OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Applied Economics is 28. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Should the strongest serve first? Strategic ordering of servers in doubles tennis	95
The Impact of Pollution Events on the Productivity of Related Industries:A Case Study of Cadmium-Contaminated Industry	94
Can governments sleep more soundly when holding international reserves? A banking and financial vulnerabilities perspective*	76
Fiscal policy and long-run inflation dynamics: evidence from a major emerging market economy*	74
The impact of digital transformation on financial reporting clarity in the Chinese capital market	71
Pro-environment consumer behaviour and electric vehicle adoptions: a comparative regional meta-analysis	63
Better city, better life: smart city policy and corporate ESG performance	61
A reassessment of human capital convergence and its determinants: evidence from a cross-country analysis	60
Immigration, migrant international cash transfers, backward-externality of emigrant human capital, and total factor productivity in Africa	58
Social cost of carbon and the potential for forest carbon credits	57
The impact of social insurance contribution collection system reform on labour share: evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in China	55
Green energy, financial growth, natural resources and technological development: the key driving forces to trigger the economic development	53
Global value chain participation and economic growth in Africa ¹	50
Household income and tourism expenditure: an unconditional quantile regression approach	47
The influence of clan culture on the accounting information quality: evidence from privately listed firms in China	40
Female CEOs and earnings management: examining risk aversion versus social identity theories	39
Effect of religious attendance on the middle-aged worker’s wage in the United States: a possible causal connection	38
A novel factor model to determine recovery rates of bank credit towards local governments	37
Female CEOs and employee gender diversity: evidence from Korea	37
Water rights and firm productivity: evidence from the water rights trading policy in China	35
Does skill balancing prepare for entrepreneurship? Testing the underlying assumption of the jack-of-all-trades view	34
The establishment of environmental courts and the ESG performance of heavy polluters: based on China’s Quasi-nature experiments	33
Planning for potential increases in disbursements and risk of managed funds conditional on desired short-term performance levels	33
Can environmental protection interview policy reduce air pollution? -A spatial difference-in-differences approach	30
The nexus between livelihood goals and livelihood strategy selection: Evidence from rural China	29

Investor sentiment and skewness risk premium	29
The comparison of bilateral trade between China and ASEAN, China and EU: from the aspect of trade structure, trade complementarity and structural gravity model of trade	29
Extending policies to control groups or past periods in nonlinear difference in differences	28