OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Development and Change 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 2020-07-01 to 2024-07-01.)

Article	Citations
The Wall Street Consensus	218
The Re‐making of the Turkish Crisis	48
Solar Power and its Discontents: Critiquing Off‐grid Infrastructures of Inclusion in East Africa	36
Huawei, 5G and Security: Technological Limitations and Political Responses	27
NGOs as Social Movements: Policy Narratives, Networks and the Performance of Dalit Rights in South India	26
Regulating Over‐indebtedness: Local State Power in Cambodia's Microfinance Market	25
Southern Discomfort: Interrogating the Category of the Global South	22
Framing the Blue Economy: Placelessness, Development and Sustainability	19
Below the Belt? Territory and Development in China's International Rise	18
Derisking Developmentalism: A Tale of Green Hydrogen	18
Diffuse Drivers of Modern Slavery: From Microfinance to Unfree Labour in Cambodia	17
Bibliodiversity at the Centre: Decolonizing Open Access	16
Responding to the China Challenge in Techno‐nationalism: Divergence between Germany and the United States	15
Informality and the Infrastructures of Inclusion: An Introduction	15
Politics of Engagement: Gender Expertise and International Governance	15
Beyond the Genome: Genetically Modified Crops in Africa and the Implications for Genome Editing	14
From Global to Local Tea Markets: The Changing Political Economy of Tea Production within India's Domestic Value Chain	14
Rethinking Social Upgrading in Global Value Chains: Worker Power, State‒Labour Relations and Intersectionality	14
Legitimating State Capital: The Global Financial Professions and the Transnationalization of Chinese Sovereign Wealth	13
From Development State to Corporate Leviathan: Historicizing the Infrastructural Performativity of Digital Platforms within Kenyan Agriculture	13
Introduction: The Politics of Open Access — Decolonizing Research or Corporate Capture?	12
The Externalization of China's Technical Standardization Approach	10
Situating Political Agronomy: The Knowledge Politics of Hybrid Rice in India and Uganda	10
Global Value Chains and Intermediaries in Multi‐stakeholder Initiatives in Pakistan and India	9
Give James Ferguson a Fish	9

Defusing Land Disputes? The Politics of Land Certification and Dispute Resolution in Burundi	8
Journal Open Access and Plan S: Solving Problems or Shifting Burdens?	8
Open Access in Indonesia	8
The Underside of Microfinance: Performance Indicators and Informal Debt in Cambodia	8
COVID‐19 and the Unequalizing Infrastructures of Financial Inclusion in Tamil Nadu	7
The European Response to Chinese Outbound Foreign Direct Investment: Introducing a Dynamic Analytical Framework	7
Measuring Women's Empowerment: Gender and Time‐use Agency in Benin, Malawi and Nigeria	7
What if We Selected our Leaders by Lottery? Democracy by Sortition, Liberal Elections and Communist Revolutionaries	7
Defeminization, Structural Transformation and Technological Upgrading in Manufacturing	7
‘Aerial Silk Roads’: Airport Infrastructures in China's Belt and Road Initiative	6
Where Can the Crow Make Friends? Sci‐Hub's Activities in the Library of Development Studies and its Implications for the Field	6
The High Priests of Global Development: Capitalism, Religion and the Political Economy of Sacrifice in a Celebrity‐led Water Charity	6
Industrial Policy and Monopoly Capitalism in Nigeria: Lessons from the Dangote Business Conglomerate	6
Compelled to Compete: Rendering Climate Change Vulnerability Investable	6
Emerging Sino–European Corporate Elite Networks	6
The Business of Abolition: Marketizing ‘Anti‐slavery’	6
COVID‐19: The Political Economy of a Global Pandemic	6
Digitizing Taxation and Premature Formalization in Developing Countries	6
Technologies of Authoritarian Statecraft in Welfare Provision: Contracting Services to Social Organizations	6
China and European Innovation: Corporate Takeovers and their Consequences	6
Double Movements and Disembedded Economies: A Response to Richard Sandbrook	6
Targeting Social Transfers in Ethiopia's Agro‐pastoralist and Pastoralist Societies	5
Open Access, Plan S and ‘Radically Liberatory’ Forms of Academic Freedom	5
Classification and Roundabout Production in High‐value Agriculture: A Fresh Approach to Industrialization	5
COVID‐19 and the Meaning of Crisis	5
Portfolios of Social Protection, Labour Mobility and the Rise of Life Insurance in Rural Central Vietnam	5
Social Norm Change, Behavioural Approaches and the Politics of Knowledge: A Conversation between the Ivory Tower and the Field	5
Crisis Narratives and the African Paradox: African Informal Economies, COVID‐19 and the Decolonization of Social Policy	5
Cash Transfers, International Finance and Neoliberal Debt Relations: The Case of Post‐apartheid South Africa	5
The World Bank's ‘Assault on Poverty’ as a Political Question (1968–81)	5
The Effectiveness of Harnessing Human Rights: The Struggle over the Ilısu Dam in Turkey	5
Upgrading in the Automotive Periphery: Turkey's Battery Electric Vehicle Maker Togg	5
The Social Reproduction of Pandemic Surplus Populations and Global Development Narratives on Inequality and Informal Labour	5
How Accessible are Journal Articles on Education Written by Sub‐Saharan Africa‐based Researchers?	4
Black Economic Empowerment and Quota Allocations in South Africa's Industrial Fisheries	4
Trajectories of Hybrid Governance: Legitimacy, Order and Leadership in India	4
Unsettling the American Dream: Mobility, Migration and Precarity among Translocal Himalayan Communities during COVID‐19	4
Alice Amsden: A Reasoning Revolutionary in Development Economics	4
Global Value Chain Participation and the Labour Share: Industry‐level Evidence from Emerging Economies	4
The Evolution of India's Industrial Labour Share and its Correlates	4
Polanyi's Double Movement and Capitalism Today	4
Contradictions and Crisis in the World of Work: Informality, Precarity and the Pandemic	4
Everything Stays the Same while Everything Changes	4
One Door Opens: Another Door Shuts?	4
Negotiated Agreements, Indigenous Peoples and Extractive Industry in the Salar de Atacama, Chile: When Is an Agreement More than a Contract?	4
Common Challenges for All? A Critical Engagement with the Emerging Vision for Post‐pandemic Development Studies	4
Multiple Temporalities of Household Labour: The Challenge of Assessing Women's Empowerment	4
The Moral Economy of Microfinance in Rural Bangladesh: Dharma, Gender and Social Change	4
The Common Framework and its Discontents	4
Conceptualizing, Financing and Infrastructuring: Perspectives on Open Access in and from Africa	4

Financing a Global Green New Deal: Greening Capitalism or Taming Financialization for a New ‘Civilizing’ Multilateralism?	4
Brazil's Bolsa Família Programme: Aspirations and Realities of Poverty Reduction and Intergenerational Change	4