OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Voluntas is 4. 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
Ian Bruce: Vision Changing Charity: RNIB in Socio-Political Context 1970–2010	61
Altruism, Egoism, and the Wealthy	46
COVID-19 and Civil Society in Southeast Asia: Beyond Shrinking Civic Space	43
Comprehensive INGO Accountability to Strengthen Perceived Program Effectiveness: A Logical Thing?	34
The Effects of Social Economy Organizations’ Networks on Social Innovation in Local Communities: A Multilevel Analysis Using the Social Innovation Index	19
Institutionalizing Experimental Places for Inclusive Social Innovation: From Utopias to Heterotopias	19
Exploring Relationships Between Nonprofit Participation and Political Participation in Asian Context	18
Heather C. Young. Finance for the Arts in Canada – Volumes 1 & 2 (2nd ed.). Toronto: Iguana Books Publishing, 2023. 268 + 314 pp. Bibliography. ISBN 978-1-77,180–660-2 (Paperback, Vol. 1), ISBN 97	18
Shariq A. Siddiqui, Rafeel Wasif, & Micah A. Hughes: Understanding Muslim Philanthropy	17
Donation of Money, Volunteering, and Civic Engagement: How do they Relate to Intergenerational Transmission of Philanthropic Values?	17
The Fight for Global Health Justice: The Advocacy of International Humanitarian and Development NGOs During the COVID-19 Pandemic	16
Together Yet Apart: Remedies for Tensions Between Volunteers and Health Care Professionals in Inter-professional Collaboration	14
Leading Volunteer Motivation: How Leader Behaviour can Trigger and Fulfil Volunteers’ Motivations	14
Securing Donor Support on Nonprofit Commercialization: The Effects of Thematic and Episodic Message Framing	14
Internal Communication Satisfaction as a Driver of Membership Satisfaction and Identification in a Medical Professional Association	14
Measuring a Nonprofit’s Civic Footprint	14
Opening the Box of Quitting Volunteering in Refugee Aid Organizations	14
Negotiating Spaces or Fizzling Voices? Problematizing NGO-based Civil Society	13
Urban Public Perceptions of NGOs’ Accountability and Legitimacy: A Social Media Analysis of #UgandaNGOsExhibition	13
Civil Society, Volunteerism, and Youth Citizenship in Fiji	13
The Reproduction of Inequality Through Volunteering by Young Refugees in Uganda	13
Bridging Perspectives: Academic and Practitioner Knowledge on Collective Impact for Social Innovation and Nonprofit Organizations	12
Correction: Tracing the Geography of NGOs: Exploring Where Canadian Development Organizations Work and Why	12
Volunteering Behaviors of People of Color in the US Communities: How Community Racial Composition Affects the Type of Organization People of Color Volunteer For	12
The Role and Potential of Grounded Theory in Advancing Nonprofit Research and Theory Development	12

Assessing the ‘Why’ in Volunteering for Refugees: Exploring Volunteer Motivations	11
Birds of a Feather, Flock Together: Examining Racial Identity and Giving During 2020	11
Thank you, Voluntas Community	11
Unmasking the Barriers to Financing Social Enterprises	10
Tracing the Geography of NGOs: Exploring where Canadian Development Organizations Work and Why	10
Are Mediterranean Nonprofits Adopting the Social Enterprise Model?	10
Kearns, Kevin P., & Wang, Wenjiun (eds.), Elgar Encyclopedia of Nonprofit Management, Leadership and Governance	10
Accessing the Boardroom: Investigating How Prior Research has Included the Perspective of Nonprofit Boards	10
Framing Effects, Procedural Fairness, and the Nonprofit Managers’ Reactions to Job Layoffs in Response to the Economic Shock of the COVID-19 Crisis	9
An Accountant’s Commentary on “Are Donors Sensitive to the Price of Giving? A Meta-Analytical Assessment”	9
Is the Environment a Political Issue? A View from Environmental Civil Society in the Aegean Region of Turkey	9
The Role of Civil Society Organisations in the Integration of Migrants, Refugees and Asylum Seekers in the Italian Labour Market	9
Stay or Stray: A Comparative Analysis of Short-Term Volunteer Permanence in the Theory of Planned Behavior and the Three-Stage Model of Volunteers’ Duration of Service	8
The Well-Being of Volunteers Who Serve Children at Risk of Maltreatment	8
Who is the Broker Matters: How Publics Respond to Crisis Related Cross-Sector Networks on Social Media?	8
Silke Roth and Clare Saunders, Organizing for Change: Social Change Makers and Social Change Organizations, Bristol University Press, Bristol, UK, 2025, 249 pp., Bibliography and Index	8
Voluntary Sport Clubs are no Fast-Track to Refugee Integration	8
Re-envisioning the Role of “Big Data” in the Nonprofit Sector: A Data Feminist Perspective	8
Hierarchization, Boundary Making, and Inequality: Exploring the Structural Changes of Chinese Grassroots NGOs in a Transition Era	8
Palgrave Studies in Third Sector Research Santilli, Cecilia, and Roberto Scaramuzzino. Civil Society Elites in the Italian Third Sector: A Comparative Perspective	8
Globalizing the Field by Learning from Non-English-Based Nonprofit Studies: A Review of South Korean Nonprofit Literature	8
The Perspective of Community Members in the Assessment of the Social Value Generated by Non-profit and Voluntary Organizations	8
Agency of Individual Actors in Civil Society Organizations’ Advocacy: A Case Study of the Genesis of the Danish Aliens Act of 1983	8
NGO–Government Relations During Foreign Aid Reduction: Lessons from Thailand’s HIV/AIDS Sector	7
Who Gives, Who Gets, and How do We Know? The Promises and Limitations of Administrative Data for Cross-border Philanthropy Tracking	7
Underlying Mechanism to the Identifiable Victim Effect in Collective Donation Action Intentions: Does Emotional Reactions and Perceived Responsibility Matter?	7
Applying the Repertory Grid Technique to Advance Nonprofit Collaboration: A Situational Theory of Partner Selection	7
Benefit-Cost Analysis of Nonprofit Cataract Surgery Services: A Social Return on Investment Approach at the Mexican Institute of Ophthalmology	7
Organizational or Individual? The Effect of Social Networks on Volunteer Activities in Japan	7
What Makes a Thriving Mutual-Aid Membership Association? The Case of Men’s Sheds	6
Alexandra Williamson, Diana Leat and Susan D. Phillips (eds.): Philanthropic Response to Disasters: Gifts, Givers and Consequences	6
Beyond the Social Mission: How Social Responsibility in Nonprofit Organizations May Stimulate Positive Employee Outcomes	6
Virtual Peer Support: Impact of Online Social Interactions Among Members of a Japanese Single Mothers’ Community	6
Food Waste, Food Insecurity and the Globalization of Food Banks	6
Cleopatra Charles & Margaret F. Sloan, Financial Leadership for the Arts: Sustainable Strategies for Creative Organizations, The University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 2024, p. 270, Appe	6
Regulatory Reviews: Revolutionary Re-imagining of Charity Law or Simply Restatements of Convenience?	6
Discursive Resources for Intended Image in Nonprofit Organizations	6
Neoliberalism and the Voluntary and Community Sector in Northern Ireland by Ciaran Hughes and Marcus Ketola, 2021, Bristol: Policy Press. ISBN: 978-4473-5118-4 (Hardcover)	6
Voluntas Virtual Issue: Philanthropy	5
Strategic Action Fields Through Digital Network Data: An Examination of Charitable Food Provision in Greater Manchester	5
Toward a New Typology of Professional and Voluntary Care	5
Philanthropy and Socio-economic Development: The Role of Large Indigenous Voluntary Organizations in Bridging Social Divides in Pakistan	5
Spires, A. J., Global Civil Society and China, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024, pp. 86	5
Michael Hoelscher, Regina A. List, Alexander Ruser, Stefan Toepler (ed.), Civil Society: Concepts, Challenges, Contexts. Essays in Honor of Helmut K. Anheier. Springer, Cham, 2022, pp. 494, appendix,	5
Deo, Nandini, Corporate social responsibility in India, The Anthem Press, London and New York, 2024, pp.154, Index, $110	5
Exploring Long-Run Cultural and Economic Impacts of Religious Development Organizations Within Affiliated Populations	5
Alicia M. Schatteman, Pursuing Impact: Mission-driven strategic planning for Nonprofits	5
Post-Disaster Volunteering after the 2023 Earthquakes in Türkiye: Impacts on Children and Preservice Teachers	5
Resilience in Arts and Cultural Nonprofit Organizations: An Analysis of the Covid-19 Crisis in France	5
Modernization and the Shifting Bases of Philanthropy? An Empirical Study on Motivations of Individual Giving Based on CLDS	5

Trust and Motivation in High-Risk Volunteering: An Empirical Study of Norwegian Search-and-Rescue Volunteers	4
Absorptive Philanthropic Governance: The Resilience and Differentiation of Chinese Philanthropic Foundations Amidst the Pandemic	4
The Valorization Process: How Marginalized Individuals Experience Social Inclusion Through Volunteering in Voluntary Social Welfare Organizations	4
Exploring Donor Influence and Public Engagement: Computational and Thematic Analyses of Social Media Messages	4
Yuha Jung, Neville Vakharia, Marilena Vecco (eds.): The Oxford Handbook of Arts and Cultural Management	4
Serving in Developing Countries: A Mixed Methods Study of International Voluntary Service Performance	4
Campagnari Francesco, The Institutionalisation of Civic Initiatives. Practices, Public Effects and Models of Direct Civic Action in Europe	4
Policy Promotion or Community Care: Explaining the Dual Activities of LGBTQ+ Organizations	4
A Quantitative Analysis of Policy and Sociocultural Advocacy Within a Neo-corporatist Context	4
Engaging Refugee Volunteers in Co-creation: The Role of Non-profit Leadership	4
Mandatory Financial Statements Disclosure and Nonprofits’ Debt Structure: An Empirical Analysis	4
Interorganizational Network Portfolios and Social Media Adoption by Nonprofit Organizations	4
Using Dictator Game Experiments to Learn About Charitable Giving	4
Experiential Influences on Volunteers’ Retention and Support Intentions	4
The Wells-Du Bois Protocol for Machine Learning Bias: Building Critical Quantitative Foundations for Third Sector Scholarship	4
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	4