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 2020-07-01 to 2024-07-01.)

Article	Citations
COVID-19 implications on household income and food security in Kenya and Uganda: Findings from a rapid assessment	352
Adaptation interventions and their effect on vulnerability in developing countries: Help, hindrance or irrelevance?	330
Sustainability and development after COVID-19	258
Gender inequality during the COVID-19 pandemic: Income, expenditure, savings, and job loss	242
Post-pandemic transformations: How and why COVID-19 requires us to rethink development	230
COVID-19 and the rise of intimate partner violence	182
COVID-19 and the case for global development	173
Economic complexity and greenhouse gas emissions	161
Which farms feed the world and has farmland become more concentrated?	153
Impacts of a national lockdown on smallholder farmers’ income and food security: Empirical evidence from two states in India	146
Economic growth, convergence, and world food demand and supply	145
Adoption of agricultural technology in the developing world: A meta-analysis of the empirical literature	140
The impact of climate vulnerability on firms’ cost of capital and access to finance	130
Remote-learning, time-use, and mental health of Ecuadorian high-school students during the COVID-19 quarantine	129
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	127
Remittances and economic growth: A meta-analysis	124
Beyond banning wildlife trade: COVID-19, conservation and development	115
The COVID-19 pandemic and food insecurity: A viewpoint on India	113
Responding to COVID-19: Community volunteerism and coproduction in China	109
The local governance of COVID-19: Disease prevention and social security in rural India	105
Inequality of opportunity, inequality of income and economic growth	98
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	96
Equity as both a means and an end: Lessons for resilient food systems from COVID-19	94
The short-term economic effects of COVID-19 on low-income households in rural Kenya: An analysis using weekly financial household data	90
Examining the economic impact of COVID-19 in India through daily electricity consumption and nighttime light intensity	88

Lessons for climate policy from behavioral biases towards COVID-19 and climate change risks	87
Dispossessed by decarbonisation: Reducing vulnerability, injustice, and inequality in the lived experience of low-carbon pathways	82
The pandemic of poverty, vulnerability, and COVID-19: Evidence from a fuzzy multidimensional analysis of deprivations in Brazil	80
A sustainable livelihoods framework for the 21st century	77
Using agriculture for development: Supply- and demand-side approaches	76
COVID-19: Large-scale collective action, government intervention, and the importance of trust	74
Livelihoods in COVID times: Gendered perils and new pathways in India	74
The short-term impacts of COVID-19 on households in developing countries: An overview based on a harmonized dataset of high-frequency surveys	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	73
Modeling interlinkages between sustainable development goals using network analysis	72
All things equal? Heterogeneity in policy effectiveness against COVID-19 spread in chile	72
Preliminary lessons from COVID-19 disruptions of small-scale fishery supply chains	70
Learning from past pandemic governance: Early response and Public-Private Partnerships in testing of COVID-19 in South Korea	69
Food politics and development	69
Managing the COVID-19 pandemic in poor urban neighborhoods: The case of Accra and Johannesburg	67
Poverty and COVID-19 in Africa and Latin America	67
COVID-19′s impacts on migrant workers from Bangladesh: In search of policy intervention	63
Maldevelopment revisited: Inclusiveness and social impacts of soy expansion over Brazil’s Cerrado in Matopiba	62
Life under lockdown: Illustrating tradeoffs in South Africa’s response to COVID-19	60
Evolution and early government responses to COVID-19 in South America	59
Industrial policy for sustainable human development in the post-Covid19 era	58
Fighting COVID-19 in Hong Kong: The effects of community and social mobilization	57
Disability-inclusive responses to COVID-19: Lessons learnt from research on social protection in low- and middle-income countries	57
The impact of microcredit on agricultural technology adoption and productivity: Evidence from randomized control trial in Tanzania	57
When international sustainability frameworks encounter domestic politics: The sustainable development goals and agri-food governance in South America	56
Why the Great Food Transformation may not happen – A deep-dive into our food systems’ political economy, controversies and politics of evidence	56
Humanising agricultural extension: A review	55
Systematic prioritisation of SDGs: Machine learning approach	55
“Inclusive business” in agriculture: Evidence from the evolution of agricultural value chains	55