OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Disasters is 1. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
A blockchain‐enabled framework for sharing logistics resources during emergency operations	27
Gender‐based violence before, during, and after cyclones: slow violence and layered disasters	26
Building disaster resilience using social messaging networks: the WeChat community in Houston, Texas, during Hurricane Harvey	25
Approaches to ‘vulnerability’ in eight European disaster management systems	25
Intersectional vulnerability in post‐disaster contexts: lived experiences of Dalit women after the Nepal earthquake, 2015	24
Queer and present danger: understanding the disparate impacts of disasters on LGBTQ+ communities	23
The mechanism of disaster capitalism and the failure to build community resilience: learning from the 2009 earthquake in L'Aquila, Italy	22
Disaster risk reduction, community resilience, and policy effectiveness: the case of the Hazard Mitigation Grant Program in the United States	21
Conceptualising disaster social capital: what it is, why it matters, and how it can be enhanced	21
‘Building back better’ is neoliberal post‐disaster reconstruction	21
Risk perception and culture: implications for vulnerability and adaptation to climate change	19
Social entrepreneurship, co‐production, and post‐disaster recovery	16
Resilience in care organisations: challenges in maintaining support for vulnerable people in Europe during the Covid‐19 pandemic	16
‘Let communities do their work’: the role of mutual aid and self‐help groups in the Covid‐19 pandemic response	16
The effectiveness of forecast‐based humanitarian assistance in anticipation of extreme winters: a case study of vulnerable herders in Mongolia	15
The social impact of natural hazards: a multi‐level analysis of disasters and forms of trust in mainland China	15
When Covid‐19 meets conflict: politics of the pandemic response in fragile and conflict‐affected states	13
How do you build back better so no one is left behind? Lessons from Sint Maarten, Dutch Caribbean, following Hurricane Irma	13
Social vulnerability and disaster: understanding the perspectives of practitioners	13
Reopening businesses after Hurricane Harvey: evidence from a duration model with spatial effects	12
Disaster preparedness and cultural factors: a comparative study in Romania and Malta	12
Coordinating non‐established disaster relief groups: a case study of Hurricane Irma in Florida, United States	12
Early warning systems and evacuation: rare and extreme versus frequent and small‐scale tropical cyclones in the Philippines and Dominica	11
The role of coalitions in disaster policymaking	11
Interagency collaboration within the city emergency management network: a case study of Super Ministry Reform in China	10

Actor‐network analysis of community‐based organisations in health pandemics: evidence from the COVID‐19 response in Freetown, Sierra Leone	9
Hybrid governance and disaster management in Freetown, Sierra Leone, Monrovia, Liberia, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania	9
Evidence summary of water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) coordination in humanitarian response	9
The internal brain drain: foreign aid, hiring practices, and international migration	9
Paired assistance policy and recovery from the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake: a network perspective	9
Unpacking the post‐Haiyan disaster resettlement narratives of young Filipino women informal settlers in Tacloban City, Philippines	9
Protective policies for all? An analysis of Covid‐19 deaths and protective policies among low‐, medium‐, and high‐vulnerability groups	9
Humanitarian aid and local power structures: lessons from Haiti's ‘shadow disaster’	9
Covid‐19's impact on China's economy: a prediction model based on railway transportation statistics	9
Women's invisible work in disaster contexts: gender norms in speech on women's work after a forest fire in Sweden	9
Corruption and disasters in the built environment: a literature review	8
Capital assets framework for analysing household vulnerability during disaster	8
How Covid‐19 financially hit urban refugees: evidence from mixed‐method research with citizens and Syrian refugees in Turkey	8
The impact of humanitarian assistance on post‐disaster social vulnerabilities: some early reflections on the Nepal earthquake in 2015	8
The Disaster Adaptation and Resilience Scale: development and validation of an individual‐level protection measure	8
Gaining ‘authority to operate’: student‐led emergent volunteers and established response agencies in the Canterbury earthquakes	8
‘We will never give up’: a qualitative study of ethical challenges Syrian health workers face in situations of extreme violence	7
Localisation requires trust: an interface perspective on the Rohingya response in Bangladesh	7
The mental health of aid workers: risk and protective factors in relation to job context, working conditions, and demographics	7
Educational, psychosocial, and protection outcomes of child‐ and youth‐focused programming with Somali refugees in Dollo Ado, Ethiopia	7
Disorder within the humanitarian sector: the old versus new humanitarianism debate	7
Academic publishing in disaster risk reduction: past, present, and future	7
Depoliticising disaster response in a politically saturated context: the case of the 2016–19 droughts in Zimbabwe	7
‘Sea of blood’: the intended and unintended effects of criminalising humanitarian volunteers assisting migrants in distress at sea	7
UNHCR and LGBTI refugees in Kenya: the limits of ‘protection’	7
Educational hazards? The politics of disaster risk education in Rio de Janeiro	6
Prioritising well‐being and resilience to ‘build back better’: insights from a Dominican small‐scale fishing community	6
‘No‐one knows how to care for LGBT community like LGBT do’¹: LGBTQIA+ experiences of COVID‐19 in the United Kingdom and Brazil	6
Redefining shelter: humanitarian sheltering	6
Why humility is vital to effective humanitarian aid leadership: a review of the literature	6
Towards a legal toolkit for disaster resilience and transformation	6
Disaster aid? Mapping historical responses to volcanic eruptions from 1800–2000 in the English‐speaking Eastern Caribbean: their role in creating vulnerabilities	6
PhotoKwento: co‐constructing women's narratives of disaster recovery	6
Social capital and food security in post‐conflict rural Lira District, northern Uganda	6
Dynamics of interorganisational emergency communication on Twitter: the case of Hurricane Irma	5
The emergence of post‐Westphalian health governance during the Covid‐19 pandemic: the European Health Union	5
Attracting altruists: explaining volunteer turnout during natural hazard events in Japan	5
Evaluator perceptions of NGO performance in disasters: meeting multiple institutional demands in humanitarian aid projects	5
Cash and voucher assistance along humanitarian supply chains: a literature review and directions for future research	5
The social meaning of money: multidimensional implications of humanitarian cash and voucher assistance	5
Humanitarian (in)security: risk management in complex settings	5
Foundations of indigenous knowledge on disasters due to natural hazards: lessons from the outlook on floods among the Bayira of the Rwenzori region	5
International media coverage promotes donations to a climate disaster	4
The continued operation of businesses after an earthquake: a case study from Lushan County, China	4
Implementing a Pre‐disaster Recovery Workshop in Intramuros, Manila, Philippines: lessons for disaster risk assessment, response, and recovery for cultural heritage	4
Barriers to accessing psychosocial support for humanitarian aid workers: a mixed methods inquiry	4
Multi‐scalar and multi‐dimensional conceptions of social capital and mental health impacts after disaster: the case of Hurricane Harvey	4
Covid‐19 in Brazil in an era of necropolitics: resistance in the face of disaster	4
Beyond performance and protocols: early responders' experiences of multiple accountability demands in the response to the 2015 Nepal earthquake	4
Gap or prehistoric monster? A history of the humanitarian–development nexus at UNICEF	4

Decolonising disasters	4
The use of cash assistance in the Covid‐19 humanitarian response: accelerating trends and missed opportunities	4
Integrating earthquake early warnings into business continuity and organisational resilience: lessons learned from Mexico City	4
Enhancing the resilience and well‐being of rural poor to climate risks: are the economic functions of social protection enough?	4
Local emergency management's use of social media during disasters: a case study of Hurricane Irma	4
Localisation in the balance: Syrian medical‐humanitarian NGOs' strategic engagement with the local and international	4
From pity to fear: security as a mechanism for (re)production of vulnerability	3
How structural mitigation shapes risk perception and affects decision‐making	3
Inclusive education for children with disabilities in a refugee camp	3
A contextual policy analysis of a cash programme in a humanitarian setting: the case of the Emergency Social Safety Net in Turkey	3
The transition from development and disaster risk reduction to humanitarian relief: the case of Yemen during high‐intensity conflict	3
‘Building back better’ in the context of multi‐hazards in the Caribbean	3
The role of Nature‐based Solutions in disaster resilience in coastal Jamaica: current and potential applications for ‘building back better’	3
Living with transience in high‐risk humanitarian spaces: the gendered experiences of international staff and policy implications for building resilience	3
Refugee livelihoods: a comparative analysis of Nairobi and Kakuma Camp in Kenya	3
A minority group's response to a severe climatic event: a case study of rural Indo‐Fijians after Tropical Cyclone Winston in 2016	3
Contesting the crisis narrative: epidemic accounts in Sierra Leone, Tanzania, and Democratic Republic of the Congo	3
Re‐examining critiques of resilience policy: evidence from Barpak after the 2015 earthquake in Nepal	3
Crisis responses, opportunity, and public authority during Covid‐19's first wave in Uganda, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and South Sudan	3
Fleeing mass starvation: what we (do not) know about the famine–migration nexus	2
Purpose‐driven improvisation during organisational shocks: case narrative of three critical organisations and Typhoon Haiyan	2
Predictors of mental health in aid workers: meaning, resilience, and psychological flexibility as personal resources for increased well‐being and reduced distress	2
Disasters and corruption: public expectations and tolerance—evidence from Mexico	2
The impact of workplace exclusion on the humanitarian response to the refugee crisis in Lebanon	2
Wartime captivity and homecoming: culture, stigma, and coping strategies of formerly abducted women in post‐conflict northern Uganda	2
Disaster impacts, resilience, and sustainability opportunities for Gili Trawangan, Indonesia: transdisciplinary reflections following COVID‐19	2
Does democracy protect? The United Kingdom, the United States, and Covid‐19	2
Our issue or their issue? Media coverage and framing of the Zika virus epidemic	2
Resilience and the role of equids in humanitarian crises	2
Do we really want to know? The journey to implement empirical research recommendations in the ICRC's responses in Myanmar and Lebanon	2
NGO–academia research co‐production in humanitarian settings: opportunities and challenges	2
Women's participation in disaster recovery after the 2005 Kashmir, Pakistan earthquake	2
Post‐conflict disaster governance in Nepal: one‐door policy, multiple‐window practice	2
Ebola, informal settlements, and the role of place in infectious disease vulnerability: evidence from the 2014–16 outbreak in urban Sierra Leone	2
Information dissemination during public health emergencies: analysing the international flow of COVID‐19‐related news	2
Displaced by climate and disaster‐induced relocations: experiences of cascading displacement in Fiji and the Philippines	2
Checks and balances: a business‐oriented lens on disaster management and warnings	2
Strengthening the role of science and technology in disaster risk reduction: the Chilean strategy	2
Quantifying climate change‐relevant humanitarian programming and spending across five countries with high vulnerability to disaster	2
Solutions discourse in disaster displacement: implications for policy and practice	1
Developing disaster risk reduction skills among informal construction workers in Nepal	1
Reproductive justice in the Colombian armed conflict	1
Family dynamics and implications for young people's ‘struggles’ in rural areas of post‐conflict northern Uganda	1
Risk factors and the psychological impacts of the COVID‐19 outbreak: perspectives and experiences of Iranian healthcare workers on the frontline	1
‘I know you like the back of my hand’: biometric practices of humanitarian organisations in international aid	1
The warming city: the increasing risk of summer fires in Delhi	1
The ‘conflict paradox’: humanitarian access, localisation, and (dis)empowerment in Myanmar, Somalia, and Somaliland	1
Prioritising earthquake retrofitting in Wellington, New Zealand	1
Humanitarian ignorance: towards a new paradigm of non‐knowledge in digital humanitarianism	1
Disasters and the Disablement Process framework: an analysis of the great east Japan earthquake and tsunami of 2011	1
Defining, collecting, and sharing perishable disaster data	1
Divergent dynamics: disasters and conflicts as ‘drivers’ of internal displacement?	1
Rethinking disaster utopia: the limits of conspicuous resilience for community‐based recovery and adaptation	1
Mapping the public first‐aid training landscape: uptake, knowledge, confidence and willingness to deliver first aid in disasters/emergencies—a scoping review	1
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Talking about volcanoes: institutional narratives, the nature of risk, and Mount Mayon in the Philippines	1
Paranirvar mānis (dependent people)? Rethinking humanitarian dependency syndrome: a Bourdieusian perspective	1
Governance and the design of post‐disaster policies: a comparative analysis from Latin America and the Caribbean	1
Editorial: reflecting on a decade at the helm of Disasters	1
Community resilience across Australia towards natural hazards: an application of the Conjoint Community Resiliency Assessment Measurement	1
Disasters and the diminishing of women's economic empowerment	1
Negotiating rights and faith: a study of rights‐based approaches to humanitarian action in Pakistan	1
Crisis management in practice: a dynamic process intertwined with daily work performance	1
The landscape of disaster film, 2000–20	1
Flattening the curve: voluntary association participation and the 2013–16 West Africa Ebola epidemic	1
Disasters in the Anthropocene: a storm in a teacup?	1
Contents	1
Tibetan Buddhist belief and disaster resilience: a qualitative exploration of the Yushu area, China	1
Disaster preparedness and community helping behaviour in the wake of the 2020 Oregon wildfires	1
Disaster mobilities, temporalities, and recovery: experiences of the tsunami in the Maldives	1
Disasters and ‘conditions of possibility’: rethinking causation through an analysis of earthquakes in Nepal	1
The ‘marketplace of post‐conflict assistance’ in northern Uganda and beyond	1