OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Voluntas is 6. 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
For the Love of Art? Episodic Volunteering at Cultural Events	190
COVID-19 and Civil Society in Southeast Asia: Beyond Shrinking Civic Space	97
Comprehensive INGO Accountability to Strengthen Perceived Program Effectiveness: A Logical Thing?	52
Observing Civic Engagement: Using Systematic Social Observation to Study Civil Society Organization Convenings	46
Those Who Pay the Piper Calls the Tune: Meta-Organisation and Capacities of the Third Sector in Migration Policies	38
Ian Bruce: Vision Changing Charity: RNIB in Socio-Political Context 1970–2010, The Lutterworth Press, Cambridge, 2023, pp. 283, References, Appendix, Index, £25	32
Altruism, Egoism, and the Wealthy - Review of a Book: Beth Breeze, 2021, In Defence of Philanthropy, Newcastle upon Tyne, Agenda Publishing, pp. 181	32
Heather C. Young. Finance for the Arts in Canada – Volumes 1 & 2 (2nd ed.). Toronto: Iguana Books Publishing, 2023. 268 + 314 pp. Bibliography. ISBN	25
Shariq A. Siddiqui, Rafeel Wasif, & Micah A. Hughes: Understanding Muslim Philanthropy, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham and Northampton, 2024, pp. 144, bibliography, index, £75 (hardcover)	24
Opening the Box of Quitting Volunteering in Refugee Aid Organizations	23
The Effects of Social Economy Organizations’ Networks on Social Innovation in Local Communities: A Multilevel Analysis Using the Social Innovation Index	23
The Multi-method Comprehensive Review: Synthesis and Analysis when Scholarship is International, Interdisciplinary, and Immense	22
The Fight for Global Health Justice: The Advocacy of International Humanitarian and Development NGOs During the COVID-19 Pandemic	20
Donation of Money, Volunteering, and Civic Engagement: How do they Relate to Intergenerational Transmission of Philanthropic Values?	20
Together Yet Apart: Remedies for Tensions Between Volunteers and Health Care Professionals in Inter-professional Collaboration	20
Multi-Actor Collaboration and NGO Accountability: An NGO Case Study	19
Measuring a Nonprofit’s Civic Footprint	19
Exploring Relationships Between Nonprofit Participation and Political Participation in Asian Context	18
Mapping Civic Engagement in Later Life: A Scoping Review of Gerontological Definitions and Typology Proposal	18
Institutionalizing Experimental Places for Inclusive Social Innovation: From Utopias to Heterotopias	18
The Role(S) of Civil Society Organizations in Crisis and Disaster Management: A Systematic Literature Review	17
Leading Volunteer Motivation: How Leader Behaviour can Trigger and Fulfil Volunteers’ Motivations	17
The Reproduction of Inequality Through Volunteering by Young Refugees in Uganda	17
Securing Donor Support on Nonprofit Commercialization: The Effects of Thematic and Episodic Message Framing	17
Civil Society, Volunteerism, and Youth Citizenship in Fiji	17

Bridging Perspectives: Academic and Practitioner Knowledge on Collective Impact for Social Innovation and Nonprofit Organizations	16
Negotiating Spaces or Fizzling Voices? Problematizing NGO-based Civil Society, Book Review of NGOs and Civil Society in Thailand: Metagovernance and the Politics of NGO Funding, by Theerapat Ungsuchav	16
The Role and Potential of Grounded Theory in Advancing Nonprofit Research and Theory Development	16
Young People’s Social Engagement: Personal Motivations and Social Networks	15
Urban Public Perceptions of NGOs’ Accountability and Legitimacy: A Social Media Analysis of #UgandaNGOsExhibition	15
Internal Communication Satisfaction as a Driver of Membership Satisfaction and Identification in a Medical Professional Association	15
Birds of a Feather, Flock Together: Examining Racial Identity and Giving During 2020	14
Does Civic Participation Promote Active Aging in Europe?	14
Volunteering Behaviors of People of Color in the US Communities: How Community Racial Composition Affects the Type of Organization People of Color Volunteer For	14
Correction: Tracing the Geography of NGOs: Exploring Where Canadian Development Organizations Work and Why	14
Kevin P. Kearns, & Wenjiun Wang (eds.), Elgar Encyclopedia of Nonprofit Management, Leadership and Governance, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, United Kingdom and Northampton, Massachusetts, United State	13
Accessing the Boardroom: Investigating How Prior Research has Included the Perspective of Nonprofit Boards	13
Globalizing the Field by Learning from Non-English-Based Nonprofit Studies: A Review of South Korean Nonprofit Literature	13
Assessing the ‘Why’ in Volunteering for Refugees: Exploring Volunteer Motivations	13
Unmasking the Barriers to Financing Social Enterprises	12
The Role of Civil Society Organisations in the Integration of Migrants, Refugees and Asylum Seekers in the Italian Labour Market	12
Are Mediterranean Nonprofits Adopting the Social Enterprise Model?	12
Tracing the Geography of NGOs: Exploring where Canadian Development Organizations Work and Why	12
Voluntary Sport Clubs are no Fast-Track to Refugee Integration	12
Framing Effects, Procedural Fairness, and the Nonprofit Managers’ Reactions to Job Layoffs in Response to the Economic Shock of the COVID-19 Crisis	11
Is the Environment a Political Issue? A View from Environmental Civil Society in the Aegean Region of Turkey	11
Integrating Mission, Governance, and Generosity in Social Entrepreneurship: Insights from the Economy of the Gift	11
Organizational Commitment in the Nonprofit Sector and the Underlying Impact of Stakeholders and Organizational Support	11
Thank you, Voluntas Community	11
An Accountant's Commentary on “Are Donors Sensitive to the Price of Giving? A Meta-Analytical Assessment”	11
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	11
The Pitfalls and Potential of Participant-Observation: Ethnographic Enquiry in Volunteering	10
Who is the Broker Matters: How Publics Respond to Crisis Related Cross-Sector Networks on Social Media?	10
The Systematic Literature Review: Advantages and Applications in Nonprofit Scholarship	10
Who Gives, Who Gets, and How do We Know? The Promises and Limitations of Administrative Data for Cross-border Philanthropy Tracking	10
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	10
Palgrave Studies in Third Sector Research Santilli, Cecilia, and Roberto Scaramuzzino. Civil Society Elites in the Italian Third Sector: A Comparative Perspective Palgrave Macmillan/Springer Nature Sw	10
Re-envisioning the Role of “Big Data” in the Nonprofit Sector: A Data Feminist Perspective	10
Agency of Individual Actors in Civil Society Organizations’ Advocacy: A Case Study of the Genesis of the Danish Aliens Act of 1983	10
James Rees and Carol Jacklin-Jarvis, Reimagining Voluntary Sector Leadership, Policy Press, Bristol, UK, 2025, pp. 238, notes on contributors, acknowledgments, and index, $127.95.	10
Benefit-Cost Analysis of Nonprofit Cataract Surgery Services: A Social Return on Investment Approach at the Mexican Institute of Ophthalmology	10
The Perspective of Community Members in the Assessment of the Social Value Generated by Non-profit and Voluntary Organizations	10
Ethnography: Tales of the Nonprofit Field	10
The Well-Being of Volunteers Who Serve Children at Risk of Maltreatment	10
Panel Data Analysis: A Guide for Nonprofit Studies	10
Applying the Repertory Grid Technique to Advance Nonprofit Collaboration: A Situational Theory of Partner Selection	10
The State of the Art and Future Research Directions in Face-to-Face Fundraising: A Systematic Literature Review	9
Regulatory Reviews: Revolutionary Re-imagining of Charity Law or Simply Restatements of Convenience?	9
Lars Skov Henriksen, Kristen Stromsnes and Lars Svedberg (Eds.), Civic Engagement in Scandinavia, Volunteering Informal Help and Giving in Denmark, Norway and Sweden, Springer Nature Switzerland AG, C	9
NGO–Government Relations During Foreign Aid Reduction: Lessons from Thailand’s HIV/AIDS Sector	9
Organizational or Individual? The Effect of Social Networks on Volunteer Activities in Japan	9
Review of African Philanthropy: Philanthropic Responses to Covid-19 and Development Goals in Africa, By Bhekinkosi Moyo, Mzukisi Qobo, Nomfundo Ngwenya,	9
Alexandra Williamson, Diana Leat and Susan D. Phillips (Eds.): Philanthropic Response to Disasters: Gifts, Givers and Consequences, Policy Press, Bristol, UK, 2023, ISBN 978-1-4473-6253-1	9
Reintermediating Voluntary Action: The Path-Dependent Pluralization of the Italian Volunteering Field	9
Underlying Mechanism to the Identifiable Victim Effect in Collective Donation Action Intentions: Does Emotional Reactions and Perceived Responsibility Matter?	9

Methods in the Third Sector: Collective Memory-Work in a Complexity Framework	9
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)	9
Discursive Resources for Intended Image in Nonprofit Organizations	9
Post-Disaster Volunteering after the 2023 Earthquakes in Türkiye: Impacts on Children and Preservice Teachers	8
Drivers of Citizens’ Willingness to Donate to Local Governments: An Application of Bekkers and Wiepking’s Framework to Vietnam	8
Alicia M. Schatteman, Pursuing Impact: Mission-driven strategic planning for Nonprofits, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland, 2024, pp. 166, Appendix, Index, $26.95	8
A Global Organization Based on the Structure of a Social Movement: A Model to Solve Social Problems at Scale	8
Beyond the Social Mission: How Social Responsibility in Nonprofit Organizations May Stimulate Positive Employee Outcomes	8
A. J. Spires, Global Civil Society and China, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024, pp. 86	8
What Makes a Thriving Mutual-Aid Membership Association? The Case of Men’s Sheds	8
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	8
Donor Requirements and CSO Performance: A Comparative Analysis of Core and Project Funding Mechanisms in Swedish Development Cooperation	7
The Differential Impact of the COVID-19 Crisis on Small-Scale Development Initiatives, a Cross-Country Comparison	7
Resilience in Arts and Cultural Nonprofit Organizations: An Analysis of the Covid-19 Crisis in France	7
Toward a New Typology of Professional and Voluntary Care	7
Voluntas Virtual Issue: Philanthropy	7
Spatial Differences in the Founding Pattern of Nongovernmental Organizations and Not-for-Profit Companies	7
Philanthropy and Socio-economic Development: The Role of Large Indigenous Voluntary Organizations in Bridging Social Divides in Pakistan	7
Virtual Peer Support: Impact of Online Social Interactions Among Members of a Japanese Single Mothers’ Community	7
Strategic Action Fields Through Digital Network Data: An Examination of Charitable Food Provision in Greater Manchester	7
Modernization and the Shifting Bases of Philanthropy? An Empirical Study on Motivations of Individual Giving Based on CLDS	7
Exploring Long-Run Cultural and Economic Impacts of Religious Development Organizations Within Affiliated Populations	7
Trust and Motivation in High-Risk Volunteering: An Empirical Study of Norwegian Search-and-Rescue Volunteers	6
Campagnari Francesco, The Institutionalisation of Civic Initiatives. Practices, Public Effects and Models of Direct Civic Action in Europe, 2024, Routledge, Milton Park	6
Yuha Jung, Neville Vakharia, Marilena Vecco (Eds.): The Oxford Handbook of Arts and Cultural Management, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2024, 881 pp, US $188,60 (hardback)	6
Exploring Donor Influence and Public Engagement: Computational and Thematic Analyses of Social Media Messages	6
Mandatory Financial Statements Disclosure and Nonprofits’ Debt Structure: An Empirical Analysis	6
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	6
Deo, Nandini, Corporate social responsibility in India , The Anthem Press, London and New York, 2024, pp.154, Index, $110	6
Mirror, Mirror: Congruence of Intersectional Identity and Volunteering in Membership Associations	6
Interorganizational Network Portfolios and Social Media Adoption by Nonprofit Organizations	6
Policy Promotion or Community Care: Explaining the Dual Activities of LGBTQ+ Organizations	6
Conceptualizing, Measuring, and Theorizing the Third Sector: Embedding Statistical and Methodological Developments Awaiting Broader Scholarly Take-up	6
Serving in Developing Countries: A Mixed Methods Study of International Voluntary Service Performance	6
Experiential Influences on Volunteers’ Retention and Support Intentions	6
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,	6
Using Dictator Game Experiments to Learn About Charitable Giving	6
A Quantitative Analysis of Policy and Sociocultural Advocacy Within a Neo-corporatist Context	6
The Valorization Process: How Marginalized Individuals Experience Social Inclusion Through Volunteering in Voluntary Social Welfare Organizations	6
Cause-Related Games and Willingness to Donate: An Empirical Study from China	6
How to Code a Million Missions: Developing Bespoke Nonprofit Activity Codes Using Machine Learning Algorithms	6
Enabling Change: A Multi-Case Study of Philippine NGOs’ Role in Community Transformation	6