OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Disasters is 6. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Introduction	81
Interplay between sanctions, donor conditionality, and food insecurity in complex emergencies: the case of Syria	47
Responding domestically: British Islamic faith‐based organisations' crisis response in the UK during the COVID‐19 pandemic	46
Disaster colonialism: indigenous tribal community responses to Typhoon Morakot in southern Taiwan	41
Recovering the status quo: tipping points and earthquake aftermaths in colonial India	25
Evidence of policy learning in emergency declarations as communication tools in Australia	21
Interorganisational emergency management coordination challenges in a resource‐scarce environment: a case study of El Salvador post COVID‐19	19
The Disaster Response Mobilization System: a community‐based disaster preparedness strategy in Puerto Rico	19
Negotiating humanitarian space with criminal armed groups in urban Latin America	18
The barriers to uptake of disaster risk management science in urban planning: A political economy analysis	18
Contesting the crisis narrative: epidemic accounts in Sierra Leone, Tanzania, and Democratic Republic of the Congo	18
Paranirvar mānis (dependent people)? Rethinking humanitarian dependency syndrome: a Bourdieusian perspective	17
‘It's like these scientists own the rains’: indigenous knowledge, disaster warnings, and the politics of legitimacy in Malawi	17
Disasters and corruption: public expectations and tolerance—evidence from Mexico	16
Issue Information	16
Decolonising disasters	15
From ‘aidland’ to ‘homeland’: what the lived experiences of Ukrainian crisis leaders indicate about humanitarian response	15
Measuring community disaster resilience for sustainable climate change adaptation: Lessons from time‐series findings in rural Cambodia	14
Queer and present danger: understanding the disparate impacts of disasters on LGBTQ+ communities	14
Food systems in protracted crises: examining indigenous food sovereignty amid de‐development in Kashmir	14
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Diasporas as a linchpin in local and international humanitarian action: a case study of the Chinese in Aceh following the 2004 tsunami	13
‘Building back better’ in the context of multi‐hazards in the Caribbean	13
Contents	13
From pity to fear: security as a mechanism for (re)production of vulnerability	13

Issue Information	13
Disasters in the Anthropocene: a storm in a teacup?	12
Local emergency management's use of social media during disasters: a case study of Hurricane Irma	12
Interconnections between children's upbringing, camps, and post‐war villages: caregivers' lived experiences in northern Uganda	11
‘I know you like the back of my hand’: biometric practices of humanitarian organisations in international aid	11
Issue Information	11
Gaining ‘authority to operate’: student‐led emergent volunteers and established response agencies in the Canterbury earthquakes	11
Enmity then empathy: How militarisation facilitated collaborative but exclusive exchange in Sierra Leone's Ebola response	10
Rethinking disaster utopia: the limits of conspicuous resilience for community‐based recovery and adaptation	10
Ebola, informal settlements, and the role of place in infectious disease vulnerability: evidence from the 2014–16 outbreak in urban Sierra Leone	10
Multi‐risk instruments for emergency response: a multi‐hazard and multi‐risk assessment of the European Union's Solidarity and Emergency Aid Reserve	9
How inclusive is disaster risk reduction? Perceptions and predicaments of persons with disabilities during disaster in Assam, India	9
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Cash and voucher assistance along humanitarian supply chains: a literature review and directions for future research	9
Reclaiming Power and Partnerships in the Wake of Donor Retraction through South–South Partnership	9
Wartime captivity and homecoming: culture, stigma, and coping strategies of formerly abducted women in post‐conflict northern Uganda	9
Humanitarian management of drought needs better water security data	9
Calling on and thanking God: the role of faith and faith communities in disaster recovery	8
Islamic faith‐based organisations and their role in building social capital for post‐disaster recovery in Indonesia	8
Humanitarianism as a tool of statecraft: contested authority, sovereign violence, and humanity in the Syrian civil war	8
How to care for carers: Psychosocial care for local staff of aid agencies	8
Five levels of famine prevention: towards a framework for the twenty‐first century and beyond	8
‘Building back better’ in the Caribbean: an introduction	8
Localisation in the balance: Syrian medical‐humanitarian NGOs' strategic engagement with the local and international	7
Mental models for inclusive, socially‐just disaster planning: a multi‐community study in Saint Martin after Hurricane Irma	7
Barriers to and opportunities for the restoration of mana in emergency management legislation and its implementation for Māori	7
Contents	7
Towards a temporal theory of refugee crisis response: ‘passing the baton’ across sectors	7
Supporting conflict‐sensitive, locally‐led humanitarianism in Sudan: rebalancing donors' approach to risk	7
Editorial	7
Official sources, news outlets, or search engines? Rumour validation on social media during Hurricanes Harvey and Irma	7
Humanitarians' ethics: the role of face‐to‐face experiences in humanitarian aid workers' motivation	7
Music and the politics of famine: everyday discourses and shame for suffering	7
The ‘conflict paradox’: humanitarian access, localisation, and (dis)empowerment in Myanmar, Somalia, and Somaliland	7
A retrospective of deaths related to migration along the southeasternmost land borders of Europe: an update encompassing the years 2015–22	6
Dynamics of interorganisational emergency communication on Twitter: the case of Hurricane Irma	6
Humanitarian virtue: identifying ethics and values in humanitarian thinking	6
Flattening the curve: voluntary association participation and the 2013–16 West Africa Ebola epidemic	6
The transition from development and disaster risk reduction to humanitarian relief: the case of Yemen during high‐intensity conflict	6
Issue Information	6
From state commodification to local reproduction of vulnerability: ethnographic insights from a Risk Zone Urban Renewal Project in Turkey	6
Psychological First Aid principles within a community‐led arts initiative: lessons from the Blacksmiths' Tree	6
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Compliance and coloniality: aid bureaucracy and the failures of ‘localisation’ in Myanmar's complex emergency	6