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 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