| Candidate selection and a crowded parliament: The Israeli Knesset, 1988–2006 O Akirav The Journal of Legislative Studies 16 (1), 96-120, 2010 | 36 | 2010 |
| Agenda control in the Israeli Knesset during Ariel Sharon's second government O Akirav, GW Cox, MD McCubbins The Journal of Legislative Studies 16 (2), 251-267, 2010 | 30 | 2010 |
| What do representatives produce? Work profiles of representatives O Akirav Party Politics 22 (3), 289-299, 2016 | 24 | 2016 |
| Catch-22: Arab members of the Israeli parliament O Akirav Representation 50 (4), 485-508, 2014 | 23 | 2014 |
| The use of parliamentary questions in the Israeli parliament, 1992–96 O Akirav Israel Affairs 17 (02), 259-277, 2011 | 22 | 2011 |
| Re-election: Different Skills for Different Roles O Akirav Government and Opposition, 1-29, 2013 | 17 | 2013 |
| Termination of parliamentary governments: revised definitions and implications Y Shomer, BE Rasch, O Akirav West European Politics 45 (3), 550-575, 2021 | 15 | 2021 |
| Parlamente in der Pandemie ST Siefken, P Guasti, WJ Patzelt, O Akirav, K Coghill, P Haupt Zeitschrift für Parlamentsfragen 52 (4), 878-894, 2021 | 15 | 2021 |
| Electoral rules and legislators’ productivity O Akirav Parliamentary Affairs 72 (3), 638-663, 2019 | 12 | 2019 |
| Democratic backsliding and the constitutional blitz O Akirav European Politics and Society 26 (1), 94-115, 2025 | 11 | 2025 |
| Women's Leadership in Local Government O Akirav Review of European Studies 13, 77-90, 2021 | 10 | 2021 |
| A new approach to measuring legislators’ activity O Akirav International Political Science Review 41 (4), 584-599, 2020 | 10 | 2020 |
| Parliaments in the Pandemic I O Akirav, K Coghill, P Guasti, P Haupt, WJ Patzelt, ST Siefken Research Committee of Legislative Specialists: International Political …, 2021 | 9 | 2021 |
| A model for determining legislative significance and effectiveness O Akirav The Theory and Practice of Legislation 6 (3), 343-361, 2018 | 9 | 2018 |
| Active Civic Education Using Project-Based Learning: Israeli College Students' Attitudes towards Civic Engagement. O Akirav Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem-Based Learning 17 (1), n1, 2023 | 8 | 2023 |
| Informal self-employment within the non-observed economy of Israel L Shami, G Cohen, O Akirav, A Herscovici, L Yehuda, S Barel-Shaked International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business 52 (2), 159-180, 2024 | 7 | 2024 |
| The formateur’s bonus in European constitutional monarchies, 1901–99 O Akirav, GW Cox Legislative Studies Quarterly 43 (4), 681-703, 2018 | 7 | 2018 |
| The talk–listen–respond (TLR) model of representatives on Twitter O Akirav The Journal of Legislative Studies 23 (3), 392-418, 2017 | 7 | 2017 |
| The agenda power of non-legislative tools O Akirav Israel Affairs 27 (2), 351-369, 2021 | 6 | 2021 |
| Measuring the formation of a new government: the case of the Israeli parliament 1949–2016 O Akirav The Journal of legislative studies 26 (1), 97-112, 2020 | 6 | 2020 |