| Achievements and needs for the climate change scenario framework BC O’Neill, TR Carter, K Ebi, PA Harrison, E Kemp-Benedict, K Kok, ... Nature climate change 10 (12), 1074-1084, 2020 | 379 | 2020 |
| Governing the interlinkages between the sustainable development goals: Approaches to attain policy integration J Tosun, J Leininger Global Challenges 1 (9), 1700036, 2017 | 261 | 2017 |
| A sustainable development pathway for climate action within the UN 2030 Agenda B Soergel, E Kriegler, I Weindl, S Rauner, A Dirnaichner, C Ruhe, ... Nature Climate Change 11 (8), 656-664, 2021 | 242 | 2021 |
| Not all good things go together: conflicting objectives in democracy promotion S Grimm, J Leininger Conflicting Objectives in Democracy Promotion: Do All Good Things Go …, 2017 | 189 | 2017 |
| Defining a sustainable development target space for 2030 and 2050 DP van Vuuren, C Zimm, S Busch, E Kriegler, J Leininger, D Messner, ... One Earth 5 (2), 142-156, 2022 | 91 | 2022 |
| The multi-faceted role of religious actors in democratization processes: empirical evidence from five young democracies M Künkler, J Leininger Religion and Democratizations, 18-52, 2013 | 78 | 2013 |
| ‘Bringing the Outside in’: Illustrations from Haiti and Mali for the Re-conceptualization of Democracy Promotion J Leininger Contemporary politics 16 (1), 63-80, 2010 | 62* | 2010 |
| Democracy and UN Peace-Keeping-Conflict Resolution Through State-Building and Democracy Promotion in Haiti J Leininger Available at SSRN 2046657, 2006 | 37 | 2006 |
| Social cohesion: A new definition and a proposal for its measurement in Africa J Leininger, F Burchi, C Fiedler, K Mross, D Nowack, A von Schiller, ... Discussion Paper, 2021 | 33 | 2021 |
| Horizontal Accountability for SDG Implementation: A Comparative Cross-National Analysis of Emerging National Accountability Regimes A Breuer, J Leininger Sustainability 13 (13), 7002, 2021 | 33 | 2021 |
| Integrated policymaking: Choosing an institutional design for implementing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) A Breuer, J Leininger, J Tosun Discussion Paper, 2019 | 33 | 2019 |
| The three Cs of democracy promotion policy: context, consistency and credibility J Grävingholt, J Leininger, O Schlumberger German Development Institute/Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), 2009 | 30 | 2009 |
| Against All Odds: Strong Democratic Norms in the African Union J Leininger Governance Transfer by Regional Organizations: Patching Together a Global …, 2015 | 29 | 2015 |
| Beyond contestation: conceptualizing negotiation in democracy promotion AE Poppe, J Leininger, J Wolff Democratization 26 (5), 777-795, 2019 | 22 | 2019 |
| A strong norm for democratic governance in Africa J Leininger | 22 | 2014 |
| Effective statebuilding? A review of evaluations of international statebuilding support in fragile contexts J Grävingholt, J Leininger, C Von Haldenwang A Review of Evaluations of International Statebuilding Support in Fragile …, 2012 | 20 | 2012 |
| Do All Good Things Go Together?: Conflicting Objectives in Democracy Promotion J Leininger, S Grimm, T Freyburg Democratization 19 (3), 389-609, 2012 | 19 | 2012 |
| Protection against autocratisation: how international democracy promotion helped preserve presidential term limits in Malawi and Senegal J Leininger, D Nowack Third World Quarterly 43 (2), 309-331, 2022 | 17 | 2022 |
| Gradual, Cooperative, Coordinated: Effective Support for Peace and Democracy in Conflict-Affected States C Fiedler, J Grävingholt, J Leininger, K Mross International Studies Perspectives 21 (1), 54-77, 2020 | 17 | 2020 |
| Demokratieförderung J Leininger Handbuch Transformationsforschung, 509-516, 2015 | 17 | 2015 |
