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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Who Helps Refugees in South Africa? An Examination of Cultural and Social Factors	86
Donation of Money, Volunteering, and Civic Engagement: How do they Relate to Intergenerational Transmission of Philanthropic Values?	28
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)	28
Beyond the “NGOization” of Civil Society: A Framework for Sustainable Community Led Development in Conflict Settings	26
Exploring Relationships Between Nonprofit Participation and Political Participation in Asian Context	25
Paradoxes in the Management of Timebanks in the UK’s Voluntary Sector: Discursive Bricolage and its Limits	22
Professional Volunteerism: Interwoven paradoxes in the management of Roskilde Festival	19
Georgina Brewis, Angela Ellis Paine, Irene Hardill, Rose Lindsey, Rob Macmillan: Transformational Moments in Social Welfare. What Role for Voluntary Action?	19
The Multi-method Comprehensive Review: Synthesis and Analysis when Scholarship is International, Interdisciplinary, and Immense	17
Catherine E. Herrold: Delta Democracy—Pathways to Incremental Civic Revolution in Egypt Beyond	16
John Butcher and David Gilchrist: Collaboration for Impact: Lessons from the Field	15
Ross B., Segal C., (2021) Making the Ask: The Artful Science of High-Value Fundraising. Practical Inspiration Publishing	15
Development and Empirical Study of Religion Affiliated Nonprofit Organizations’ Brand Equity Questionnaire: Testing Brand Awareness and Trust Among Non-members	14
NGO–Government Relations During Foreign Aid Reduction: Lessons from Thailand’s HIV/AIDS Sector	14
Scientific Production on the Social Economy: A Review of Worldwide Research	13
The paths of solidarity economy: the emergence and maintenance of social policies through collective action	13
COVID-19 and Civil Society in Southeast Asia: Beyond Shrinking Civic Space	13
Observing Civic Engagement: Using Systematic Social Observation to Study Civil Society Organization Convenings	12
Chari Smith, Nonprofit Program Evaluation Made Simple. Get Your Data. Show Your Impact. Improve Your Programs	12
Understanding the Role of Outsiders in Community-Based Development Interventions: A Framework with Findings from Iran	11
For the Love of Art? Episodic Volunteering at Cultural Events	10
The Diversity Imperative: The Effects of Local Economic Structure and Social Capital on Local Philanthropy	10
Shaping Civil Society Leaders: Horizontal and Vertical Boundary Work in Swedish Leadership Training Programmes	10
The Role of Civil Society in the Labour Market Integration of Migrants in Europe: An Introduction	10
Jessop B.: Putting Civil Society in Its Place: Governance, Metagovernance, and Subjectivity	10

Beyond the Social Mission: How Social Responsibility in Nonprofit Organizations May Stimulate Positive Employee Outcomes	9
The Fight for Global Health Justice: The Advocacy of International Humanitarian and Development NGOs During the COVID-19 Pandemic	9
Food Waste, Food Insecurity and the Globalization of Food Banks	9
A Framework to Integrate Non-profits into Development Planning in South Africa	9
The Civic Identity of the Ethical Consumer	9
Alnoor Ebrahim, Measuring Social Change: Performance and Accountability in a Complex World, Stanford University Press, Stanford, California, pp. 304	8
Together Yet Apart: Remedies for Tensions Between Volunteers and Health Care Professionals in Inter-professional Collaboration	8
Assessing Multidimensional Approaches to Measure Program Outcomes in Human Service Organizations	8
Evolving Experience and Motivation of Older Adults’ Long-Term Community Volunteering in Shanghai	8
Ian Murray, Charity Law and Accumulation: Maintaining an Intergenerational Balance	8
Comprehensive INGO Accountability to Strengthen Perceived Program Effectiveness: A Logical Thing?	8
Documents in a Field of Action: Using Documents to Address Research Questions About Nonprofit and Voluntary Organizations	8
Those Who Pay the Piper Calls the Tune: Meta-Organisation and Capacities of the Third Sector in Migration Policies	8
Altruism, Egoism, and the Wealthy	8
Methods in the Third Sector: Collective Memory-Work in a Complexity Framework	8
Measuring a Nonprofit’s Civic Footprint	8
Review of Employee Engagement in Nonprofit Organizations: Theory and Practice. By Kunle Akingbola, Sean Edmund Rogers, Melissa Intindola, Cham, Switzerland, (2023), 203 pp, $159.99 (Hardback), ISBN: 9	8
Mapping Civic Engagement in Later Life: A Scoping Review of Gerontological Definitions and Typology Proposal	7
Indigenous Peoples and Third Sector Research: Indigenous Data Sovereignty as a Framework to Improve Research Practices	7
Institutionalizing Experimental Places for Inclusive Social Innovation: From Utopias to Heterotopias	7
Toward an Understanding of the Role of Human Resources in Cultivating a Climate for Innovation in Nonprofit and Public Organizations	7
The Institutional Grammar: A Method for Coding Institutions and its Potential for Advancing Third Sector Research	7
Attribution of Community Emergency Volunteer Behaviour During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Study of Community Residents in Shanghai, China	7
Gig Economy Riders on Social Media in Thailand: Contested Identities and Emergent Civil Society Organisations	6
Taking Stock on How We Research the Third Sector: Diversity, Pluralism, and Openness	6
Ethnographies of Volunteering: Providing Nuance to the Links Between Volunteering and Development	6
Negotiating State-Civil Society Relations in Turkey: The Case of Refugee-Supporting Organizations	6
How Organizational Socialization Tactics Affect Volunteer Outcomes for New Volunteers	6
Factors Influencing Sustained Voluntary Intention of Community Volunteers in a Post-COVID-19 Pandemic Era	6
Governing for the Common Good: The Possibilities of Sociocracy in Nonprofit Organizations	6
Nonprofit Financial Resilience: Recovery from Natural Disasters	6
The Effects of Social Economy Organizations’ Networks on Social Innovation in Local Communities: A Multilevel Analysis Using the Social Innovation Index	6
Paradoxes Within the Management of Volunteers	6
Multitasking NPOs: An Analysis of the Relationship Between Funding Intentions and Nonprofit Capacities	6
Regulatory Reviews: Revolutionary Re-imagining of Charity Law or Simply Restatements of Convenience?	6
Ian Bruce: Vision Changing Charity: RNIB in Socio-Political Context 1970–2010	6
NGO as Sympathy Vendor or Public Advocate? A Case Study of NGOs’ Participation in Internet Fundraising Campaigns in China	6
Reintermediating Voluntary Action: The Path-Dependent Pluralization of the Italian Volunteering Field	6
Informal Volunteering and Immigrant Generations: Exploring Overlooked Dimensions in Immigrant Volunteering Research	6
Social Enterprises Within the Public Sector’s Purview: A Taxonomy-Based Study on South Korea	6
Alexandra Williamson, Diana Leat and Susan D. Phillips (eds.): Philanthropic Response to Disasters: Gifts, Givers and Consequences	6
Gender, Social Role, and Social Capital: A Comparative Study of Volunteerism in East Asia	6
Alicia M. Schatteman, Pursuing Impact: Mission-driven strategic planning for Nonprofits	5
Kirsten Holmes, Leonie Lockstone-Binney, Karen A. Smith and Richard Shipway (eds): The Routledge Handbook of Volunteering in Events, Sport and Tourism	5
Perception of Civil Society on the Curricular Integration of Media Competence: Challenges and Opportunities in Latin America	5
Exploring the Effects of Volunteering on the Social, Mental, and Physical Health and Well-being of Volunteers: An Umbrella Review	5
Avoiding Intimacy—An Ethnographic Study of Beneficent Boundaries in Virtual Voluntary Social Work	5
Financial Sustainability and Influence Dynamics in Yemen's Conflict-Affected NGO Landscape: Unveiling ‘Sheikh’ Organizations	5
Episodic Volunteering in Sport Events: A Seven-Country Analysis	5
Sally Power, ed., Civil Society through the Lifecourse. Policy Press: Bristol, UK 2020, 234 pp., $115.00	5

Civil Society, Neighbourhood Diversity and Deprivation in UK and Sweden	5
COVID-19-Related Studies of Nonprofit Management: A Critical Review and Research Agenda	5
Local Climate Governance: Towards more Interactive Practices and Settings?	5
Shariq A. Siddiqui, Rafeel Wasif, & Micah A. Hughes: Understanding Muslim Philanthropy	5
Balancing Legitimacy in a Context of Nonprofit-Business Hybridity: The Case of the Flemish Wellbeing and Social Economy Sector	5
Looking Ahead to Voluntas’ Contribution to Research on Civil Society	5
Fragmentation of Projects and the Symbolism of Development Aid in Northern Ghana	5
Collaboration, Co-Optation or Navigation? The Role of Civil Society in Disaster Governance in India	5
Digital Ethnography in Third Sector Research	5
Eric Fleisch, Checkbook Zionism: Philanthropy and Power in the Israel-Diaspora Relationship	5
Signaling Nonprofit Experts’ Endorsement in Celebrity Advocacy: Experimental Evidence from Japan	5
What Works to Increase Charitable Donations? A Meta-Review with Meta-Meta-Analysis	4
VOLUNTAS Virtual Issue: Social Enterprise	4
Kinship Idioms and Care-Control Dynamics in Hungarian Co-ethnic Philanthropy	4
The Reproduction of Inequality Through Volunteering by Young Refugees in Uganda	4
NGOs’ Approach to the Reintegration of Returned Female Labor Migrants in Bangladesh	4
Rainbow Research: Challenges and Recommendations for Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity and Expression (SOGIE) Survey Design	4
The Complex Relationship between the Board and Web Transparency in Nonprofit Organizations	4
Giving in Mexico 3rd Book: Funds, Channels, and Destinations	4
Citizen Participation and Political Efficacy at the Grassroots Level: The Case of Residents’ Self-Governance Associations in Seoul, South Korea	4
An Exploratory Analysis of Cross-National Variations in Prosocial Behaviors	4
Judge a Nonprofit by the Partners it Keeps: How Does Cross-Sector Partnership Disclosure Influence Public Evaluations of the Nonprofit?	4
The Differential Impact of the COVID-19 Crisis on Small-Scale Development Initiatives, a Cross-Country Comparison	4
When Nonprofit Organizations Meet Information and Communication Technologies: How Organizational Culture Influences the Use of Traditional, Digital, and Sharing Media	4
Esther Muddiman, Sally Power, and Chris Taylor, Civil Society and the Family, Policy Press, Bristol, United Kingdom, 2022, x + 203 pp. $33.00 (Paperback), ISBN: 978-1447355533	4
Dealing with Endogeneity to Understand the Societal Impact of the Third Sector: Why Should We Care and What Can We Do about It?	4
Spatial Differences in the Founding Pattern of Nongovernmental Organizations and Not-for-Profit Companies	4
Diaspora Humanitarians: How Diaspora Communities Respond to Humanitarian Crises	4
‘Young, Fun, and Free:’ Episodic Volunteers in Ghana, South Africa and Tanzania	4
Dennis R. Young and Elizabeth A. M. Searing: Resilience and the Management of Nonprofit Organizations	4
Inequality in Chile’s Philanthropic Ecosystem: Evidence and Implications	4
Social Enterprise and Self-rated Health Among Low-Income Individuals in South Korea: A Multilevel Analysis	4
Strategic Action Fields Through Digital Network Data: An Examination of Charitable Food Provision in Greater Manchester	4