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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Introduction. The Covid‐19 pandemic: global dimensions, local responses	78
Introduction	46
Interplay between sanctions, donor conditionality, and food insecurity in complex emergencies: the case of Syria	44
Responding domestically: British Islamic faith‐based organisations' crisis response in the UK during the COVID‐19 pandemic	41
The Disaster Response Mobilization System: a community‐based disaster preparedness strategy in Puerto Rico	38
Disaster colonialism: indigenous tribal community responses to Typhoon Morakot in southern Taiwan	27
Recovering the status quo: tipping points and earthquake aftermaths in colonial India	21
Interorganisational emergency management coordination challenges in a resource‐scarce environment: a case study of El Salvador post COVID‐19	20
Evidence of policy learning in emergency declarations as communication tools in Australia	19
Disasters and corruption: public expectations and tolerance—evidence from Mexico	18
The barriers to uptake of disaster risk management science in urban planning: A political economy analysis	18
Decolonising disasters	18
Negotiating humanitarian space with criminal armed groups in urban Latin America	18
Measuring community disaster resilience for sustainable climate change adaptation: Lessons from time‐series findings in rural Cambodia	16
Paranirvar mānis (dependent people)? Rethinking humanitarian dependency syndrome: a Bourdieusian perspective	16
Issue Information	15
Food systems in protracted crises: examining indigenous food sovereignty amid de‐development in Kashmir	15
Queer and present danger: understanding the disparate impacts of disasters on LGBTQ+ communities	14
From ‘aidland’ to ‘homeland’: what the lived experiences of Ukrainian crisis leaders indicate about humanitarian response	14
‘Building back better’ in the context of multi‐hazards in the Caribbean	13
‘I know you like the back of my hand’: biometric practices of humanitarian organisations in international aid	13
From pity to fear: security as a mechanism for (re)production of vulnerability	13
Issue Information	13
Contents	13
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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
Contesting the crisis narrative: epidemic accounts in Sierra Leone, Tanzania, and Democratic Republic of the Congo	13
Issue Information	12
Local emergency management's use of social media during disasters: a case study of Hurricane Irma	12
Disasters in the Anthropocene: a storm in a teacup?	12
When Covid‐19 meets conflict: politics of the pandemic response in fragile and conflict‐affected states	11
Interconnections between children's upbringing, camps, and post‐war villages: caregivers' lived experiences in northern Uganda	11
Gaining ‘authority to operate’: student‐led emergent volunteers and established response agencies in the Canterbury earthquakes	10
Enmity then empathy: How militarisation facilitated collaborative but exclusive exchange in Sierra Leone's Ebola response	10
Crisis responses, opportunity, and public authority during Covid‐19's first wave in Uganda, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and South Sudan	10
Ebola, informal settlements, and the role of place in infectious disease vulnerability: evidence from the 2014–16 outbreak in urban Sierra Leone	10
Rethinking disaster utopia: the limits of conspicuous resilience for community‐based recovery and adaptation	10
Protective policies for all? An analysis of Covid‐19 deaths and protective policies among low‐, medium‐, and high‐vulnerability groups	10
Humanitarian management of drought needs better water security data	9
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How inclusive is disaster risk reduction? Perceptions and predicaments of persons with disabilities during disaster in Assam, India	9
Islamic faith‐based organisations and their role in building social capital for post‐disaster recovery in Indonesia	9
Multi‐risk instruments for emergency response: a multi‐hazard and multi‐risk assessment of the European Union's Solidarity and Emergency Aid Reserve	9
Wartime captivity and homecoming: culture, stigma, and coping strategies of formerly abducted women in post‐conflict northern Uganda	9
‘Building back better’ in the Caribbean: an introduction	8
Cash and voucher assistance along humanitarian supply chains: a literature review and directions for future research	8
Calling on and thanking God: the role of faith and faith communities in disaster recovery	8
Five levels of famine prevention: towards a framework for the twenty‐first century and beyond	8
Multi‐scalar and multi‐dimensional conceptions of social capital and mental health impacts after disaster: the case of Hurricane Harvey	8
Reclaiming Power and Partnerships in the Wake of Donor Retraction through South–South Partnership	8
How to care for carers: Psychosocial care for local staff of aid agencies	8
Humanitarianism as a tool of statecraft: contested authority, sovereign violence, and humanity in the Syrian civil war	8
Towards a temporal theory of refugee crisis response: ‘passing the baton’ across sectors	7
Localisation in the balance: Syrian medical‐humanitarian NGOs' strategic engagement with the local and international	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
Editorial	7
The ‘conflict paradox’: humanitarian access, localisation, and (dis)empowerment in Myanmar, Somalia, and Somaliland	7
Barriers to and opportunities for the restoration of mana in emergency management legislation and its implementation for Māori	7
Mental models for inclusive, socially‐just disaster planning: a multi‐community study in Saint Martin after Hurricane Irma	7
Contents	6
The transition from development and disaster risk reduction to humanitarian relief: the case of Yemen during high‐intensity conflict	6
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Contents	6
Psychological First Aid principles within a community‐led arts initiative: lessons from the Blacksmiths' Tree	6
A retrospective of deaths related to migration along the southeasternmost land borders of Europe: an update encompassing the years 2015–22	6
Official sources, news outlets, or search engines? Rumour validation on social media during Hurricanes Harvey and Irma	6
Displaced by climate and disaster‐induced relocations: experiences of cascading displacement in Fiji and the Philippines	6