OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of World Development is 54. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
COVID-19 implications on household income and food security in Kenya and Uganda: Findings from a rapid assessment	322
Adaptation interventions and their effect on vulnerability in developing countries: Help, hindrance or irrelevance?	271
Sustainability and development after COVID-19	243
Gender inequality during the COVID-19 pandemic: Income, expenditure, savings, and job loss	223
Post-pandemic transformations: How and why COVID-19 requires us to rethink development	202
COVID-19 and the rise of intimate partner violence	172
COVID-19 and the case for global development	167
Are we on the right path to achieve the sustainable development goals?	161
Economic complexity and greenhouse gas emissions	139
Impacts of a national lockdown on smallholder farmers’ income and food security: Empirical evidence from two states in India	137
Which farms feed the world and has farmland become more concentrated?	124
Economic growth, convergence, and world food demand and supply	123
Remote-learning, time-use, and mental health of Ecuadorian high-school students during the COVID-19 quarantine	122
Household response to an extreme shock: Evidence on the immediate impact of the Covid-19 lockdown on economic outcomes and well-being in rural Uganda	120
Beyond banning wildlife trade: COVID-19, conservation and development	112
Remittances and economic growth: A meta-analysis	107
The impact of climate vulnerability on firms’ cost of capital and access to finance	107
Adoption of agricultural technology in the developing world: A meta-analysis of the empirical literature	106
The COVID-19 pandemic and food insecurity: A viewpoint on India	104
Responding to COVID-19: Community volunteerism and coproduction in China	101
The local governance of COVID-19: Disease prevention and social security in rural India	90
COVID-19 and small enterprises in the food supply chain: Early impacts and implications for longer-term food system resilience in low- and middle-income countries	88
Equity as both a means and an end: Lessons for resilient food systems from COVID-19	84
The short-term economic effects of COVID-19 on low-income households in rural Kenya: An analysis using weekly financial household data	83
Bridging the financial inclusion gender gap in smallholder agriculture in Nigeria: An untapped potential for sustainable development	81

Lessons for climate policy from behavioral biases towards COVID-19 and climate change risks	81
Do environmental provisions in trade agreements make exports from developing countries greener?	80
The impact of high-speed rail on innovation: An empirical test of the companion innovation hypothesis of transportation improvement with China’s manufacturing firms	79
Examining the economic impact of COVID-19 in India through daily electricity consumption and nighttime light intensity	76
The pandemic of poverty, vulnerability, and COVID-19: Evidence from a fuzzy multidimensional analysis of deprivations in Brazil	73
Inequality of opportunity, inequality of income and economic growth	73
Why is the number of COVID-19 cases lower than expected in Sub-Saharan Africa? A cross-sectional analysis of the role of demographic and geographic factors	70
Large and artisanal scale mine development: The case for autonomous co-existence	70
COVID-19: Large-scale collective action, government intervention, and the importance of trust	68
Cornered by PAs: Adopting rights-based approaches to enable cost-effective conservation and climate action	68
All things equal? Heterogeneity in policy effectiveness against COVID-19 spread in chile	67
Dispossessed by decarbonisation: Reducing vulnerability, injustice, and inequality in the lived experience of low-carbon pathways	67
Between stranded assets and green transformation: Fossil-fuel-producing developing countries towards 2055	67
Using agriculture for development: Supply- and demand-side approaches	67
Livelihoods in COVID times: Gendered perils and new pathways in India	65
Food politics and development	64
Learning from past pandemic governance: Early response and Public-Private Partnerships in testing of COVID-19 in South Korea	64
Poverty and COVID-19 in Africa and Latin America	64
Preliminary lessons from COVID-19 disruptions of small-scale fishery supply chains	63
The short-term impacts of COVID-19 on households in developing countries: An overview based on a harmonized dataset of high-frequency surveys	62
Governance quality, remittances and their implications for food and nutrition security in Sub-Saharan Africa	62
Defining firm competitiveness: A multidimensional framework	60
Maldevelopment revisited: Inclusiveness and social impacts of soy expansion over Brazil’s Cerrado in Matopiba	60
Managing the COVID-19 pandemic in poor urban neighborhoods: The case of Accra and Johannesburg	59
Modeling interlinkages between sustainable development goals using network analysis	59
COVID-19′s impacts on migrant workers from Bangladesh: In search of policy intervention	58
Green economy, degradation narratives, and land-use conflicts in Tanzania	58
Evolution and early government responses to COVID-19 in South America	57
Life under lockdown: Illustrating tradeoffs in South Africa’s response to COVID-19	57