OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Development and Change is 4. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The Wall Street Consensus	195
Beyond the Stereotype: Restating the Relevance of the Dependency Research Programme	90
The Re‐making of the Turkish Crisis	45
Global Value Chains, Industrial Policy and Economic Upgrading in Ethiopia's Apparel Sector	42
The Sino‐centric Capital Export Regime: State‐backed and Flexible Capital in the Philippines	35
Solar Power and its Discontents: Critiquing Off‐grid Infrastructures of Inclusion in East Africa	33
NGOs as Social Movements: Policy Narratives, Networks and the Performance of Dalit Rights in South India	26
Huawei, 5G and Security: Technological Limitations and Political Responses	22
Regulating Over‐indebtedness: Local State Power in Cambodia's Microfinance Market	22
Disaster Financialization: Earthquakes, Cashflows and Shifting Household Economies in Nepal	18
Framing the Blue Economy: Placelessness, Development and Sustainability	18
Southern Discomfort: Interrogating the Category of the Global South	17
Below the Belt? Territory and Development in China's International Rise	16
Diffuse Drivers of Modern Slavery: From Microfinance to Unfree Labour in Cambodia	16
Responding to the China Challenge in Techno‐nationalism: Divergence between Germany and the United States	15
Politics of Engagement: Gender Expertise and International Governance	15
Informality and the Infrastructures of Inclusion: An Introduction	14
Rethinking Social Upgrading in Global Value Chains: Worker Power, State‒Labour Relations and Intersectionality	14
Waste Political Settlements in Colombia and Chile: Power, Inequality and Informality in Recycling	13
Legitimating State Capital: The Global Financial Professions and the Transnationalization of Chinese Sovereign Wealth	13
Bibliodiversity at the Centre: Decolonizing Open Access	13
Beyond the Genome: Genetically Modified Crops in Africa and the Implications for Genome Editing	12
From Development State to Corporate Leviathan: Historicizing the Infrastructural Performativity of Digital Platforms within Kenyan Agriculture	12
From Global to Local Tea Markets: The Changing Political Economy of Tea Production within India's Domestic Value Chain	12
Introduction: The Politics of Open Access — Decolonizing Research or Corporate Capture?	11

Derisking Developmentalism: A Tale of Green Hydrogen	10
The Externalization of China's Technical Standardization Approach	9
Give James Ferguson a Fish	9
Betting on Potatoes: Accumulation in Times of Agrarian Crisis in Punjab, India	9
Situating Political Agronomy: The Knowledge Politics of Hybrid Rice in India and Uganda	9
Open Access in Indonesia	8
Defusing Land Disputes? The Politics of Land Certification and Dispute Resolution in Burundi	8
COVID‐19 and the Unequalizing Infrastructures of Financial Inclusion in Tamil Nadu	7
What if We Selected our Leaders by Lottery? Democracy by Sortition, Liberal Elections and Communist Revolutionaries	7
Measuring Women's Empowerment: Gender and Time‐use Agency in Benin, Malawi and Nigeria	7
Remote Sensing, Land Quotas and Mass Relocation: China's Governance of Farmland	7
Journal Open Access and Plan S: Solving Problems or Shifting Burdens?	7
Defeminization, Structural Transformation and Technological Upgrading in Manufacturing	6
COVID‐19: The Political Economy of a Global Pandemic	6
Global Value Chains and Intermediaries in Multi‐stakeholder Initiatives in Pakistan and India	6
The European Response to Chinese Outbound Foreign Direct Investment: Introducing a Dynamic Analytical Framework	6
Technologies of Authoritarian Statecraft in Welfare Provision: Contracting Services to Social Organizations	6
The High Priests of Global Development: Capitalism, Religion and the Political Economy of Sacrifice in a Celebrity‐led Water Charity	6
Industrial Policy and Monopoly Capitalism in Nigeria: Lessons from the Dangote Business Conglomerate	6
Capitalism without Surveillance?	6
‘Aerial Silk Roads’: Airport Infrastructures in China's Belt and Road Initiative	5
Emerging Sino–European Corporate Elite Networks	5
The Underside of Microfinance: Performance Indicators and Informal Debt in Cambodia	5
Double Movements and Disembedded Economies: A Response to Richard Sandbrook	5
Cash Transfers, International Finance and Neoliberal Debt Relations: The Case of Post‐apartheid South Africa	5
China and European Innovation: Corporate Takeovers and their Consequences	5
Social Norm Change, Behavioural Approaches and the Politics of Knowledge: A Conversation between the Ivory Tower and the Field	5
Digitizing Taxation and Premature Formalization in Developing Countries	5
Where Can the Crow Make Friends? Sci‐Hub's Activities in the Library of Development Studies and its Implications for the Field	5
The World Bank's ‘Assault on Poverty’ as a Political Question (1968–81)	5
The Business of Abolition: Marketizing ‘Anti‐slavery’	5
How Accessible are Journal Articles on Education Written by Sub‐Saharan Africa‐based Researchers?	4
Multiple Temporalities of Household Labour: The Challenge of Assessing Women's Empowerment	4
Trajectories of Hybrid Governance: Legitimacy, Order and Leadership in India	4
Conceptualizing, Financing and Infrastructuring: Perspectives on Open Access in and from Africa	4
Financing a Global Green New Deal: Greening Capitalism or Taming Financialization for a New ‘Civilizing’ Multilateralism?	4
Open Access, Plan S and ‘Radically Liberatory’ Forms of Academic Freedom	4
Crisis Narratives and the African Paradox: African Informal Economies, COVID‐19 and the Decolonization of Social Policy	4
Black Economic Empowerment and Quota Allocations in South Africa's Industrial Fisheries	4
The Social Reproduction of Pandemic Surplus Populations and Global Development Narratives on Inequality and Informal Labour	4
Portfolios of Social Protection, Labour Mobility and the Rise of Life Insurance in Rural Central Vietnam	4
Negotiated Agreements, Indigenous Peoples and Extractive Industry in the Salar de Atacama, Chile: When Is an Agreement More than a Contract?	4
The Evolution of India's Industrial Labour Share and its Correlates	4
Upgrading in the Automotive Periphery: Turkey's Battery Electric Vehicle Maker Togg	4
Compelled to Compete: Rendering Climate Change Vulnerability Investable	4
Everything Stays the Same while Everything Changes	4
COVID‐19 and the Meaning of Crisis	4
Alice Amsden: A Reasoning Revolutionary in Development Economics	4
The Effectiveness of Harnessing Human Rights: The Struggle over the Ilısu Dam in Turkey	4