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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Dynamic spillover and connectedness between Fintech and Islamic banking markets: evidence from country-level data with portfolio implications	29
US sanctions, workforce dynamics, and corporate entrepreneurship: evidence from Iran	27
The impact of financial management practices on accountability of Islamic social enterprise (ISE)	26
Exploring the stock market development and sustainable development nexus: insights from emerging market economies	26
Are Muslim CEOs pursuing intangible value creation over profitability? International evidence	25
Hospitality management in times of crisis: a corporate social responsibility perspective	24
Cash holdings and firm performance: empirical analysis from Shariah-compliant and conventional corporations	24
Exploring the greenium in the green Sukuk universe: evidence from the primary market	22
Financial governance, religious oversight and the value of cash holdings: evidence from Islamic and conventional banks	20
Political risk and portfolio performance: implications for Shariah-compliant investors	18
Profit- and loss-sharing partnership: the case of the two-tier mudharaba in Islamic banking	17
The effect of corporate strategic change on auditors’ predictions of going-concern opinions: the influence of crisis caused by the pandemic	16
Guest editorial: Islamic finance in South Asia	15
Equity financing and Islamic bank stability: evidence from Malaysia and Indonesia	15
Economical rights versus God’s rights: criticising of the implementation Shariah economic in Indonesia	15
Islamic and conventional bank deposits: what drives Islamic deposit movement? A trade-off between religiosity and rationality	14
Pricing risk contribution of general Takaful by spatial generalized linear mixed models at the level of tariff cells	14
An analysis of extreme risk spillover effects and their determinants between AI-related assets and Islamic banking indices	13
Exploring customer engagement value from relationship benefits	13
Islamic banking finance and private sector investment in dual banking systems: the impact of institutional quality	13
IPO valuation in an emerging market – a study in Iran	13
Capital structure and earnings management: evidence from Saudi Arabia	13
Work ethic, cultural impact and perceived performance – innovative insights from three countries	11
Linking halal certificate and micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMES) performance in Indonesia	11
Assessing the impact of external determinants on the social performance of Islamic banks	11

Nexus between competition, concentration and bank risk-taking in Indonesian Islamic banking	11
Impact of Qard-al-Hasan (interest-free loan) program in reducing multidimensional poverty: an evidence from the southwest Bangladesh	11
Determinants of gross international reserves in the case of the Maldives	11
Development of a comprehensive sustainability performance index for takaful operators: integrating Maqasid Al-Shariah and stakeholder perspectives	11
The impact of corporate governance on bank risk-taking: evidence from an emerging market	10
Factors affecting financial engineering and product development in Islamic Financial Institutions	10
Revisiting Zakat with a distribution of weighted Shapley value	10
Shari’ah governance and transparency: evidence from stock price synchronicity of Islamic banks	10
Oil price uncertainty and its impact on corporate decisions: an analysis of an oil-exporting economy	10
Zakat payment from cryptocurrencies and crypto assets	10
Designing waqf-based financing model for livestock project: empirical evidence from Indonesia	9
Intellectual capital disclosure and financial performance nexus in Islamic and conventional banks in the GCC countries	9
Digital economy prosperity analysis based on the Grey–Markov model: empirical evidence from MENA region	9
How do stock markets react to dividend announcements during the COVID-19 pandemic? Evidence from the GCC markets	9
A comparative analysis of green sukuk and green bonds	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
Intellectual capital disclosure (ICD) in Islamic banks: does the diversity of Shariah committee matters?	8
Ownership structure, board characteristics, and performance of Indonesian Islamic rural banks	8
Monetary transmissions mechanism for Islamic capital markets: evidence from Markov switching dynamic regression approach	8
Beyond Sharpe ratio: comparison of risk-adjusted performance of Shariah-compliant and conventional indices	8
The dynamic effect of participation ındex on the stable firm dynamics: evidence from non-financial firms from Türkiye	8
Exploring financial inclusion in MENA countries: an entropy weight approach	8
Unveiling the quantile connectedness between cryptocurrency market and Shari’ah-based sustainability indices	8
Noninterest equality or noninterest finance? Evidence from time-varying networks	8
ESG activities and bank performance with the moderating influence of competition and regulatory quality: a study in the organization of Islamic countries	8
Rethinking governance: the nexus between non-financial and financial performance for GCC countries	7
RETRACTED: Exploring the moderating role of religious orientation on Islamic Fintech adoption	7
Capitalism in modern ignorance (jahilliyah): exploring Islamic alternatives to reshape human behaviour and provide solutions for the 21st century	7
Examining preference shares from the Shari’ah perspective: a systematic literature review	7
Does climate policy uncertainty affect Asian financial markets? Evidence from a wavelet-quantile-based approach	7
Exploring the dynamics of bank liquidity holding in Islamic and conventional banks	7
Connectedness analysis of price return index among Malaysian economic sectors	7
An analysis of online sadaqah acceptance among university graduates in Malaysia	7
Financial analysts’ personal values, perceived behavioural risk and investment decisions in evaluating CSR	6
Bridging faith and future: the role of Islamic finance in driving environmental sustainability in OIC economies	6
Guest editorial: Special issue on Covid-19 pandemic crisis and Islamic finance	6
The impact of capital structure and economic uncertainty on banks performance in the MENA region: do Islamic banks differ from conventional?	6
Interplay of financial market performance, macroeconomic indicators and business sentiment: a comprehensive study of the Turkish economy	6
Harmonizing Maqasid al-Shari’ah with sustainable waste management practices: a conceptual framework for principles and implementation	6
The new legalities of Islamic contractual interpretation: institutional frameworks and the displacement of intention	6
An analysis of spatial effects of terrorism on stock market returns in the Middle East countries	6
Revisiting the impact of Islamic finance on economic growth: a decomposition analysis using Indonesia as a testing ground	5
Do you want my loyalty? Then understand what drives my trust – a conventional and Islamic banking perspective	5
The impact of zakat in poverty alleviation and income inequality reduction from the perspective of gender in West Java, Indonesia	5
Banking system stability in the MENA region: the impact of market power and capital requirements on banks’ risk-taking behavior	5
Cash waqf engagement among Malaysian millennials: the digitization of generosity	5
Macroeconomics implication of central bank digital currency: case of Indonesia	5
Does time orientation improve Islamic cultural finance	5
A proposed model for Zakah on financial instruments: accounting approach	5

Strategies implementing cash waqf system for Baitul Maal wat Tamwil to improve its commercial and social activities	5
Corporate risk-taking, financial constraints and cash holdings: evidence from Saudi Arabia	5
Are donor funds used effectively? An examination of Islamic and conventional microfinance institutions	5
Aligning Islamic ethical finance and ESG in China’s green investment strategy in the Middle East	4
The drivers of liquidity risk in the GCC dual banking sector: the impact of the bank’s business model	4
COVID-19 and GCC stock market performance: an analysis of the boon (financial stimulus package) and curse (oil price plunge) effects	4
Developing a sustainability framework for Islamic banking: a Maqashid Shariah quadruple bottom line approach	4
Factors influencing zakat payment among Ethiopian Muslims: a PLS-SEM analysis	4
Creditworthiness pattern prediction and detection for GCC Islamic banks using machine learning techniques	4
Is Shariah compliance a buffer against market shocks?	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
Corporate governance, national culture and bank performance: evidence from MENA countries	4
Shaping the future: board communication, credit risk and blockchain technology evolution in banking industries – evidence from Bangladesh	4
An insight into the signaling role of Sharia status: a case from an emerging IPO market	4
The integration of Maqasid Shariah in evaluating stablecoins and traditional cryptocurrencies for Islamic portfolios diversification	4
Should oil-based economies implement taxes? Evidence from the United Arab Emirates	4
Does the conventional money market overnight rate influence the investment rate of Islamic deposits? Evidence from Malaysia	4
Impact of capital inflows on bank profitability: a comparative analysis of dual banking systems	4
Explanation and classification of technological entrepreneurship financing policies: lessons from Iran	3
Investigating similarities between Islamic and conventional banks in GCC countries: a dynamic time warping approach	3
Social influence or religiosity? New factors determining the adoption of Paytech services in Islamic countries	3
An empirical analysis of the dynamic impact of DeFi on GCC foreign exchange forward markets: portfolio implication	3
The impact of inflation on bank stability: evidence from the MENA banks	3
Lender’s position in the profit and loss sharing Islamic finance: an analytical perspective of Izutsu’s hypotheses on “Islam” and “Hilm”	3
The heterogeneous effect of leverage on firm performance: a quantile regression analysis	3
Antecedents of Islamic welfare: productivity, education, and the financial aspect	3
Designing micro-fintech models for Islamic micro financial institutions in Indonesia	3
Islamic approach to corporate social responsibility: an international model for Islamic banks	3
The national-level potential of Zakat and its integration into the fiscal framework: sector-specific insights from the economy of Bangladesh	3
Retraction notice: Evaluation of the Islamic interbank benchmark rate	3
Predicting financial distress in non-financial sector of Pakistan using PCA and logit	3
Governance of Islamic social finance: learnings from existing literature	3
A proposed zakat model for digital assets from the Shariah perspective	3
Bank-specific factors, market conditions and the riskiness of Islamic and conventional banks: evidence from recent quantile approaches	3
The impact of climate change on financial stability: evidence from Maldives	3
Optimal net interest margin and bank stability in emerging markets: evidence from dual banking Indonesia during the COVID-19 pandemic – a game theory perspective	3
Evaluating the technical efficiency of Saudi Arabian telecommunications companies using window DEA and AHP techniques	3
Integrating environmental, social and governance (ESG) principles with Maqasid al-Shariah: a blueprint for sustainable takaful operations	3
Performance of shariah-compliant and non-shariah-compliant ETFs: a comparative study	3
Islamic banking in Bangladesh: a literature review and future research agenda	3
Rethinking financial deepening in Islamic countries: political system and economic growth	3
Shariah capabilities and value propositions of Islamic banking	3
Investigating the role of Fintech innovations and green finance toward sustainable economic development: a bibliometric analysis	3
Mapping an Islamic venture capital setup using foresight-based social construction approach	2
Economic and political factors on herding in Islamic GCC stock markets during COVID-19 pandemic	2
COVID-19 and operating performance: evidence from Shariah-compliant and non-compliant firms	2
Stock market effects of military conflicts on defence industry	2
Re-examining money, debt and Islamic banking in the USA	2
Ethical banking behavior among millennials and Gen-Z in Malaysia	2
An aspirational hope of a Sharīʿah-based microfinance model to alleviate extreme poverty	2
When to standardize and when to adapt: understanding the effects of Islamic prescriptions on strategic choice-making of multinational enterprises	2
Islamic microfinance services: a catalyst for poverty reduction in eastern Ethiopia	2
Do economic uncertainty and political risk steer CDS dynamics? An analysis of the Türkiye CDS	2
An analysis of Islamic financing access in Nigeria: perspectives of MSME owners	2
The role of Islamic FinTech in digital financial inclusion and sustainable development post covid-19: cross-country analysis	2
Heterogeneous stock market impact of Russia–Ukraine War for oil and gas companies	2
The effect of corporate governance on financial fragility in non-financial companies: a Minskyian approach	2
Predicting the intention to use Paytech services by Islamic banking users	2
Evolution of trust in hawala networks – business relationships analysis from inception to maturity	2
Creating a religious identity and impression management by Islamic banks	2
Sharia Supervisory Board accounting background, cross-membership, and cost of equity capital: evidence from worldwide Islamic banking	2
The effects of foreign currency exposure and Sharī’ah-compliant status on financial hedging strategy	2
Fiscal support and the impacts of tumbling oil prices from COVID-19 on MENA’s economy, energy consumption and environment	2
The application of hibah al-ʿumra in disbursement of family Takāful benefits: an exploratory study	2
The determinants of donors’ behavior toward Islamic charities: a phenomenological inquiry	2
Examining the demand side factors of green banking adoption – a study exploring the case of Oman	2
Diversification and performance of microfinance institutions: does Islamic microfinance model matter?	2
Theorizing Islamic entrepreneurship from an Islamic governance perspective	2
Contingent convertible Ijara pricing model	2
Editorial: Finance, management, and society in an era of transformation: a research agenda for the future	2
Covid-19 and informational efficiency in Asian emerging markets: a comparative study of conventional and Shariah-compliant stocks	2
Perceptions of capital budgeting and political risk among small- and medium-sized enterprises: evidence from Lebanon	2