OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Voluntas is 4. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Comprehensive INGO Accountability to Strengthen Perceived Program Effectiveness: A Logical Thing?	56
COVID-19 and Civil Society in Southeast Asia: Beyond Shrinking Civic Space	40
The Effects of Social Economy Organizations’ Networks on Social Innovation in Local Communities: A Multilevel Analysis Using the Social Innovation Index	40
Ian Bruce: Vision Changing Charity: RNIB in Socio-Political Context 1970–2010	32
Altruism, Egoism, and the Wealthy	18
The Multi-method Comprehensive Review: Synthesis and Analysis when Scholarship is International, Interdisciplinary, and Immense	18
Those Who Pay the Piper Calls the Tune: Meta-Organisation and Capacities of the Third Sector in Migration Policies	17
Exploring Relationships Between Nonprofit Participation and Political Participation in Asian Context	17
Shariq A. Siddiqui, Rafeel Wasif, & Micah A. Hughes: Understanding Muslim Philanthropy	17
The Fight for Global Health Justice: The Advocacy of International Humanitarian and Development NGOs During the COVID-19 Pandemic	17
Donation of Money, Volunteering, and Civic Engagement: How do they Relate to Intergenerational Transmission of Philanthropic Values?	17
Heather C. Young. Finance for the Arts in Canada – Volumes 1 & 2 (2nd ed.). Toronto: Iguana Books Publishing, 2023. 268 + 314 pp. Bibliography. ISBN 978-1-77,180–660-2 (Paperback, Vol. 1), ISBN 97	15
Measuring a Nonprofit’s Civic Footprint	13
Institutionalizing Experimental Places for Inclusive Social Innovation: From Utopias to Heterotopias	13
Together Yet Apart: Remedies for Tensions Between Volunteers and Health Care Professionals in Inter-professional Collaboration	13
The Reproduction of Inequality Through Volunteering by Young Refugees in Uganda	12
Leading Volunteer Motivation: How Leader Behaviour can Trigger and Fulfil Volunteers’ Motivations	12
The Role and Potential of Grounded Theory in Advancing Nonprofit Research and Theory Development	12
Internal Communication Satisfaction as a Driver of Membership Satisfaction and Identification in a Medical Professional Association	12
Urban Public Perceptions of NGOs’ Accountability and Legitimacy: A Social Media Analysis of #UgandaNGOsExhibition	12
Civil Society, Volunteerism, and Youth Citizenship in Fiji	12
Birds of a Feather, Flock Together: Examining Racial Identity and Giving During 2020	12
Negotiating Spaces or Fizzling Voices? Problematizing NGO-based Civil Society	12
Securing Donor Support on Nonprofit Commercialization: The Effects of Thematic and Episodic Message Framing	12
Correction: Tracing the Geography of NGOs: Exploring Where Canadian Development Organizations Work and Why	12

Assessing the ‘Why’ in Volunteering for Refugees: Exploring Volunteer Motivations	11
Volunteering Behaviors of People of Color in the US Communities: How Community Racial Composition Affects the Type of Organization People of Color Volunteer For	11
Voluntary Sport Clubs are no Fast-Track to Refugee Integration	10
Stay or Stray: A Comparative Analysis of Short-Term Volunteer Permanence in the Theory of Planned Behavior and the Three-Stage Model of Volunteers’ Duration of Service	10
Is the Environment a Political Issue? A View from Environmental Civil Society in the Aegean Region of Turkey	10
Unmasking the Barriers to Financing Social Enterprises	9
Are Mediterranean Nonprofits Adopting the Social Enterprise Model?	9
Thank you, Voluntas Community	9
Accessing the Boardroom: Investigating How Prior Research has Included the Perspective of Nonprofit Boards	9
An Accountant’s Commentary on “Are Donors Sensitive to the Price of Giving? A Meta-Analytical Assessment”	9
The Role of Civil Society Organisations in the Integration of Migrants, Refugees and Asylum Seekers in the Italian Labour Market	9
Kearns, Kevin P., & Wang, Wenjiun (eds.), Elgar Encyclopedia of Nonprofit Management, Leadership and Governance	9
Globalizing the Field by Learning from Non-English-Based Nonprofit Studies: A Review of South Korean Nonprofit Literature	8
Hierarchization, Boundary Making, and Inequality: Exploring the Structural Changes of Chinese Grassroots NGOs in a Transition Era	8
Agency of Individual Actors in Civil Society Organizations’ Advocacy: A Case Study of the Genesis of the Danish Aliens Act of 1983	8
Tracing the Geography of NGOs: Exploring where Canadian Development Organizations Work and Why	8
The Well-Being of Volunteers Who Serve Children at Risk of Maltreatment	8
The Pitfalls and Potential of Participant-Observation: Ethnographic Enquiry in Volunteering	8
Framing Effects, Procedural Fairness, and the Nonprofit Managers’ Reactions to Job Layoffs in Response to the Economic Shock of the COVID-19 Crisis	8
Silke Roth and Clare Saunders, Organizing for Change: Social Change Makers and Social Change Organizations, Bristol University Press, Bristol, UK, 2025, 249 pp., Bibliography and Index	8
Applying the Repertory Grid Technique to Advance Nonprofit Collaboration: A Situational Theory of Partner Selection	7
Re-envisioning the Role of “Big Data” in the Nonprofit Sector: A Data Feminist Perspective	7
Underlying Mechanism to the Identifiable Victim Effect in Collective Donation Action Intentions: Does Emotional Reactions and Perceived Responsibility Matter?	7
Organizational or Individual? The Effect of Social Networks on Volunteer Activities in Japan	7
Who is the Broker Matters: How Publics Respond to Crisis Related Cross-Sector Networks on Social Media?	7
Who Gives, Who Gets, and How do We Know? The Promises and Limitations of Administrative Data for Cross-border Philanthropy Tracking	7
The Perspective of Community Members in the Assessment of the Social Value Generated by Non-profit and Voluntary Organizations	7
Palgrave Studies in Third Sector Research Santilli, Cecilia, and Roberto Scaramuzzino. Civil Society Elites in the Italian Third Sector: A Comparative Perspective	7
Alexandra Williamson, Diana Leat and Susan D. Phillips (eds.): Philanthropic Response to Disasters: Gifts, Givers and Consequences	6
Food Waste, Food Insecurity and the Globalization of Food Banks	6
What Makes a Thriving Mutual-Aid Membership Association? The Case of Men’s Sheds	6
Regulatory Reviews: Revolutionary Re-imagining of Charity Law or Simply Restatements of Convenience?	6
Benefit-Cost Analysis of Nonprofit Cataract Surgery Services: A Social Return on Investment Approach at the Mexican Institute of Ophthalmology	6
Neoliberalism and the Voluntary and Community Sector in Northern Ireland by Ciaran Hughes and Marcus Ketola, 2021, Bristol: Policy Press. ISBN: 978-4473-5118-4 (Hardcover)	6
Beyond the Social Mission: How Social Responsibility in Nonprofit Organizations May Stimulate Positive Employee Outcomes	6
NGO–Government Relations During Foreign Aid Reduction: Lessons from Thailand’s HIV/AIDS Sector	6
Alicia M. Schatteman, Pursuing Impact: Mission-driven strategic planning for Nonprofits	6
Cleopatra Charles & Margaret F. Sloan, Financial Leadership for the Arts: Sustainable Strategies for Creative Organizations, The University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 2024, p. 270, Appe	6
Voluntas Virtual Issue: Philanthropy	5
Exploring Long-Run Cultural and Economic Impacts of Religious Development Organizations Within Affiliated Populations	5
Toward a New Typology of Professional and Voluntary Care	5
Deo, Nandini, Corporate social responsibility in India, The Anthem Press, London and New York, 2024, pp.154, Index, $110	5
Strategic Action Fields Through Digital Network Data: An Examination of Charitable Food Provision in Greater Manchester	5
Spires, A. J., Global Civil Society and China, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024, pp. 86	5
Michael Hoelscher, Regina A. List, Alexander Ruser, Stefan Toepler (ed.), Civil Society: Concepts, Challenges, Contexts. Essays in Honor of Helmut K. Anheier. Springer, Cham, 2022, pp. 494, appendix,	5
How to Code a Million Missions: Developing Bespoke Nonprofit Activity Codes Using Machine Learning Algorithms	5
Resilience in Arts and Cultural Nonprofit Organizations: An Analysis of the Covid-19 Crisis in France	5
Virtual Peer Support: Impact of Online Social Interactions Among Members of a Japanese Single Mothers’ Community	5
Post-Disaster Volunteering after the 2023 Earthquakes in Türkiye: Impacts on Children and Preservice Teachers	5
Philanthropy and Socio-economic Development: The Role of Large Indigenous Voluntary Organizations in Bridging Social Divides in Pakistan	5

Mandatory Financial Statements Disclosure and Nonprofits’ Debt Structure: An Empirical Analysis	5
A Quantitative Analysis of Policy and Sociocultural Advocacy Within a Neo-corporatist Context	4
Intermediated Co-production of Emergency Response: How Non-profit Organizations Build Trust in Citizens	4
Toward a Refined Insight Into the Importance of Volunteers’ Motivations for Need-Based Experiences, Job Satisfaction, Work Effort, and Turnover Intentions in Nonprofit Sports Clubs: A Person-Centered	4
Exploring Donor Influence and Public Engagement: Computational and Thematic Analyses of Social Media Messages	4
Serving in Developing Countries: A Mixed Methods Study of International Voluntary Service Performance	4
Policy Promotion or Community Care: Explaining the Dual Activities of LGBTQ+ Organizations	4
Campagnari Francesco, The Institutionalisation of Civic Initiatives. Practices, Public Effects and Models of Direct Civic Action in Europe	4
Using Dictator Game Experiments to Learn About Charitable Giving	4
Engaging Refugee Volunteers in Co-creation: The Role of Non-profit Leadership	4
Modernization and the Shifting Bases of Philanthropy? An Empirical Study on Motivations of Individual Giving Based on CLDS	4
Conceptualizing, Measuring, and Theorizing the Third Sector: Embedding Statistical and Methodological Developments Awaiting Broader Scholarly Take-up	4
Experiential Influences on Volunteers’ Retention and Support Intentions	4
Trust and Motivation in High-Risk Volunteering: An Empirical Study of Norwegian Search-and-Rescue Volunteers	4
Absorptive Philanthropic Governance: The Resilience and Differentiation of Chinese Philanthropic Foundations Amidst the Pandemic	4
The Wells-Du Bois Protocol for Machine Learning Bias: Building Critical Quantitative Foundations for Third Sector Scholarship	4
Yuha Jung, Neville Vakharia, Marilena Vecco (eds.): The Oxford Handbook of Arts and Cultural Management	4
Stigmatized Issues, Divergent Meanings: The Entanglement of Meaning-Making and Forms of Power Among Stakeholders in Liberia’s Mental Health Program	4
Interorganizational Network Portfolios and Social Media Adoption by Nonprofit Organizations	4