OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of World Development is 41. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
An institutional analysis of ‘power within’ local governance: A Bazaari tale from Pakistan	265
The economic burden of non-communicable diseases on households and their coping mechanisms: Evidence from rural Vietnam	235
How wartime recruitment affects political engagement among civilians: Evidence from Côte d’Ivoire	174
Social capital's role in mitigating economic vulnerability: Understanding the impact of income disparities on farmers' livelihoods	119
Is the conventional wisdom on resource taxation correct? Mining evidence from African countries' tax legislations	97
Violent instability and modern contraception: Evidence from Mali	95
How epidemics affect marginalized communities in war-torn countries: Ebola, securitization, and public opinion about the security forces in Liberia	91
Seeing the broader picture: Stakeholder contributions to understanding infrastructure impacts of the Interoceanic Highway in the southwestern Amazon	87
Erratum to “Flooding and child health: Evidence from Pakistan” [World Dev. 146 (2021) 105477]	82
Erratum to “The gender of debt and credit: Insights from rural Tamil Nadu” [World Dev. 142 (2021) 105363]	80
A supercyclone, landscapes of ‘emptiness’ and shrimp aquaculture: The lesser-known trajectories of disaster recovery in coastal Odisha, India	75
The role of the commodity price boom in shaping public social spending: Evidence from Latin America	73
Discrimination in post-conflict settings: Experimental evidence from Colombia	73
Missing women in India: Gender-specific effects of early-life rainfall shocks	70
Water and power, water’s power: State-making and socionature shaping volatile rivers and riverine people in Mexico	68
Across the stolen Ponds: The political geography of social welfare in rural eastern India	66
The short-term effects of visa restrictions on migrants’ legal status and well-being: A difference-in-differences approach on Venezuelan displacement	65
Cultivating inequality? Regional rubber dynamics and implications for voluntary sustainability programs in Lao PDR	64
Spatial Inequality, Poverty and Informality in the Democratic Republic of the Congo	64
Can fruit and vegetable aggregation systems better balance improved producer livelihoods with more equitable distribution?	61
'Wasters, agnostics, enforcers, competitors, and community integrators': Reclaimers, S@S, and the five types of residents in Johannesburg, South Africa	60
Grassroots mobilization in Brazil’s urban Amazon: Global investments, persistent floods, and local resistance across political and legal arenas	60
Property rights and misallocation: Evidence from land certification in China	58
Long-term impacts of school nutrition: Evidence from China’s school meal reform	56
Investigating the Inclusive-Performance Tradeoff in Agricultural Cooperatives: Evidence from Nepal	55

Decomposing the impacts of an agricultural value chain development project by ethnicity and gender in Nepal	54
The winds of inequalities: How hurricanes affect inequalities at the macro level	53
Income inequality in Africa, 1990–2019: Measurement, patterns, determinants	53
Switching it up: The effect of energy price reforms in Oman	52
Women’s Work – Routes to Social and Economic Empowerment: Introduction to the Special Issue	52
The long-term health impact of Agent Orange: Evidence from the Vietnam War	47
The fiscal cost of conflict: Evidence from Afghanistan 2005–2017	47
Challenges of using PAR to promote collective action with denotified tribes in India: Surfacing intersections and tensions between religious and other inequalities	46
Representation matters? Female legislators and women’s health in Bangladesh	45
Identity and conflict: Evidence from Tuareg rebellion in Mali	45
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	45
Discourses of evaluation: Institutional logics and organizational practices among international development agencies	45
Scaling up and scaling out of darkness: Elucidating the influences of institutional dysfunction in scaling up solar PV in Sub-Saharan Africa	44
Time use of youth during a pandemic: Evidence from Mexico	42
Who are the “vanguard” women? Strategies for identifying women going against economic participation norms across 49 low- and middle-income countries	42
Intergenerational effects of education on child mortality: Evidence from the compulsory primary schooling law in Vietnam	42
Urban social movements and local state capacity	41
Disaster mortalities and the Sendai Framework Target A: Insights from Zimbabwe	41