OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Information Technology for Development is 7. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Impacts of ICT and digital finance on poverty and income inequality: a sub-national study from India	140
Ethics-based ontology in ICT4D	63
Evaluating the impact of digital technology development on green total factor productivity: empirical evidence from Chinese cities	50
A tale of the digital divide at three levels: the impact on Chinese residents’ subjective relative deprivation in the digital era	48
Examining the effect of security behaviour on the continuance use of mobile money services in Ghana: a protection motivation perspective	42
Impact of e-commerce on income inequality: evidence from rural China based on cross-county panel data	36
‘I pretend to be an ideal woman just to keep their mouths shut’: Bangladeshi women’s contestation of abuse through social media platforms	36
The entrepreneurial effect of digital infrastructure development: micro evidence from China	32
Firm level evidence on diffusion and returns on ICT: a study on Indian informal MSMEs	32
From research to action: the practice of decolonizing ICT4D	30
Institutional development in an information-driven economy: can ICTs enhance economic growth for low- and lower middle-income countries?	28
Putting design justice at the center of ICT4D	26
Using the lens of affordances to unpack tangible forms of digitalization-enabled social value in the Bahamian Public Healthcare System	24
Impacts of information and communication technologies on the SDGs: the case of Mayu Telecomunicaciones in rural areas of Peru	22
Analysis of spatial correlation network of urban digital economy in China	22
Feminist and queer approaches to ICT4D: imagining and enacting liberation	21
Challenging the local logics of oppression in times of post-colonial amnesia – a study of Ugandan LGBT+ activism in digital media spaces	20
Tribute to a prodigious scholar, mentor and global thought leader: Professor Peter Keen	19
Towards a process framework to guide the development of ICT4D programs: a South African perspective	18
Designing ICTs for development. A Delphi study on problem framing, approach, and team composition	18
Understanding the impact of internet use on farmer entrepreneurship: evidence from rural China	16
Telecentres’ contribution to women's empowerment in rural areas of South Africa	16
Digital finance and happiness: evidence from China	16
Cycles of development in systems of survival with artificial intelligence: a formative research agenda	15
Impact of COVID-19 on e-government: a pilot study of Poland	15

The moderating role of ICT diffusion between financial development and economic growth: a bootstrap ARDL approach in Saudi Arabia	13
Understanding local social processes in ICT4D research	12
Organizational ethics and position relationship moderators among knowledge workers: a regional study of Poland	12
Reducing technology-mediated service exclusion by providing human assistant support for senior citizens: evidence from China	12
AI for social good and the corporate capture of global development	12
Correction	11
Correction	10
Recognizing and adjusting: developing an adaptive team information seeking framework for emergency situation assessment	9
Digital financial services in marginalised communities: pathways to poverty reduction and economic empowerment	9
Decolonizing gender through ICT: a semiotic analysis of web images from Two-Spirit people websites	9
Sustainable business value model in the ICT4D research agenda	9
A digital village model for supply chain management capabilities development in micro-small-medium enterprise in South Sumatra	8
The role of information and communication technology and financial development in shaping a low-carbon environment: a Belt and Road journey toward development	8
Examining the health impact of elderly ICT use in China	7
Socio-technical design principles for a multi-stakeholder agriculture extension information system in Ethiopia	7
The impact of internet development on green total factor productivity in China’s prefectural cities	7
ICT4D and the capability approach: understanding how freedom of expression on ICTs affect human development at the country-level	7
Inequality through digitalization: investigation of mediating and moderating mechanisms	7
Indigenous knowledge and digital financial inclusion: a comparison between Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa	7
Data management system for sustainable agriculture among smallholder farmers in Tanzania: research-in-progress	7
Designing a user-centric mobile-based agro advisory system for sustainable development of smallholder farming systems in the eastern Himalayas, India	7
Digital inequality beyond the digital divide: conceptualizing adverse digital incorporation in the global South	7
Evaluating the effect of ICT on trade and economic growth from the perspective of Eastern African belt and road countries	7
Evaluating a phone-based Interactive Voice Response system for reducing misinformation and improving malaria literacy	7
Eliciting design principles using a data justice framework for participatory urban water governance observatories	7
Leveraging the digital ecosystem concept for development research and practice – potentials, limitations, and ways forward	7
Creating cycles of prosperity with human digital development for intelligent global health	7