--- title: "Research Using OpenSanctions Data" summary: "OpenSanctions is a valuable resource for academics, journalists, and analysts investigating global financial networks, corruption, sanctions enforcement, but also technical issues in data analytics and graph egnineering." url: "https://www.opensanctions.org/docs/bibliography/" date_updated: "2025-02-20" --- 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](mailto:support@opensanctions.org).* ## Policy & Sanctions - [**"Unmasking the oligarchs–Using open source data to detect sanctions violations"**](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2949791424000071) *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"**](https://internationalrelations-publishing.org/articles/4-3) *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"**](https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/hsp/jpss/2024/00000018/00000001/art00005) *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"**](https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/przeglad-bezpieczenstwa-wewnetrznego/article/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](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/363469161), [June 2022](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/363469151), [July 2022](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/364738876) - [**"The Impeding Effects of United States Sanctions on Humanitarian Trade with Iran"**](https://www.proquest.com/openview/cefd3932a14f29305e7e8173171aa9f5/1) *Author:* Layla Elizabeth Oghabian *Year:* 2021 ## Data & Intelligence Analysis - [**"A Comprehensive Review of Open Source Intelligence in Intelligent Transportation Systems"**](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10599907) *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"**](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10286573) *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"**](https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3543873.3585579) *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"**](https://search.proquest.com/openview/63bb261383c3c1d445246b91cdeb37a6/1) *Author:* Julian Grümmer *Year:* 2022 - [**"Zielführende Betriebsprüfungen durch Nutzung von „Alternative Data “?"**](https://www.econstor.eu/handle/10419/248286) *Authors:* Klaus Henselmann, Andreas Seebeck, Julian Grümmer *Year:* 2021 - [**"Unsupervised Structural Graph Node Representation Learning"**](https://scholarworks.boisestate.edu/td/1754/) *Author:* Mikel Joaristi *Year:* 2020 - [**"Validating bad entity ranking in the Panama Papers via open-source intelligence"**](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9381389) *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"**](https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13278-019-0607-5) *Authors:* Mikel Joaristi, Edoardo Serra, Francesca Spezzano *Publication:* Social Network Analysis and Mining *Year:* 2019 - [**"Inferring bad entities through the Panama Papers network"**](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8508497) *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"**](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/323393503) *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"**](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1059056023002666) *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"**](https://ntnuopen.ntnu.no/ntnu-xmlui/handle/11250/3139143) *Author:* Julian Sørbø Jacobsen *Year:* 2024 - [**"Commissars with keyboards: the lingering relevance of the military-political origins of Chinese and Russian psychological warfare"**](https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02684527.2024.2405256) *Author:* Joe Cheravitch *Publication:* Intelligence and National Security *Year:* 2024 - [**"Looking Doppelganger: An Analysis of Evolving State-Sponsored Disinformation Tactics"**](http://essay.utwente.nl/102708/) *Author:* MM Müller *Year:* 2024 - [**"Gulf States: A Paradoxical Economic Lifeline for Sudan"**](https://www.ifri.org/sites/default/files/2024-09/ifri_el_obeid_gulf_states_and_sudan_sept2024.pdf) *Author:* Selma EL OBEID *Year:* 2024 - [**"Kremlin Roulette: Preparing for the Post-Putin Russian Leadership"**](https://jqas.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Mitchell-MPF-Analysis.pdf) *Author:* Justin Mitchell *Year:* 2023 *URL:* [https://jqas.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Mitchell-MPF-Analysis.pdf](https://jqas.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Mitchell-MPF-Analysis.pdf) - [**"Russian Hackers and the War in Ukraine"**](https://www.nomos-elibrary.de/10.5771/9781666935912/russian-hackers-and-the-war-in-ukraine) *Author:* Julia Sweet *Year:* 2023 - [**"From mercenary to legitimate actor? Russian discourses on private military companies"**](https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1060586X.2023.2247782) *Author:* Karen Philippa Larsen *Publication:* Post-Soviet Affairs *Year:* 2023 - [**"Wagnerism: what next?"**](https://eurodefense.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/EDF-UK-PT-Wagner-FINAL-23052023-05.pdf) *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"**](https://pubs.aip.org/physicstoday/article/77/12/20/3321121) *Author:* Toni Feder *Publication:* Physics Today *Year:* 2024 - [**"Potemkin village of Russian science: The case of JINR"**](https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.18508) *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"**](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/379692777) *Author:* Mathieu HAN-LEVEAU *Year:* 2024 - [**"Kuolema sanattomana tehokeinona venäläisessä sotapropagandassa"**](https://erepo.uef.fi/handle/123456789/33684) *Authors:* Teemu Oivo, Niko Väistö *Publication:* Thanatos *Year:* 2024 - [**"Případ historika Jurije Dmitrijeva a jeho reflexe v ruských a západních médiích"**](https://dspace.cuni.cz/handle/20.500.11956/193533) *Author:* Naděžda Nicielniková *Year:* 2024 - [**"Strategiset narratiivit Suomesta ja Suomen Nato-jäsenyysprosessista venäläisen News Front-propagandasivuston uutisissa"**](https://helda.helsinki.fi/server/api/core/bitstreams/2aba0150-9117-404d-b770-c5e7cfba36f0/content) *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"**](https://wiredspace.wits.ac.za/items/a06d28b4-acf1-4ab1-8e6a-3c4ed99fb373) *Author:* Kendra Connock *Year:* 2023 - [**"Shell Companies: Using a hybrid technique to detect illicit activities"**](https://research.bond.edu.au/en/publications/shell-companies-using-a-hybrid-technique-to-detect-illicit-activi) *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"**](https://www.torrossa.com/it/resources/an/4592013) *Authors:* Lorena R. Romero-Domínguez, María José García-Orta *Year:* 2019 ## Miscellaneous - [**"POLICEJNÍ AKADEMIE ČESKÉ REPUBLIKY V PRAZE"**](https://theses.cz/id/z9ea7c/Kolecko_Ondrej_-_BP.pdf) *Authors:* Mgr Jiří Víšek, Martina ZAČALOVÁ *Year:* 2024 - [**"루소포니야: 루소포비아와 루소필리아 사이 러시아어의 공간"**](https://www.dbpia.co.kr/Journal/articleDetail?nodeId=NODE11799089) *Author:* 鄭貞元 *Publication:* 중소연구