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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Role of stock market return and natural resources utilisation on green economic development: Empirical evidence from China	556
Editorial Board	344
Natural resources a curse or blessing: The story of Latin American and Caribbean economies employing bootstrap quantile method	343
The convergence in per capita natural resources in the perspective of resource curse	342
Sustainable long-term production planning of open pit mines: An integrated framework for concurrent economical and environmental optimization	332
The innovation process in mining: Integrating insights from innovation and change management	307
Impact of natural resource management on entrepreneurial activity and SME growth in emerging economies: Does the rule of law matter?	296
Return and volatility connectedness among the BRICS stock and oil markets	291
Does resource-richness cause resources curse in financial market? A sustainable development overview for RCEP economies	257
A fast method to find smooth economic envelopes for block and panel caving mines	239
Environmental reclamation of limestone mining sites in Italy: Financial evaluation, challenges and proposals for sustainable development	220
Testing the resource curse hypothesis: The dynamic roles of institutional quality, inflation and growth for Dragon	215
Do government resource management policies influence green productivity? New perspectives from fintech and digital resource policy in China	215
Determinants of formalised mineral market outlet choice decision of artisanal and small-scale gold miners in Geita, Tanzania	211
Sustainable finance in natural resource extraction: Navigating green recovery pathways	210
50 years of Resources Policy: A bibliometric analysis	207
Exploring the role of Fintech, Green Finance and Natural Resources towards Environmental Sustainability: A study on ASEAN economies	204
How do the exploitation of natural resources and fiscal policy affect green growth? Moderating role of ecological governance in G7 countries	180
Corporate social responsibility in complex systems based on sustainable development	179
Detecting speculative bubbles in metal prices: Evidence from GSADF test and machine learning approaches	179
Infectious diseases and health outcomes’ implications of natural resource curse in Africa	178
Does geopolitical risk improve the directional predictability from oil to stock returns? Evidence from oil-exporting and oil-importing countries	178
Impact of COVID-19 outbreak on multi-scale asymmetric spillovers between food and oil prices	174
Digitalization of logistics for transition to a resource-efficient and circular economy	171
How does natural resource dependence influence industrial green transformation in China? Appraising underlying mechanisms for sustainable development at regional level	171

The asymmetric effect of green investment, natural resources, and growth on financial inclusion in China	170
The impact of resource taxation on resource curse: Evidence from Chinese resource tax policy	170
Macroeconomics, geopolitical risk, and resource commodity price bubbles	166
Comparative analysis of two resources-based economies: A study of policy recommendation toward sustainable development	165
Evaluating the semi-mobile in-pit crusher option through a two-step mathematical model	164
The psychology of mineral wealth: Empirical evidence from Kazakhstan	161
A qualitative model of mining company taxpayer behaviour in the Lao PDR	159
Rapid decarbonization in the Chinese electric power sector and air pollution reduction Co-benefits in the Post-COP26 Era	157
Bi-level multi-objective distribution strategy integrating the permit trading scheme towards coal production capacity layout optimization: Case study from China	157
Do exchange rate and inflation rate matter in the cyclicality of oil price and stock returns?	155
Patterns of technological capability development in Iran's steel industry: An analysis based on windows of opportunity for technological learning	150
Resilience assessment of trade network in copper industry chain and the risk resistance capacity of core countries: Based on complex network	149
The impact of geopolitical risk on strategic emerging minerals prices: Evidence from MODWT-based Granger causality test	146
Natural resource endowment and human development: Contemporary role of governance	145
The evolution and influencing factors of international tungsten competition from the industrial chain perspective	144
Does sustainability improve financial performance? An analysis of Latin American oil and gas firms	144
Green financial regulation and shale gas resources management	140
Resources melioration and the circular economy: Sustainability potentials for mineral, mining and extraction sector in emerging economies	139
Modeling the dynamic links among natural resources, economic globalization, disaggregated energy consumption, and environmental quality: Fresh evidence from GCC economies	138
Asymmetric impact of natural resources, fintech, and digital banking on climate change and environmental sustainability in BRICS countries	137
The role of Fintech in containing the carbon curse of natural resources: Evidence from resource-rich countries	137
Sustaining the mining industry through the lens of corporate social responsibility: A review research	137
The impact of Covid-19 on commodity markets volatility: Analyzing time-frequency relations between commodity prices and coronavirus panic levels	137
Natural resource abundance, environmental sustainability, and policies and institutions for environmental sustainability in sub-Saharan Africa	134
Technological innovation and supply of critical metals: A perspective of industrial chains	133
Unveiling the symptoms of Dutch disease: A comparative and sustainable analysis of two oil-rich countries	131
How digital government mediate the influence of fossil fuels on green innovation: Evidence from China's a-share industrial enterprises	131
Nexus between economic recovery, energy consumption, CO2 emission, and total natural resources rent	127
Gold, bitcoin, and portfolio diversification: Lessons from the Ukrainian war	127
Digital economy, resource richness, external conflicts, and ecological footprint: Evidence from emerging countries	125
How do natural resource rents and productive capacity affect carbon emissions? Evidence from developed and developing countries	123
Challenges and pathways for Brazilian mining sustainability	122
Oil rents, trade environment and financial development: An international evidence	122
Impact of fintech readiness, natural resources, and business freedom on economic growth in the CAREC region	122
Natural resources revenues, shadow economy and financial institutions depth: The way forward	121
Exploring the asymmetric effect of remittance inflows on gold import demand: Evidence from a large gold-consuming and remittance-receiving country	120
Subsample stability, change detection and dynamics of oil and metal markets: A recursive approach	119
Tracing gendered and classed dimension of formalization of artisanal and small-scale mining efforts in Mozambique	118
Exploring carbon neutrality potential in the petroluem industry: The role of green monetary policies as motivators	117
Rare earth and financial markets: Dynamics of return and volatility connectedness around the COVID-19 outbreak	116
Evaluating and ranking the mining damage prevention programs in South Korea: An application of the fuzzy set theory	114
Sustainable development or smoke?: The role of natural resources, renewable energy, and agricultural practices in China	113
Unraveling the causal impact: Oil price uncertainty on firms’ productivity in China	112
Medium- to long-term nickel price forecasting using LSTM and GRU networks	112
Do Rare Earth Elements (REEs) hedge financial risk? A spillover and portfolio analysis in the context of the energy market	111
Forecasting the Crude Oil prices for last four decades using deep learning approach	110
Innovation, financial risk and natural resources for sustainable development: Fresh evidence from BRICS economies	110
Multiscale dependence, spillovers, and connectedness between precious metals and currency markets: A hedge and safe-haven analysis	109
Beyond the doom: Sustainable water management practices of small-scale mining operations	108
Nexus between fintech, green finance and natural resources management: Transition of BRICS nation industries from resource curse to resource blessed sustainable economies	108

Connectedness between gold, copper, fossil fuels, and major stock markets: Implications for portfolio management	107
Optimizing the utilization of mineral assets and human resources for enhanced social welfare and sustainable development	107
Do natural resources play a role in economic development? Role of institutional quality, trade openness, and FDI	107
Is gold a long-run hedge, diversifier, or safe haven for oil? Empirical evidence based on DCC-MIDAS	107
Natural resources policy making through finance? The role of green finance on energy resources poverty	107
How good is green finance for green innovation? Evidence from the Chinese high-carbon sector	106
‘We don't joke with our money’: Gender-based occupational segregation and women's remuneration negotiations in artisanal and small-scale mining	105
Measuring natural resources rents volatility: Evidence from EGARCH and TGARCH for global data	105
Dynamic probabilistic risk assessment of emergency response for intelligent coal mining face system, case study: Gas overrun scenario	104
Time-frequency connectedness among traditional/new energy, green finance, and ESG in pre- and post-Russia-Ukraine war periods	103
Green bonds and ESG investments: Catalysts for sustainable finance and green economic growth in resource-abundant economies	102
Appraising sustainability and economic growth through Fintech, green finance and natural resource in Asian economies: A CS-ARDL study	101
Determinants of the load capacity factor in China: A novel dynamic ARDL approach for ecological footprint accounting	101
Can globalization and the green economy hedge natural resources? Functions of population growth and financial development in BRICS countries	101
Environmental innovation, climate change and knowledge diffusion process: How can spillovers play a role in the goal of sustainable economic performance?	100
Disentangling the geopolitical risk and its effects on commodities. Evidence from a panel of G8 countries	100
Exploring the risk and economic vulnerability of global energy supply chain interruption in the context of Russo-Ukrainian war	99
Dutch disease revisited: China's provincial data perspective with the role of green finance and technology peak	99
Do natural resources influence E-government in developing countries? Effects and transmission channels	99
The predictive power of the oil variance risk premium	98
Changes in household wealth in communities living in proximity to a large-scale copper mine in Zambia	98
Mineral resource investments and mutual funds performance: A remedy for recovery in BRICS	98
The extractive industry and human rights in Africa: Lessons from the past and future directions	98