OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Resources Policy is 98. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Role of stock market return and natural resources utilisation on green economic development: Empirical evidence from China	568
Do government resource management policies influence green productivity? New perspectives from fintech and digital resource policy in China	357
Environmental reclamation of limestone mining sites in Italy: Financial evaluation, challenges and proposals for sustainable development	355
Determinants of formalised mineral market outlet choice decision of artisanal and small-scale gold miners in Geita, Tanzania	352
Testing the resource curse hypothesis: The dynamic roles of institutional quality, inflation and growth for Dragon	343
Exploring carbon neutrality potential in the petroluem industry: The role of green monetary policies as motivators	324
Sustaining the mining industry through the lens of corporate social responsibility: A review research	306
Bi-level multi-objective distribution strategy integrating the permit trading scheme towards coal production capacity layout optimization: Case study from China	270
Tracing gendered and classed dimension of formalization of artisanal and small-scale mining efforts in Mozambique	250
Nexus between economic recovery, energy consumption, CO2 emission, and total natural resources rent	223
Corporate social responsibility in complex systems based on sustainable development	222
Governing mined landscapes through memory: Afro-centred approaches to post-extractive transitions	219
Resilience assessment of trade network in copper industry chain and the risk resistance capacity of core countries: Based on complex network	218
Digital economy, resource richness, external conflicts, and ecological footprint: Evidence from emerging countries	216
Dynamic probabilistic risk assessment of emergency response for intelligent coal mining face system, case study: Gas overrun scenario	214
Measuring natural resources rents volatility: Evidence from EGARCH and TGARCH for global data	212
‘We don't joke with our money’: Gender-based occupational segregation and women's remuneration negotiations in artisanal and small-scale mining	187
Challenges and pathways for Brazilian mining sustainability	184
Technological innovation and supply of critical metals: A perspective of industrial chains	183
Does geopolitical risk improve the directional predictability from oil to stock returns? Evidence from oil-exporting and oil-importing countries	183
Gold, bitcoin, and portfolio diversification: Lessons from the Ukrainian war	179
Beyond the doom: Sustainable water management practices of small-scale mining operations	178
Connectedness between gold, copper, fossil fuels, and major stock markets: Implications for portfolio management	176
Oil rents, trade environment and financial development: An international evidence	175
Natural resources revenues, shadow economy and financial institutions depth: The way forward	174

Appraising sustainability and economic growth through Fintech, green finance and natural resource in Asian economies: A CS-ARDL study	172
Exploring the asymmetric effect of remittance inflows on gold import demand: Evidence from a large gold-consuming and remittance-receiving country	168
Editorial Board	167
Subsample stability, change detection and dynamics of oil and metal markets: A recursive approach	167
Return and volatility connectedness among the BRICS stock and oil markets	165
Does resource-richness cause resources curse in financial market? A sustainable development overview for RCEP economies	163
The psychology of mineral wealth: Empirical evidence from Kazakhstan	159
Rapid decarbonization in the Chinese electric power sector and air pollution reduction Co-benefits in the Post-COP26 Era	156
Unveiling the symptoms of Dutch disease: A comparative and sustainable analysis of two oil-rich countries	154
A qualitative model of mining company taxpayer behaviour in the Lao PDR	152
Comparative analysis of two resources-based economies: A study of policy recommendation toward sustainable development	150
Do exchange rate and inflation rate matter in the cyclicality of oil price and stock returns?	148
Infectious diseases and health outcomes’ implications of natural resource curse in Africa	146
Natural resource extraction, energy efficiency moderation, and sustainable development in the Gulf Cooperation Council countries	144
The impact of resource taxation on resource curse: Evidence from Chinese resource tax policy	144
Time-frequency connectedness among traditional/new energy, green finance, and ESG in pre- and post-Russia-Ukraine war periods	143
Natural resources a curse or blessing: The story of Latin American and Caribbean economies employing bootstrap quantile method	142
Evaluating and ranking the mining damage prevention programs in South Korea: An application of the fuzzy set theory	142
Innovation, financial risk and natural resources for sustainable development: Fresh evidence from BRICS economies	141
Impact of natural resource management on entrepreneurial activity and SME growth in emerging economies: Does the rule of law matter?	139
Forecasting the Crude Oil prices for last four decades using deep learning approach	139
50 years of Resources Policy: A bibliometric analysis	137
The innovation process in mining: Integrating insights from innovation and change management	135
Sustainable long-term production planning of open pit mines: An integrated framework for concurrent economical and environmental optimization	134
Optimizing the utilization of mineral assets and human resources for enhanced social welfare and sustainable development	133
The convergence in per capita natural resources in the perspective of resource curse	132
Exploring the role of Fintech, Green Finance and Natural Resources towards Environmental Sustainability: A study on ASEAN economies	131
Evaluating the semi-mobile in-pit crusher option through a two-step mathematical model	130
How do natural resource rents and productive capacity affect carbon emissions? Evidence from developed and developing countries	128
How digital government mediate the influence of fossil fuels on green innovation: Evidence from China's a-share industrial enterprises	127
Patterns of technological capability development in Iran's steel industry: An analysis based on windows of opportunity for technological learning	125
Detecting speculative bubbles in metal prices: Evidence from GSADF test and machine learning approaches	123
Green financial regulation and shale gas resources management	123
Resources melioration and the circular economy: Sustainability potentials for mineral, mining and extraction sector in emerging economies	122
Multiscale dependence, spillovers, and connectedness between precious metals and currency markets: A hedge and safe-haven analysis	122
Sustainable development or smoke?: The role of natural resources, renewable energy, and agricultural practices in China	121
Do Rare Earth Elements (REEs) hedge financial risk? A spillover and portfolio analysis in the context of the energy market	120
Macroeconomics, geopolitical risk, and resource commodity price bubbles	119
Unraveling the causal impact: Oil price uncertainty on firms’ productivity in China	119
Impact of fintech readiness, natural resources, and business freedom on economic growth in the CAREC region	118
How good is green finance for green innovation? Evidence from the Chinese high-carbon sector	117
Environmental innovation, climate change and knowledge diffusion process: How can spillovers play a role in the goal of sustainable economic performance?	116
Does sustainability improve financial performance? An analysis of Latin American oil and gas firms	115
A fast method to find smooth economic envelopes for block and panel caving mines	115
Natural resources policy making through finance? The role of green finance on energy resources poverty	115
Disentangling the geopolitical risk and its effects on commodities. Evidence from a panel of G8 countries	114
Digitalization of logistics for transition to a resource-efficient and circular economy	114
Natural resource endowment and human development: Contemporary role of governance	113
Can globalization and the green economy hedge natural resources? Functions of population growth and financial development in BRICS countries	111
Asymmetric impact of natural resources, fintech, and digital banking on climate change and environmental sustainability in BRICS countries	111

The asymmetric effect of green investment, natural resources, and growth on financial inclusion in China	110
Do natural resources play a role in economic development? Role of institutional quality, trade openness, and FDI	109
The role of Fintech in containing the carbon curse of natural resources: Evidence from resource-rich countries	107
Green bonds and ESG investments: Catalysts for sustainable finance and green economic growth in resource-abundant economies	107
How does natural resource dependence influence industrial green transformation in China? Appraising underlying mechanisms for sustainable development at regional level	106
Medium- to long-term nickel price forecasting using LSTM and GRU networks	105
Sustainable finance in natural resource extraction: Navigating green recovery pathways	105
Exploring the risk and economic vulnerability of global energy supply chain interruption in the context of Russo-Ukrainian war	105
Natural resource abundance, environmental sustainability, and policies and institutions for environmental sustainability in sub-Saharan Africa	104
Impact of COVID-19 outbreak on multi-scale asymmetric spillovers between food and oil prices	104
Rare earth and financial markets: Dynamics of return and volatility connectedness around the COVID-19 outbreak	104
Do natural resources influence E-government in developing countries? Effects and transmission channels	103
Determinants of the load capacity factor in China: A novel dynamic ARDL approach for ecological footprint accounting	103
Nexus between fintech, green finance and natural resources management: Transition of BRICS nation industries from resource curse to resource blessed sustainable economies	103
How do the exploitation of natural resources and fiscal policy affect green growth? Moderating role of ecological governance in G7 countries	103
Is gold a long-run hedge, diversifier, or safe haven for oil? Empirical evidence based on DCC-MIDAS	103
The impact of geopolitical risk on strategic emerging minerals prices: Evidence from MODWT-based Granger causality test	103
Oil extraction, private investment, and sustainable economic development in China	101
Evaluating the effect of mineral resources on the accessibility of green power: A global perspective	100
The predictive power of the oil variance risk premium	100
Mineral resource investments and mutual funds performance: A remedy for recovery in BRICS	99
Enhancing sustainable growth in the global south: The role of mineral resource management, supply chain efficiency, technology advancement, and local downstream processing	98
Changes in household wealth in communities living in proximity to a large-scale copper mine in Zambia	98