011, Pages 119-127

Mert Bilgin

Hegemonic political parties in post-Soviet Eurasia: Towards party-based authoritarianism?

Volume 44, Issue 3, September 2011, Pages 189-197

Max Bader

FDI determinants in an idiosyncratic country. A reappraisal over the Russian regions during transition years

Volume 45, Issues 1-2, March 2012, Pages 1-10

Concetta Castiglione | Yulia Gorbunova | Davide Infante | Janna Smirnova

Protests and civil society in Russia: The struggle for the Khimki Forest

Volume 45, Issues 3-4, September 2012, Pages 233-242

Alfred B. Evans

Informal payments for health care services – Corruption or gratitude? A study on public attitudes, perceptions and opinions in six Central and Eastern European countries

Volume 46, Issue 4, December 2013, Pages 419-431

Tetiana Stepurko | Milena Pavlova | Irena Gryga | Wim Groot

The Russia-NATO mistrust: Ethnophobia and the double expansion to contain ” the Russian Bear”

Volume 46, Issue 1, March 2013, Pages 179-188

Andrei P. Tsygankov

Czech extreme right parties an unsuccessful story

Volume 44, Issue 4, December 2011, Pages 283-298

Miroslav Mareš

De facto states and democracy: The case of Nagorno-Karabakh

Volume 45, Issues 1-2, March 2012, Pages 141-151

Pål Kolstø | Helge Blakkisrud

Kazakhstan: Oil endowment and oil empowerment

Volume 45, Issues 1-2, March 2012, Pages 27-37

Enrique Palazuelos | Rafael Fernández

The sources of continuity and change of Ukraine’s incomplete state

Volume 45, Issues 3-4, September 2012, Pages 417-428

Serhiy Kudelia

Soviet conspiracy theories and political culture in Ukraine: Understanding Viktor Yanukovych and the Party of Regions

Volume 44, Issue 3, September 2011, Pages 221-232

Taras Kuzio

Money, organization and the state: The partial cartelization of party politics in Slovenia

Volume 44, Issue 3, September 2011, Pages 199-209

Alenka Krašovec | Tim Haughton

The dynamics of electoral politics in Abkhazia

Volume 45, Issues 1-2, March 2012, Pages 165-174

Donnacha Ó Beacháin

Corruption, the power of state and big business in Soviet and post-Soviet regimes

Volume 46, Issue 1, March 2013, Pages 147-158

Vladimir Shlapentokh

Subversive institutions, informal governance, and contemporary Russian politics

Volume 45, Issues 3-4, September 2012, Pages 295-303

Vladimir Gel’man

Vigilante justice in post-communist Europe

Volume 44, Issue 4, December 2011, Pages 319-327

Lavinia Stan

Swords into plowshares: The organizational transformation of rebel groups into political parties

Volume 44, Issue 4, December 2011, Pages 369-379

John Ishiyama | Anna Batta

Tax morale, Eastern Europe and European enlargement

Volume 45, Issues 1-2, March 2012, Pages 11-25

Benno Torgler

Russia under Putin: Titanic looking for its iceberg?

Volume 45, Issues 3-4, September 2012, Pages 209-216

Lilia Shevtsova

The Nationalization of political parties and party systems in post-communist Eastern Europe

Volume 45, Issues 1-2, March 2012, Pages 77-89

Guido Tiemann

A contested landscape: Monuments, public memory, and post-Soviet identity in Stavropol’, Russia

Volume 46, Issue 1, March 2013, Pages 167-178

Andrew Foxall