OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Disasters is 5. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Gender‐based violence before, during, and after cyclones: slow violence and layered disasters	28
Queer and present danger: understanding the disparate impacts of disasters on LGBTQ+ communities	27
A blockchain‐enabled framework for sharing logistics resources during emergency operations	27
Approaches to ‘vulnerability’ in eight European disaster management systems	26
Intersectional vulnerability in post‐disaster contexts: lived experiences of Dalit women after the Nepal earthquake, 2015	24
The mechanism of disaster capitalism and the failure to build community resilience: learning from the 2009 earthquake in L'Aquila, Italy	23
‘Building back better’ is neoliberal post‐disaster reconstruction	23
Conceptualising disaster social capital: what it is, why it matters, and how it can be enhanced	22
Disaster risk reduction, community resilience, and policy effectiveness: the case of the Hazard Mitigation Grant Program in the United States	21
Risk perception and culture: implications for vulnerability and adaptation to climate change	19
‘Let communities do their work’: the role of mutual aid and self‐help groups in the Covid‐19 pandemic response	18
Social entrepreneurship, co‐production, and post‐disaster recovery	17
Resilience in care organisations: challenges in maintaining support for vulnerable people in Europe during the Covid‐19 pandemic	16
The social impact of natural hazards: a multi‐level analysis of disasters and forms of trust in mainland China	15
The effectiveness of forecast‐based humanitarian assistance in anticipation of extreme winters: a case study of vulnerable herders in Mongolia	15
Social vulnerability and disaster: understanding the perspectives of practitioners	14
How do you build back better so no one is left behind? Lessons from Sint Maarten, Dutch Caribbean, following Hurricane Irma	13
Reopening businesses after Hurricane Harvey: evidence from a duration model with spatial effects	13
When Covid‐19 meets conflict: politics of the pandemic response in fragile and conflict‐affected states	13
Disaster preparedness and cultural factors: a comparative study in Romania and Malta	12
Coordinating non‐established disaster relief groups: a case study of Hurricane Irma in Florida, United States	12
The role of coalitions in disaster policymaking	11
Interagency collaboration within the city emergency management network: a case study of Super Ministry Reform in China	11
Early warning systems and evacuation: rare and extreme versus frequent and small‐scale tropical cyclones in the Philippines and Dominica	11
Protective policies for all? An analysis of Covid‐19 deaths and protective policies among low‐, medium‐, and high‐vulnerability groups	10

Actor‐network analysis of community‐based organisations in health pandemics: evidence from the COVID‐19 response in Freetown, Sierra Leone	10
Evidence summary of water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) coordination in humanitarian response	10
Gaining ‘authority to operate’: student‐led emergent volunteers and established response agencies in the Canterbury earthquakes	10
Women's invisible work in disaster contexts: gender norms in speech on women's work after a forest fire in Sweden	10
Hybrid governance and disaster management in Freetown, Sierra Leone, Monrovia, Liberia, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania	10
Unpacking the post‐Haiyan disaster resettlement narratives of young Filipino women informal settlers in Tacloban City, Philippines	9
Covid‐19's impact on China's economy: a prediction model based on railway transportation statistics	9
The Disaster Adaptation and Resilience Scale: development and validation of an individual‐level protection measure	9
Paired assistance policy and recovery from the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake: a network perspective	9
How Covid‐19 financially hit urban refugees: evidence from mixed‐method research with citizens and Syrian refugees in Turkey	8
‘Sea of blood’: the intended and unintended effects of criminalising humanitarian volunteers assisting migrants in distress at sea	8
Corruption and disasters in the built environment: a literature review	8
Localisation requires trust: an interface perspective on the Rohingya response in Bangladesh	8
The impact of humanitarian assistance on post‐disaster social vulnerabilities: some early reflections on the Nepal earthquake in 2015	8
Capital assets framework for analysing household vulnerability during disaster	8
Educational hazards? The politics of disaster risk education in Rio de Janeiro	7
Educational, psychosocial, and protection outcomes of child‐ and youth‐focused programming with Somali refugees in Dollo Ado, Ethiopia	7
Disorder within the humanitarian sector: the old versus new humanitarianism debate	7
Why humility is vital to effective humanitarian aid leadership: a review of the literature	7
Depoliticising disaster response in a politically saturated context: the case of the 2016–19 droughts in Zimbabwe	7
The mental health of aid workers: risk and protective factors in relation to job context, working conditions, and demographics	7
Disaster aid? Mapping historical responses to volcanic eruptions from 1800–2000 in the English‐speaking Eastern Caribbean: their role in creating vulnerabilities	7
‘We will never give up’: a qualitative study of ethical challenges Syrian health workers face in situations of extreme violence	7
UNHCR and LGBTI refugees in Kenya: the limits of ‘protection’	7
Redefining shelter: humanitarian sheltering	6
Local emergency management's use of social media during disasters: a case study of Hurricane Irma	6
‘No‐one knows how to care for LGBT community like LGBT do’¹: LGBTQIA+ experiences of COVID‐19 in the United Kingdom and Brazil	6
PhotoKwento: co‐constructing women's narratives of disaster recovery	6
Prioritising well‐being and resilience to ‘build back better’: insights from a Dominican small‐scale fishing community	6
Social capital and food security in post‐conflict rural Lira District, northern Uganda	6
Attracting altruists: explaining volunteer turnout during natural hazard events in Japan	6
Towards a legal toolkit for disaster resilience and transformation	6
Cash and voucher assistance along humanitarian supply chains: a literature review and directions for future research	5
The continued operation of businesses after an earthquake: a case study from Lushan County, China	5
Dynamics of interorganisational emergency communication on Twitter: the case of Hurricane Irma	5
Decolonising disasters	5
Foundations of indigenous knowledge on disasters due to natural hazards: lessons from the outlook on floods among the Bayira of the Rwenzori region	5
The social meaning of money: multidimensional implications of humanitarian cash and voucher assistance	5
Evaluator perceptions of NGO performance in disasters: meeting multiple institutional demands in humanitarian aid projects	5
Localisation in the balance: Syrian medical‐humanitarian NGOs' strategic engagement with the local and international	5
International media coverage promotes donations to a climate disaster	5
Enhancing the resilience and well‐being of rural poor to climate risks: are the economic functions of social protection enough?	5
Humanitarian (in)security: risk management in complex settings	5
The emergence of post‐Westphalian health governance during the Covid‐19 pandemic: the European Health Union	5