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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Donation of Money, Volunteering, and Civic Engagement: How do they Relate to Intergenerational Transmission of Philanthropic Values?	108
Non-governmental Organizations’ Role in Promoting Life Satisfaction Among the Elderly Within the Active Aging Strategy	32
Local Climate Governance: Towards more Interactive Practices and Settings?	29
The Effects of Social Economy Organizations’ Networks on Social Innovation in Local Communities: A Multilevel Analysis Using the Social Innovation Index	28
Aminata Sillah, Public Sector Volunteer Management: Best Practices and Challenges, Routledge, London and New York, 2022, 176 pp., 8 B/W Illustrations, £135.00 (Hardback), ISBN 978-0-367-56716-3	27
Catherine E. Herrold: Delta Democracy—Pathways to Incremental Civic Revolution in Egypt Beyond	19
NGO–Government Relations During Foreign Aid Reduction: Lessons from Thailand’s HIV/AIDS Sector	17
Signaling Nonprofit Experts’ Endorsement in Celebrity Advocacy: Experimental Evidence from Japan	16
Financial Sustainability and Influence Dynamics in Yemen's Conflict-Affected NGO Landscape: Unveiling ‘Sheikh’ Organizations	15
Factors Influencing Sustained Voluntary Intention of Community Volunteers in a Post-COVID-19 Pandemic Era	15
Shariq A. Siddiqui, Rafeel Wasif, & Micah A. Hughes: Understanding Muslim Philanthropy	15
Perception of Civil Society on the Curricular Integration of Media Competence: Challenges and Opportunities in Latin America	14
Paradoxes Within the Management of Volunteers	14
Ian Murray, Charity Law and Accumulation: Maintaining an Intergenerational Balance	13
The Role of Civil Society in the Labour Market Integration of Migrants in Europe: An Introduction	12
Development and Empirical Study of Religion Affiliated Nonprofit Organizations’ Brand Equity Questionnaire: Testing Brand Awareness and Trust Among Non-members	12
Taking Stock on How We Research the Third Sector: Diversity, Pluralism, and Openness	11
Professional Volunteerism: Interwoven paradoxes in the management of Roskilde Festival	10
Ross B., Segal C., (2021) Making the Ask: The Artful Science of High-Value Fundraising. Practical Inspiration Publishing	10
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)	10
Ian Bruce: Vision Changing Charity: RNIB in Socio-Political Context 1970–2010	9
How Organizational Socialization Tactics Affect Volunteer Outcomes for New Volunteers	9
Exploring Relationships Between Nonprofit Participation and Political Participation in Asian Context	9
Eric Fleisch, Checkbook Zionism: Philanthropy and Power in the Israel-Diaspora Relationship	9
The paths of solidarity economy: the emergence and maintenance of social policies through collective action	9

Together Yet Apart: Remedies for Tensions Between Volunteers and Health Care Professionals in Inter-professional Collaboration	9
The Fight for Global Health Justice: The Advocacy of International Humanitarian and Development NGOs During the COVID-19 Pandemic	9
Informal Volunteering and Immigrant Generations: Exploring Overlooked Dimensions in Immigrant Volunteering Research	9
Regulatory Reviews: Revolutionary Re-imagining of Charity Law or Simply Restatements of Convenience?	9
Fragmentation of Projects and the Symbolism of Development Aid in Northern Ghana	9
The Civic Identity of the Ethical Consumer	9
A Framework to Integrate Non-profits into Development Planning in South Africa	9
Food Waste, Food Insecurity and the Globalization of Food Banks	9
Governing for the Common Good: The Possibilities of Sociocracy in Nonprofit Organizations	9
Paradoxes in the Management of Timebanks in the UK’s Voluntary Sector: Discursive Bricolage and its Limits	8
Chari Smith, Nonprofit Program Evaluation Made Simple. Get Your Data. Show Your Impact. Improve Your Programs	8
Assessing Multidimensional Approaches to Measure Program Outcomes in Human Service Organizations	8
Georgina Brewis, Angela Ellis Paine, Irene Hardill, Rose Lindsey, Rob Macmillan: Transformational Moments in Social Welfare. What Role for Voluntary Action?	8
Beyond the “NGOization” of Civil Society: A Framework for Sustainable Community Led Development in Conflict Settings	7
Those Who Pay the Piper Calls the Tune: Meta-Organisation and Capacities of the Third Sector in Migration Policies	7
NGO as Sympathy Vendor or Public Advocate? A Case Study of NGOs’ Participation in Internet Fundraising Campaigns in China	7
Evolving Experience and Motivation of Older Adults’ Long-Term Community Volunteering in Shanghai	7
Comprehensive INGO Accountability to Strengthen Perceived Program Effectiveness: A Logical Thing?	7
Avoiding Intimacy—An Ethnographic Study of Beneficent Boundaries in Virtual Voluntary Social Work	7
Measuring a Nonprofit’s Civic Footprint	7
The Institutional Grammar: A Method for Coding Institutions and its Potential for Advancing Third Sector Research	7
Methods in the Third Sector: Collective Memory-Work in a Complexity Framework	7
Review of Employee Engagement in Nonprofit Organizations: Theory and Practice. By Kunle Akingbola, Sean Edmund Rogers, Melissa Intindola, Cham, Switzerland, (2023), 203 pp, $159.99 (Hardback), ISBN: 9	7
Social Enterprises Within the Public Sector’s Purview: A Taxonomy-Based Study on South Korea	7
Gig Economy Riders on Social Media in Thailand: Contested Identities and Emergent Civil Society Organisations	7
Documents in a Field of Action: Using Documents to Address Research Questions About Nonprofit and Voluntary Organizations	7
Shaping Civil Society Leaders: Horizontal and Vertical Boundary Work in Swedish Leadership Training Programmes	7
Altruism, Egoism, and the Wealthy	7
The Multi-method Comprehensive Review: Synthesis and Analysis when Scholarship is International, Interdisciplinary, and Immense	7
Institutionalizing Experimental Places for Inclusive Social Innovation: From Utopias to Heterotopias	7
Alexandra Williamson, Diana Leat and Susan D. Phillips (eds.): Philanthropic Response to Disasters: Gifts, Givers and Consequences	7
Attribution of Community Emergency Volunteer Behaviour During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Study of Community Residents in Shanghai, China	7
Gender, Social Role, and Social Capital: A Comparative Study of Volunteerism in East Asia	6
Indigenous Peoples and Third Sector Research: Indigenous Data Sovereignty as a Framework to Improve Research Practices	6
Multitasking NPOs: An Analysis of the Relationship Between Funding Intentions and Nonprofit Capacities	6
Observing Civic Engagement: Using Systematic Social Observation to Study Civil Society Organization Convenings	6
Reintermediating Voluntary Action: The Path-Dependent Pluralization of the Italian Volunteering Field	6
For the Love of Art? Episodic Volunteering at Cultural Events	6
Civil Society, Neighbourhood Diversity and Deprivation in UK and Sweden	6
Beyond the Social Mission: How Social Responsibility in Nonprofit Organizations May Stimulate Positive Employee Outcomes	6
John Butcher and David Gilchrist: Collaboration for Impact: Lessons from the Field	6
Nonprofit Financial Resilience: Recovery from Natural Disasters	6
Scientific Production on the Social Economy: A Review of Worldwide Research	6
Negotiating State-Civil Society Relations in Turkey: The Case of Refugee-Supporting Organizations	6
Who Helps Refugees in South Africa? An Examination of Cultural and Social Factors	6
Digital Ethnography in Third Sector Research	6
Ethnographies of Volunteering: Providing Nuance to the Links Between Volunteering and Development	6
COVID-19-Related Studies of Nonprofit Management: A Critical Review and Research Agenda	6
Mapping Civic Engagement in Later Life: A Scoping Review of Gerontological Definitions and Typology Proposal	5
Negotiating Spaces or Fizzling Voices? Problematizing NGO-based Civil Society	5

Looking Ahead to Voluntas’ Contribution to Research on Civil Society	5
Ideal Workers, Supporting Actors, or Thrill Seekers? How Coworker Demands Influence Ambulance Volunteers’ Experiences of Freedom and Meaningful Work	5
Voluntas Virtual Issue: Philanthropy	5
COVID-19 and Civil Society in Southeast Asia: Beyond Shrinking Civic Space	5
The Diversity Imperative: The Effects of Local Economic Structure and Social Capital on Local Philanthropy	5
Is Mandatory Community Service a Catalyst for Civic Growth or Fruitless Servitude?: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in South Korea	5
Individual Giving in Ghana: A Self-Determination Theory Approach to Giving	5
Rainbow Research: Challenges and Recommendations for Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity and Expression (SOGIE) Survey Design	5
Diaspora Humanitarians: How Diaspora Communities Respond to Humanitarian Crises	5
Exploring the Effects of Volunteering on the Social, Mental, and Physical Health and Well-being of Volunteers: An Umbrella Review	5
Alicia M. Schatteman, Pursuing Impact: Mission-driven strategic planning for Nonprofits	5
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	5
VOLUNTAS Virtual Issue: Social Enterprise	5
The Canadian Non-Profit Sector: Neoliberalism and the Assault on Community Ted Richmond and John Shields	5
Empowering the Urban Middle Class: Sustainability Strategy for Local NGOs in Makassar, Indonesia	4
Citizen Participation and Political Efficacy at the Grassroots Level: The Case of Residents’ Self-Governance Associations in Seoul, South Korea	4
Inequality in Chile’s Philanthropic Ecosystem: Evidence and Implications	4
Virtual Peer Support: Impact of Online Social Interactions Among Members of a Japanese Single Mothers’ Community	4
Social Innovation: Drawing Lines Around the Appropriative Usage by Mainstream Sectors	4
Spires, A. J., Global Civil Society and China, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024, pp. 86	4
Leading Volunteer Motivation: How Leader Behaviour can Trigger and Fulfil Volunteers’ Motivations	4
Dennis R. Young and Elizabeth A. M. Searing: Resilience and the Management of Nonprofit Organizations	4
What Works to Increase Charitable Donations? A Meta-Review with Meta-Meta-Analysis	4
An Exploratory Analysis of Cross-National Variations in Prosocial Behaviors	4
Multi-level and Multi-sector Governance and the Incorporation of Eritrean Asylum Seekers in the City of Tel Aviv	4
What Determines the Success of Charitable Crowdfunding Campaigns? Evidence from China During the COVID-19 Pandemic	4
CSO Advocacy and Managing Risk in Hybrid Regimes: An Exploration of Human Rights Organizations in Colombia	4
Kirsten Holmes, Leonie Lockstone-Binney, Karen A. Smith and Richard Shipway (eds): The Routledge Handbook of Volunteering in Events, Sport and Tourism	4