OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Journal of Islamic and Middle Eastern Finance and Manage is 2. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Dynamic spillover and connectedness between Fintech and Islamic banking markets: evidence from country-level data with portfolio implications	73
Are Muslim CEOs pursuing intangible value creation over profitability? International evidence	51
Exploring the stock market development and sustainable development nexus: insights from emerging market economies	26
Developing a Shari’ah based FinTech Money Creation Free [SFMCF] model for Islamic banking	26
The impact of financial management practices on accountability of Islamic social enterprise (ISE)	25
Cash holdings and firm performance: empirical analysis from Shariah-compliant and conventional corporations	21
US sanctions, workforce dynamics, and corporate entrepreneurship: evidence from Iran	20
Self-determination theory and individuals’ intention to participate in donation crowdfunding	19
Exploring the greenium in the green Sukuk universe: evidence from the primary market	19
Guest editorial: Islamic finance in South Asia	19
Political risk and portfolio performance: implications for Shariah-compliant investors	19
Hospitality management in times of crisis: a corporate social responsibility perspective	19
Profit- and loss-sharing partnership: the case of the two-tier mudharaba in Islamic banking	18
Economical rights versus God’s rights: criticising of the implementation Shariah economic in Indonesia	17
Equity financing and Islamic bank stability: evidence from Malaysia and Indonesia	17
Determinants of gross international reserves in the case of the Maldives	16
Islamic and conventional bank deposits: what drives Islamic deposit movement? A trade-off between religiosity and rationality	15
Exploring customer engagement value from relationship benefits	14
Linking halal certificate and micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMES) performance in Indonesia	14
Pricing risk contribution of general Takaful by spatial generalized linear mixed models at the level of tariff cells	14
The impact of Islamic banking model and Islamic financial development on bank performance: evidence from dual banking economies	13
IPO valuation in an emerging market – a study in Iran	13
Nexus between competition, concentration and bank risk-taking in Indonesian Islamic banking	12
Islamic banking finance and private sector investment in dual banking systems: the impact of institutional quality	12
Development of a comprehensive sustainability performance index for takaful operators: integrating Maqasid Al-Shariah and stakeholder perspectives	11

Capital structure and earnings management: evidence from Saudi Arabia	11
Work ethic, cultural impact and perceived performance – innovative insights from three countries	10
Assessing the impact of external determinants on the social performance of Islamic banks	10
Shari’ah governance and transparency: evidence from stock price synchronicity of Islamic banks	10
Zakat payment from cryptocurrencies and crypto assets	10
An analysis of extreme risk spillover effects and their determinants between AI-related assets and Islamic banking indices	10
Impact of Qard-al-Hasan (interest-free loan) program in reducing multidimensional poverty: an evidence from the southwest Bangladesh	10
Intellectual capital disclosure and financial performance nexus in Islamic and conventional banks in the GCC countries	9
Designing waqf-based financing model for livestock project: empirical evidence from Indonesia	9
Revisiting Zakat with a distribution of weighted Shapley value	9
A comparative analysis of green sukuk and green bonds	9
How do stock markets react to dividend announcements during the COVID-19 pandemic? Evidence from the GCC markets	9
Factors affecting financial engineering and product development in Islamic Financial Institutions	9
The sustainability and performance of Bank Wakaf Mikro: waqf-based microfinance in Indonesia	9
Asymmetric dependence structures and decoupling hypothesis: Islamic versus conventional equity indices with copula approach	8
ESG activities and bank performance with the moderating influence of competition and regulatory quality: a study in the organization of Islamic countries	8
Noninterest equality or noninterest finance? Evidence from time-varying networks	8
Beyond Sharpe ratio: comparison of risk-adjusted performance of Shariah-compliant and conventional indices	8
An analysis of online sadaqah acceptance among university graduates in Malaysia	8
Does climate policy uncertainty affect Asian financial markets? Evidence from a wavelet-quantile-based approach	8
Impacts of Sharīʿah supervision and corporate social responsibility on banks’ risk-taking behavior and profitability	7
Intellectual capital disclosure (ICD) in Islamic banks: does the diversity of Shariah committee matters?	7
Monetary transmissions mechanism for Islamic capital markets: evidence from Markov switching dynamic regression approach	7
Ownership structure, board characteristics, and performance of Indonesian Islamic rural banks	7
Digital economy prosperity analysis based on the Grey–Markov model: empirical evidence from MENA region	6
Connectedness analysis of price return index among Malaysian economic sectors	6
Exploring the dynamics of bank liquidity holding in Islamic and conventional banks	6
Guest editorial: Special issue on Covid-19 pandemic crisis and Islamic finance	6
Exploring the moderating role of religious orientation on Islamic Fintech adoption	6
Price-limit effectiveness: evidence from the Borsa Istanbul (BIST)	6
Capitalism in modern ignorance (jahilliyah): exploring Islamic alternatives to reshape human behaviour and provide solutions for the 21st century	6
An analysis of spatial effects of terrorism on stock market returns in the Middle East countries	6
Examining preference shares from the Shari’ah perspective: a systematic literature review	6
Exploring financial inclusion in MENA countries: an entropy weight approach	6
Interplay of financial market performance, macroeconomic indicators and business sentiment: a comprehensive study of the Turkish economy	6
Rethinking governance: the nexus between non-financial and financial performance for GCC countries	6
Harmonizing Maqasid al-Shari’ah with sustainable waste management practices: a conceptual framework for principles and implementation	5
A proposed model for Zakah on financial instruments: accounting approach	5
Do you want my loyalty? Then understand what drives my trust – a conventional and Islamic banking perspective	5
Shaping the future: board communication, credit risk and blockchain technology evolution in banking industries – evidence from Bangladesh	5
Strategies implementing cash waqf system for Baitul Maal wat Tamwil to improve its commercial and social activities	5
Allocation discretion, price discounts and returns in Turkish initial public offerings	5
Cash waqf engagement among Malaysian millennials: the digitization of generosity	5
Financial analysts’ personal values, perceived behavioural risk and investment decisions in evaluating CSR	5
Socially responsible investment (SRI) Sukuk as a financing alternative for post COVID-19 development project	5
The new legalities of Islamic contractual interpretation: institutional frameworks and the displacement of intention	5
Revisiting the impact of Islamic finance on economic growth: a decomposition analysis using Indonesia as a testing ground	5
The impact of zakat in poverty alleviation and income inequality reduction from the perspective of gender in West Java, Indonesia	4
Creditworthiness pattern prediction and detection for GCC Islamic banks using machine learning techniques	4
Toward the Black–Litterman with Shariah-compliant asset pricing model: a case study on the Indonesian stock market during the COVID-19 pandemic	4

Indonesian Islamic moral incentives in credit card debt repayment: a feature selection using various data mining	4
Banking system stability in the MENA region: the impact of market power and capital requirements on banks’ risk-taking behavior	4
Are donor funds used effectively? An examination of Islamic and conventional microfinance institutions	4
An insight into the signaling role of Sharia status: a case from an emerging IPO market	4
The drivers of liquidity risk in the GCC dual banking sector: the impact of the bank’s business model	4
Corporate risk-taking, financial constraints and cash holdings: evidence from Saudi Arabia	4
Does bank governance affect risk and efficiency? Evidence from Islamic banks in GCC countries	4
Macroeconomics implication of central bank digital currency: case of Indonesia	4
Factors influencing zakat payment among Ethiopian Muslims: a PLS-SEM analysis	4
Impact of capital inflows on bank profitability: a comparative analysis of dual banking systems	4
Does time orientation improve Islamic cultural finance	4
Empirical evaluation of structure-conduct-performance paradigm as applied to the Iranian Islamic banking system	4
Antecedents of Islamic welfare: productivity, education, and the financial aspect	3
The integration of Maqasid Shariah in evaluating stablecoins and traditional cryptocurrencies for Islamic portfolios diversification	3
Evaluating the technical efficiency of Saudi Arabian telecommunications companies using window DEA and AHP techniques	3
Explanation and classification of technological entrepreneurship financing policies: lessons from Iran	3
Shariah capabilities and value propositions of Islamic banking	3
Is Shariah compliance a buffer against market shocks?	3
The impact of climate change on financial stability: evidence from Maldives	3
Corporate governance, national culture and bank performance: evidence from MENA countries	3
Modeling returns of sukuk and related indices with system GMM: evidence from the MENA region	3
Designing micro-fintech models for Islamic micro financial institutions in Indonesia	3
A proposed zakat model for digital assets from the Shariah perspective	3
Does the conventional money market overnight rate influence the investment rate of Islamic deposits? Evidence from Malaysia	3
Investigating similarities between Islamic and conventional banks in GCC countries: a dynamic time warping approach	3
COVID-19 and GCC stock market performance: an analysis of the boon (financial stimulus package) and curse (oil price plunge) effects	3
Investigating the role of Fintech innovations and green finance toward sustainable economic development: a bibliometric analysis	3
Theorizing Islamic entrepreneurship from an Islamic governance perspective	2
When to standardize and when to adapt: understanding the effects of Islamic prescriptions on strategic choice-making of multinational enterprises	2
The application of hibah al-ʿumra in disbursement of family Takāful benefits: an exploratory study	2
Covid-19 and informational efficiency in Asian emerging markets: a comparative study of conventional and Shariah-compliant stocks	2
Heterogeneous stock market impact of Russia–Ukraine War for oil and gas companies	2
Diversification and performance of microfinance institutions: does Islamic microfinance model matter?	2
Performance of shariah-compliant and non-shariah-compliant ETFs: a comparative study	2
An empirical analysis of the dynamic impact of DeFi on GCC foreign exchange forward markets: portfolio implication	2
Social influence or religiosity? New factors determining the adoption of Paytech services in Islamic countries	2
Bank-specific factors, market conditions and the riskiness of Islamic and conventional banks: evidence from recent quantile approaches	2
Islamic banking in Bangladesh: a literature review and future research agenda	2
The role of Islamic FinTech in digital financial inclusion and sustainable development post covid-19: cross-country analysis	2
Evolution of trust in hawala networks – business relationships analysis from inception to maturity	2
The effects of foreign currency exposure and Sharī’ah-compliant status on financial hedging strategy	2
Examining the demand side factors of green banking adoption – a study exploring the case of Oman	2
Integrating environmental, social and governance (ESG) principles with Maqasid al-Shariah: a blueprint for sustainable takaful operations	2
The effect of corporate governance on financial fragility in non-financial companies: a Minskyian approach	2
The impact of inflation on bank stability: evidence from the MENA banks	2
Economic and political factors on herding in Islamic GCC stock markets during COVID-19 pandemic	2
Governance of Islamic social finance: learnings from existing literature	2
Predicting financial distress in non-financial sector of Pakistan using PCA and logit	2
Human governance a pathway to integrity in counteracting corruption	2
Empathy or perceived credibility? An empirical study of Muslim donating behaviour through online charitable crowdfunding in Indonesia	2
Stock market effects of military conflicts on defence industry	2
Ethical banking behavior among millennials and Gen-Z in Malaysia	2
Sharia Supervisory Board accounting background, cross-membership, and cost of equity capital: evidence from worldwide Islamic banking	2
Mapping an Islamic venture capital setup using foresight-based social construction approach	2
Do economic uncertainty and political risk steer CDS dynamics? An analysis of the Türkiye CDS	2
The national-level potential of Zakat and its integration into the fiscal framework: sector-specific insights from the economy of Bangladesh	2
Fiscal support and the impacts of tumbling oil prices from COVID-19 on MENA’s economy, energy consumption and environment	2
Retraction notice: Evaluation of the Islamic interbank benchmark rate	2
Re-examining money, debt and Islamic banking in the USA	2
Rethinking financial deepening in Islamic countries: political system and economic growth	2
Lender’s position in the profit and loss sharing Islamic finance: an analytical perspective of Izutsu’s hypotheses on “Islam” and “Hilm”	2
The heterogeneous effect of leverage on firm performance: a quantile regression analysis	2
Islamic approach to corporate social responsibility: an international model for Islamic banks	2
An analysis of Islamic financing access in Nigeria: perspectives of MSME owners	2