OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of World Development is 55. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
COVID-19 implications on household income and food security in Kenya and Uganda: Findings from a rapid assessment	373
Adaptation interventions and their effect on vulnerability in developing countries: Help, hindrance or irrelevance?	355
Sustainability and development after COVID-19	263
Gender inequality during the COVID-19 pandemic: Income, expenditure, savings, and job loss	249
Post-pandemic transformations: How and why COVID-19 requires us to rethink development	242
COVID-19 and the rise of intimate partner violence	186
Economic complexity and greenhouse gas emissions	177
Which farms feed the world and has farmland become more concentrated?	170
Adoption of agricultural technology in the developing world: A meta-analysis of the empirical literature	164
Impacts of a national lockdown on smallholder farmers’ income and food security: Empirical evidence from two states in India	154
The impact of climate vulnerability on firms’ cost of capital and access to finance	146
Remote-learning, time-use, and mental health of Ecuadorian high-school students during the COVID-19 quarantine	133
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	133
Beyond banning wildlife trade: COVID-19, conservation and development	117
The COVID-19 pandemic and food insecurity: A viewpoint on India	116
Responding to COVID-19: Community volunteerism and coproduction in China	115
The local governance of COVID-19: Disease prevention and social security in rural India	114
Inequality of opportunity, inequality of income and economic growth	107
A sustainable livelihoods framework for the 21st century	100
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	100
The short-term economic effects of COVID-19 on low-income households in rural Kenya: An analysis using weekly financial household data	95
Equity as both a means and an end: Lessons for resilient food systems from COVID-19	95
Dispossessed by decarbonisation: Reducing vulnerability, injustice, and inequality in the lived experience of low-carbon pathways	93
Lessons for climate policy from behavioral biases towards COVID-19 and climate change risks	93
Examining the economic impact of COVID-19 in India through daily electricity consumption and nighttime light intensity	90

The pandemic of poverty, vulnerability, and COVID-19: Evidence from a fuzzy multidimensional analysis of deprivations in Brazil	83
Livelihoods in COVID times: Gendered perils and new pathways in India	80
Modeling interlinkages between sustainable development goals using network analysis	79
The short-term impacts of COVID-19 on households in developing countries: An overview based on a harmonized dataset of high-frequency surveys	79
COVID-19: Large-scale collective action, government intervention, and the importance of trust	77
Preliminary lessons from COVID-19 disruptions of small-scale fishery supply chains	77
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	76
All things equal? Heterogeneity in policy effectiveness against COVID-19 spread in chile	74
COVID-19′s impacts on migrant workers from Bangladesh: In search of policy intervention	72
Learning from past pandemic governance: Early response and Public-Private Partnerships in testing of COVID-19 in South Korea	71
Poverty and COVID-19 in Africa and Latin America	71
Managing the COVID-19 pandemic in poor urban neighborhoods: The case of Accra and Johannesburg	70
Why the Great Food Transformation may not happen – A deep-dive into our food systems’ political economy, controversies and politics of evidence	70
Disability-inclusive responses to COVID-19: Lessons learnt from research on social protection in low- and middle-income countries	67
Maldevelopment revisited: Inclusiveness and social impacts of soy expansion over Brazil’s Cerrado in Matopiba	65
Life under lockdown: Illustrating tradeoffs in South Africa’s response to COVID-19	64
The power of the collective empowers women: Evidence from self-help groups in India	63
Industrial policy for sustainable human development in the post-Covid19 era	63
Humanising agricultural extension: A review	61
Systematic prioritisation of SDGs: Machine learning approach	60
Evolution and early government responses to COVID-19 in South America	59
When international sustainability frameworks encounter domestic politics: The sustainable development goals and agri-food governance in South America	59
Does environmental regulation increase domestic value-added in exports? An empirical study of cleaner production standards in China	58
Grassroots waste picker organizations addressing the UN sustainable development goals	57
Taking power: Women’s empowerment and household Well-being in Sub-Saharan Africa	56
Can e-government limit the scope of the informal economy?	56
Specialization in food production affects global food security and food systems sustainability	55
Gender equality is diluted in commitments made to small-scale fisheries	55
The Kerala model in the time of COVID19: Rethinking state, society and democracy	55
The social contract as a tool of analysis: Introduction to the special issue on “Framing the evolution of new social contracts in Middle Eastern and North African countries”	55