OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of World Development is 44. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Verdant vitality: forests benefit child health in China	167
The role of the commodity price boom in shaping public social spending: Evidence from Latin America	150
Cultivating inequality? Regional rubber dynamics and implications for voluntary sustainability programs in Lao PDR	133
Spatial Inequality, Poverty and Informality in the Democratic Republic of the Congo	126
Introductory essay for special issue: future of work and welfare in India’s halting structural transition	124
Gutenberg 2.0 − Academic publishing in the digital world	111
Social gaps, perceived inequality and protests	110
Gendering the safety net: Social protection policy and the limits to Decent Work in Cambodia’s garment sector	109
How wartime recruitment affects political engagement among civilians: Evidence from Côte d’Ivoire	101
What corruption is most harmful? Unbundling citizen perceptions	98
Cracks in the “gold standard”: The Eurocentrism of mining in development economics	89
How epidemics affect marginalized communities in war-torn countries: Ebola, securitization, and public opinion about the security forces in Liberia	85
A behavioral approach to social security compliance targeting self-employed workers in Brazil	84
Infrastructure-driven land appropriation, institutional change and conflict in a communal conservancy in Kenya	83
Avocados: Mexico’s green gold, drug cartel violence and the U.S. opioid crisis	79
Seeing the broader picture: Stakeholder contributions to understanding infrastructure impacts of the Interoceanic Highway in the southwestern Amazon	73
Violent conflicts and learning outcomes: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa	71
Investigating the Inclusive-Performance Tradeoff in Agricultural Cooperatives: Evidence from Nepal	70
The short-term effects of visa restrictions on migrants’ legal status and well-being: A difference-in-differences approach on Venezuelan displacement	69
Income inequality in Africa, 1990–2019: Measurement, patterns, determinants	69
Social capital's role in mitigating economic vulnerability: Understanding the impact of income disparities on farmers' livelihoods	68
Violent instability and modern contraception: Evidence from Mali	67
Wealth inequality and economic growth: Evidence from the World Inequality Database	67
Climate change vulnerability and the resilience of energy consumption	65
The winds of inequalities: How hurricanes affect inequalities at the macro level	64

Is the rising tide of specialty coffee lifting all boats?	63
Is the conventional wisdom on resource taxation correct? Mining evidence from African countries' tax legislations	62
Decomposing the impacts of an agricultural value chain development project by ethnicity and gender in Nepal	60
Historical bombings, urban community, and prosociality: Application of the First internet lab-in-the-field experiment	57
Challenges of using PAR to promote collective action with denotified tribes in India: Surfacing intersections and tensions between religious and other inequalities	56
Urban social movements and local state capacity	54
Oil revenues and labor market reforms	52
Kinship, dadon and patronage politics: The role of informal institutions in climate adaptation	52
Blended Binds: How DFI's support programs stifle bank lending in Africa	52
Community and industrial forest concessions: Are they effective at reducing forest loss and does FSC certification play a role?	51
Trade agreements and sustainable fisheries	49
Women’s Work – Routes to Social and Economic Empowerment: Introduction to the Special Issue	47
“I have already died in this PLACE:” livelihood impact pathways of conservation and land use change among highland Indigenous groups in northern Thailand	47
“I will sample until things get better – or until I die.” Potential and limits of citizen science to promote social accountability for environmental pollution	46
Who are the “vanguard” women? Strategies for identifying women going against economic participation norms across 49 low- and middle-income countries	46
Identity and conflict: Evidence from Tuareg rebellion in Mali	46
Policies for aspirations. And opportunities	45
Who communicates the information matters for technology adoption	45
The fiscal cost of conflict: Evidence from Afghanistan 2005–2017	44
Disaster mortalities and the Sendai Framework Target A: Insights from Zimbabwe	44
Does institutional design matter? Constitutional regime types and party system closure in Asia	44