OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Disasters is 2. 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
Evidence of policy learning in emergency declarations as communication tools in Australia	64
Introduction. The Covid‐19 pandemic: global dimensions, local responses	41
The barriers to uptake of disaster risk management science in urban planning: A political economy analysis	40
Disasters and ‘conditions of possibility’: rethinking causation through an analysis of earthquakes in Nepal	39
Interorganisational emergency management coordination challenges in a resource‐scarce environment: a case study of El Salvador post COVID‐19	39
Recovering the status quo: tipping points and earthquake aftermaths in colonial India	33
Interplay between sanctions, donor conditionality, and food insecurity in complex emergencies: the case of Syria	32
Negotiating humanitarian space with criminal armed groups in urban Latin America	29
Paranirvar mānis (dependent people)? Rethinking humanitarian dependency syndrome: a Bourdieusian perspective	24
Disasters and corruption: public expectations and tolerance—evidence from Mexico	20
Contesting the crisis narrative: epidemic accounts in Sierra Leone, Tanzania, and Democratic Republic of the Congo	19
Decolonising disasters	17
Food systems in protracted crises: examining indigenous food sovereignty amid de‐development in Kashmir	17
Measuring community disaster resilience for sustainable climate change adaptation: Lessons from time‐series findings in rural Cambodia	16
Queer and present danger: understanding the disparate impacts of disasters on LGBTQ+ communities	16
Issue Information	15
‘I know you like the back of my hand’: biometric practices of humanitarian organisations in international aid	14
Diasporas as a linchpin in local and international humanitarian action: a case study of the Chinese in Aceh following the 2004 tsunami	14
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Disasters in the Anthropocene: a storm in a teacup?	13
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Interconnections between children's upbringing, camps, and post‐war villages: caregivers' lived experiences in northern Uganda	12
‘Building back better’ in the context of multi‐hazards in the Caribbean	12
From pity to fear: security as a mechanism for (re)production of vulnerability	12
Local emergency management's use of social media during disasters: a case study of Hurricane Irma	12

When Covid‐19 meets conflict: politics of the pandemic response in fragile and conflict‐affected states	11
Gaining ‘authority to operate’: student‐led emergent volunteers and established response agencies in the Canterbury earthquakes	11
Crisis responses, opportunity, and public authority during Covid‐19's first wave in Uganda, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and South Sudan	11
Issue Information	11
Rethinking disaster utopia: the limits of conspicuous resilience for community‐based recovery and adaptation	11
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Ebola, informal settlements, and the role of place in infectious disease vulnerability: evidence from the 2014–16 outbreak in urban Sierra Leone	10
Protective policies for all? An analysis of Covid‐19 deaths and protective policies among low‐, medium‐, and high‐vulnerability groups	10
Enmity then empathy: How militarisation facilitated collaborative but exclusive exchange in Sierra Leone's Ebola response	10
Cash and voucher assistance along humanitarian supply chains: a literature review and directions for future research	9
Wartime captivity and homecoming: culture, stigma, and coping strategies of formerly abducted women in post‐conflict northern Uganda	9
Islamic faith‐based organisations and their role in building social capital for post‐disaster recovery in Indonesia	9
‘Building back better’ in the Caribbean: an introduction	9
How Covid‐19 financially hit urban refugees: evidence from mixed‐method research with citizens and Syrian refugees in Turkey	9
Multi‐risk instruments for emergency response: a multi‐hazard and multi‐risk assessment of the European Union's Solidarity and Emergency Aid Reserve	9
Evidence summary of water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) coordination in humanitarian response	9
Humanitarian management of drought needs better water security data	9
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Multi‐scalar and multi‐dimensional conceptions of social capital and mental health impacts after disaster: the case of Hurricane Harvey	8
How to care for carers: Psychosocial care for local staff of aid agencies	8
Humanitarianism as a tool of statecraft: contested authority, sovereign violence, and humanity in the Syrian civil war	8
Five levels of famine prevention: towards a framework for the twenty‐first century and beyond	8
Localisation in the balance: Syrian medical‐humanitarian NGOs' strategic engagement with the local and international	7
Mental models for inclusive, socially‐just disaster planning: a multi‐community study in Saint Martin after Hurricane Irma	7
Music and the politics of famine: everyday discourses and shame for suffering	7
The ‘conflict paradox’: humanitarian access, localisation, and (dis)empowerment in Myanmar, Somalia, and Somaliland	7
Conceptualising disaster social capital: what it is, why it matters, and how it can be enhanced	7
Official sources, news outlets, or search engines? Rumour validation on social media during Hurricanes Harvey and Irma	7
Humanitarians' ethics: the role of face‐to‐face experiences in humanitarian aid workers' motivation	7
Barriers to and opportunities for the restoration of mana in emergency management legislation and its implementation for Māori	7
Displaced by climate and disaster‐induced relocations: experiences of cascading displacement in Fiji and the Philippines	6
Contents	6
Humanitarian (in)security: risk management in complex settings	6
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Editorial	6
Psychological First Aid principles within a community‐led arts initiative: lessons from the Blacksmiths' Tree	6
A retrospective of deaths related to migration along the southeasternmost land borders of Europe: an update encompassing the years 2015–22	6
The transition from development and disaster risk reduction to humanitarian relief: the case of Yemen during high‐intensity conflict	6
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Issue Information	5
Issue Information	5
Flattening the curve: voluntary association participation and the 2013–16 West Africa Ebola epidemic	5
The social meaning of money: multidimensional implications of humanitarian cash and voucher assistance	5
‘Let communities do their work’: the role of mutual aid and self‐help groups in the Covid‐19 pandemic response	5
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Dynamics of interorganisational emergency communication on Twitter: the case of Hurricane Irma	5
Divergent dynamics: disasters and conflicts as ‘drivers’ of internal displacement?	5
Help yourself by helping others: self‐interest in appeals for Russian famine relief, 1921–23	5
Acknowledgement of reviewers	5

Social entrepreneurship, co‐production, and post‐disaster recovery	5
Fighting with words: humanitarian security and the changing role of law in contemporary armed conflict	4
Is male out‐migration associated with women's participation in post‐disaster rebuilding? Evidence from Nepal after the 2015 Gorkha earthquake	4
Disaster preparedness among Asian, Pacific Islander, and Desi American communities	4
Why humility is vital to effective humanitarian aid leadership: a review of the literature	4
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Disasters and the diminishing of women's economic empowerment	4
Disaster mobilities, temporalities, and recovery: experiences of the tsunami in the Maldives	4
Conceptualising multiple hazards and cascading effects on critical infrastructures	4
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In the arena: contesting disaster creation in cities	4
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Living with transience in high‐risk humanitarian spaces: the gendered experiences of international staff and policy implications for building resilience	4
Flood‐induced vulnerability of a below sea level farming system in southern India: an assessment through coping strategy intensity	4
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Governance and the design of post‐disaster policies: a comparative analysis from Latin America and the Caribbean	3
Gender‐based violence before, during, and after cyclones: slow violence and layered disasters	3
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Issue Information	3
Actor‐network analysis of community‐based organisations in health pandemics: evidence from the COVID‐19 response in Freetown, Sierra Leone	3
Tibetan Buddhist belief and disaster resilience: a qualitative exploration of the Yushu area, China	3
Post‐tropical cyclone Fiona and Atlantic Canada: Media framing of hazard risk in the Anthropocene	3
‘Building back better’ is neoliberal post‐disaster reconstruction	3
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Localisation requires trust: an interface perspective on the Rohingya response in Bangladesh	3
Public discourse narratives: from ‘Secret Aid Worker’ discontent to shifting power in humanitarian systems	3
Solidarity in disaster scholarship	3
The warming city: the increasing risk of summer fires in Delhi	3
Nature–society relations in disaster governance frameworks	3
Local news sentiment towards FEMA recovery efforts after Hurricane Florence in North Carolina	3
Returning to normal? ‘Building back better’ in the Dominican education system after Tropical Storm Erika and Hurricane Maria	2
Famine and food security: new trends and systems or politics as usual? An introduction	2
Correction to “Local news sentiment towards FEMA recovery efforts after Hurricane Florence in North Carolina”	2
Humanitarian ignorance: towards a new paradigm of non‐knowledge in digital humanitarianism	2
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Disaster impacts, resilience, and sustainability opportunities for Gili Trawangan, Indonesia: transdisciplinary reflections following COVID‐19	2
Risk factors and the psychological impacts of the COVID‐19 outbreak: perspectives and experiences of Iranian healthcare workers on the frontline	2
Quantifying social capital creation in post‐disaster recovery aid in Indonesia: methodological innovation by an AI‐based language model	2
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Foundations of indigenous knowledge on disasters due to natural hazards: lessons from the outlook on floods among the Bayira of the Rwenzori region	2
Covid‐19's impact on China's economy: a prediction model based on railway transportation statistics	2
Ukrainian refugees in Romania: perception and social challenges	2
Defining, collecting, and sharing perishable disaster data	2
Breaking from the past? Environmental narratives, logics of power, and the (re)production of food insecurity in South Sudan	2
Integrating science‐based and local ecological knowledge: a case study of mangrove restoration and rehabilitation projects in the Philippines	2
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The emergence of post‐Westphalian health governance during the Covid‐19 pandemic: the European Health Union	2
Approaches to ‘vulnerability’ in eight European disaster management systems	2
Checks and balances: a business‐oriented lens on disaster management and warnings	2
Disaster aid? Mapping historical responses to volcanic eruptions from 1800–2000 in the English‐speaking Eastern Caribbean: their role in creating vulnerabilities	2
A simple model to facilitate fast humanitarian funding	2
‘Forgotten crises’ as forgotten sites of knowledge production for building lasting peace	2
Corrigendum	2