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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Verdant vitality: forests benefit child health in China	303
Gutenberg 2.0 − Academic publishing in the digital world	169
Spatial Inequality, Poverty and Informality in the Democratic Republic of the Congo	118
Avocados: Mexico’s green gold, drug cartel violence and the U.S. opioid crisis	114
The winds of inequalities: How hurricanes affect inequalities at the macro level	102
Violent conflicts and learning outcomes: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa	100
An institutional analysis of ‘power within’ local governance: A Bazaari tale from Pakistan	95
How wartime recruitment affects political engagement among civilians: Evidence from Côte d’Ivoire	93
Cultivating inequality? Regional rubber dynamics and implications for voluntary sustainability programs in Lao PDR	89
Decomposing the impacts of an agricultural value chain development project by ethnicity and gender in Nepal	85
Discrimination in post-conflict settings: Experimental evidence from Colombia	84
Investigating the Inclusive-Performance Tradeoff in Agricultural Cooperatives: Evidence from Nepal	83
The role of the commodity price boom in shaping public social spending: Evidence from Latin America	79
The economic burden of non-communicable diseases on households and their coping mechanisms: Evidence from rural Vietnam	68
Long-term impacts of school nutrition: Evidence from China’s school meal reform	64
Seeing the broader picture: Stakeholder contributions to understanding infrastructure impacts of the Interoceanic Highway in the southwestern Amazon	64
How epidemics affect marginalized communities in war-torn countries: Ebola, securitization, and public opinion about the security forces in Liberia	63
What corruption is most harmful? Unbundling citizen perceptions	61
Infrastructure-driven land appropriation, institutional change and conflict in a communal conservancy in Kenya	60
Income inequality in Africa, 1990–2019: Measurement, patterns, determinants	58
Social capital's role in mitigating economic vulnerability: Understanding the impact of income disparities on farmers' livelihoods	58
The short-term effects of visa restrictions on migrants’ legal status and well-being: A difference-in-differences approach on Venezuelan displacement	57
Cracks in the “gold standard”: The Eurocentrism of mining in development economics	55
Is the conventional wisdom on resource taxation correct? Mining evidence from African countries' tax legislations	53
Is the rising tide of specialty coffee lifting all boats?	52

A supercyclone, landscapes of ‘emptiness’ and shrimp aquaculture: The lesser-known trajectories of disaster recovery in coastal Odisha, India	51
Violent instability and modern contraception: Evidence from Mali	48
'Wasters, agnostics, enforcers, competitors, and community integrators': Reclaimers, S@S, and the five types of residents in Johannesburg, South Africa	47
Challenges of using PAR to promote collective action with denotified tribes in India: Surfacing intersections and tensions between religious and other inequalities	46
Blended Binds: How DFI's support programs stifle bank lending in Africa	46
Cash transfers in the context of carbon pricing reforms in Latin America and the Caribbean	46
Urban social movements and local state capacity	46
Expectations, authority and divergent market transitions	45
Time use of youth during a pandemic: Evidence from Mexico	45
On the distributional effects of principal-agent problems: Evidence from China’s shell farmer cooperatives	44
Historical bombings, urban community, and prosociality: Application of the First internet lab-in-the-field experiment	44
Armed conflict, institutions and deforestation: A dynamic spatiotemporal analysis of Colombia 2000–2018	43
Oil revenues and labor market reforms	43
Women’s Work – Routes to Social and Economic Empowerment: Introduction to the Special Issue	43
Who communicates the information matters for technology adoption	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	43
Disaster mortalities and the Sendai Framework Target A: Insights from Zimbabwe	43
Community and industrial forest concessions: Are they effective at reducing forest loss and does FSC certification play a role?	42
Identity and conflict: Evidence from Tuareg rebellion in Mali	42
Representation matters? Female legislators and women’s health in Bangladesh	42
The fiscal cost of conflict: Evidence from Afghanistan 2005–2017	42