OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Institutional Economics is 3. 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
Career lessons from economists’ life stories: Brian J. Loasby as an Exemplar	22
Inclusive national innovation systems: rethinking institutions in the light of inclusion imperatives	18
Adaptation, adjudication, and private ordering: Contractual Relations through the Williamson Lens	16
The nature of the decentralised autonomous organisation	16
Introduction to the symposium on ‘crisis and persistence: dynamics of institutional changes at the interface between formal and informal institutions’	14
On the adapting function of social institutions	14
Ownership or possession? On Bart Wilson's concept of ownership	13
JOI volume 18 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	11
JOI volume 18 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	11
Ancestral institutions and the salience of African ethnicity: Theory and Evidence	9
Mapping inflation to economic freedom in the post-COVID era	9
Repugnance and institutions: an introductory essay	9
Disruptive innovation in the economic organization of China and the West	9
Repugnance, externalities and subjectivism: a comment on Krawiec	8
The German historical school on monetary calculation and the feasibility of socialism	8
The limits of generality for constitutional design	8
Resolving Douglass C. North's ‘puzzle’ concerning China's household responsibility system	8
Constitutional catallaxy and indigenous rights: the Australian case	8
Atmosphere, private ordering, and industrial pluralism: Williamson's evolving science of organization	7
Theory in closer contact with industrial life: American institutional economists on competition theory and policy	7
Diversified firms: existence and behaviors	7
Measuring open access orders	6
The political economy of foreign fighter death in the Russo-Ukrainian War: the role of institutions, politics, and international trade	6
Worker takeovers: a comparative analysis of employee buyouts, other worker-managed firms, and conventional firms in Uruguay	6
Divergence before the division: the colonial origins of separate development paths in Korea – ADDENDUM	6

Integrating variable risk preferences, trust, and transaction cost economics – 25 years on: reflections in memory of Oliver Williamson	6
Regional financial disparity in India: can it be measured?	6
Fiscal capacity in non-democratic states: the origins and expansion of the income tax	5
Divergence before the division: the colonial origins of separate development paths in Korea	5
JOI volume 17 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	5
Global economic freedom during the second year of the pandemic	5
Introduction to the special issue on institutions and culture in economic contexts	5
Culture and institutions: a review of Joel Mokyr'sA Culture of Growth	5
Determinants of social norms I – the role of geography	5
Uncertainty and the social organization of economic activity	5
A needs theory of governance: taking transaction cost theory back to humanistic economics and self-actualisation	5
Remittance dependence, support for taxation and quality of public services in Africa	4
Fractionalization, polarization and banking stability in Africa	4
JOI volume 18 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	4
Debt restrictions and municipal indebtedness in American cities: evidence from the Roaring Twenties	4
List of Referees	4
Two sides of the coin: exploring the duality of corruption in Latin America	4
JOI volume 17 issue 6 Cover and Front matter	4
JOI volume 18 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	4
JOI volume 18 issue 6 Cover and Back matter	4
No taxation without state-assigned property rights: formalization of individual property rights on land and taxation in sub-Saharan Africa	4
JOI volume 18 issue 6 Cover and Front matter	4
JOI volume 18 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	4
Russia as a great power: from 1815 to the present day Part 1	4
Individualism, universalism and climate change	4
The political economy of China's Belt and Road Initiative	3
Understanding the roles of meso-institutions: a comparative approach to urban water provision in seven Asian cities	3
On legal bubbles: some thoughts on legal shockwaves at the core of the digital economy	3
The legacy of Frank H. Knight for the politics of financial governance	3
From hierarchies to markets and partially back again in electricity: responding to decarbonization and security of supply goals	3
The institutional environment and gig platform transaction cost solutions	3
Integrating the exploration-exploitation dilemma and bad institutions to the Austrian theory of destructive entrepreneurship: a new perspective	3
Elinor Ostrom on choice, collective action and rationality: a Senian analysis	3
Institutions, ideas and economic change: some reflections on Geoffrey Hodgson's ‘Culture and Institutions’	3
Pre-colonial centralization and tax compliance norms in contemporary Uganda	3
Watch out for words: the wording of constitutions and constitutional compliance	3
De jureproperty rights and state capacity: evidence from land specification in the Boer Republics	3
Shock me like a Hurricane: how Hurricane Katrina changed Louisiana's formal and informal institutions	3
Blockchain networks as constitutional and competitive polycentric orders	3
Oliver Williamson and the strategic theory of the firm	3