OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Information Technology for Development is 6. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
A tale of the digital divide at three levels: the impact on Chinese residents’ subjective relative deprivation in the digital era	91
Ethics-based ontology in ICT4D	69
Evaluating the impact of digital technology development on green total factor productivity: empirical evidence from Chinese cities	65
Impacts of ICT and digital finance on poverty and income inequality: a sub-national study from India	53
‘I pretend to be an ideal woman just to keep their mouths shut’: Bangladeshi women’s contestation of abuse through social media platforms	53
Impact of e-commerce on income inequality: evidence from rural China based on cross-county panel data	40
Examining the effect of security behaviour on the continuance use of mobile money services in Ghana: a protection motivation perspective	40
The entrepreneurial effect of digital infrastructure development: micro evidence from China	39
Firm level evidence on diffusion and returns on ICT: a study on Indian informal MSMEs	32
Putting design justice at the center of ICT4D	30
Using the lens of affordances to unpack tangible forms of digitalization-enabled social value in the Bahamian Public Healthcare System	29
Analysis of spatial correlation network of urban digital economy in China	28
Challenging the local logics of oppression in times of post-colonial amnesia – a study of Ugandan LGBT+ activism in digital media spaces	25
Feminist and queer approaches to ICT4D: imagining and enacting liberation	24
Towards a process framework to guide the development of ICT4D programs: a South African perspective	21
Designing ICTs for development. A Delphi study on problem framing, approach, and team composition	21
Cycles of development in systems of survival with artificial intelligence: a formative research agenda	20
Understanding the impact of internet use on farmer entrepreneurship: evidence from rural China	19
Reducing technology-mediated service exclusion by providing human assistant support for senior citizens: evidence from China	19
Impact of COVID-19 on e-government: a pilot study of Poland	19
Understanding local social processes in ICT4D research	17
Correction	15
Organizational ethics and position relationship moderators among knowledge workers: a regional study of Poland	15
Decolonizing gender through ICT: a semiotic analysis of web images from Two-Spirit people websites	15
AI for social good and the corporate capture of global development	15

Inequality through digitalization: investigation of mediating and moderating mechanisms	14
Digital financial services in marginalised communities: pathways to poverty reduction and economic empowerment	14
Evaluating a phone-based Interactive Voice Response system for reducing misinformation and improving malaria literacy	13
Sustainable business value model in the ICT4D research agenda	13
A digital village model for supply chain management capabilities development in micro-small-medium enterprise in South Sumatra	13
Recognizing and adjusting: developing an adaptive team information seeking framework for emergency situation assessment	13
Data management system for sustainable agriculture among smallholder farmers in Tanzania: research-in-progress	12
Evaluating the effect of ICT on trade and economic growth from the perspective of Eastern African belt and road countries	12
Socio-technical design principles for a multi-stakeholder agriculture extension information system in Ethiopia	12
Creating cycles of prosperity with human digital development for intelligent global health	11
M-government and Saudi women’s empowerment: a capability approach perspective	11
ICT4D and the capability approach: understanding how freedom of expression on ICTs affect human development at the country-level	11
Indigenous knowledge and digital financial inclusion: a comparison between Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa	11
Designing a user-centric mobile-based agro advisory system for sustainable development of smallholder farming systems in the eastern Himalayas, India	11
Leveraging the digital ecosystem concept for development research and practice – potentials, limitations, and ways forward	11
Women’s solidarity as feminism in action: the concept of sisterhood ( sororidad ) in #LasRespondonas, a Facebook group in Peru	11
The impact of internet development on green total factor productivity in China’s prefectural cities	11
Institutional quality-banking efficiency nexuses in Africa. How does ICT moderate?	10
Introducing digital health information systems in post-conflict Mozambique: a historical perspective	10
Deconstructing big data for development (BD4D): continuities and reflections of development discourse in the age of datafication	10
Digital economy and low-carbon transformation of economy in China: analyzing spatial spillover effects and pathways	10
The effect of ICT on financial sector development in Africa: does regulatory quality matter?	8
Visual imagery and the informal city: examining 360-degree imaging technologies for informal settlement representation	8
Relationships between Sustainable Development Goals and Information and Communication Technologies in Europe	8
Empowering through digital skills training: an empirical study of poor unemployed working-age women in India	8
The use of mobile learning: a pathway towards refugees’ inclusion	8
Digital transformation for development: a human capital key or system of oppression?	8
Correction	8
Exploring the factors influencing green IT adoption and firm performance: an empirical study of Ghanaian manufacturing firms	8
Centering queer knowledge paradigms in designing and implementing health information and communication technologies	8
Strategic Information Systems (SIS) implementation at a bank in an emerging economy: implications for strategic enterprise capabilities and societal development	8
Inequalities of Indonesia’s regional digital development and its association with socioeconomic characteristics: a spatial and multivariate analysis	8
Digital public goods: understanding the role of generativity in fostering digital innovation for development	8
The influence of organizational resources and administrative processes on the quality of Brazilian open data	8
Digital divide reflections on regional development disparities in Türkiye	7
Digital innovation in education: a study of e-procurement technology acceptance models	7
The impact of the national big data comprehensive pilot zone on digital economy development: evidence from China	7
Digitalization and dignity: digital driving in Kenya	7
Comprehending ICT for gender empowerment in an aging context: digitalization of marginalized female elderly in the Global South during COVID-19	7
Can information and communication technologies contribute to poverty reduction? Evidence from poor counties in China	7
Information and communication technologies and the COVID-19: from economic inequality to educational digital divide in central and South America	7
Data-driven disaster resilience assessment: a case study in the Spanish transportation system	6
The role of governance in the effect of the internet on financial inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa	6
Technology platforms as an ICT4D model for business development	6
Exploring the gender gap in mobile money awareness and use: evidence from eight low and middle income countries	6
Information communication and technology, and environmental degradation in Africa: a new approach via moments	6