OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of World Development is 42. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Verdant vitality: forests benefit child health in China	377
Spatial Inequality, Poverty and Informality in the Democratic Republic of the Congo	184
Seeing the broader picture: Stakeholder contributions to understanding infrastructure impacts of the Interoceanic Highway in the southwestern Amazon	151
Is the rising tide of specialty coffee lifting all boats?	125
Wealth inequality and economic growth: Evidence from the World Inequality Database	124
Infrastructure-driven land appropriation, institutional change and conflict in a communal conservancy in Kenya	111
Gutenberg 2.0 − Academic publishing in the digital world	110
Is the conventional wisdom on resource taxation correct? Mining evidence from African countries' tax legislations	106
Gendering the safety net: Social protection policy and the limits to Decent Work in Cambodia’s garment sector	105
Social gaps, perceived inequality and protests	103
An institutional analysis of ‘power within’ local governance: A Bazaari tale from Pakistan	96
Income inequality in Africa, 1990–2019: Measurement, patterns, determinants	93
A supercyclone, landscapes of ‘emptiness’ and shrimp aquaculture: The lesser-known trajectories of disaster recovery in coastal Odisha, India	83
Violent conflicts and learning outcomes: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa	78
Avocados: Mexico’s green gold, drug cartel violence and the U.S. opioid crisis	76
Introductory essay for special issue: future of work and welfare in India’s halting structural transition	71
Cracks in the “gold standard”: The Eurocentrism of mining in development economics	69
Violent instability and modern contraception: Evidence from Mali	66
Social capital's role in mitigating economic vulnerability: Understanding the impact of income disparities on farmers' livelihoods	65
What corruption is most harmful? Unbundling citizen perceptions	64
The winds of inequalities: How hurricanes affect inequalities at the macro level	63
Investigating the Inclusive-Performance Tradeoff in Agricultural Cooperatives: Evidence from Nepal	62
The short-term effects of visa restrictions on migrants’ legal status and well-being: A difference-in-differences approach on Venezuelan displacement	60
A behavioral approach to social security compliance targeting self-employed workers in Brazil	59
How epidemics affect marginalized communities in war-torn countries: Ebola, securitization, and public opinion about the security forces in Liberia	57

The role of the commodity price boom in shaping public social spending: Evidence from Latin America	57
Discrimination in post-conflict settings: Experimental evidence from Colombia	53
Cultivating inequality? Regional rubber dynamics and implications for voluntary sustainability programs in Lao PDR	53
Climate change vulnerability and the resilience of energy consumption	52
Decomposing the impacts of an agricultural value chain development project by ethnicity and gender in Nepal	52
How wartime recruitment affects political engagement among civilians: Evidence from Côte d’Ivoire	51
Representation matters? Female legislators and women’s health in Bangladesh	50
Long-term impacts of school nutrition: Evidence from China’s school meal reform	50
Challenges of using PAR to promote collective action with denotified tribes in India: Surfacing intersections and tensions between religious and other inequalities	49
Historical bombings, urban community, and prosociality: Application of the First internet lab-in-the-field experiment	49
On the distributional effects of principal-agent problems: Evidence from China’s shell farmer cooperatives	48
Urban social movements and local state capacity	48
Revisiting regional governance and regional development: Measurements, linkages and coupling effect	47
Blended Binds: How DFI's support programs stifle bank lending in Africa	44
Sanitation and work time: Evidence from the toilet revolution in rural China	43
What do we know about rural and informal non-farming labour? Evidence from a mixed methods study of artisanal and small-scale mining in Northwest Tanzania	42
Kinship, dadon and patronage politics: The role of informal institutions in climate adaptation	42