OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Resources Policy is 94. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Rapid decarbonization in the Chinese electric power sector and air pollution reduction Co-benefits in the Post-COP26 Era	514
Exploring the asymmetric effect of remittance inflows on gold import demand: Evidence from a large gold-consuming and remittance-receiving country	314
Role of stock market return and natural resources utilisation on green economic development: Empirical evidence from China	309
Measuring natural resources rents volatility: Evidence from EGARCH and TGARCH for global data	303
Comparative analysis of two resources-based economies: A study of policy recommendation toward sustainable development	302
Beyond the doom: Sustainable water management practices of small-scale mining operations	294
A qualitative model of mining company taxpayer behaviour in the Lao PDR	284
Evaluating and ranking the mining damage prevention programs in South Korea: An application of the fuzzy set theory	265
Editorial Board	258
The psychology of mineral wealth: Empirical evidence from Kazakhstan	250
Optimizing the utilization of mineral assets and human resources for enhanced social welfare and sustainable development	227
Nexus between economic recovery, energy consumption, CO2 emission, and total natural resources rent	217
The convergence in per capita natural resources in the perspective of resource curse	207
Natural resources a curse or blessing: The story of Latin American and Caribbean economies employing bootstrap quantile method	204
Detecting speculative bubbles in metal prices: Evidence from GSADF test and machine learning approaches	198
Evaluating the semi-mobile in-pit crusher option through a two-step mathematical model	195
Unraveling the causal impact: Oil price uncertainty on firms’ productivity in China	189
Innovation, financial risk and natural resources for sustainable development: Fresh evidence from BRICS economies	185
Appraising sustainability and economic growth through Fintech, green finance and natural resource in Asian economies: A CS-ARDL study	184
Subsample stability, change detection and dynamics of oil and metal markets: A recursive approach	184
Does resource-richness cause resources curse in financial market? A sustainable development overview for RCEP economies	165
Challenges and pathways for Brazilian mining sustainability	165
A simulated annealing based approach for open pit mine production scheduling with stockpiling option	164
Do government resource management policies influence green productivity? New perspectives from fintech and digital resource policy in China	163
Testing the resource curse hypothesis: The dynamic roles of institutional quality, inflation and growth for Dragon	163

Sustaining the mining industry through the lens of corporate social responsibility: A review research	161
Determinants of formalised mineral market outlet choice decision of artisanal and small-scale gold miners in Geita, Tanzania	160
Does sustainability improve financial performance? An analysis of Latin American oil and gas firms	160
How digital government mediate the influence of fossil fuels on green innovation: Evidence from China's a-share industrial enterprises	158
50 years of Resources Policy: A bibliometric analysis	157
Sustainable finance in natural resource extraction: Navigating green recovery pathways	157
Macroeconomics, geopolitical risk, and resource commodity price bubbles	152
Is gold a long-run hedge, diversifier, or safe haven for oil? Empirical evidence based on DCC-MIDAS	151
Exploring carbon neutrality potential in the petroluem industry: The role of green monetary policies as motivators	150
Natural resources revenues, shadow economy and financial institutions depth: The way forward	150
Sustainable long-term production planning of open pit mines: An integrated framework for concurrent economical and environmental optimization	149
How good is green finance for green innovation? Evidence from the Chinese high-carbon sector	145
Infectious diseases and health outcomes’ implications of natural resource curse in Africa	144
Measurement and prediction of land use conflict in an opencast mining area	142
Green financial regulation and shale gas resources management	141
The innovation process in mining: Integrating insights from innovation and change management	139
Asymmetric impact of natural resources, fintech, and digital banking on climate change and environmental sustainability in BRICS countries	138
Do exchange rate and inflation rate matter in the cyclicality of oil price and stock returns?	136
Tracing gendered and classed dimension of formalization of artisanal and small-scale mining efforts in Mozambique	136
The asymmetric effect of green investment, natural resources, and growth on financial inclusion in China	136
The role of Fintech in containing the carbon curse of natural resources: Evidence from resource-rich countries	132
‘We don't joke with our money’: Gender-based occupational segregation and women's remuneration negotiations in artisanal and small-scale mining	128
Impact of fintech readiness, natural resources, and business freedom on economic growth in the CAREC region	128
Unveiling the symptoms of Dutch disease: A comparative and sustainable analysis of two oil-rich countries	127
Green bonds and ESG investments: Catalysts for sustainable finance and green economic growth in resource-abundant economies	125
Natural resource abundance, environmental sustainability, and policies and institutions for environmental sustainability in sub-Saharan Africa	125
The impact of Covid-19 on commodity markets volatility: Analyzing time-frequency relations between commodity prices and coronavirus panic levels	123
Exploring the role of Fintech, Green Finance and Natural Resources towards Environmental Sustainability: A study on ASEAN economies	123
Limited state governance and institutional hybridization in alluvial ASM in Peru	123
Natural resource endowment and human development: Contemporary role of governance	120
Time-frequency connectedness among traditional/new energy, green finance, and ESG in pre- and post-Russia-Ukraine war periods	120
Return and volatility connectedness among the BRICS stock and oil markets	119
A fast method to find smooth economic envelopes for block and panel caving mines	118
Digital economy, resource richness, external conflicts, and ecological footprint: Evidence from emerging countries	118
Environmental reclamation of limestone mining sites in Italy: Financial evaluation, challenges and proposals for sustainable development	118
The impact of resource taxation on resource curse: Evidence from Chinese resource tax policy	117
Natural resources policy making through finance? The role of green finance on energy resources poverty	116
Corporate social responsibility in complex systems based on sustainable development	116
Modeling the dynamic links among natural resources, economic globalization, disaggregated energy consumption, and environmental quality: Fresh evidence from GCC economies	115
The impact of geopolitical risk on strategic emerging minerals prices: Evidence from MODWT-based Granger causality test	115
Oil rents, trade environment and financial development: An international evidence	114
Medium- to long-term nickel price forecasting using LSTM and GRU networks	113
Do natural resources play a role in economic development? Role of institutional quality, trade openness, and FDI	113
Gold, bitcoin, and portfolio diversification: Lessons from the Ukrainian war	112
The impact of COVID-19 news, panic and media coverage on the oil and gold prices: An ARDL approach	111
Nexus between fintech, green finance and natural resources management: Transition of BRICS nation industries from resource curse to resource blessed sustainable economies	111
Impact of COVID-19 outbreak on multi-scale asymmetric spillovers between food and oil prices	111
Multiscale dependence, spillovers, and connectedness between precious metals and currency markets: A hedge and safe-haven analysis	111
Disentangling the geopolitical risk and its effects on commodities. Evidence from a panel of G8 countries	110
Sustainable development or smoke?: The role of natural resources, renewable energy, and agricultural practices in China	110

How does natural resource dependence influence industrial green transformation in China? Appraising underlying mechanisms for sustainable development at regional level	108
Environmental innovation, climate change and knowledge diffusion process: How can spillovers play a role in the goal of sustainable economic performance?	107
Bi-level multi-objective distribution strategy integrating the permit trading scheme towards coal production capacity layout optimization: Case study from China	105
Resilience assessment of trade network in copper industry chain and the risk resistance capacity of core countries: Based on complex network	104
Digitalization of logistics for transition to a resource-efficient and circular economy	104
Patterns of technological capability development in Iran's steel industry: An analysis based on windows of opportunity for technological learning	103
Resources melioration and the circular economy: Sustainability potentials for mineral, mining and extraction sector in emerging economies	103
Forecasting the Crude Oil prices for last four decades using deep learning approach	103
Does geopolitical risk improve the directional predictability from oil to stock returns? Evidence from oil-exporting and oil-importing countries	102
Dynamic probabilistic risk assessment of emergency response for intelligent coal mining face system, case study: Gas overrun scenario	102
Can globalization and the green economy hedge natural resources? Functions of population growth and financial development in BRICS countries	101
Exploring the risk and economic vulnerability of global energy supply chain interruption in the context of Russo-Ukrainian war	100
Rare earth and financial markets: Dynamics of return and volatility connectedness around the COVID-19 outbreak	99
How do the exploitation of natural resources and fiscal policy affect green growth? Moderating role of ecological governance in G7 countries	99
Technological innovation and supply of critical metals: A perspective of industrial chains	98
The evolution and influencing factors of international tungsten competition from the industrial chain perspective	97
How do natural resource rents and productive capacity affect carbon emissions? Evidence from developed and developing countries	96
Determinants of the load capacity factor in China: A novel dynamic ARDL approach for ecological footprint accounting	95
Do natural resources influence E-government in developing countries? Effects and transmission channels	94
Do natural resources ensure energy efficiency? A novel paradigm of resources-efficiency nexus for sustainable development	94
Natural resources endowment: What more does West Africa need in order to grow?	94
Geopolitical risk and crude oil price predictability: Novel decomposition ensemble approach based ternary interval number series	94