OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Disasters is 2. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Interplay between sanctions, donor conditionality, and food insecurity in complex emergencies: the case of Syria	88
Recovering the status quo: tipping points and earthquake aftermaths in colonial India	60
The barriers to uptake of disaster risk management science in urban planning: A political economy analysis	32
The Disaster Response Mobilization System: a community‐based disaster preparedness strategy in Puerto Rico	24
Responding domestically: British Islamic faith‐based organisations' crisis response in the UK during the COVID‐19 pandemic	23
Disaster colonialism: indigenous tribal community responses to Typhoon Morakot in southern Taiwan	22
Introduction	21
Evidence of policy learning in emergency declarations as communication tools in Australia	21
Negotiating humanitarian space with criminal armed groups in urban Latin America	20
Interorganisational emergency management coordination challenges in a resource‐scarce environment: a case study of El Salvador post COVID‐19	20
Decolonising disasters	19
Disasters and corruption: public expectations and tolerance—evidence from Mexico	19
Issue Information	18
From ‘aidland’ to ‘homeland’: what the lived experiences of Ukrainian crisis leaders indicate about humanitarian response	16
Food systems in protracted crises: examining indigenous food sovereignty amid de‐development in Kashmir	16
Queer and present danger: understanding the disparate impacts of disasters on LGBTQ+ communities	15
‘It's like these scientists own the rains’: indigenous knowledge, disaster warnings, and the politics of legitimacy in Malawi	15
Paranirvar mānis (dependent people)? Rethinking humanitarian dependency syndrome: a Bourdieusian perspective	15
Contesting the crisis narrative: epidemic accounts in Sierra Leone, Tanzania, and Democratic Republic of the Congo	14
Measuring community disaster resilience for sustainable climate change adaptation: Lessons from time‐series findings in rural Cambodia	14
Issue Information	14
Local emergency management's use of social media during disasters: a case study of Hurricane Irma	13
Diasporas as a linchpin in local and international humanitarian action: a case study of the Chinese in Aceh following the 2004 tsunami	13
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‘I know you like the back of my hand’: biometric practices of humanitarian organisations in international aid	13

From pity to fear: security as a mechanism for (re)production of vulnerability	12
Disasters in the Anthropocene: a storm in a teacup?	12
‘Building back better’ in the context of multi‐hazards in the Caribbean	12
Issue Information	12
Enmity then empathy: How militarisation facilitated collaborative but exclusive exchange in Sierra Leone's Ebola response	11
Rethinking disaster utopia: the limits of conspicuous resilience for community‐based recovery and adaptation	11
Ebola, informal settlements, and the role of place in infectious disease vulnerability: evidence from the 2014–16 outbreak in urban Sierra Leone	11
Interconnections between children's upbringing, camps, and post‐war villages: caregivers' lived experiences in northern Uganda	11
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How does multi‐hazard communication influence risk perception, attitudes, and behaviour: an experimental survey	11
Reclaiming Power and Partnerships in the Wake of Donor Retraction through South–South Partnership	10
Islamic faith‐based organisations and their role in building social capital for post‐disaster recovery in Indonesia	10
Calling on and thanking God: the role of faith and faith communities in disaster recovery	10
Multi‐risk instruments for emergency response: a multi‐hazard and multi‐risk assessment of the European Union's Solidarity and Emergency Aid Reserve	10
Supporting conflict‐sensitive, locally‐led humanitarianism in Sudan: rebalancing donors' approach to risk	10
How inclusive is disaster risk reduction? Perceptions and predicaments of persons with disabilities during disaster in Assam, India	10
Cash and voucher assistance along humanitarian supply chains: a literature review and directions for future research	10
Humanitarian management of drought needs better water security data	10
‘Building back better’ in the Caribbean: an introduction	10
Humanitarianism as a tool of statecraft: contested authority, sovereign violence, and humanity in the Syrian civil war	9
The ‘conflict paradox’: humanitarian access, localisation, and (dis)empowerment in Myanmar, Somalia, and Somaliland	9
Five levels of famine prevention: towards a framework for the twenty‐first century and beyond	9
Humanitarians' ethics: the role of face‐to‐face experiences in humanitarian aid workers' motivation	9
How to care for carers: Psychosocial care for local staff of aid agencies	9
Towards a temporal theory of refugee crisis response: ‘passing the baton’ across sectors	8
Localisation in the balance: Syrian medical‐humanitarian NGOs' strategic engagement with the local and international	8
Music and the politics of famine: everyday discourses and shame for suffering	8
Barriers to and opportunities for the restoration of mana in emergency management legislation and its implementation for Māori	8
Mental models for inclusive, socially‐just disaster planning: a multi‐community study in Saint Martin after Hurricane Irma	8
Contents	7
A retrospective of deaths related to migration along the southeasternmost land borders of Europe: an update encompassing the years 2015–22	7
From conflict to collaboration: how local natural resource management conventions foster peacebuilding between farmers and herders in central Mali	7
Psychological First Aid principles within a community‐led arts initiative: lessons from the Blacksmiths' Tree	7
The transition from development and disaster risk reduction to humanitarian relief: the case of Yemen during high‐intensity conflict	7
Editorial	7
Official sources, news outlets, or search engines? Rumour validation on social media during Hurricanes Harvey and Irma	7
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Issue Information	6
Dynamics of interorganisational emergency communication on Twitter: the case of Hurricane Irma	6
Compliance and coloniality: aid bureaucracy and the failures of ‘localisation’ in Myanmar's complex emergency	6
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From state commodification to local reproduction of vulnerability: ethnographic insights from a Risk Zone Urban Renewal Project in Turkey	6
Flattening the curve: voluntary association participation and the 2013–16 West Africa Ebola epidemic	6
Humanitarian virtue: identifying ethics and values in humanitarian thinking	6
Correction to “Locally‐led maladaptation as a configuration of responsibilities: ethnographic photo essay of a bamboo wall in Bangladesh”	6
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Disasters and the diminishing of women's economic empowerment	5
Bonding social capital, disaster experience, and post‐disaster giving in Japan	5
Issue Information	5

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Is male out‐migration associated with women's participation in post‐disaster rebuilding? Evidence from Nepal after the 2015 Gorkha earthquake	4
From Hurricane Irma to the Grindavík eruptions: volatility premiums in disaster governance	4
Fighting with words: humanitarian security and the changing role of law in contemporary armed conflict	4
Contents	4
Solidarity in disaster scholarship	4
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Public discourse narratives: from ‘Secret Aid Worker’ discontent to shifting power in humanitarian systems	4
Disaster mobilities, temporalities, and recovery: experiences of the tsunami in the Maldives	4
The mixed resilience outcomes of water interventions in the pastoral drylands of the Horn of Africa	4
In the arena: contesting disaster creation in cities	4
Disaster preparedness among Asian, Pacific Islander, and Desi American communities	4
The unbearable lightness of humanitarian reform: Reflections on calls for change in the sector	4
Conceptualising multiple hazards and cascading effects on critical infrastructures	4
Divergent dynamics: disasters and conflicts as ‘drivers’ of internal displacement?	4
Faith, community, and resilience during genocide in Gaza	3
Post‐tropical cyclone Fiona and Atlantic Canada: Media framing of hazard risk in the Anthropocene	3
Tibetan Buddhist belief and disaster resilience: a qualitative exploration of the Yushu area, China	3
Issue Information	3
Risk factors and the psychological impacts of the COVID‐19 outbreak: perspectives and experiences of Iranian healthcare workers on the frontline	3
The ‘vulnerability paradox’: how institutional legacies shaped Colombia's response to Venezuelan displacement	3
Food prices and food crises since 2020: evidence from Mali, northeast Nigeria, Sudan, and northern Uganda	3
‘Building back better’ is neoliberal post‐disaster reconstruction	3
Entwined economies of violence: understanding borderland conflict and resource politics in northern Kenya	3
Contents	3
Local news sentiment towards FEMA recovery efforts after Hurricane Florence in North Carolina	3
Governance and the design of post‐disaster policies: a comparative analysis from Latin America and the Caribbean	3
The warming city: the increasing risk of summer fires in Delhi	3
Issue Information	3
Contents	3
Actor‐network analysis of community‐based organisations in health pandemics: evidence from the COVID‐19 response in Freetown, Sierra Leone	3
Neoliberal economic policies as a root cause of forced migration from Arab Spring countries: the case of Syria	2
Disaster impacts, resilience, and sustainability opportunities for Gili Trawangan, Indonesia: transdisciplinary reflections following COVID‐19	2
Rethinking vulnerability and humanitarian assistance in the pastoral drylands: insights from northern Kenya and southern Ethiopia	2
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A simple model to facilitate fast humanitarian funding	2
Corrigendum	2
Nature–society relations in disaster governance frameworks	2
Integrating science‐based and local ecological knowledge: a case study of mangrove restoration and rehabilitation projects in the Philippines	2
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Disaster aid? Mapping historical responses to volcanic eruptions from 1800–2000 in the English‐speaking Eastern Caribbean: their role in creating vulnerabilities	2
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Famine and food security: new trends and systems or politics as usual? An introduction	2
Quantifying social capital creation in post‐disaster recovery aid in Indonesia: methodological innovation by an AI‐based language model	2
Cash grants to informal firms after Cyclone Idai: beyond the null	2
Flood risk perception, awareness, and preparedness behaviours among vulnerable population groups: implications for building community resilience	2
Breaking from the past? Environmental narratives, logics of power, and the (re)production of food insecurity in South Sudan	2
Correction to “Local news sentiment towards FEMA recovery efforts after Hurricane Florence in North Carolina”	2
Ukrainian refugees in Romania: perception and social challenges	2
Humanitarian ignorance: towards a new paradigm of non‐knowledge in digital humanitarianism	2
Foundations of indigenous knowledge on disasters due to natural hazards: lessons from the outlook on floods among the Bayira of the Rwenzori region	2
Contemporary disasters may not kill more women than men: an empirical inquiry into sex‐differentiated fatalities in the twenty‐first century	2
Returning to normal? ‘Building back better’ in the Dominican education system after Tropical Storm Erika and Hurricane Maria	2
‘Forgotten crises’ as forgotten sites of knowledge production for building lasting peace	2
Defining, collecting, and sharing perishable disaster data	2