OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Information Technology for Development is 7. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Deconstructing big data for development (BD4D): continuities and reflections of development discourse in the age of datafication	112
Digital economy and low-carbon transformation of economy in China: analyzing spatial spillover effects and pathways	78
Pandemics within the pandemic: confronting socio-economic inequities in a datafied world	52
Threshold effects of ICT access and usage in Burkinabe and Ghanaian households	42
The role of digitalization in decreasing gender gap in opportunity driven entrepreneurship	38
Impacts of ICT and digital finance on poverty and income inequality: a sub-national study from India	35
Introducing digital health information systems in post-conflict Mozambique: a historical perspective	33
Mobile payments and money technologies in sustainable development: a systematic literature review and computer-assisted interpretive analysis	32
Electronic commerce for development: a conceptual analysis and future research agenda for Africa	28
Understanding local social processes in ICT4D research	27
Institutional quality-banking efficiency nexuses in Africa. How does ICT moderate?	27
Overcoming barriers to mHealth co-design in low- and middle-income countries: a research toolkit	27
Smart phone usage for women’s empowerment to respond against domestic violence in Bangladesh	27
Reducing technology-mediated service exclusion by providing human assistant support for senior citizens: evidence from China	26
AI for social good and the corporate capture of global development	25
Intention to participate in smartphone-based data collection: the case of smallholder farmers in Uganda	24
Organizational ethics and position relationship moderators among knowledge workers: a regional study of Poland	23
Does information and communication technology really affect human development? An empirical analysis	20
The synergy between Indigenous ways of knowing, being, and doing and technology in culturally responsive home-school partnerships	19
A tale of the digital divide at three levels: the impact on Chinese residents’ subjective relative deprivation in the digital era	18
M-government and Saudi women’s empowerment: a capability approach perspective	17
Blockchain for development: a guiding framework	17
Digitalization the necessary evil: integrating digital technologies in businesses of BOP countries	17
Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D) critique	16
The role of governance in the effect of the internet on financial inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa	16

Mobile phone use for social inclusion: the case of internally displaced people in Nigeria	13
ICT initiatives for vulnerable groups in Brazil: intended and unintended consequences during the COVID-19 pandemic	13
M-government continuance intentions: an instrument development and validation	13
Firm level evidence on diffusion and returns on ICT: a study on Indian informal MSMEs	12
Data collection in the global south: practical, methodological, and philosophical considerations	12
The potential of eParticipation in enlarging individual capabilities: a conceptual framework	12
Strategic Information Systems (SIS) implementation at a bank in an emerging economy: implications for strategic enterprise capabilities and societal development	11
Unlocking the potentials of hybrid business models in the sharing economy: an integrative review and new research agenda	10
The role of mobile broadband in poverty alleviation: a comparison of the effects of 3G and 4G network expansion in underdeveloped regions of Indonesia	10
Harnessing knowledge networking for Global Capability Sourcing: the development imperative	9
Exploring the nexus of digital inclusion and environmental sustainability: insights from Cambodia	9
Criminal factions and ICT-Mediated financial inclusion in Brazilian favelas: the role of context	8
‘ICT Development and depopulation: exploring the effects of municipal size on citizens’ technological profiles and policy evaluation in rural Spain'	8
How are service automation and national ICT development associated with international trade in services?	8
‘I pretend to be an ideal woman just to keep their mouths shut’: Bangladeshi women’s contestation of abuse through social media platforms	7
The entrepreneurial effect of digital infrastructure development: micro evidence from China	7
ICT uptake and use and social connectedness in rural and remote communities: a study from Sarawak, Malaysia	7
Impact of e-commerce on income inequality: evidence from rural China based on cross-county panel data	7