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Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Development Effectiveness is 1. 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
Surveyor physical and emotional well-being: learning from Indian context	15
Impact evaluation and synthesis – how far are they being used in low- and middle-income countries?	15
Do conditional cash transfers improve antenatal care outcomes in Senegal? Combining non-experimental and quasi-experimental evaluations	10
Mixed-methods impact evaluation in international development practice: distinguishing between quant-led and qual-led models	9
Cost and cost-efficiency of unconditional cash transfers in Tahoua, Niger	7
Publisher’s Note	6
Editor’s note	6
Experimental evidence from a fodder shrub promotional effort among dairy farmers in Uganda	5
Long-term and spillover effects of rice production training in Uganda	5
Providing academic opportunities to vulnerable adolescents: a randomised evaluation of privately managed tuition-free middle schools in Uruguay	4
Implementation of graduation programs for alleviating rural poverty: an impact analysis in Paraguay	4
Community-based natural resource management: an effective tool to reduce poverty and inequality?	4
Are children substitutes for assets? Evidence from Bangladesh	3
A checklist to guide sensitivity analyses and replications of impact evaluations	3
Does livestock-crop diversification improve food and nutrition security? Evidence from Eastern Ethiopia	3
Effectiveness of donor supported leadership development interventions intended to promote women’s leadership in health in low- and middle-income countries: a scoping review	3
The power of narratives: edutainment’s impact on knowledge and behaviour change in faecal sludge management in Urban India	3
Impact of the Child-optimized Financial Education (COFE) curriculum among savings group participants in Uganda: A cluster randomised controlled trial	3
The effects of booster classes in protracted crisis settings: Evidence from Kenyan refugee camps	2
Upping the game: adding costs to impacts an introduction to the special issue on costing in the field of development effectiveness	2
Population aging, pensions, and vulnerability to multidimensional poverty	2
More is more. Combined livelihood-education interventions and their effect on child labour in the agricultural sector	2
The trade-off between economic development and pandemic control: strategy identification and effect analysis	2
Rural–urban analysis of parental time poverty and child over-nutrition in ghana	2
The persistent effects of school meals on multidimensional human capital: evidence from rural China	2

A social network analysis to determine success factors of food security innovations in Tanzania	2
Research transparency and reproducibility policies and programmes at the international initiative for impact evaluation	2
Enhancing food security through keyhole gardening in Lesotho	2
Edutainment and the prevention of under-age marriages: The evaluation of a television series designed to promote positive role models in Bangladesh	2
Does the small business programme benefit self-employed workers? Evidence from Nicaragua	2
Journal of Development Effectiveness Thank You to our Reviewers	2
Self-selection versus population-based sampling for evaluation of an agronomy training program in Uganda	2
Subsidized loans and firms’ employment outcomes: evidence from a province in Iran	2
Does citizen engagement improve development outcomes? A realist-informed systematic review of participation and accountability mechanisms	2
The effectiveness of industrial policy in developing countries: causal evidence from Ethiopian manufacturing firms	1
The effect of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act on the size of outstanding debts in rural India	1
Scaling education innovations in complex emergencies: a meta-evaluation of five process and three impact evaluations	1
Comprehensive social protection programming: what is the potential for improving sanitation outcomes?	1
Changing the logic in agricultural extension: evidence from a demand-driven extension programme in Kenya	1
Adolescent girls’ agency and their labour force participation: experimental evidence from rural Bangladesh	1
Measuring non-monetary poverty in the coffee heartlands of Laos and Rwanda: comparing MPI and EDI frameworks	1
The economic and social impact of private investments: results of a programme to generate useful results while building research capacity	1
The long-term effect of a job training programme for youths in Peru	1
How do patent subsidies drive SMEs to patent? Evidence from China	1
Policy equipoise and interventional superiority	1
Effects of a large-scale participatory learning and action programme in women’s groups on health, nutrition, water, sanitation, and hygiene: a cluster-randomised controlled trial in Bihar, India	1
Do producer organisations promote environmental sustainability through organic soil investments? Evidence from Cameroon	1
The State of Cost-Effectiveness Guidance: Ten Best Resources for CEA in Impact Evaluations	1
Does social protection reach those left behind: empirical evidence from Botswana using multidimensional poverty approaches	1
Returns to Interest-free Microcredit: evidence from a Randomised Experiment in Pakistan	1
The impact of grants in combination with school-based management trainings on primary education: a cluster-randomized trial in Northern Nigeria	1
Employer attitudes towards hiring university-educated refugees: evidence from Rwanda	1