OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of IDS Bulletin-Institute of Development Studies is 0. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Indigenous Technical Knowledge: Analysis, Implications and Issues	8
Cellfare: Delivering Self-Targeted Social Protection Using Mobile Phones	7
Linking Social Protection and Humanitarian Systems to Respond to Forced Displacement	6
Notes on Contributors	5
Anti-Migrant Authoritarian Populism and the Global Vaccination Challenge	5
Brazilian Agricultural Frontier: Land Grabbing, Land Policy, and Conflicts	4
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China’s NGO Partnerships in a New Era of Development Cooperation	4
Transforming Power: From Zero-Sum to Win-Win?	3
Covid-19 and Urban Migrants in the Horn of Africa: Lived Citizenship and Everyday Humanitarianism	3
Conclusion: Environmental Change, Development Challenges – Revisited	3
Glossary	3
Understanding Behaviour Change in Theory-Based Evaluation of Market Systems Development Programmes	3
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Triangular Cooperation: Different Approaches, Same Modality	3
Voice: A Useful Concept for Researching Backlash and Feminist Counter-Actions?	3
Introduction: Lessons for Locally Driven Research Responses to Emergencies	2
Glossary	2
The Political Economy of Shock-Responsive Social Protection: Analysis from Malawi	2
Transformations of the Agricultural Frontier in Matopiba: From State Planning to the Financialisation of Land	2
Food Security and the Environment	2
Notes on Contributors	2
Bangladesh and Covid-19: Reversals and Resilience	2
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Livelihoods in Crisis: Challenges for Rural Development in Southern Africa	2

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Research During the Covid-19 Pandemic: Crucial Arms for Struggle	2
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Monitoring Systemic Change in Inclusive Agribusiness	1
Glossary	1
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Sharing and Co-Generating Knowledges: Reflections on Experiences with PRA and CLTS	1
Positioning Research for Impact: Lessons From a Funder During the Covid-19 Pandemic	1
Localising Refugee Assistance: Examining Refugee-Led Organisations and the Localisation Agenda During the Covid-19 Pandemic	1
Glossary	1
Livelihoods and Welfare Amidst Layered Crises in Afghanistan	1
Covid-19 Vaccine Rollout: Challenges and Insights from Informal Settlements	1
Unravelling and Countering Backlash: Uganda’s Sexual Offences Legislation	1
Notes on Contributors	1
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The Covid-19 Pandemic and Alternative Governance Systems in Idlib	1
Epistemological Justice: Decoloniality, Climate Change, and Ecological Conditions for Future Generations	1
Using Theory-Based Evaluation to Evaluate Systemic Change in a Market Systems Programme in Nepal	1
Introduction: Environmental Change, Development Challenges – Revisited	1
The Self-Deceiving State	1
Introduction : Leçons issues des recherches menées localement en réponse aux situations d'urgence	1
Towards a New Political Economy of Climate Change and Development	1
Gender Relations and Environmental Change	1
Covid-19’s Effects on Contraceptive Services Across the Humanitarian–Development Nexus	1
Gender Equality vs ‘Morality’: The Erosion of Gender Agendas in Kenya	0
Notes on Contributors	0
Humanitarian vs Pandemic Responses: Vulnerable Groups among Rohingyas in Bangladesh	0
Environmental Change, Development Challenges	0
Beyond Design: Examining the Implementation of Gender-Responsive Social Protection in Ethiopia	0
Assessing the Contribution to Market System Change of the Private Enterprise Programme Ethiopia	0
Selective Learning: China, the CGIAR, and Global Agricultural Science in Flux	0
Livestock and Climate Justice: Challenging Mainstream Policy Narratives	0
Glossary	0
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Introduction: Reframing Climate and Environmental Justice	0
The Health of People with Disabilities in Humanitarian Settings During the Covid-19 Pandemic	0
Introduction: Understanding Gender Backlash Across Regions	0
Ownership and Effectiveness of China’s Aid Projects in Africa	0
All Power Deceives	0
Managing Rural Development	0
Community-Based Sustainable Development: Consensus or Conflict?	0
Editorial: Covid-19 Responses: Insights into Contemporary Humanitarianism	0
Virulent Hindutva, Vigilante State: Situating Backlash and its Implications for Women’s Rights in India	0
Climate Justice for Whom? Understanding the Vernaculars of Climate Action and Justice in Marginal Environments of India	0
Environmental Governance in an Uncertain World	0
Notes on Contributors: China and International Development: Knowledge, Governance, and Practice	0
Glossary	0
Exploring Synergies Between Community Mobilisation and Cash Transfers in Bangladesh	0
Queering Gender Backlash	0
Notes on Contributors	0

‘It’s a Family Matter’: Inaction and Denial of Domestic Violence	0
Co-Modelling for Relief and Recovery from the Covid-19 Crisis in Zimbabwe	0
Introduction: Reclaiming the Cerrado – A Territorial Account of a Disputed Frontier	0
Whose Knowledge? Whose Influence? Changing Dynamics of China’s Development Cooperation Policy and Practice	0
Mutual Learning in Development Cooperation: China and the West	0
The Covid-19 Pandemic as an Opportunity for Leveraging Global South Research and Knowledge	0
Notes on Contributors: Power, Poverty, and Knowledge – Reflecting on 50 Years of Learning with Robert Chambers	0
Arab Region Social Protection Systems: Research and Policy Design Challenges	0
Introduction: Contribution, Causality, Context, and Contingency when Evaluating Inclusive Business Programmes	0
Notes on Contributors	0
Introduction: Power, Poverty, and Knowledge – Reflecting on 50 Years of Learning with Robert Chambers	0
Glossary	0
Social Protection: Aspirations and Limitations of an Expanding Agenda	0
Introducción: Lecciones para la investigación sobre respuestas a emergencias impulsada a nivel local	0
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Notes on Contributors	0
Adapting Disability Research Methods and Practices During the Covid-19 Pandemic: Experiences from the Field	0
Matopiba’s Disputed Agricultural Frontier: Between Commodity Crops and Agrarian Reform	0
The Search for Real-Time Impact Monitoring for Private Sector Support Programmes	0
Bureaucratic Reversals and Local Diversity	0
Lessons Learned from Mobilising Research for Impact During the Covid-19 Pandemic	0
Deconstructing Anti-Feminist Backlash: The Lebanese Context	0
Humanitarian Activism, Social Protection, and Emergent Citizenship in Myanmar	0
Chinese Foundations and the Challenge of ‘Going International	0
Glossary – Reimagining Social Protection	0
Notes on Contributors	0
Climate Justice for Whom? Understanding the Vernaculars of Climate Action and Justice in Marginal Environments of India	0
Policing Environmental Injustice	0
Realigning Social Protection Across the Nexus: Reflections from Protracted Crises in the Arab Region	0
Environmental Policy Reform and Water Grabbing in an Agricultural Frontier in the Brazilian Cerrado	0
Can Social Assistance Strengthen the Social Contract in Somalia?	0
In Search of Professionalism, Bureaucracy and Sustainable Livelihoods for the 21st Century	0
Disrupting Anxious Masculinity: Fraternity as Resistance	0
The Future Politics of Social Protection in Africa	0
Recognising Recognition in Climate Justice	0
Assessing Contributions Collaboratively: Using Process Tracing to Capture Crowding In	0
The Distances that the Covid-19 Pandemic Magnified: Research on Informality and the State	0
Why Invisible Power and Structural Violence Persist in the Water Domain	0
Introduction: Social Protection in a Time of Global Uncertainty	0
Notes on Contributors	0
Exploring China’s Impacts on Development Thinking and Policies	0
Climate Change and the Challenge of Non‐equilibrium Thinking	0
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Left Behind: The Multiple Impacts of Covid-19 on Forcibly Displaced People	0
Changing Perspectives on Forests: Science/Policy Processes in Wider Society	0
Looking Back to Move Development Forward – A Fireside Chat with Robert Chambers	0
Public University Students’ Experiences of Anti-Feminist Backlash in Dhaka, Bangladesh	0
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Introduction: Pandemic Perspectives – Doing Research Differently During Covid-19	0
نظم الحماية الاجتماعية في المنطقة العربية: التحديات أمام إجراء البحوث وسن السياسات	0
(Re)pensar un modelo de investigación colaborativa después del Covid-19: presentación de Colabora.Lat	0
Resiliencia en tiempos de pandemia: generando políticas públicas para las ollas comunes en Perú	0
Systems, Sapiens, and Systemic Change in Markets: The Adopt-Adapt-Expand-Respond Framework	0
Reclaiming the Cerrado – A Territorial Account of a Disputed Frontier	0
Social Protection in Conflict and Conflict-Related Displacement Crises	0
Mapping Fire: The Case of Matopiba	0
Brazilian Civil Society and South–South Cooperation: Countering the Green Revolution from Abroad	0
Enacting Social Protection Laws in Jigawa and Zamfara States, Nigeria	0
Reframing Climate and Environmental Justice	0
Glossary	0
Indigenous Peoples and Social Protection: The Case of the Peruvian Amazon	0
Introdução: Lutando pelo Cerrado – um olhar territorial sobre uma fronteira disputada	0
The Centaur’s Kick: Backlash as Disruptive Upgrades to Patriarchal Orders	0
(Re-)Thinking a Collaborative Research Model After Covid-19: Introducing Colabora.Lat	0
Backlash and Counter-Backlash: Safeguarding Access to Legal Abortion in Brazil	0
Green Grabbing in the Matopiba Agricultural Frontier	0
Policy Influence in Crisis: Reflections from a Southern Thinktank	0
Glossary	0
Glossary: China and International Development: Knowledge, Governance, and Practice	0
Resilience in the Time of a Pandemic: Developing Public Policies for Ollas Comunes in Peru	0
The New Asian Development Finance	0
Robert Chambers and the IDS Bulletin – Some Reflections for Now and the Future	0
Cutting the Supply of Climate Injustice	0