OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly is 7. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The Nonprofit Starvation Cycle: The Extent of Overhead Ratios’ Manipulation, Distrust, and Ramifications	64
Corrigendum to Experimentally Disentangling Donors’ Perceptions of Government-Supported Nonprofits: Cost-Efficiency, Program Impact, and Shared Services	36
Contributions of the Paycheck Protection Program to Nonprofit Short-Term Sustainability	35
Book Review: Co-operative enterprise in comparative perspective: Exceptionally un-American? by Spicer, J. S. SpicerJ. S. (2024). Co-operative enterprise	35
How Charitable Were the Elites of the Dutch Golden Age?	35
Virtually Raising the Paddle: Examining the Role of Online Nonprofit Dialogic Stewardship and Identification in the Post-COVID Era	32
Nonprofit Sector Size and the Breadth of Local Government Climate Actions: Exploring the Moderating Role of Collaboration	31
Futures Thinking: Building Proactive Resilience in Nonprofit Organizations	28
Book Review: Understanding Nonprofit Work: A Communication Perspective by Koschmann, M. A., & Sanders, M. L.	28
Giving to Matthew, Emily, Jose, or Maria: A Field Study Examining the Impact of Race and Gender on Donation Requests	28
Participatory Grant-Making as a Social Innovation: Examining Relational Processes in Social Finance	27
Individual- and Community-Level Factors Associated With Voluntary Participation	22
The Decline of Volunteering in the United States: Is it the Economy?	22
Book Review: Public sector volunteer management: Best practices and challenges by Sillah, A. SillahA. (2023). Public sector volunteer management: Best pr	21
Socio-Structural Determinants in Volunteering for Humanitarian Organizations: A Resource-Based Approach	21
Do Donors Penalize Nonprofits With Higher Non-Program Costs? A Meta-Analysis of Donor Overhead Aversion	21
What Do We Know About Asian Nonprofit Research? A Systematic Review and Bibliometric Analysis of 60 Years of Progress and Regional Variations	20
Leading Volunteers Effectively: Development and Preliminary Validation of the Volunteer Leader Behavior Scale	19
The Relation Between Perceived Racial Discrimination and Civic Engagement Among People of Asian Descent	18
Misleading Motives: Incentives for Accounting Bias in Not-for-Profit Pension Plans	17
Providing Extra Information Increases Blood Donor Return After Deferral While Offering an Alternative Good Deed Does Not: Results From a Field Randomized Controlled Trial	16
COVID-19 Pandemic, Physical Distancing Policies, and the Non-Profit Sector Volunteer Force	15
Philanthropic Foundations and the Exercise of Power: An Integrative Literature Review of the Many Faces of Power	15
Inclusive Leadership, Elusive Support? Examining the Impact of Nonprofit Representative and Diverse Leadership on Community Support	15
Expectation of Reciprocity and Other-Focused Values Foster Informal Volunteering Intentions in Disasters: Evidence From Finland	14

How and Why Do Diaspora Give? A Conceptual Model to Understanding Diaspora Philanthropy	14
How Advocacy Nonprofits Interact With and Impact Business: Introducing a Strategic Confrontation and Collaboration Interaction Model (SCCIM)	14
Exploring Attitudes of Mandatory Volunteers: The Role of Perceived Organizational Support, Role Clarity, and Self-Efficacy Toward Service	14
A History of ARNOVA at Fifty	13
Strategic Action Field Theory: Explaining Variation in the Percentage of Women on Boards in Credit Unions	13
Risking Your Health to Help Others: The Effect of Pandemic Severity on Volunteering	13
Government Regulation and the Political Activities of Nonprofits	13
Volunteers’ Psychological Contracts: Exploring Experiences and Expectations Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic	13
Rationalising externally-driven change: Charities and the exploitation of new-practice requirements	13
“I’m Not Doing It for the Company”: Examining Employee Volunteering Through Employees’ Eyes	12
Changes in Volunteering Landscape in South Korea During COVID-19: Trajectories of Volume and Engagement Patterns	12
Place-Based Stigma and Community Foundation Grant Making	12
Hop in and Drop Out: How are Changes in the Life Course Related to Changes in Volunteering for Humanitarian Organizations?	12
Introduction to the 50th Anniversary Special Issue	12
Board Gender Diversity and Nonprofit CEO Compensation: Implications for Gender Pay Gap	11
Intra-Group and Inter-Group Racial Disparities in Nonprofit Funding: Insights from Stratification Economics	11
Retaining Volunteers Through Political Economic Change: Austerity, Boundary Work, and the Making of an Unpaid Workforce in Newcastle’s Parks	11
Donor Perceptions of Nonprofit Organizations’ Transparency: Conceptualization and Operationalization	10
The Effect of State Minimum Wage Increases on Nonprofit Organizations	10
Governance Arrangements of Cross-Sector Collaboration and Its Effectiveness	10
To Pay or Not to Pay? The Effects of Monetary Compensation on Volunteers in Sports Clubs	10
Decision-Making, Strategy, and the Uses of Organizational History: The Carnegie Corporation and Program-Related Investments	10
Adapted to Climate Change? Issue Portfolios of Environmental Nongovernmental Organizations in the Americas	10
Fluid Forms of Organizing Volunteering: Producing Civic Action Through Organizational Maintenance	10
Nonprofit Revenue Strategy and Downside Risk: Applying Portfolio Theory and Extreme Value Theory	10
Compassion for All: Real-World Online Donations Contradict Compassion Fade	9
How Does Nonprofit Revenue Diversification Affect Revenue Volatility Before, During, and After External Economic Crisis?	9
Spatial Patterns of Nonprofit Founding: Toward a Local Ecology	9
Meta-analysis of Volunteer Motives Using the Volunteer Functions Inventory to Predict Volunteer Satisfaction, Commitment, and Behavior	9
Buried Treasure? Local Foundations’ Knowledge Sharing in Jordan and Palestine	9
Corrigendum to “Jesus Speaks Better”: Interactions Between State and Faith-Based Organizations in Service Implementation	8
Understanding Contextual Determinants of Likely Online Advocacy by Millennial Donors	8
NVSQ: The First Fifty Years, and Beyond	8
Perceived Organizational Support and Volunteer Outcomes: Evidence From a German Environmental Nonprofit Organization	8
Volunteer Quitting as a Political Statement and Act of Protest	8
Book Review: Employee engagement in nonprofit organizations: Theory and practice by Akingbola, K., Rogers, E. S., & Intindola, M. AkingbolaK.RogersE. S.IntindolaM. (	8
Examining Personal Values and Regulatory Fit in Poverty Alleviation Appeals: Impact on Appeal Evaluations, Campaign Interest, and Donations	8
Book Review: Volunteering in the United Kingdom: The spirit of service , by Mohan, J. MohanJ. (2024). Volunteering in the United Kingdom: The spirit of s	8
Book Review: Doctoral student skills: Using your comparative advantage to succeed in grad school and prepare for the job market, by Pallas, C. L.	7
Exploring the Dynamics: The Relationship Between Unrestricted Resources and Nonprofit Efficiency	7
Book Review: The Philippines Road Home: Developing a Communicative Approach to Participation in Housing by Koschmann, M. KoschmannM., (2026). The Philipp	7
A Guide to the Canadian T3010 for Users of the U.S. Form 990	7
By the Volunteer, For the Volunteer: Volunteer Perspectives of Management Across Levels of Satisfaction	7
Book Review: The nature of the nonprofit sector	7
Book Review: The intersector: How the public, nonprofit, and private sectors can address America’s challenges, by Gitterman, D. P., & Britto, N. (Eds.)	7
Baby Boomers and Their Voluntary Engagement: A Cohort Comparison Among the Middle-Aged and Older Population in Germany	7
Lower Prices for Customers, and Less Charity Care? The Prospects for Mixed-Market Competition With Nonprofit and Hybrid Firms	7
Who Leads and Who Echoes? Tracing Message Similarity Network of #ClimateChange Advocacy on Twitter	7
Role of Social Capital in International Volunteering: Evidence From Japan Overseas Cooperation Volunteers	7
Erratum to Predicting Community Adoption of Collective Impact in the United States: A National Scan	7

Part Discount Grocer, Part Social Connection: Defining Elements of Social Supermarkets	7
Spreading the News: Donor Response to Disclosures About Nonprofit Fraud	7
Nonprofit Policies in an Anti-DEI Legislative Environment	7