OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Studies in Comparative International Development is 3. 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
Incumbent Responses to Armed Groups in Nigeria and Kenya	22
Domestic Political Unrest and Chinese Overseas Foreign Direct Investment	12
Testing the Drivers of Corporate Environmentalism in Vietnam	11
Harmony or Cacophony? A Disaggregated Analysis of Aid Fragmentation	10
Jumpstarting Ideological Alignments in Clientelist Party Systems: Evidence from Honduras’s 2009 Coup	9
The Complex Imprint of Foreign Rule: Tracking Differential Legacies along the Administrative Hierarchy	8
Correction to: Inequality and Immigration Policy	8
Firm-Centered Approaches to Overcoming Semi-Peripheral Constraints	8
Reimagining Transcalar Civil Society Advocacy Collaborations: Starting from the Global South	6
Effect of Participation and Alignment on the Sustainability of Development Aid Output: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Uganda	6
Subsidy Entrepreneurship and a Culture of Rent-Seeking in Singapore’s Developmental State	6
Broker Rhetoric and Persuasion in Clientelist Systems	6
Remittances and Revenue in Latin America, 1990–2017	6
ICPD at Thirty: Moving Beyond Rights Toward Justice in Global Reproductive Health	6
Shifting Ground Beneath our Feet: New Research in the Political Science and Sociology of Global Health and its Significance	5
The Electoral Legacies of Civil War Violence: Theory and Evidence from a Maoist-affected State in India	5
Permissive Regulations and Forest Protection	5
Why Are Firms in High-income Economies More Productive than in Middle-income Economies? Decomposing the Firm Labor Productivity Gap	5
Exit or Voice? Corruption Perceptions and Emigration	5
Does Foreign Aid Undermine Political Responsiveness? Evidence from Kenya	5
From Shielding to Pushing: Evolving Risk Management Regimes in China’s Infrastructure Export Industrial Policy	5
Comparing Advantages in India’s Computer Hardware and Software Sectors	4
Sectoral Interests and Regional Bloc Voting in African Countries	4
Civil Society Under Attack: The Consequences for Horizontal Accountability Institutions	4
Propaganda and Blame Attribution during Economic Downturns: Evidence from China	4

Correction to: Electoral Confidence and Political Budget Cycles in Non-OECD Countries	4
Seeking Autonomy in the Semi-periphery: Neomercantilism and Diversification in Turkey	4
Elections and Corruption: Incentives to Steal or Incentives to Invest?	4
Governance by Uncertainty: Changing Patterns in China’s Environmental Enforcement	4
Governance by Patching: A Comparative Analysis of Adaptive Policy Implementation	3
Abortion Within Reason or Right: Navigating Reproductive Governance and Abortion Stigma in Madagascar’s Urban Central Highlands	3
To Ban or Not to Ban: Explaining Abortion Policy in Poland, Russia, and Turkey	3
The Political Economy of Intermediate Capital Account Regimes: a Fuzzy-Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis	3
Citizen-Led Environmental Governance: Regulating Urban Wetlands in South America	3
Static Electricity: Institutional and Ideational Barriers to China’s Market Reforms	3
State Violence and the Political Consequences of Property Rights: Evidence from Colombia	3
New Editorial Team	3
Factionalized Mobilization: Development Paradigm Shifts and Marginalization in Colombia	3
Opportunities and Choices During Environmental Licensing: Community Participation in Latin America’s Extractive Sectors	3
Compensating for Instability? Economic Openness, Threat of Social Unrest, and Welfare Provision in China	3