OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of World Development is 43. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
An institutional analysis of ‘power within’ local governance: A Bazaari tale from Pakistan	314
Is the conventional wisdom on resource taxation correct? Mining evidence from African countries' tax legislations	218
Erratum to “Flooding and child health: Evidence from Pakistan” [World Dev. 146 (2021) 105477]	144
Erratum to “The gender of debt and credit: Insights from rural Tamil Nadu” [World Dev. 142 (2021) 105363]	106
A supercyclone, landscapes of ‘emptiness’ and shrimp aquaculture: The lesser-known trajectories of disaster recovery in coastal Odisha, India	104
Decomposing the impacts of an agricultural value chain development project by ethnicity and gender in Nepal	91
Spatial Inequality, Poverty and Informality in the Democratic Republic of the Congo	91
Across the stolen Ponds: The political geography of social welfare in rural eastern India	88
Discrimination in post-conflict settings: Experimental evidence from Colombia	86
Missing women in India: Gender-specific effects of early-life rainfall shocks	80
Avocados: Mexico’s green gold, drug cartel violence and the U.S. opioid crisis	79
The short-term effects of visa restrictions on migrants’ legal status and well-being: A difference-in-differences approach on Venezuelan displacement	75
Investigating the Inclusive-Performance Tradeoff in Agricultural Cooperatives: Evidence from Nepal	71
How wartime recruitment affects political engagement among civilians: Evidence from Côte d’Ivoire	71
Seeing the broader picture: Stakeholder contributions to understanding infrastructure impacts of the Interoceanic Highway in the southwestern Amazon	71
Grassroots mobilization in Brazil’s urban Amazon: Global investments, persistent floods, and local resistance across political and legal arenas	70
Violent instability and modern contraception: Evidence from Mali	69
The winds of inequalities: How hurricanes affect inequalities at the macro level	67
How epidemics affect marginalized communities in war-torn countries: Ebola, securitization, and public opinion about the security forces in Liberia	64
Can fruit and vegetable aggregation systems better balance improved producer livelihoods with more equitable distribution?	62
Cultivating inequality? Regional rubber dynamics and implications for voluntary sustainability programs in Lao PDR	61
Income inequality in Africa, 1990–2019: Measurement, patterns, determinants	59
The economic burden of non-communicable diseases on households and their coping mechanisms: Evidence from rural Vietnam	56
Long-term impacts of school nutrition: Evidence from China’s school meal reform	56
The role of the commodity price boom in shaping public social spending: Evidence from Latin America	53

Water and power, water’s power: State-making and socionature shaping volatile rivers and riverine people in Mexico	53
Social capital's role in mitigating economic vulnerability: Understanding the impact of income disparities on farmers' livelihoods	52
'Wasters, agnostics, enforcers, competitors, and community integrators': Reclaimers, S@S, and the five types of residents in Johannesburg, South Africa	52
Property rights and misallocation: Evidence from land certification in China	52
Cracks in the “gold standard”: The Eurocentrism of mining in development economics	52
Challenges of using PAR to promote collective action with denotified tribes in India: Surfacing intersections and tensions between religious and other inequalities	51
Women’s Work – Routes to Social and Economic Empowerment: Introduction to the Special Issue	51
Discourses of evaluation: Institutional logics and organizational practices among international development agencies	50
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	49
Oil revenues and labor market reforms	48
Getting the (Gender-Disaggregated) lay of the land: Impact of survey respondent selection on measuring land ownership and rights	48
On the distributional effects of principal-agent problems: Evidence from China’s shell farmer cooperatives	47
Sanitation and work time: Evidence from the toilet revolution in rural China	46
“I will sample until things get better – or until I die.” Potential and limits of citizen science to promote social accountability for environmental pollution	45
Armed conflict, institutions and deforestation: A dynamic spatiotemporal analysis of Colombia 2000–2018	44
Urban social movements and local state capacity	43
Who are the “vanguard” women? Strategies for identifying women going against economic participation norms across 49 low- and middle-income countries	43
Community and industrial forest concessions: Are they effective at reducing forest loss and does FSC certification play a role?	43
The long-term health impact of Agent Orange: Evidence from the Vietnam War	43