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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Introduction. The Covid‐19 pandemic: global dimensions, local responses	78
Introduction	46
The Disaster Response Mobilization System: a community‐based disaster preparedness strategy in Puerto Rico	45
Responding domestically: British Islamic faith‐based organisations' crisis response in the UK during the COVID‐19 pandemic	42
Disaster colonialism: indigenous tribal community responses to Typhoon Morakot in southern Taiwan	41
Interorganisational emergency management coordination challenges in a resource‐scarce environment: a case study of El Salvador post COVID‐19	21
Recovering the status quo: tipping points and earthquake aftermaths in colonial India	21
Evidence of policy learning in emergency declarations as communication tools in Australia	20
Interplay between sanctions, donor conditionality, and food insecurity in complex emergencies: the case of Syria	19
Negotiating humanitarian space with criminal armed groups in urban Latin America	18
Disasters and corruption: public expectations and tolerance—evidence from Mexico	18
Decolonising disasters	18
The barriers to uptake of disaster risk management science in urban planning: A political economy analysis	18
Issue Information	17
Measuring community disaster resilience for sustainable climate change adaptation: Lessons from time‐series findings in rural Cambodia	16
Food systems in protracted crises: examining indigenous food sovereignty amid de‐development in Kashmir	15
From ‘aidland’ to ‘homeland’: what the lived experiences of Ukrainian crisis leaders indicate about humanitarian response	15
‘It's like these scientists own the rains’: indigenous knowledge, disaster warnings, and the politics of legitimacy in Malawi	14
Contents	14
Contesting the crisis narrative: epidemic accounts in Sierra Leone, Tanzania, and Democratic Republic of the Congo	14
Paranirvar mānis (dependent people)? Rethinking humanitarian dependency syndrome: a Bourdieusian perspective	14
Queer and present danger: understanding the disparate impacts of disasters on LGBTQ+ communities	14
Issue Information	13
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Diasporas as a linchpin in local and international humanitarian action: a case study of the Chinese in Aceh following the 2004 tsunami	13

‘Building back better’ in the context of multi‐hazards in the Caribbean	13
‘I know you like the back of my hand’: biometric practices of humanitarian organisations in international aid	13
From pity to fear: security as a mechanism for (re)production of vulnerability	12
Disasters in the Anthropocene: a storm in a teacup?	12
Issue Information	12
Local emergency management's use of social media during disasters: a case study of Hurricane Irma	12
Interconnections between children's upbringing, camps, and post‐war villages: caregivers' lived experiences in northern Uganda	11
Rethinking disaster utopia: the limits of conspicuous resilience for community‐based recovery and adaptation	10
Protective policies for all? An analysis of Covid‐19 deaths and protective policies among low‐, medium‐, and high‐vulnerability groups	10
Gaining ‘authority to operate’: student‐led emergent volunteers and established response agencies in the Canterbury earthquakes	10
Enmity then empathy: How militarisation facilitated collaborative but exclusive exchange in Sierra Leone's Ebola response	10
Ebola, informal settlements, and the role of place in infectious disease vulnerability: evidence from the 2014–16 outbreak in urban Sierra Leone	10
Multi‐risk instruments for emergency response: a multi‐hazard and multi‐risk assessment of the European Union's Solidarity and Emergency Aid Reserve	9
Wartime captivity and homecoming: culture, stigma, and coping strategies of formerly abducted women in post‐conflict northern Uganda	9
Humanitarian management of drought needs better water security data	9
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Islamic faith‐based organisations and their role in building social capital for post‐disaster recovery in Indonesia	9
Cash and voucher assistance along humanitarian supply chains: a literature review and directions for future research	8
Multi‐scalar and multi‐dimensional conceptions of social capital and mental health impacts after disaster: the case of Hurricane Harvey	8
Calling on and thanking God: the role of faith and faith communities in disaster recovery	8
How inclusive is disaster risk reduction? Perceptions and predicaments of persons with disabilities during disaster in Assam, India	8
Humanitarianism as a tool of statecraft: contested authority, sovereign violence, and humanity in the Syrian civil war	8
Humanitarians' ethics: the role of face‐to‐face experiences in humanitarian aid workers' motivation	8
Reclaiming Power and Partnerships in the Wake of Donor Retraction through South–South Partnership	8
‘Building back better’ in the Caribbean: an introduction	8
Five levels of famine prevention: towards a framework for the twenty‐first century and beyond	8
How to care for carers: Psychosocial care for local staff of aid agencies	8
Towards a temporal theory of refugee crisis response: ‘passing the baton’ across sectors	7
The ‘conflict paradox’: humanitarian access, localisation, and (dis)empowerment in Myanmar, Somalia, and Somaliland	7
Mental models for inclusive, socially‐just disaster planning: a multi‐community study in Saint Martin after Hurricane Irma	7
Barriers to and opportunities for the restoration of mana in emergency management legislation and its implementation for Māori	7
Editorial	7
Music and the politics of famine: everyday discourses and shame for suffering	7
Localisation in the balance: Syrian medical‐humanitarian NGOs' strategic engagement with the local and international	7
Contents	6
Displaced by climate and disaster‐induced relocations: experiences of cascading displacement in Fiji and the Philippines	6
Acknowledgement of reviewers	6
Flattening the curve: voluntary association participation and the 2013–16 West Africa Ebola epidemic	6
Official sources, news outlets, or search engines? Rumour validation on social media during Hurricanes Harvey and Irma	6
The transition from development and disaster risk reduction to humanitarian relief: the case of Yemen during high‐intensity conflict	6
Issue Information	6
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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
Contents	6
Dynamics of interorganisational emergency communication on Twitter: the case of Hurricane Irma	6
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Compliance and coloniality: aid bureaucracy and the failures of ‘localisation’ in Myanmar's complex emergency	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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Humanitarian virtue: identifying ethics and values in humanitarian thinking	5
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Issue Information	5
The mixed resilience outcomes of water interventions in the pastoral drylands of the Horn of Africa	5
Divergent dynamics: disasters and conflicts as ‘drivers’ of internal displacement?	5
From state commodification to local reproduction of vulnerability: ethnographic insights from a Risk Zone Urban Renewal Project in Turkey	5
Help yourself by helping others: self‐interest in appeals for Russian famine relief, 1921–23	5
Disasters and the diminishing of women's economic empowerment	5
Fighting with words: humanitarian security and the changing role of law in contemporary armed conflict	5
Flood‐induced vulnerability of a below sea level farming system in southern India: an assessment through coping strategy intensity	4
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Conceptualising multiple hazards and cascading effects on critical infrastructures	4
Is male out‐migration associated with women's participation in post‐disaster rebuilding? Evidence from Nepal after the 2015 Gorkha earthquake	4
Disaster mobilities, temporalities, and recovery: experiences of the tsunami in the Maldives	4
Disaster preparedness among Asian, Pacific Islander, and Desi American communities	4
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Contents	4
In the arena: contesting disaster creation in cities	4
Public discourse narratives: from ‘Secret Aid Worker’ discontent to shifting power in humanitarian systems	3
‘Building back better’ is neoliberal post‐disaster reconstruction	3
Contents	3
Contents	3
Tibetan Buddhist belief and disaster resilience: a qualitative exploration of the Yushu area, China	3
The warming city: the increasing risk of summer fires in Delhi	3
The unbearable lightness of humanitarian reform: Reflections on calls for change in the sector	3
Solidarity in disaster scholarship	3
Issue Information	3
Risk factors and the psychological impacts of the COVID‐19 outbreak: perspectives and experiences of Iranian healthcare workers on the frontline	3
Governance and the design of post‐disaster policies: a comparative analysis from Latin America and the Caribbean	3
Post‐tropical cyclone Fiona and Atlantic Canada: Media framing of hazard risk in the Anthropocene	3
Faith, community, and resilience during genocide in Gaza	3
Nature–society relations in disaster governance frameworks	3
Local news sentiment towards FEMA recovery efforts after Hurricane Florence in North Carolina	3
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
Integrating science‐based and local ecological knowledge: a case study of mangrove restoration and rehabilitation projects in the Philippines	2
Flood risk perception, awareness, and preparedness behaviours among vulnerable population groups: implications for building community resilience	2
Breaking from the past? Environmental narratives, logics of power, and the (re)production of food insecurity in South Sudan	2
International humanitarian narratives of disasters, crises, and Indigeneity	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
Ukrainian refugees in Romania: perception and social challenges	2
Returning to normal? ‘Building back better’ in the Dominican education system after Tropical Storm Erika and Hurricane Maria	2
‘Forgotten crises’ as forgotten sites of knowledge production for building lasting peace	2
Actor‐network analysis of community‐based organisations in health pandemics: evidence from the COVID‐19 response in Freetown, Sierra Leone	2
Corrigendum	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
Defining, collecting, and sharing perishable disaster data	2
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Quantifying social capital creation in post‐disaster recovery aid in Indonesia: methodological innovation by an AI‐based language model	2
Localisation requires trust: an interface perspective on the Rohingya response in Bangladesh	2
Cash grants to informal firms after Cyclone Idai: beyond the null	2
Disaster impacts, resilience, and sustainability opportunities for Gili Trawangan, Indonesia: transdisciplinary reflections following COVID‐19	2
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Famine and food security: new trends and systems or politics as usual? An introduction	2
Neoliberal economic policies as a root cause of forced migration from Arab Spring countries: the case of Syria	2