OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of World Development is 42. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Verdant vitality: forests benefit child health in China	394
The role of the commodity price boom in shaping public social spending: Evidence from Latin America	189
Cultivating inequality? Regional rubber dynamics and implications for voluntary sustainability programs in Lao PDR	156
Spatial Inequality, Poverty and Informality in the Democratic Republic of the Congo	130
Introductory essay for special issue: future of work and welfare in India’s halting structural transition	116
Gutenberg 2.0 − Academic publishing in the digital world	115
Is the conventional wisdom on resource taxation correct? Mining evidence from African countries' tax legislations	110
An institutional analysis of ‘power within’ local governance: A Bazaari tale from Pakistan	108
Social gaps, perceived inequality and protests	104
Gendering the safety net: Social protection policy and the limits to Decent Work in Cambodia’s garment sector	100
Discrimination in post-conflict settings: Experimental evidence from Colombia	94
How wartime recruitment affects political engagement among civilians: Evidence from Côte d’Ivoire	87
A behavioral approach to social security compliance targeting self-employed workers in Brazil	80
The short-term effects of visa restrictions on migrants’ legal status and well-being: A difference-in-differences approach on Venezuelan displacement	79
Income inequality in Africa, 1990–2019: Measurement, patterns, determinants	75
Climate change vulnerability and the resilience of energy consumption	71
Investigating the Inclusive-Performance Tradeoff in Agricultural Cooperatives: Evidence from Nepal	71
Infrastructure-driven land appropriation, institutional change and conflict in a communal conservancy in Kenya	71
Violent instability and modern contraception: Evidence from Mali	66
Avocados: Mexico’s green gold, drug cartel violence and the U.S. opioid crisis	64
Social capital's role in mitigating economic vulnerability: Understanding the impact of income disparities on farmers' livelihoods	63
What corruption is most harmful? Unbundling citizen perceptions	62
Is the rising tide of specialty coffee lifting all boats?	60
Cracks in the “gold standard”: The Eurocentrism of mining in development economics	60
The winds of inequalities: How hurricanes affect inequalities at the macro level	60

Seeing the broader picture: Stakeholder contributions to understanding infrastructure impacts of the Interoceanic Highway in the southwestern Amazon	59
Wealth inequality and economic growth: Evidence from the World Inequality Database	58
How epidemics affect marginalized communities in war-torn countries: Ebola, securitization, and public opinion about the security forces in Liberia	56
Violent conflicts and learning outcomes: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa	56
Decomposing the impacts of an agricultural value chain development project by ethnicity and gender in Nepal	55
Representation matters? Female legislators and women’s health in Bangladesh	52
Challenges of using PAR to promote collective action with denotified tribes in India: Surfacing intersections and tensions between religious and other inequalities	50
Historical bombings, urban community, and prosociality: Application of the First internet lab-in-the-field experiment	50
On the distributional effects of principal-agent problems: Evidence from China’s shell farmer cooperatives	50
Blended Binds: How DFI's support programs stifle bank lending in Africa	49
Urban social movements and local state capacity	49
Kinship, dadon and patronage politics: The role of informal institutions in climate adaptation	48
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	46
Oil revenues and labor market reforms	44
Community and industrial forest concessions: Are they effective at reducing forest loss and does FSC certification play a role?	43
Trade agreements and sustainable fisheries	43
The long-term health impact of Agent Orange: Evidence from the Vietnam War	43
Intergenerational effects of education on child mortality: Evidence from the compulsory primary schooling law in Vietnam	42
“I have already died in this PLACE:” livelihood impact pathways of conservation and land use change among highland Indigenous groups in northern Thailand	42
Women’s Work – Routes to Social and Economic Empowerment: Introduction to the Special Issue	42
Scaling up and scaling out of darkness: Elucidating the influences of institutional dysfunction in scaling up solar PV in Sub-Saharan Africa	42
Estimating the relationship between ethnic inequality, conflict and voter turnout in Africa using geocoded data	42