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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
The Effects of Social Economy Organizations’ Networks on Social Innovation in Local Communities: A Multilevel Analysis Using the Social Innovation Index	151
Ian Bruce: Vision Changing Charity: RNIB in Socio-Political Context 1970–2010	50
The Multi-method Comprehensive Review: Synthesis and Analysis when Scholarship is International, Interdisciplinary, and Immense	38
Altruism, Egoism, and the Wealthy	36
Those Who Pay the Piper Calls the Tune: Meta-Organisation and Capacities of the Third Sector in Migration Policies	32
Shariq A. Siddiqui, Rafeel Wasif, & Micah A. Hughes: Understanding Muslim Philanthropy	25
Donation of Money, Volunteering, and Civic Engagement: How do they Relate to Intergenerational Transmission of Philanthropic Values?	18
The Fight for Global Health Justice: The Advocacy of International Humanitarian and Development NGOs During the COVID-19 Pandemic	17
Together Yet Apart: Remedies for Tensions Between Volunteers and Health Care Professionals in Inter-professional Collaboration	17
Measuring a Nonprofit’s Civic Footprint	17
Exploring Relationships Between Nonprofit Participation and Political Participation in Asian Context	17
Institutionalizing Experimental Places for Inclusive Social Innovation: From Utopias to Heterotopias	15
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	14
Observing Civic Engagement: Using Systematic Social Observation to Study Civil Society Organization Convenings	13
COVID-19 and Civil Society in Southeast Asia: Beyond Shrinking Civic Space	13
Urban Public Perceptions of NGOs’ Accountability and Legitimacy: A Social Media Analysis of #UgandaNGOsExhibition	13
Comprehensive INGO Accountability to Strengthen Perceived Program Effectiveness: A Logical Thing?	13
Internal Communication Satisfaction as a Driver of Membership Satisfaction and Identification in a Medical Professional Association	12
The Role and Potential of Grounded Theory in Advancing Nonprofit Research and Theory Development	12
Negotiating Spaces or Fizzling Voices? Problematizing NGO-based Civil Society	12
Civil Society, Volunteerism, and Youth Citizenship in Fiji	12
The Reproduction of Inequality Through Volunteering by Young Refugees in Uganda	12
Leading Volunteer Motivation: How Leader Behaviour can Trigger and Fulfil Volunteers’ Motivations	12
Securing Donor Support on Nonprofit Commercialization: The Effects of Thematic and Episodic Message Framing	12
Birds of a Feather, Flock Together: Examining Racial Identity and Giving During 2020	11

Correction: Tracing the Geography of NGOs: Exploring Where Canadian Development Organizations Work and Why	11
Are Mediterranean Nonprofits Adopting the Social Enterprise Model?	11
Assessing the ‘Why’ in Volunteering for Refugees: Exploring Volunteer Motivations	11
Thank you, Voluntas Community	11
Volunteering Behaviors of People of Color in the US Communities: How Community Racial Composition Affects the Type of Organization People of Color Volunteer For	11
The Role of Civil Society Organisations in the Integration of Migrants, Refugees and Asylum Seekers in the Italian Labour Market	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	10
Kearns, Kevin P., & Wang, Wenjiun (eds.), Elgar Encyclopedia of Nonprofit Management, Leadership and Governance	10
Tracing the Geography of NGOs: Exploring where Canadian Development Organizations Work and Why	10
Unmasking the Barriers to Financing Social Enterprises	10
The Well-Being of Volunteers Who Serve Children at Risk of Maltreatment	9
Voluntary Sport Clubs are no Fast-Track to Refugee Integration	9
The Pitfalls and Potential of Participant-Observation: Ethnographic Enquiry in Volunteering	9
Is the Environment a Political Issue? A View from Environmental Civil Society in the Aegean Region of Turkey	9
Hierarchization, Boundary Making, and Inequality: Exploring the Structural Changes of Chinese Grassroots NGOs in a Transition Era	9
Globalizing the Field by Learning from Non-English-Based Nonprofit Studies: A Review of South Korean Nonprofit Literature	9
Agency of Individual Actors in Civil Society Organizations’ Advocacy: A Case Study of the Genesis of the Danish Aliens Act of 1983	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
Applying the Repertory Grid Technique to Advance Nonprofit Collaboration: A Situational Theory of Partner Selection	8
Palgrave Studies in Third Sector Research Santilli, Cecilia, and Roberto Scaramuzzino. Civil Society Elites in the Italian Third Sector: A Comparative Perspective	8
Re-envisioning the Role of “Big Data” in the Nonprofit Sector: A Data Feminist Perspective	8
Underlying Mechanism to the Identifiable Victim Effect in Collective Donation Action Intentions: Does Emotional Reactions and Perceived Responsibility Matter?	8
The Perspective of Community Members in the Assessment of the Social Value Generated by Non-profit and Voluntary Organizations	8
Who is the Broker Matters: How Publics Respond to Crisis Related Cross-Sector Networks on Social Media?	8
Organizational or Individual? The Effect of Social Networks on Volunteer Activities in Japan	8
The Systematic Literature Review: Advantages and Applications in Nonprofit Scholarship	8
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)	7
Alexandra Williamson, Diana Leat and Susan D. Phillips (eds.): Philanthropic Response to Disasters: Gifts, Givers and Consequences	7
Who Gives, Who Gets, and How do We Know? The Promises and Limitations of Administrative Data for Cross-border Philanthropy Tracking	7
Reintermediating Voluntary Action: The Path-Dependent Pluralization of the Italian Volunteering Field	7
Food Waste, Food Insecurity and the Globalization of Food Banks	7
Benefit-Cost Analysis of Nonprofit Cataract Surgery Services: A Social Return on Investment Approach at the Mexican Institute of Ophthalmology	7
Methods in the Third Sector: Collective Memory-Work in a Complexity Framework	7
NGO–Government Relations During Foreign Aid Reduction: Lessons from Thailand’s HIV/AIDS Sector	7
Virtual Peer Support: Impact of Online Social Interactions Among Members of a Japanese Single Mothers’ Community	6
Regulatory Reviews: Revolutionary Re-imagining of Charity Law or Simply Restatements of Convenience?	6
Strategic Action Fields Through Digital Network Data: An Examination of Charitable Food Provision in Greater Manchester	6
Voluntas Virtual Issue: Philanthropy	6
Beyond the Social Mission: How Social Responsibility in Nonprofit Organizations May Stimulate Positive Employee Outcomes	6
Spires, A. J., Global Civil Society and China, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024, pp. 86	6
The Differential Impact of the COVID-19 Crisis on Small-Scale Development Initiatives, a Cross-Country Comparison	6
Alicia M. Schatteman, Pursuing Impact: Mission-driven strategic planning for Nonprofits	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
Exploring Long-Run Cultural and Economic Impacts of Religious Development Organizations Within Affiliated Populations	5
Philanthropy and Socio-economic Development: The Role of Large Indigenous Voluntary Organizations in Bridging Social Divides in Pakistan	5
Resilience in Arts and Cultural Nonprofit Organizations: An Analysis of the Covid-19 Crisis in France	5
Experiential Influences on Volunteers’ Retention and Support Intentions	5
Interorganizational Network Portfolios and Social Media Adoption by Nonprofit Organizations	5
Policy Promotion or Community Care: Explaining the Dual Activities of LGBTQ+ Organizations	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
How to Code a Million Missions: Developing Bespoke Nonprofit Activity Codes Using Machine Learning Algorithms	5
Yuha Jung, Neville Vakharia, Marilena Vecco (eds.): The Oxford Handbook of Arts and Cultural Management	5
Campagnari Francesco, The Institutionalisation of Civic Initiatives. Practices, Public Effects and Models of Direct Civic Action in Europe	5
A Quantitative Analysis of Policy and Sociocultural Advocacy Within a Neo-corporatist Context	5
Serving in Developing Countries: A Mixed Methods Study of International Voluntary Service Performance	5
Modernization and the Shifting Bases of Philanthropy? An Empirical Study on Motivations of Individual Giving Based on CLDS	5
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	5
Mandatory Financial Statements Disclosure and Nonprofits’ Debt Structure: An Empirical Analysis	5
Toward a New Typology of Professional and Voluntary Care	5
Trust and Motivation in High-Risk Volunteering: An Empirical Study of Norwegian Search-and-Rescue Volunteers	5
Using Dictator Game Experiments to Learn About Charitable Giving	5
Engaging Refugee Volunteers in Co-creation: The Role of Non-profit Leadership	4
The Wells-Du Bois Protocol for Machine Learning Bias: Building Critical Quantitative Foundations for Third Sector Scholarship	4
Exploring Donor Influence and Public Engagement: Computational and Thematic Analyses of Social Media Messages	4
Nonprofit Journals Publication Patterns: Visibility or Invisibility of Gender?	4
Christopher Pallas: Doctoral Student Skills: Using Your Comparative Advantage to Succeed in Grad School and Prepare for the Job Market	4
Tweeting in the ‘Expert Bubble’: Social Media Engagement of German Private Environmental Foundations	4
Cause-Related Games and Willingness to Donate: An Empirical Study from China	4
Conceptualizing, Measuring, and Theorizing the Third Sector: Embedding Statistical and Methodological Developments Awaiting Broader Scholarly Take-up	4
Famine Exposure and Individual Philanthropic Donations: Less Generosity or More?	4
Inquiring Systems and Development Led Inquiry: Uniting the Efforts of Farmers, Development Professionals, and Researchers	4
Correction to: NGOs’ Approach to the Reintegration of Returned Female Labor Migrants in Bangladesh	4
Social Entrepreneurial Orientation in Nonprofits: The Development and Testing of a Multidimensional Scale	4
Absorptive Philanthropic Governance: The Resilience and Differentiation of Chinese Philanthropic Foundations Amidst the Pandemic	4
Intermediated Co-production of Emergency Response: How Non-profit Organizations Build Trust in Citizens	4
Stigmatized Issues, Divergent Meanings: The Entanglement of Meaning-Making and Forms of Power Among Stakeholders in Liberia’s Mental Health Program	4
The Contingent Relationship Between Government Size and Nonprofit Sector Size: Exploring the Moderating Effect of Government Regulations	4
Book Review: China’s Citizenship Challenge Labour NGOs and the Struggle for Migrant Workers’ Right by Malgorzata Jakimow	4