OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of World Development is 40. 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
Violent conflicts and learning outcomes: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa	259
Verdant vitality: forests benefit child health in China	155
What corruption is most harmful? Unbundling citizen perceptions	108
Spatial Inequality, Poverty and Informality in the Democratic Republic of the Congo	101
An institutional analysis of ‘power within’ local governance: A Bazaari tale from Pakistan	96
How epidemics affect marginalized communities in war-torn countries: Ebola, securitization, and public opinion about the security forces in Liberia	94
The economic burden of non-communicable diseases on households and their coping mechanisms: Evidence from rural Vietnam	88
Avocados: Mexico’s green gold, drug cartel violence and the U.S. opioid crisis	86
How wartime recruitment affects political engagement among civilians: Evidence from Côte d’Ivoire	85
The role of the commodity price boom in shaping public social spending: Evidence from Latin America	80
The short-term effects of visa restrictions on migrants’ legal status and well-being: A difference-in-differences approach on Venezuelan displacement	73
Erratum to “Flooding and child health: Evidence from Pakistan” [World Dev. 146 (2021) 105477]	71
'Wasters, agnostics, enforcers, competitors, and community integrators': Reclaimers, S@S, and the five types of residents in Johannesburg, South Africa	71
Decomposing the impacts of an agricultural value chain development project by ethnicity and gender in Nepal	67
Discrimination in post-conflict settings: Experimental evidence from Colombia	62
Investigating the Inclusive-Performance Tradeoff in Agricultural Cooperatives: Evidence from Nepal	61
Is the conventional wisdom on resource taxation correct? Mining evidence from African countries' tax legislations	58
Cultivating inequality? Regional rubber dynamics and implications for voluntary sustainability programs in Lao PDR	58
Social capital's role in mitigating economic vulnerability: Understanding the impact of income disparities on farmers' livelihoods	57
Income inequality in Africa, 1990–2019: Measurement, patterns, determinants	55
Missing women in India: Gender-specific effects of early-life rainfall shocks	55
Gutenberg 2.0 − Academic publishing in the digital world	54
Violent instability and modern contraception: Evidence from Mali	54
Is the rising tide of specialty coffee lifting all boats?	53
The winds of inequalities: How hurricanes affect inequalities at the macro level	50

Cracks in the “gold standard”: The Eurocentrism of mining in development economics	49
Infrastructure-driven land appropriation, institutional change and conflict in a communal conservancy in Kenya	47
Seeing the broader picture: Stakeholder contributions to understanding infrastructure impacts of the Interoceanic Highway in the southwestern Amazon	46
A supercyclone, landscapes of ‘emptiness’ and shrimp aquaculture: The lesser-known trajectories of disaster recovery in coastal Odisha, India	45
Can fruit and vegetable aggregation systems better balance improved producer livelihoods with more equitable distribution?	45
Property rights and misallocation: Evidence from land certification in China	43
Long-term impacts of school nutrition: Evidence from China’s school meal reform	43
Oil revenues and labor market reforms	42
Who are the “vanguard” women? Strategies for identifying women going against economic participation norms across 49 low- and middle-income countries	42
Blended Binds: How DFI's support programs stifle bank lending in Africa	42
Challenges of using PAR to promote collective action with denotified tribes in India: Surfacing intersections and tensions between religious and other inequalities	42
Estimating the relationship between ethnic inequality, conflict and voter turnout in Africa using geocoded data	42
Community and industrial forest concessions: Are they effective at reducing forest loss and does FSC certification play a role?	40
Armed conflict, institutions and deforestation: A dynamic spatiotemporal analysis of Colombia 2000–2018	40
What do we know about rural and informal non-farming labour? Evidence from a mixed methods study of artisanal and small-scale mining in Northwest Tanzania	40