OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Resources Policy is 96. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Role of stock market return and natural resources utilisation on green economic development: Empirical evidence from China	563
Do government resource management policies influence green productivity? New perspectives from fintech and digital resource policy in China	354
Sustainable long-term production planning of open pit mines: An integrated framework for concurrent economical and environmental optimization	351
Environmental reclamation of limestone mining sites in Italy: Financial evaluation, challenges and proposals for sustainable development	348
50 years of Resources Policy: A bibliometric analysis	338
Determinants of formalised mineral market outlet choice decision of artisanal and small-scale gold miners in Geita, Tanzania	316
Sustainable finance in natural resource extraction: Navigating green recovery pathways	302
Natural resource extraction, energy efficiency moderation, and sustainable development in the Gulf Cooperation Council countries	266
Detecting speculative bubbles in metal prices: Evidence from GSADF test and machine learning approaches	247
How good is green finance for green innovation? Evidence from the Chinese high-carbon sector	220
Testing the resource curse hypothesis: The dynamic roles of institutional quality, inflation and growth for Dragon	220
Beyond the doom: Sustainable water management practices of small-scale mining operations	218
The role of Fintech in containing the carbon curse of natural resources: Evidence from resource-rich countries	212
Exploring carbon neutrality potential in the petroluem industry: The role of green monetary policies as motivators	212
Resources melioration and the circular economy: Sustainability potentials for mineral, mining and extraction sector in emerging economies	211
How does natural resource dependence influence industrial green transformation in China? Appraising underlying mechanisms for sustainable development at regional level	207
Technological innovation and supply of critical metals: A perspective of industrial chains	184
Asymmetric impact of natural resources, fintech, and digital banking on climate change and environmental sustainability in BRICS countries	183
Does sustainability improve financial performance? An analysis of Latin American oil and gas firms	182
Sustaining the mining industry through the lens of corporate social responsibility: A review research	181
How do the exploitation of natural resources and fiscal policy affect green growth? Moderating role of ecological governance in G7 countries	177
Rare earth and financial markets: Dynamics of return and volatility connectedness around the COVID-19 outbreak	176
Green financial regulation and shale gas resources management	174
Natural resource endowment and human development: Contemporary role of governance	171
Tracing gendered and classed dimension of formalization of artisanal and small-scale mining efforts in Mozambique	170

Digital economy, resource richness, external conflicts, and ecological footprint: Evidence from emerging countries	169
Connectedness between gold, copper, fossil fuels, and major stock markets: Implications for portfolio management	166
Unraveling the causal impact: Oil price uncertainty on firms’ productivity in China	165
Do Rare Earth Elements (REEs) hedge financial risk? A spillover and portfolio analysis in the context of the energy market	165
Governing mined landscapes through memory: Afro-centred approaches to post-extractive transitions	163
Oil rents, trade environment and financial development: An international evidence	159
The asymmetric effect of green investment, natural resources, and growth on financial inclusion in China	156
Gold, bitcoin, and portfolio diversification: Lessons from the Ukrainian war	153
Resilience assessment of trade network in copper industry chain and the risk resistance capacity of core countries: Based on complex network	150
Bi-level multi-objective distribution strategy integrating the permit trading scheme towards coal production capacity layout optimization: Case study from China	150
Natural resources revenues, shadow economy and financial institutions depth: The way forward	147
Exploring the asymmetric effect of remittance inflows on gold import demand: Evidence from a large gold-consuming and remittance-receiving country	146
Subsample stability, change detection and dynamics of oil and metal markets: A recursive approach	143
Patterns of technological capability development in Iran's steel industry: An analysis based on windows of opportunity for technological learning	142
Macroeconomics, geopolitical risk, and resource commodity price bubbles	142
‘We don't joke with our money’: Gender-based occupational segregation and women's remuneration negotiations in artisanal and small-scale mining	142
Infectious diseases and health outcomes’ implications of natural resource curse in Africa	140
Measuring natural resources rents volatility: Evidence from EGARCH and TGARCH for global data	139
Editorial Board	138
Does resource-richness cause resources curse in financial market? A sustainable development overview for RCEP economies	136
Return and volatility connectedness among the BRICS stock and oil markets	136
The psychology of mineral wealth: Empirical evidence from Kazakhstan	135
Rapid decarbonization in the Chinese electric power sector and air pollution reduction Co-benefits in the Post-COP26 Era	131
The impact of geopolitical risk on strategic emerging minerals prices: Evidence from MODWT-based Granger causality test	130
A qualitative model of mining company taxpayer behaviour in the Lao PDR	129
Unveiling the symptoms of Dutch disease: A comparative and sustainable analysis of two oil-rich countries	129
Comparative analysis of two resources-based economies: A study of policy recommendation toward sustainable development	128
The impact of resource taxation on resource curse: Evidence from Chinese resource tax policy	126
Challenges and pathways for Brazilian mining sustainability	126
Environmental innovation, climate change and knowledge diffusion process: How can spillovers play a role in the goal of sustainable economic performance?	124
Digitalization of logistics for transition to a resource-efficient and circular economy	123
Does geopolitical risk improve the directional predictability from oil to stock returns? Evidence from oil-exporting and oil-importing countries	123
Dynamic probabilistic risk assessment of emergency response for intelligent coal mining face system, case study: Gas overrun scenario	122
Exploring the role of Fintech, Green Finance and Natural Resources towards Environmental Sustainability: A study on ASEAN economies	121
Evaluating the semi-mobile in-pit crusher option through a two-step mathematical model	118
How digital government mediate the influence of fossil fuels on green innovation: Evidence from China's a-share industrial enterprises	117
Nexus between economic recovery, energy consumption, CO2 emission, and total natural resources rent	116
A fast method to find smooth economic envelopes for block and panel caving mines	116
Evaluating and ranking the mining damage prevention programs in South Korea: An application of the fuzzy set theory	116
Impact of fintech readiness, natural resources, and business freedom on economic growth in the CAREC region	115
Natural resources a curse or blessing: The story of Latin American and Caribbean economies employing bootstrap quantile method	114
The innovation process in mining: Integrating insights from innovation and change management	114
Medium- to long-term nickel price forecasting using LSTM and GRU networks	114
Appraising sustainability and economic growth through Fintech, green finance and natural resource in Asian economies: A CS-ARDL study	113
Forecasting the Crude Oil prices for last four decades using deep learning approach	112
Natural resource abundance, environmental sustainability, and policies and institutions for environmental sustainability in sub-Saharan Africa	112
Innovation, financial risk and natural resources for sustainable development: Fresh evidence from BRICS economies	112
Do exchange rate and inflation rate matter in the cyclicality of oil price and stock returns?	112
Disentangling the geopolitical risk and its effects on commodities. Evidence from a panel of G8 countries	111
Green bonds and ESG investments: Catalysts for sustainable finance and green economic growth in resource-abundant economies	109

Nexus between fintech, green finance and natural resources management: Transition of BRICS nation industries from resource curse to resource blessed sustainable economies	108
Impact of COVID-19 outbreak on multi-scale asymmetric spillovers between food and oil prices	106
Determinants of the load capacity factor in China: A novel dynamic ARDL approach for ecological footprint accounting	106
Optimizing the utilization of mineral assets and human resources for enhanced social welfare and sustainable development	104
Is gold a long-run hedge, diversifier, or safe haven for oil? Empirical evidence based on DCC-MIDAS	104
How do natural resource rents and productive capacity affect carbon emissions? Evidence from developed and developing countries	104
Can globalization and the green economy hedge natural resources? Functions of population growth and financial development in BRICS countries	103
Impact of natural resource management on entrepreneurial activity and SME growth in emerging economies: Does the rule of law matter?	103
Do natural resources play a role in economic development? Role of institutional quality, trade openness, and FDI	103
Natural resources policy making through finance? The role of green finance on energy resources poverty	102
The convergence in per capita natural resources in the perspective of resource curse	102
Sustainable development or smoke?: The role of natural resources, renewable energy, and agricultural practices in China	101
Corporate social responsibility in complex systems based on sustainable development	101
Exploring the risk and economic vulnerability of global energy supply chain interruption in the context of Russo-Ukrainian war	100
Time-frequency connectedness among traditional/new energy, green finance, and ESG in pre- and post-Russia-Ukraine war periods	100
Do natural resources influence E-government in developing countries? Effects and transmission channels	100
Multiscale dependence, spillovers, and connectedness between precious metals and currency markets: A hedge and safe-haven analysis	100
Oil extraction, private investment, and sustainable economic development in China	98
Achieving energy justice and common prosperity through green energy resources	98
Evaluating the effect of mineral resources on the accessibility of green power: A global perspective	97
The effect of oil discovery in Brazil: A synthetic control approach	97
Recovery of strategic elements from mining tailings at La Cienega, Peru, through geochemical and mineralogical assessment: a focus on circular economy policy	96
Investigating the link between green finance, environmental orientation, and carbon neutrality: A panel study of the metal extraction sector	96