OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Disasters is 5. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Recovering the status quo: tipping points and earthquake aftermaths in colonial India	62
Evidence of policy learning in emergency declarations as communication tools in Australia	40
Introduction. The Covid‐19 pandemic: global dimensions, local responses	39
The barriers to uptake of disaster risk management science in urban planning: A political economy analysis	39
Interorganisational emergency management coordination challenges in a resource‐scarce environment: a case study of El Salvador post COVID‐19	35
Disasters and ‘conditions of possibility’: rethinking causation through an analysis of earthquakes in Nepal	31
UNHCR and LGBTI refugees in Kenya: the limits of ‘protection’	31
Interplay between sanctions, donor conditionality, and food insecurity in complex emergencies: the case of Syria	27
Negotiating humanitarian space with criminal armed groups in urban Latin America	24
Decolonising disasters	20
Measuring community disaster resilience for sustainable climate change adaptation: Lessons from time‐series findings in rural Cambodia	19
Paranirvar mānis (dependent people)? Rethinking humanitarian dependency syndrome: a Bourdieusian perspective	17
Queer and present danger: understanding the disparate impacts of disasters on LGBTQ+ communities	17
Disasters and corruption: public expectations and tolerance—evidence from Mexico	16
Contesting the crisis narrative: epidemic accounts in Sierra Leone, Tanzania, and Democratic Republic of the Congo	15
Food systems in protracted crises: examining indigenous food sovereignty amid de‐development in Kashmir	15
Contents	14
Diasporas as a linchpin in local and international humanitarian action: a case study of the Chinese in Aceh following the 2004 tsunami	14
Issue Information	14
‘I know you like the back of my hand’: biometric practices of humanitarian organisations in international aid	13
Local emergency management's use of social media during disasters: a case study of Hurricane Irma	12
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From pity to fear: security as a mechanism for (re)production of vulnerability	12
‘Building back better’ in the context of multi‐hazards in the Caribbean	11
Disasters in the Anthropocene: a storm in a teacup?	11

When Covid‐19 meets conflict: politics of the pandemic response in fragile and conflict‐affected states	10
Interconnections between children's upbringing, camps, and post‐war villages: caregivers' lived experiences in northern Uganda	10
Crisis responses, opportunity, and public authority during Covid‐19's first wave in Uganda, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and South Sudan	10
Gaining ‘authority to operate’: student‐led emergent volunteers and established response agencies in the Canterbury earthquakes	10
Issue Information	10
Rethinking disaster utopia: the limits of conspicuous resilience for community‐based recovery and adaptation	9
Islamic faith‐based organisations and their role in building social capital for post‐disaster recovery in Indonesia	9
Protective policies for all? An analysis of Covid‐19 deaths and protective policies among low‐, medium‐, and high‐vulnerability groups	9
Ebola, informal settlements, and the role of place in infectious disease vulnerability: evidence from the 2014–16 outbreak in urban Sierra Leone	9
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Enmity then empathy: How militarisation facilitated collaborative but exclusive exchange in Sierra Leone's Ebola response	9
Wartime captivity and homecoming: culture, stigma, and coping strategies of formerly abducted women in post‐conflict northern Uganda	9
How to care for carers: Psychosocial care for local staff of aid agencies	8
Multi‐scalar and multi‐dimensional conceptions of social capital and mental health impacts after disaster: the case of Hurricane Harvey	8
Evidence summary of water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) coordination in humanitarian response	8
Multi‐risk instruments for emergency response: a multi‐hazard and multi‐risk assessment of the European Union's Solidarity and Emergency Aid Reserve	8
Five levels of famine prevention: towards a framework for the twenty‐first century and beyond	8
Contents	8
Cash and voucher assistance along humanitarian supply chains: a literature review and directions for future research	8
Humanitarianism as a tool of statecraft: contested authority, sovereign violence, and humanity in the Syrian civil war	8
‘Building back better’ in the Caribbean: an introduction	8
How Covid‐19 financially hit urban refugees: evidence from mixed‐method research with citizens and Syrian refugees in Turkey	8
Music and the politics of famine: everyday discourses and shame for suffering	7
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
Humanitarians' ethics: the role of face‐to‐face experiences in humanitarian aid workers' motivation	7
Editorial	6
Displaced by climate and disaster‐induced relocations: experiences of cascading displacement in Fiji and the Philippines	6
Official sources, news outlets, or search engines? Rumour validation on social media during Hurricanes Harvey and Irma	6
Barriers to and opportunities for the restoration of mana in emergency management legislation and its implementation for Māori	6
A retrospective of deaths related to migration along the southeasternmost land borders of Europe: an update encompassing the years 2015–22	6
Psychological First Aid principles within a community‐led arts initiative: lessons from the Blacksmiths' Tree	6
Conceptualising disaster social capital: what it is, why it matters, and how it can be enhanced	6
Contents	6
Contents	6
Humanitarian (in)security: risk management in complex settings	6
The ‘conflict paradox’: humanitarian access, localisation, and (dis)empowerment in Myanmar, Somalia, and Somaliland	6
The transition from development and disaster risk reduction to humanitarian relief: the case of Yemen during high‐intensity conflict	5
Issue Information	5
Dynamics of interorganisational emergency communication on Twitter: the case of Hurricane Irma	5
Flattening the curve: voluntary association participation and the 2013–16 West Africa Ebola epidemic	5
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Help yourself by helping others: self‐interest in appeals for Russian famine relief, 1921–23	5
Acknowledgement of reviewers	5
Social entrepreneurship, co‐production, and post‐disaster recovery	5
The social meaning of money: multidimensional implications of humanitarian cash and voucher assistance	5