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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Queer and present danger: understanding the disparate impacts of disasters on LGBTQ+ communities	43
A blockchain‐enabled framework for sharing logistics resources during emergency operations	34
Approaches to ‘vulnerability’ in eight European disaster management systems	31
Conceptualising disaster social capital: what it is, why it matters, and how it can be enhanced	29
‘Building back better’ is neoliberal post‐disaster reconstruction	29
Gender‐based violence before, during, and after cyclones: slow violence and layered disasters	29
The mechanism of disaster capitalism and the failure to build community resilience: learning from the 2009 earthquake in L'Aquila, Italy	28
Intersectional vulnerability in post‐disaster contexts: lived experiences of Dalit women after the Nepal earthquake, 2015	26
‘Let communities do their work’: the role of mutual aid and self‐help groups in the Covid‐19 pandemic response	24
When Covid‐19 meets conflict: politics of the pandemic response in fragile and conflict‐affected states	21
Social entrepreneurship, co‐production, and post‐disaster recovery	21
Resilience in care organisations: challenges in maintaining support for vulnerable people in Europe during the Covid‐19 pandemic	18
The effectiveness of forecast‐based humanitarian assistance in anticipation of extreme winters: a case study of vulnerable herders in Mongolia	16
Interagency collaboration within the city emergency management network: a case study of Super Ministry Reform in China	15
Disaster preparedness and cultural factors: a comparative study in Romania and Malta	14
Early warning systems and evacuation: rare and extreme versus frequent and small‐scale tropical cyclones in the Philippines and Dominica	13
Coordinating non‐established disaster relief groups: a case study of Hurricane Irma in Florida, United States	13
Gaining ‘authority to operate’: student‐led emergent volunteers and established response agencies in the Canterbury earthquakes	13
The Disaster Adaptation and Resilience Scale: development and validation of an individual‐level protection measure	12
Women's invisible work in disaster contexts: gender norms in speech on women's work after a forest fire in Sweden	12
Actor‐network analysis of community‐based organisations in health pandemics: evidence from the COVID‐19 response in Freetown, Sierra Leone	12
Corruption and disasters in the built environment: a literature review	12
Protective policies for all? An analysis of Covid‐19 deaths and protective policies among low‐, medium‐, and high‐vulnerability groups	11
Hybrid governance and disaster management in Freetown, Sierra Leone, Monrovia, Liberia, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania	11
‘Sea of blood’: the intended and unintended effects of criminalising humanitarian volunteers assisting migrants in distress at sea	11

The impact of humanitarian assistance on post‐disaster social vulnerabilities: some early reflections on the Nepal earthquake in 2015	11
Localisation requires trust: an interface perspective on the Rohingya response in Bangladesh	11
Redefining shelter: humanitarian sheltering	10
UNHCR and LGBTI refugees in Kenya: the limits of ‘protection’	10
Evidence summary of water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) coordination in humanitarian response	10
‘We will never give up’: a qualitative study of ethical challenges Syrian health workers face in situations of extreme violence	9
How Covid‐19 financially hit urban refugees: evidence from mixed‐method research with citizens and Syrian refugees in Turkey	9
Covid‐19's impact on China's economy: a prediction model based on railway transportation statistics	9
Depoliticising disaster response in a politically saturated context: the case of the 2016–19 droughts in Zimbabwe	9
Cash and voucher assistance along humanitarian supply chains: a literature review and directions for future research	8
Local emergency management's use of social media during disasters: a case study of Hurricane Irma	8
The mental health of aid workers: risk and protective factors in relation to job context, working conditions, and demographics	8
Dynamics of interorganisational emergency communication on Twitter: the case of Hurricane Irma	8
Decolonising disasters	8
Enhancing the resilience and well‐being of rural poor to climate risks: are the economic functions of social protection enough?	8
The emergence of post‐Westphalian health governance during the Covid‐19 pandemic: the European Health Union	8
Disorder within the humanitarian sector: the old versus new humanitarianism debate	7
Disaster aid? Mapping historical responses to volcanic eruptions from 1800–2000 in the English‐speaking Eastern Caribbean: their role in creating vulnerabilities	7
Social capital and food security in post‐conflict rural Lira District, northern Uganda	7
PhotoKwento: co‐constructing women's narratives of disaster recovery	7
‘No‐one knows how to care for LGBT community like LGBT do’¹: LGBTQIA+ experiences of COVID‐19 in the United Kingdom and Brazil	7
Towards a legal toolkit for disaster resilience and transformation	6
Why humility is vital to effective humanitarian aid leadership: a review of the literature	6
Attracting altruists: explaining volunteer turnout during natural hazard events in Japan	6
The ‘conflict paradox’: humanitarian access, localisation, and (dis)empowerment in Myanmar, Somalia, and Somaliland	6
Inclusive education for children with disabilities in a refugee camp	6
The social meaning of money: multidimensional implications of humanitarian cash and voucher assistance	6
Localisation in the balance: Syrian medical‐humanitarian NGOs' strategic engagement with the local and international	6
Foundations of indigenous knowledge on disasters due to natural hazards: lessons from the outlook on floods among the Bayira of the Rwenzori region	6
Defining, collecting, and sharing perishable disaster data	6
Prioritising well‐being and resilience to ‘build back better’: insights from a Dominican small‐scale fishing community	6
Refugee livelihoods: a comparative analysis of Nairobi and Kakuma Camp in Kenya	5
A contextual policy analysis of a cash programme in a humanitarian setting: the case of the Emergency Social Safety Net in Turkey	5
Implementing a Pre‐disaster Recovery Workshop in Intramuros, Manila, Philippines: lessons for disaster risk assessment, response, and recovery for cultural heritage	5
Humanitarian (in)security: risk management in complex settings	5
Covid‐19 in Brazil in an era of necropolitics: resistance in the face of disaster	5
Integrating earthquake early warnings into business continuity and organisational resilience: lessons learned from Mexico City	5
Resilience and the role of equids in humanitarian crises	5
The role of Nature‐based Solutions in disaster resilience in coastal Jamaica: current and potential applications for ‘building back better’	5
Living with transience in high‐risk humanitarian spaces: the gendered experiences of international staff and policy implications for building resilience	5
International media coverage promotes donations to a climate disaster	5
Predictors of mental health in aid workers: meaning, resilience, and psychological flexibility as personal resources for increased well‐being and reduced distress	5
The transition from development and disaster risk reduction to humanitarian relief: the case of Yemen during high‐intensity conflict	5
Developing disaster risk reduction skills among informal construction workers in Nepal	4
Disasters in the Anthropocene: a storm in a teacup?	4
Displaced by climate and disaster‐induced relocations: experiences of cascading displacement in Fiji and the Philippines	4
Humanitarian ignorance: towards a new paradigm of non‐knowledge in digital humanitarianism	4
Crisis management in practice: a dynamic process intertwined with daily work performance	4
‘Building back better’ in the context of multi‐hazards in the Caribbean	4
Multi‐scalar and multi‐dimensional conceptions of social capital and mental health impacts after disaster: the case of Hurricane Harvey	4

The use of cash assistance in the Covid‐19 humanitarian response: accelerating trends and missed opportunities	4
Information dissemination during public health emergencies: analysing the international flow of COVID‐19‐related news	4
Understanding the impacts of floods on learning quality, school facilities, and educational recovery in Indonesia	4
Disaster preparedness and community helping behaviour in the wake of the 2020 Oregon wildfires	3
Crisis responses, opportunity, and public authority during Covid‐19's first wave in Uganda, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and South Sudan	3
Reproductive justice in the Colombian armed conflict	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
Does democracy protect? The United Kingdom, the United States, and Covid‐19	3
Contesting the crisis narrative: epidemic accounts in Sierra Leone, Tanzania, and Democratic Republic of the Congo	3
Ebola, informal settlements, and the role of place in infectious disease vulnerability: evidence from the 2014–16 outbreak in urban Sierra Leone	3
The landscape of disaster film, 2000–20	3
Barriers to accessing psychosocial support for humanitarian aid workers: a mixed methods inquiry	3
Disasters and corruption: public expectations and tolerance—evidence from Mexico	3
Post‐conflict disaster governance in Nepal: one‐door policy, multiple‐window practice	3
The warming city: the increasing risk of summer fires in Delhi	3
Negotiating rights and faith: a study of rights‐based approaches to humanitarian action in Pakistan	3
Purpose‐driven improvisation during organisational shocks: case narrative of three critical organisations and Typhoon Haiyan	3
Family dynamics and implications for young people's ‘struggles’ in rural areas of post‐conflict northern Uganda	3
From pity to fear: security as a mechanism for (re)production of vulnerability	3
Women's participation in disaster recovery after the 2005 Kashmir, Pakistan earthquake	3
Tibetan Buddhist belief and disaster resilience: a qualitative exploration of the Yushu area, China	3
Re‐examining critiques of resilience policy: evidence from Barpak after the 2015 earthquake in Nepal	3
Is male out‐migration associated with women's participation in post‐disaster rebuilding? Evidence from Nepal after the 2015 Gorkha earthquake	2
The ‘marketplace of post‐conflict assistance’ in northern Uganda and beyond	2
Divergent dynamics: disasters and conflicts as ‘drivers’ of internal displacement?	2
Rethinking disaster utopia: the limits of conspicuous resilience for community‐based recovery and adaptation	2
Flattening the curve: voluntary association participation and the 2013–16 West Africa Ebola epidemic	2
Talking about volcanoes: institutional narratives, the nature of risk, and Mount Mayon in the Philippines	2
NGO–academia research co‐production in humanitarian settings: opportunities and challenges	2
The impact of workplace exclusion on the humanitarian response to the refugee crisis in Lebanon	2
The timing of storm awareness in the Caribbean: the utility of climate information for improved disaster preparedness	2
Quantifying climate change‐relevant humanitarian programming and spending across five countries with high vulnerability to disaster	2
Disaster impacts, resilience, and sustainability opportunities for Gili Trawangan, Indonesia: transdisciplinary reflections following COVID‐19	2
Our issue or their issue? Media coverage and framing of the Zika virus epidemic	2
Social resilience indicators for pandemic 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
Prioritising earthquake retrofitting in Wellington, New Zealand	2
Strengthening the role of science and technology in disaster risk reduction: the Chilean strategy	2
Disaster mobilities, temporalities, and recovery: experiences of the tsunami in the Maldives	2
Wartime captivity and homecoming: culture, stigma, and coping strategies of formerly abducted women in post‐conflict northern Uganda	2
A disaster's disparate impacts: analysing perceived stress and personal resilience across gender and race	2
Challenges in humanitarian response implementation: a large‐scale review of aid worker perspectives	2
Risk factors and the psychological impacts of the COVID‐19 outbreak: perspectives and experiences of Iranian healthcare workers on the frontline	2
‘Building back better’ in the Caribbean: an introduction	2
Checks and balances: a business‐oriented lens on disaster management and warnings	2
Disasters and ‘conditions of possibility’: rethinking causation through an analysis of earthquakes in Nepal	1
Community‐centred disaster recovery: A call to change the narrative	1
Investigating the impact of a community disaster awareness training on subjective disaster preparedness: the case of Myanmar's Ayeyarwaddy region	1
Gaps in humanitarian WASH response: perspectives from people affected by crises, practitioners, global responders, and the literature	1
The policy landscape and challenges of disaster risk financing: navigating risk and uncertainty	1
Returning to normal? ‘Building back better’ in the Dominican education system after Tropical Storm Erika and Hurricane Maria	1
Psychological First Aid principles within a community‐led arts initiative: lessons from the Blacksmiths' Tree	1
Investigating the conditions of vulnerability experienced by migrant workers during the COVID‐19 pandemic in Kerala, India	1
A ‘te ao Māori’ disaster risk reduction framework	1
Governance and the design of post‐disaster policies: a comparative analysis from Latin America and the Caribbean	1
Fighting with words: humanitarian security and the changing role of law in contemporary armed conflict	1
Motivations, activities, timing, and employee engagement: three approaches to business involvement in disasters	1
Military humanitarian and disaster governance networks in Southeast Asia: framework and analysis	1
Mapping the public first‐aid training landscape: uptake, knowledge, confidence and willingness to deliver first aid in disasters/emergencies—a scoping review	1
Local news sentiment towards FEMA recovery efforts after Hurricane Florence in North Carolina	1
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Reflections on implementing the Sendai Framework in the Asia‐Pacific: beyond adding disability inclusion to disaster risk reduction	1
Paranirvar mānis (dependent people)? Rethinking humanitarian dependency syndrome: a Bourdieusian perspective	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
Solutions discourse in disaster displacement: implications for policy and practice	1
Local knowledge as the basis of disaster management and humanitarian assistance	1
‘I know you like the back of my hand’: biometric practices of humanitarian organisations in international aid	1
Five shades of grey: variants of ‘political’ humanitarianism	1
Measuring community disaster resilience for sustainable climate change adaptation: Lessons from time‐series findings in rural Cambodia	1