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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Introduction. The Covid‐19 pandemic: global dimensions, local responses	78
Recovering the status quo: tipping points and earthquake aftermaths in colonial India	46
Interorganisational emergency management coordination challenges in a resource‐scarce environment: a case study of El Salvador post COVID‐19	45
Evidence of policy learning in emergency declarations as communication tools in Australia	43
Interplay between sanctions, donor conditionality, and food insecurity in complex emergencies: the case of Syria	40
Disaster colonialism: indigenous tribal community responses to Typhoon Morakot in southern Taiwan	36
Responding domestically: British Islamic faith‐based organisations' crisis response in the UK during the COVID‐19 pandemic	27
The Disaster Response Mobilization System: a community‐based disaster preparedness strategy in Puerto Rico	21
Introduction	19
The barriers to uptake of disaster risk management science in urban planning: A political economy analysis	19
Decolonising disasters	17
Disasters and corruption: public expectations and tolerance—evidence from Mexico	17
Paranirvar mānis (dependent people)? Rethinking humanitarian dependency syndrome: a Bourdieusian perspective	17
Negotiating humanitarian space with criminal armed groups in urban Latin America	17
Issue Information	16
Contesting the crisis narrative: epidemic accounts in Sierra Leone, Tanzania, and Democratic Republic of the Congo	16
From ‘aidland’ to ‘homeland’: what the lived experiences of Ukrainian crisis leaders indicate about humanitarian response	15
Food systems in protracted crises: examining indigenous food sovereignty amid de‐development in Kashmir	15
Measuring community disaster resilience for sustainable climate change adaptation: Lessons from time‐series findings in rural Cambodia	14
From pity to fear: security as a mechanism for (re)production of vulnerability	13
Issue Information	13
‘I know you like the back of my hand’: biometric practices of humanitarian organisations in international aid	13
Contents	13
Diasporas as a linchpin in local and international humanitarian action: a case study of the Chinese in Aceh following the 2004 tsunami	13
Queer and present danger: understanding the disparate impacts of disasters on LGBTQ+ communities	13

Local emergency management's use of social media during disasters: a case study of Hurricane Irma	12
‘Building back better’ in the context of multi‐hazards in the Caribbean	12
Disasters in the Anthropocene: a storm in a teacup?	12
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Interconnections between children's upbringing, camps, and post‐war villages: caregivers' lived experiences in northern Uganda	11
Rethinking disaster utopia: the limits of conspicuous resilience for community‐based recovery and adaptation	11
Gaining ‘authority to operate’: student‐led emergent volunteers and established response agencies in the Canterbury earthquakes	11
When Covid‐19 meets conflict: politics of the pandemic response in fragile and conflict‐affected states	11
Crisis responses, opportunity, and public authority during Covid‐19's first wave in Uganda, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and South Sudan	11
Enmity then empathy: How militarisation facilitated collaborative but exclusive exchange in Sierra Leone's Ebola response	10
Wartime captivity and homecoming: culture, stigma, and coping strategies of formerly abducted women in post‐conflict northern Uganda	10
Ebola, informal settlements, and the role of place in infectious disease vulnerability: evidence from the 2014–16 outbreak in urban Sierra Leone	10
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Issue Information	10
Protective policies for all? An analysis of Covid‐19 deaths and protective policies among low‐, medium‐, and high‐vulnerability groups	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
Humanitarian management of drought needs better water security data	9
Cash and voucher assistance along humanitarian supply chains: a literature review and directions for future research	9
Islamic faith‐based organisations and their role in building social capital for post‐disaster recovery in Indonesia	9
Reclaiming Power and Partnerships in the Wake of Donor Retraction through South–South Partnership	8
‘Building back better’ in the Caribbean: an introduction	8
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
Five levels of famine prevention: towards a framework for the twenty‐first century and beyond	8
How inclusive is disaster risk reduction? Perceptions and predicaments of persons with disabilities during disaster in Assam, India	8
Humanitarianism as a tool of statecraft: contested authority, sovereign violence, and humanity in the Syrian civil war	8
Calling on and thanking God: the role of faith and faith communities in disaster recovery	8
Conceptualising disaster social capital: what it is, why it matters, and how it can be enhanced	7
Contents	7
Barriers to and opportunities for the restoration of mana in emergency management legislation and its implementation for Māori	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
Humanitarians' ethics: the role of face‐to‐face experiences in humanitarian aid workers' motivation	7
Towards a temporal theory of refugee crisis response: ‘passing the baton’ across sectors	7
The ‘conflict paradox’: humanitarian access, localisation, and (dis)empowerment in Myanmar, Somalia, and Somaliland	7
Mental models for inclusive, socially‐just disaster planning: a multi‐community study in Saint Martin after Hurricane Irma	7
A retrospective of deaths related to migration along the southeasternmost land borders of Europe: an update encompassing the years 2015–22	6
Editorial	6
Official sources, news outlets, or search engines? Rumour validation on social media during Hurricanes Harvey and Irma	6
Psychological First Aid principles within a community‐led arts initiative: lessons from the Blacksmiths' Tree	6
Contents	6
The transition from development and disaster risk reduction to humanitarian relief: the case of Yemen during high‐intensity conflict	5
Flattening the curve: voluntary association participation and the 2013–16 West Africa Ebola epidemic	5
Dynamics of interorganisational emergency communication on Twitter: the case of Hurricane Irma	5
Help yourself by helping others: self‐interest in appeals for Russian famine relief, 1921–23	5
‘Let communities do their work’: the role of mutual aid and self‐help groups in the Covid‐19 pandemic response	5
Divergent dynamics: disasters and conflicts as ‘drivers’ of internal displacement?	5
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Issue Information	5
Humanitarian virtue: identifying ethics and values in humanitarian thinking	5

Contents	5
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The social meaning of money: multidimensional implications of humanitarian cash and voucher assistance	5
Compliance and coloniality: aid bureaucracy and the failures of ‘localisation’ in Myanmar's complex emergency	5
Acknowledgement of reviewers	5
Displaced by climate and disaster‐induced relocations: experiences of cascading displacement in Fiji and the Philippines	5
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Disasters and the diminishing of women's economic empowerment	5
Issue Information	5