OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Information Technology for Development 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Ethics-based ontology in ICT4D	171
Evaluating the impact of digital technology development on green total factor productivity: empirical evidence from Chinese cities	71
Impacts of ICT and digital finance on poverty and income inequality: a sub-national study from India	60
A tale of the digital divide at three levels: the impact on Chinese residents’ subjective relative deprivation in the digital era	53
The entrepreneurial effect of digital infrastructure development: micro evidence from China	46
From research to action: the practice of decolonizing ICT4D	45
Examining the effect of security behaviour on the continuance use of mobile money services in Ghana: a protection motivation perspective	38
‘I pretend to be an ideal woman just to keep their mouths shut’: Bangladeshi women’s contestation of abuse through social media platforms	38
Firm level evidence on diffusion and returns on ICT: a study on Indian informal MSMEs	36
Impact of e-commerce on income inequality: evidence from rural China based on cross-county panel data	34
Putting design justice at the center of ICT4D	28
Institutional development in an information-driven economy: can ICTs enhance economic growth for low- and lower middle-income countries?	28
Impacts of information and communication technologies on the SDGs: the case of Mayu Telecomunicaciones in rural areas of Peru	27
Challenging the local logics of oppression in times of post-colonial amnesia – a study of Ugandan LGBT+ activism in digital media spaces	25
Using the lens of affordances to unpack tangible forms of digitalization-enabled social value in the Bahamian Public Healthcare System	25
Analysis of spatial correlation network of urban digital economy in China	25
Feminist and queer approaches to ICT4D: imagining and enacting liberation	23
Tribute to a prodigious scholar, mentor and global thought leader: Professor Peter Keen	20
Towards a process framework to guide the development of ICT4D programs: a South African perspective	19
Digital finance and happiness: evidence from China	18
Designing ICTs for development. A Delphi study on problem framing, approach, and team composition	18
Understanding the impact of internet use on farmer entrepreneurship: evidence from rural China	17
Impact of COVID-19 on e-government: a pilot study of Poland	16
Cycles of development in systems of survival with artificial intelligence: a formative research agenda	15
Understanding local social processes in ICT4D research	14

AI for social good and the corporate capture of global development	14
Organizational ethics and position relationship moderators among knowledge workers: a regional study of Poland	14
Reducing technology-mediated service exclusion by providing human assistant support for senior citizens: evidence from China	14
Correction	13
Correction	12
Digital financial services in marginalised communities: pathways to poverty reduction and economic empowerment	12
The role of information and communication technology and financial development in shaping a low-carbon environment: a Belt and Road journey toward development	11
Decolonizing gender through ICT: a semiotic analysis of web images from Two-Spirit people websites	11
Eliciting design principles using a data justice framework for participatory urban water governance observatories	10
Recognizing and adjusting: developing an adaptive team information seeking framework for emergency situation assessment	10
Sustainable business value model in the ICT4D research agenda	10
Inequality through digitalization: investigation of mediating and moderating mechanisms	10
A digital village model for supply chain management capabilities development in micro-small-medium enterprise in South Sumatra	10
Evaluating a phone-based Interactive Voice Response system for reducing misinformation and improving malaria literacy	10
Evaluating the effect of ICT on trade and economic growth from the perspective of Eastern African belt and road countries	9
Examining the health impact of elderly ICT use in China	9
Socio-technical design principles for a multi-stakeholder agriculture extension information system in Ethiopia	9
Leveraging the digital ecosystem concept for development research and practice – potentials, limitations, and ways forward	8
Creating cycles of prosperity with human digital development for intelligent global health	8
Designing a user-centric mobile-based agro advisory system for sustainable development of smallholder farming systems in the eastern Himalayas, India	8
ICT4D and the capability approach: understanding how freedom of expression on ICTs affect human development at the country-level	8
Digital inequality beyond the digital divide: conceptualizing adverse digital incorporation in the global South	8
Data management system for sustainable agriculture among smallholder farmers in Tanzania: research-in-progress	8
Indigenous knowledge and digital financial inclusion: a comparison between Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa	8
The impact of internet development on green total factor productivity in China’s prefectural cities	8
Institutional quality-banking efficiency nexuses in Africa. How does ICT moderate?	7
ICT uptake and use and social connectedness in rural and remote communities: a study from Sarawak, Malaysia	7
Strategic Information Systems (SIS) implementation at a bank in an emerging economy: implications for strategic enterprise capabilities and societal development	7
Women’s solidarity as feminism in action: the concept of sisterhood ( sororidad ) in #LasRespondonas, a Facebook group in Peru	7
M-government and Saudi women’s empowerment: a capability approach perspective	7
Inequalities of Indonesia’s regional digital development and its association with socioeconomic characteristics: a spatial and multivariate analysis	7
Digital transformation for development: a human capital key or system of oppression?	7
Deconstructing big data for development (BD4D): continuities and reflections of development discourse in the age of datafication	7
Digital economy and low-carbon transformation of economy in China: analyzing spatial spillover effects and pathways	7
Harnessing knowledge networking for Global Capability Sourcing: the development imperative	7
Correction	7
Introducing digital health information systems in post-conflict Mozambique: a historical perspective	7
The effect of ICT on financial sector development in Africa: does regulatory quality matter?	6
Digital public goods: understanding the role of generativity in fostering digital innovation for development	6
Exploring the factors influencing green IT adoption and firm performance: an empirical study of Ghanaian manufacturing firms	6
The influence of organizational resources and administrative processes on the quality of Brazilian open data	6
Visual imagery and the informal city: examining 360-degree imaging technologies for informal settlement representation	6
Empowering through digital skills training: an empirical study of poor unemployed working-age women in India	6
Relationships between Sustainable Development Goals and Information and Communication Technologies in Europe	6
Digital divide reflections on regional development disparities in Türkiye	5
Centering queer knowledge paradigms in designing and implementing health information and communication technologies	5
Digital innovation in education: a study of e-procurement technology acceptance models	5
Comprehending ICT for gender empowerment in an aging context: digitalization of marginalized female elderly in the Global South during COVID-19	5
Digitalization and dignity: digital driving in Kenya	5
The use of mobile learning: a pathway towards refugees’ inclusion	5

Information and communication technologies and the COVID-19: from economic inequality to educational digital divide in central and South America	5
Diffusion and adoption of digital communications services in India	5
The impact of the national big data comprehensive pilot zone on digital economy development: evidence from China	5
Technology platforms as an ICT4D model for business development	4
Exploring the gender gap in mobile money awareness and use: evidence from eight low and middle income countries	4
Beyond technique: the art of writing impactful econometric papers for information technology for development	4
Information communication and technology, and environmental degradation in Africa: a new approach via moments	4
Data-driven disaster resilience assessment: a case study in the Spanish transportation system	4
The synergy between Indigenous ways of knowing, being, and doing and technology in culturally responsive home-school partnerships	4
Digitalization the necessary evil: integrating digital technologies in businesses of BOP countries	4
Can information and communication technologies contribute to poverty reduction? Evidence from poor counties in China	4
Aadhaar and social assistance programming: local bureaucracies as critical intermediary	4
The role of governance in the effect of the internet on financial inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa	4