OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Voluntas 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
Transcription and Qualitative Methods: Implications for Third Sector Research	75
Inequality in Volunteering: Building a New Research Front	28
You Thought That This Would Be Easy? Seeking an Understanding of Episodic Volunteering	28
COVID-19-Related Studies of Nonprofit Management: A Critical Review and Research Agenda	24
Rediscovering the Cooperative Enterprise: A Systematic Review of Current Topics and Avenues for Future Research	22
Charity Social Media Marketing and Its Influence on Charity Brand Image, Brand Trust, and Donation Intention	20
Contemporary Philanthropy in the Spotlight: Pushing the Boundaries of Research on a Global and Contested Social Practice	17
The Rural/Urban Volunteering Divide	17
When Nonprofit Organizations Meet Information and Communication Technologies: How Organizational Culture Influences the Use of Traditional, Digital, and Sharing Media	16
Do Women Engage in Pro-environmental Behaviours in the Public Sphere Due to Social Expectations? The Effects of Social Norm-Based Persuasive Messages	16
Exhibiting Inclusion: An Examination of Race, Ethnicity, and Museum Participation	16
Who Is in Charge? Social Inequality in Different Fields of Volunteering	15
Resilience in Arts and Cultural Nonprofit Organizations: An Analysis of the Covid-19 Crisis in France	15
Organizational Commitment in the Nonprofit Sector and the Underlying Impact of Stakeholders and Organizational Support	14
Nourishing the Social Innovation Debate with the “Social Technology” South American Research Tradition	14
Corporate Foundations as Hybrid Organizations: A Systematic Review of Literature	13
The Role of Nonprofit–Private Collaboration for Nonprofits’ Organizational Resilience	13
Marginal Players? The Third Sector and Employability Services for Migrants, Refugees and Asylum Seekers in the UK	13
Exploring the Effects of Volunteering on the Social, Mental, and Physical Health and Well-being of Volunteers: An Umbrella Review	13
Explaining the Varieties of Volunteering in Europe: A Capability Approach	13
Compulsory Volunteer Experience in Singapore: Personality, Volunteer Motivation, and Continuance Intention to Volunteer	13
The Evolution of Third Sector Research and the Journal Voluntas: The Editors’ Impressions	12
Mapping Civic Engagement in Later Life: A Scoping Review of Gerontological Definitions and Typology Proposal	12
Immigrant Volunteering: A Form of Citizenship from Below	11
Reciprocal Engagement and NGO Policy Influence on the Local State in China	11

Representing the ‘Voice’ of Patients: How Third Sector Organisations Conceptualise and Communicate Experiential Knowledge in Health Service Development	11
Collaboration, Co-Optation or Navigation? The Role of Civil Society in Disaster Governance in India	11
Toward an Understanding of the Role of Human Resources in Cultivating a Climate for Innovation in Nonprofit and Public Organizations	10
Encouraging a Spatial Perspective in Third Sector Studies: Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis and Spatial Regression Analysis	10
Attribution of Community Emergency Volunteer Behaviour During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Study of Community Residents in Shanghai, China	10
“I have Felt so Much Joy”: The Role of Emotions in Community Sponsorship of Refugees	10
Repeat and Non-returning Volunteers: The Promise of Episodic Events for Volunteer Recruitment and Retention	9
Financial Resilience, Income Dependence and Organisational Survival in UK Charities	9
Civil Society Organizations and Labour Market Integration for Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Greece	9
Ineffectiveness, Poor Coordination, and Corruption in Humanitarian Aid: The Syrian Refugee Crisis in Lebanon	9
Balancing Legitimacy in a Context of Nonprofit-Business Hybridity: The Case of the Flemish Wellbeing and Social Economy Sector	9
Interviewing Elite Donors: Gaining Access, Developing Rapport and Dealing with the Dazzle	9
Episodic Volunteering in Sport Events: A Seven-Country Analysis	9
Exploring Donor Influence and Public Engagement: Computational and Thematic Analyses of Social Media Messages	8
Illustrating the Value of Critical Methodologies Through Third-sector Gender Studies: A Case for Pluralism	8
What Works to Increase Charitable Donations? A Meta-Review with Meta-Meta-Analysis	8
Unleashing the Antecedents and Consequences of Work Engagement in NGOs through the Lens of JD-R Model: Empirical Evidence from India	8
Panel Data Analysis: A Guide for Nonprofit Studies	8
How Billionaires Explain Their Philanthropy: A Mixed-Method Analysis of the Giving Pledge Letters	8
Scientific Production on the Social Economy: A Review of Worldwide Research	8
The Systematic Literature Review: Advantages and Applications in Nonprofit Scholarship	8
The Influence of Gender Equality on Volunteering Among European Senior Citizens	8
Capital, Inequality, and Volunteering	8
Practitioner Niches in the (Penal) Voluntary Sector: Perspectives from Management and the Frontlines	8
Minding the Gaps: The Role of Finnish Civil Society Organizations in the Labour Market Integration of Migrants	8
You Shall (Not) Pass: Strategies for Third-Party Gatekeepers to Enhance Volunteer Inclusion	7
Computational Social Science for Nonprofit Studies: Developing a Toolbox and Knowledge Base for the Field	7
Do Giving Circles Democratize Philanthropy? Donor Identity and Giving to Historically Marginalized Groups	7
Government/Foundation Relations: A Conceptual Framework and Evidence from the U.S. Federal Government’s Partnership Efforts	7
Basic Psychological Need Profiles and Correlates in Volunteers for a National Sports Event	7
What Determines the Success of Charitable Crowdfunding Campaigns? Evidence from China During the COVID-19 Pandemic	7
Conceptualizing, Measuring, and Theorizing the Third Sector: Embedding Statistical and Methodological Developments Awaiting Broader Scholarly Take-up	7
Toward a Refined Insight Into the Importance of Volunteers’ Motivations for Need-Based Experiences, Job Satisfaction, Work Effort, and Turnover Intentions in Nonprofit Sports Clubs: A Person-Centered	7
NGO Failure: A Theoretical Synthesis	6
Accountability Theory in Nonprofit Research: Using Governance Theories to Categorize Dichotomies	6
Age Is But a Number? An Exploration of Age Differences in Episodic Volunteering	6
Social Enterprises and Public Value: A Multiple-Case Study Assessment	6
Rainbow Research: Challenges and Recommendations for Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity and Expression (SOGIE) Survey Design	6
Avoiding Intimacy—An Ethnographic Study of Beneficent Boundaries in Virtual Voluntary Social Work	6
Taking Stock on How We Research the Third Sector: Diversity, Pluralism, and Openness	6
Making the Iceberg Visible Again: Service Delivering Experiences as a Lever for NPOs’ Advocacy Under a Third-Party Government Regime	6
The Social Production of Invited Spaces: Toward an Understanding of the Invitational Character of Spaces for Citizens’ Initiatives	6
How Perceptions Matter: Organizational Vulnerability and Practices of Resilience in the Field of Migration	6
Who Needs the Experts? The Politics and Practices of Alternative Humanitarianism and Its Relationship to NGOs	6
Effects of Government Contracting of Services on NGOs in China: Convergence and Divergence with International Experience	6
Institutional Constraints, Market Competition, and Revenue Strategies: Evidence from Canadian Social Enterprises	6
Gig Economy Riders on Social Media in Thailand: Contested Identities and Emergent Civil Society Organisations	6
Comparing Transnational and Communal Diaspora Philanthropies Among Temporary Migrant Workers: The Case of the Filipino Community in Israel	6
How Does an Authoritarian State Co-opt Its Social Scientists Studying Civil Society?	6
Understanding the Role of Nonprofit Organizations in the Provision of Social Services in China: An Exploratory Study	6

Growing the Volunteer Pool: Identifying Non-Volunteers Most Likely to Volunteer	6
Referee, Sponsor or Coach: How Does the Government Harness the Development of Social Enterprises? A Case Study of Chengdu, China	6
‘Young, Fun, and Free:’ Episodic Volunteers in Ghana, South Africa and Tanzania	6
For the Love of Art? Episodic Volunteering at Cultural Events	6
Nonprofit Financial Resilience: Recovery from Natural Disasters	6
Restricted Revenues and Nonprofit Service Delivery: The Roles of Financial Discretion	5
What Counts? How to use Different Sources of NGO Data	5
The Role of Solidarity in Women’s Empowerment: Narratives from Northeast Brazil	5
Informal Volunteering and Socialization Effects: Examining Modelling and Encouragement by Parents and Partner	5
Knowledge Sharing for Sustainable Development: An Examination of Practices in Local-Level NGOs in Tamil Nadu, India	5
Social Innovation: Drawing Lines Around the Appropriative Usage by Mainstream Sectors	5
Multitasking NPOs: An Analysis of the Relationship Between Funding Intentions and Nonprofit Capacities	5
Research Implications of Electronic Filing of Nonprofit Information: Lessons from the United States’ Internal Revenue Service Form 990 Series	5
Terrorists or Persecuted? The Portrayal of Islamic Nonprofits in US Newspapers Post 9/11	5
Framing Effects, Procedural Fairness, and the Nonprofit Managers’ Reactions to Job Layoffs in Response to the Economic Shock of the COVID-19 Crisis	5
Using Dictator Game Experiments to Learn About Charitable Giving	5
Assessing the ‘Why’ in Volunteering for Refugees: Exploring Volunteer Motivations	5
Nonprofit-as-supplement: Examining the Link Between Nonprofit Financial Support and Public Service Quality	5
How a Nonprofitness Orientation Influences Collective Civic Action: The Effects of Civic Engagement and Political Participation	5
Maintaining the Ideals of Co-production During Rapid Digitalisation: A Comparative Case Study of Digital Restorative Services in Estonia, Finland, Ireland and Portugal	5
Defining and Estimating the Scope of U.S. Faith-Based International Humanitarian Aid Organizations	5
Warmth and Competence: How Social Stereotypes of Volunteers Versus Paid Workers Affect Client Trust	5
How to Code a Million Missions: Developing Bespoke Nonprofit Activity Codes Using Machine Learning Algorithms	5
A Spectrum of Open Social Innovation Within Social Enterprise	5
Indigenous Peoples and Third Sector Research: Indigenous Data Sovereignty as a Framework to Improve Research Practices	5