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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Introduction. The Covid‐19 pandemic: global dimensions, local responses	75
Disasters and ‘conditions of possibility’: rethinking causation through an analysis of earthquakes in Nepal	45
Disaster colonialism: indigenous tribal community responses to Typhoon Morakot in southern Taiwan	43
Recovering the status quo: tipping points and earthquake aftermaths in colonial India	42
Interorganisational emergency management coordination challenges in a resource‐scarce environment: a case study of El Salvador post COVID‐19	41
Interplay between sanctions, donor conditionality, and food insecurity in complex emergencies: the case of Syria	38
Evidence of policy learning in emergency declarations as communication tools in Australia	35
The barriers to uptake of disaster risk management science in urban planning: A political economy analysis	29
The Disaster Response Mobilization System: a community‐based disaster preparedness strategy in Puerto Rico	27
Responding domestically: British Islamic faith‐based organisations' crisis response in the UK during the COVID‐19 pandemic	21
Negotiating humanitarian space with criminal armed groups in urban Latin America	19
Measuring community disaster resilience for sustainable climate change adaptation: Lessons from time‐series findings in rural Cambodia	18
Queer and present danger: understanding the disparate impacts of disasters on LGBTQ+ communities	18
Paranirvar mānis (dependent people)? Rethinking humanitarian dependency syndrome: a Bourdieusian perspective	17
Disasters and corruption: public expectations and tolerance—evidence from Mexico	17
Contesting the crisis narrative: epidemic accounts in Sierra Leone, Tanzania, and Democratic Republic of the Congo	17
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Decolonising disasters	16
Issue Information	16
Food systems in protracted crises: examining indigenous food sovereignty amid de‐development in Kashmir	16
Diasporas as a linchpin in local and international humanitarian action: a case study of the Chinese in Aceh following the 2004 tsunami	15
Issue Information	15
‘I know you like the back of my hand’: biometric practices of humanitarian organisations in international aid	14
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Local emergency management's use of social media during disasters: a case study of Hurricane Irma	13

‘Building back better’ in the context of multi‐hazards in the Caribbean	13
Disasters in the Anthropocene: a storm in a teacup?	13
Gaining ‘authority to operate’: student‐led emergent volunteers and established response agencies in the Canterbury earthquakes	12
From pity to fear: security as a mechanism for (re)production of vulnerability	12
Crisis responses, opportunity, and public authority during Covid‐19's first wave in Uganda, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and South Sudan	12
When Covid‐19 meets conflict: politics of the pandemic response in fragile and conflict‐affected states	11
Issue Information	11
Ebola, informal settlements, and the role of place in infectious disease vulnerability: evidence from the 2014–16 outbreak in urban Sierra Leone	11
Rethinking disaster utopia: the limits of conspicuous resilience for community‐based recovery and adaptation	11
Enmity then empathy: How militarisation facilitated collaborative but exclusive exchange in Sierra Leone's Ebola response	11
Interconnections between children's upbringing, camps, and post‐war villages: caregivers' lived experiences in northern Uganda	11
Cash and voucher assistance along humanitarian supply chains: a literature review and directions for future research	10
Protective policies for all? An analysis of Covid‐19 deaths and protective policies among low‐, medium‐, and high‐vulnerability groups	10
Wartime captivity and homecoming: culture, stigma, and coping strategies of formerly abducted women in post‐conflict northern Uganda	10
How inclusive is disaster risk reduction? Perceptions and predicaments of persons with disabilities during disaster in Assam, India	10
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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 Covid‐19 financially hit urban refugees: evidence from mixed‐method research with citizens and Syrian refugees in Turkey	9
Calling on and thanking God: the role of faith and faith communities in disaster recovery	9
Humanitarian management of drought needs better water security data	9
Islamic faith‐based organisations and their role in building social capital for post‐disaster recovery in Indonesia	9
‘Building back better’ in the Caribbean: an introduction	9
Reclaiming Power and Partnerships in the Wake of Donor Retraction through South–South Partnership	9
Multi‐scalar and multi‐dimensional conceptions of social capital and mental health impacts after disaster: the case of Hurricane Harvey	9
Humanitarianism as a tool of statecraft: contested authority, sovereign violence, and humanity in the Syrian civil war	8
Five levels of famine prevention: towards a framework for the twenty‐first century and beyond	8
Humanitarians' ethics: the role of face‐to‐face experiences in humanitarian aid workers' motivation	8
How to care for carers: Psychosocial care for local staff of aid agencies	8
Psychological First Aid principles within a community‐led arts initiative: lessons from the Blacksmiths' Tree	7
Barriers to and opportunities for the restoration of mana in emergency management legislation and its implementation for Māori	7
The ‘conflict paradox’: humanitarian access, localisation, and (dis)empowerment in Myanmar, Somalia, and Somaliland	7
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Conceptualising disaster social capital: what it is, why it matters, and how it can be enhanced	7
Mental models for inclusive, socially‐just disaster planning: a multi‐community study in Saint Martin after Hurricane Irma	7
Official sources, news outlets, or search engines? Rumour validation on social media during Hurricanes Harvey and Irma	7
A retrospective of deaths related to migration along the southeasternmost land borders of Europe: an update encompassing the years 2015–22	7
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
Editorial	7
The transition from development and disaster risk reduction to humanitarian relief: the case of Yemen during high‐intensity conflict	6
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Displaced by climate and disaster‐induced relocations: experiences of cascading displacement in Fiji and the Philippines	6
Acknowledgement of reviewers	6