OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Islamic and Middle Eastern Finance and Manage 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Dynamic spillover and connectedness between Fintech and Islamic banking markets: evidence from country-level data with portfolio implications	49
Are Muslim CEOs pursuing intangible value creation over profitability? International evidence	45
Hospitality management in times of crisis: a corporate social responsibility perspective	26
Exploring the stock market development and sustainable development nexus: insights from emerging market economies	25
Developing a Shari’ah based FinTech Money Creation Free [SFMCF] model for Islamic banking	25
US sanctions, workforce dynamics, and corporate entrepreneurship: evidence from Iran	20
Cash holdings and firm performance: empirical analysis from Shariah-compliant and conventional corporations	19
The impact of financial management practices on accountability of Islamic social enterprise (ISE)	19
Exploring the greenium in the green Sukuk universe: evidence from the primary market	19
Equity financing and Islamic bank stability: evidence from Malaysia and Indonesia	18
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	18
Are Islamic financial institutions more resilient against the COVID-19 pandemic in the GCC countries?	17
Political risk and portfolio performance: implications for Shariah-compliant investors	17
Self-determination theory and individuals’ intention to participate in donation crowdfunding	16
Determinants of gross international reserves in the case of the Maldives	15
Guest editorial: Islamic finance in South Asia	15
Islamic and conventional bank deposits: what drives Islamic deposit movement? A trade-off between religiosity and rationality	14
Development of a comprehensive sustainability performance index for takaful operators: integrating Maqasid Al-Shariah and stakeholder perspectives	14
Pricing risk contribution of general Takaful by spatial generalized linear mixed models at the level of tariff cells	13
Exploring customer engagement value from relationship benefits	13
Capital structure and earnings management: evidence from Saudi Arabia	13
Islamic banking finance and private sector investment in dual banking systems: the impact of institutional quality	12
The impact of Islamic banking model and Islamic financial development on bank performance: evidence from dual banking economies	12
Nexus between competition, concentration and bank risk-taking in Indonesian Islamic banking	11

Linking halal certificate and micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMES) performance in Indonesia	11
IPO valuation in an emerging market – a study in Iran	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
Shari’ah governance and transparency: evidence from stock price synchronicity of Islamic banks	10
How do stock markets react to dividend announcements during the COVID-19 pandemic? Evidence from the GCC markets	9
Assessing the impact of external determinants on the social performance of Islamic banks	9
The sustainability and performance of Bank Wakaf Mikro: waqf-based microfinance in Indonesia	9
Impact of Brexit on Islamic stock markets: employing MGARCH-DCC and wavelet correlation analysis	9
Impact of Qard-al-Hasan (interest-free loan) program in reducing multidimensional poverty: an evidence from the southwest Bangladesh	9
Factors affecting financial engineering and product development in Islamic Financial Institutions	9
Work ethic, cultural impact and perceived performance – innovative insights from three countries	9
Revisiting Zakat with a distribution of weighted Shapley value	9
Noninterest equality or noninterest finance? Evidence from time-varying networks	8
Designing waqf-based financing model for livestock project: empirical evidence from Indonesia	8
A comparative analysis of green sukuk and green bonds	8
Intellectual capital disclosure and financial performance nexus in Islamic and conventional banks in the GCC countries	8
Exploring the moderating role of religious orientation on Islamic Fintech adoption	7
Does climate policy uncertainty affect Asian financial markets? Evidence from a wavelet-quantile-based approach	7
Exploring financial inclusion in MENA countries: an entropy weight approach	7
Asymmetric dependence structures and decoupling hypothesis: Islamic versus conventional equity indices with copula approach	7
Beyond Sharpe ratio: comparison of risk-adjusted performance of Shariah-compliant and conventional indices	7
ESG activities and bank performance with the moderating influence of competition and regulatory quality: a study in the organization of Islamic countries	7
Impacts of Sharīʿah supervision and corporate social responsibility on banks’ risk-taking behavior and profitability	6
Ownership structure, board characteristics, and performance of Indonesian Islamic rural banks	6
Examining preference shares from the Shari’ah perspective: a systematic literature review	6
An analysis of online sadaqah acceptance among university graduates in Malaysia	6
Intellectual capital disclosure (ICD) in Islamic banks: does the diversity of Shariah committee matters?	6
Price-limit effectiveness: evidence from the Borsa Istanbul (BIST)	6
Monetary transmissions mechanism for Islamic capital markets: evidence from Markov switching dynamic regression approach	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
Connectedness analysis of price return index among Malaysian economic sectors	5
Harmonizing Maqasid al-Shari’ah with sustainable waste management practices: a conceptual framework for principles and implementation	5
Salam financing: from common local issues to a potential international framework	5
Cash waqf engagement among Malaysian millennials: the digitization of generosity	5
Exploring the dynamics of bank liquidity holding in Islamic and conventional banks	5
Interplay of financial market performance, macroeconomic indicators and business sentiment: a comprehensive study of the Turkish economy	5
Guest editorial: Special issue on Covid-19 pandemic crisis and Islamic finance	5
Revisiting the impact of Islamic finance on economic growth: a decomposition analysis using Indonesia as a testing ground	4
Financial analysts’ personal values, perceived behavioural risk and investment decisions in evaluating CSR	4
Competitive strategies-performance nexus and the mediating role of enterprise risk management practices: a multi-group analysis for fully fledged Islamic banks and conventional banks with Islamic wind	4
The impact of zakat in poverty alleviation and income inequality reduction from the perspective of gender in West Java, Indonesia	4
Are donor funds used effectively? An examination of Islamic and conventional microfinance institutions	4
Does bank governance affect risk and efficiency? Evidence from Islamic banks in GCC countries	4
Impact of capital inflows on bank profitability: a comparative analysis of dual banking systems	4
Strategies implementing cash waqf system for Baitul Maal wat Tamwil to improve its commercial and social activities	4
A proposed model for Zakah on financial instruments: accounting approach	4
The new legalities of Islamic contractual interpretation: institutional frameworks and the displacement of intention	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
Shaping the future: board communication, credit risk and blockchain technology evolution in banking industries – evidence from Bangladesh	4
Do you want my loyalty? Then understand what drives my trust – a conventional and Islamic banking perspective	4
Socially responsible investment (SRI) Sukuk as a financing alternative for post COVID-19 development project	4
Allocation discretion, price discounts and returns in Turkish initial public offerings	4
Empirical evaluation of structure-conduct-performance paradigm as applied to the Iranian Islamic banking system	4
Corporate risk-taking, financial constraints and cash holdings: evidence from Saudi Arabia	4
Does time orientation improve Islamic cultural finance	4