Research Using OpenSanctions Data

Below, we present a collection of research papers that have utilized OpenSanctions data. These publications highlight the diverse ways our datasets are applied across disciplines, offering insight into geopolitical and financial systems.

If you would like to submit your own research papers for inclusion in this list or learn more about how OpenSanctions can support your research, please contact us at support@opensanctions.org.

Policy & Sanctions

• "Unmasking the oligarchs–Using open source data to detect sanctions violations"
  Authors: Jonas Montenarh, Simon Marsden
  Publication: Journal of Economic Criminology
  Year: 2024

• "‘This did not happen even during the Cold War’: Religion and international sanctions in the Russo-Ukrainian War"
  Author: Iuliia Korniichuk
  Publication: Stosunki Międzynarodowe–International Relations
  Year: 2024

• "Leveraging the Legal Entity Identifier to mitigate the risk of financial crime and enhance fraud prevention in cross-border payments"
  Author: Clare Rowley
  Publication: Journal of Payments Strategy & Systems
  Year: 2024

• "On the margins of the terrorist attack in Krasnogorsk: Examples of financing for the Islamic State-Khorasan Province"
  Author: Maciej Aleksander Kędzierski
  Publication: Internal Security Review
  Year: 2024

• "Progress in European-Russian trade reductions"
  Author: Erlend Bollman Bjørtvedt
  Year: May 2022, June 2022, July 2022

• "The Impeding Effects of United States Sanctions on Humanitarian Trade with Iran"
  Author: Layla Elizabeth Oghabian
  Year: 2021

Data & Intelligence Analysis

• "A Comprehensive Review of Open Source Intelligence in Intelligent Transportation Systems"
  Authors: Bilal Emir Uçar, Mert İlhan Ecevit, Hasan Dağ, Reiner Creutzburg
  Publication: 2024 International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE)
  Year: 2024

• "Towards Better Cyber Security Consciousness: The Ease and Danger of OSINT Tools in Exposing Critical Infrastructure Vulnerabilities"
  Authors: Muhammad Hasban Pervez, Mert İlhan Ecevit, Najiba Zainab Naqvi, Reiner Creutzburg, Hasan Dag
  Publication: 2023 8th International Conference on Computer Science and Engineering (UBMK)
  Year: 2023

• "Wikidata: The making of"
  Authors: Denny Vrandečić, Lydia Pintscher, Markus Krötzsch
  Publication: Companion Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2023
  Year: 2023

• "Einsatzbereiche semantisch strukturierter Daten bei der Unternehmensanalyse"
  Author: Julian Grümmer
  Year: 2022

• "Zielführende Betriebsprüfungen durch Nutzung von „Alternative Data “?"
  Authors: Klaus Henselmann, Andreas Seebeck, Julian Grümmer
  Year: 2021

• "Unsupervised Structural Graph Node Representation Learning"
  Author: Mikel Joaristi
  Year: 2020

• "Validating bad entity ranking in the Panama Papers via open-source intelligence"
  Authors: Donald Winiecki, Katherine Kappelman, Bryant Hay, Mikel Joaristi, Edoardo Serra, Francesca Spezzano
  Publication: 2020 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM)
  Year: 2020

• "Detecting suspicious entities in offshore leaks networks"
  Authors: Mikel Joaristi, Edoardo Serra, Francesca Spezzano
  Publication: Social Network Analysis and Mining
  Year: 2019

• "Inferring bad entities through the Panama Papers network"
  Authors: Mikel Joaristi, Edoardo Serra, Francesca Spezzano
  Publication: 2018 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM)
  Year: 2018

• "Exploring the visualization of schemas for aggregate-oriented NoSQL databases"
  Authors: Alberto Hernández, Severino Feliciano, D. Sevilla, J. García Molina
  Publication: 36th International Conference on Conceptual Modelling (ER) ER Forum
  Year: 2017

Geopolitics & Conflict

• "Flight to cryptos: Evidence on the use of cryptocurrencies in times of geopolitical tensions"
  Authors: Christos Alexakis, Giulio Anselmi, Giovanni Petrella
  Publication: International Review of Economics & Finance
  Year: 2024

• "Strategic Investments: A Theoretical Approach to the Dynamics of Geoeconomic Powerplay in Europe"
  Author: Julian Sørbø Jacobsen
  Year: 2024

• "Commissars with keyboards: the lingering relevance of the military-political origins of Chinese and Russian psychological warfare"
  Author: Joe Cheravitch
  Publication: Intelligence and National Security
  Year: 2024

• "Looking Doppelganger: An Analysis of Evolving State-Sponsored Disinformation Tactics"
  Author: MM Müller
  Year: 2024

• "Gulf States: A Paradoxical Economic Lifeline for Sudan"
  Author: Selma EL OBEID
  Year: 2024

• "Kremlin Roulette: Preparing for the Post-Putin Russian Leadership"
  Author: Justin Mitchell
  Year: 2023 URL: https://jqas.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Mitchell-MPF-Analysis.pdf

• "Russian Hackers and the War in Ukraine"
  Author: Julia Sweet
  Year: 2023

• "From mercenary to legitimate actor? Russian discourses on private military companies"
  Author: Karen Philippa Larsen
  Publication: Post-Soviet Affairs
  Year: 2023

• "Wagnerism: what next?"
  Authors: José Alberto Pereira, Euan Grant
  Year: 2023

Science, Academia, & Technology

• "With no end in sight for the war in Ukraine, CERN ceases cooperation with Russia"
  Author: Toni Feder
  Publication: Physics Today
  Year: 2024

• "Potemkin village of Russian science: The case of JINR"
  Author: Tetiana Berger-Hrynova
  Publication: arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.18508
  Year: 2024

• "Master 2 de Droit pénal des affaires mention Investigations financières à l’échelle européenne (IFEE) Mémoire présenté par"
  Author: Mathieu HAN-LEVEAU
  Year: 2024

• "Kuolema sanattomana tehokeinona venäläisessä sotapropagandassa"
  Authors: Teemu Oivo, Niko Väistö
  Publication: Thanatos
  Year: 2024

• "Případ historika Jurije Dmitrijeva a jeho reflexe v ruských a západních médiích"
  Author: Naděžda Nicielniková
  Year: 2024

• "Strategiset narratiivit Suomesta ja Suomen Nato-jäsenyysprosessista venäläisen News Front-propagandasivuston uutisissa"
  Author: Erik Räsänen
  Year: 2023

Criminal Networks

• "To the captor goes the spoils: An investigation of Russian State Capture in Sudan and the Central African Republic, 2014-2021"
  Author: Kendra Connock
  Year: 2023

• "Shell Companies: Using a hybrid technique to detect illicit activities"
  Authors: Milind Tiwari, Adrian Gepp, Kuldeep Kumar
  Publication: 2021 Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand (AFAANZ) Virtual Conference
  Year: 2021

• "Cómo destapar otro Panama papers: nuevos retos para el periodismo de investigación"
  Authors: Lorena R. Romero-Domínguez, María José García-Orta
  Year: 2019

Miscellaneous

• "POLICEJNÍ AKADEMIE ČESKÉ REPUBLIKY V PRAZE"
  Authors: Mgr Jiří Víšek, Martina ZAČALOVÁ
  Year: 2024

• "루소포니야: 루소포비아와 루소필리아 사이 러시아어의 공간"
  Author: 鄭貞元
  Publication: 중소연구