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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
COVID-19 and Civil Society in Southeast Asia: Beyond Shrinking Civic Space	116
The Effects of Social Economy Organizations’ Networks on Social Innovation in Local Communities: A Multilevel Analysis Using the Social Innovation Index	33
Comprehensive INGO Accountability to Strengthen Perceived Program Effectiveness: A Logical Thing?	32
The Fight for Global Health Justice: The Advocacy of International Humanitarian and Development NGOs During the COVID-19 Pandemic	31
For the Love of Art? Episodic Volunteering at Cultural Events	28
Ian Bruce: Vision Changing Charity: RNIB in Socio-Political Context 1970–2010	22
Together Yet Apart: Remedies for Tensions Between Volunteers and Health Care Professionals in Inter-professional Collaboration	16
Measuring a Nonprofit’s Civic Footprint	15
The Multi-method Comprehensive Review: Synthesis and Analysis when Scholarship is International, Interdisciplinary, and Immense	15
Altruism, Egoism, and the Wealthy	15
Those Who Pay the Piper Calls the Tune: Meta-Organisation and Capacities of the Third Sector in Migration Policies	14
Observing Civic Engagement: Using Systematic Social Observation to Study Civil Society Organization Convenings	14
Exploring Relationships Between Nonprofit Participation and Political Participation in Asian Context	12
Shariq A. Siddiqui, Rafeel Wasif, & Micah A. Hughes: Understanding Muslim Philanthropy	12
Scientific Production on the Social Economy: A Review of Worldwide Research	11
Donation of Money, Volunteering, and Civic Engagement: How do they Relate to Intergenerational Transmission of Philanthropic Values?	11
Institutionalizing Experimental Places for Inclusive Social Innovation: From Utopias to Heterotopias	11
Urban Public Perceptions of NGOs’ Accountability and Legitimacy: A Social Media Analysis of #UgandaNGOsExhibition	11
Securing Donor Support on Nonprofit Commercialization: The Effects of Thematic and Episodic Message Framing	10
Young People’s Social Engagement: Personal Motivations and Social Networks	10
Assessing the ‘Why’ in Volunteering for Refugees: Exploring Volunteer Motivations	10
Negotiating Spaces or Fizzling Voices? Problematizing NGO-based Civil Society	10
Civil Society, Volunteerism, and Youth Citizenship in Fiji	10
Correction: Tracing the Geography of NGOs: Exploring Where Canadian Development Organizations Work and Why	10
Is the Environment a Political Issue? A View from Environmental Civil Society in the Aegean Region of Turkey	10

Leading Volunteer Motivation: How Leader Behaviour can Trigger and Fulfil Volunteers’ Motivations	10
The Reproduction of Inequality Through Volunteering by Young Refugees in Uganda	10
Volunteering Behaviors of People of Color in the US Communities: How Community Racial Composition Affects the Type of Organization People of Color Volunteer For	10
Are Mediterranean Nonprofits Adopting the Social Enterprise Model?	9
Framing Effects, Procedural Fairness, and the Nonprofit Managers’ Reactions to Job Layoffs in Response to the Economic Shock of the COVID-19 Crisis	9
Unmasking the Barriers to Financing Social Enterprises	9
Globalizing the Field by Learning from Non-English-Based Nonprofit Studies: A Review of South Korean Nonprofit Literature	9
Accessing the Boardroom: Investigating How Prior Research has Included the Perspective of Nonprofit Boards	9
Tracing the Geography of NGOs: Exploring where Canadian Development Organizations Work and Why	9
Thank you, Voluntas Community	9
Kearns, Kevin P., & Wang, Wenjiun (eds.), Elgar Encyclopedia of Nonprofit Management, Leadership and Governance	9
Voluntary Sport Clubs are no Fast-Track to Refugee Integration	9
The Pitfalls and Potential of Participant-Observation: Ethnographic Enquiry in Volunteering	8
The Role of Civil Society Organisations in the Integration of Migrants, Refugees and Asylum Seekers in the Italian Labour Market	8
Ethnography: Tales of the Nonprofit Field	8
Palgrave Studies in Third Sector Research Santilli, Cecilia, and Roberto Scaramuzzino. Civil Society Elites in the Italian Third Sector: A Comparative Perspective	8
Benefit-Cost Analysis of Nonprofit Cataract Surgery Services: A Social Return on Investment Approach at the Mexican Institute of Ophthalmology	7
Who Gives, Who Gets, and How do We Know? The Promises and Limitations of Administrative Data for Cross-border Philanthropy Tracking	7
Re-envisioning the Role of “Big Data” in the Nonprofit Sector: A Data Feminist Perspective	7
Who is the Broker Matters: How Publics Respond to Crisis Related Cross-Sector Networks on Social Media?	7
Organizational or Individual? The Effect of Social Networks on Volunteer Activities in Japan	7
Personal Antecedents of Social Entrepreneurial Intention in Different Country Clusters and Fields	7
Applying the Repertory Grid Technique to Advance Nonprofit Collaboration: A Situational Theory of Partner Selection	7
The Well-Being of Volunteers Who Serve Children at Risk of Maltreatment	7
Hierarchization, Boundary Making, and Inequality: Exploring the Structural Changes of Chinese Grassroots NGOs in a Transition Era	7
The Systematic Literature Review: Advantages and Applications in Nonprofit Scholarship	7
A Communication Toolkit to Build Trust: Lessons from Northern Ireland’s Civil Society Peacebuilders	7
Underlying Mechanism to the Identifiable Victim Effect in Collective Donation Action Intentions: Does Emotional Reactions and Perceived Responsibility Matter?	7
The Perspective of Community Members in the Assessment of the Social Value Generated by Non-profit and Voluntary Organizations	7
Agency of Individual Actors in Civil Society Organizations’ Advocacy: A Case Study of the Genesis of the Danish Aliens Act of 1983	7
Regulatory Reviews: Revolutionary Re-imagining of Charity Law or Simply Restatements of Convenience?	6
Methods in the Third Sector: Collective Memory-Work in a Complexity Framework	6
Beyond the Social Mission: How Social Responsibility in Nonprofit Organizations May Stimulate Positive Employee Outcomes	6
The Differential Impact of the COVID-19 Crisis on Small-Scale Development Initiatives, a Cross-Country Comparison	6
Spires, A. J., Global Civil Society and China, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024, pp. 86	6
Food Waste, Food Insecurity and the Globalization of Food Banks	6
Reintermediating Voluntary Action: The Path-Dependent Pluralization of the Italian Volunteering Field	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
Virtual Peer Support: Impact of Online Social Interactions Among Members of a Japanese Single Mothers’ Community	6
The Impact of Corruption and Poverty on NGO–Business Collaboration in Mexico	6
NGO–Government Relations During Foreign Aid Reduction: Lessons from Thailand’s HIV/AIDS Sector	6
Alexandra Williamson, Diana Leat and Susan D. Phillips (eds.): Philanthropic Response to Disasters: Gifts, Givers and Consequences	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
Strategic Action Fields Through Digital Network Data: An Examination of Charitable Food Provision in Greater Manchester	6
Voluntas Virtual Issue: Philanthropy	6
Alicia M. Schatteman, Pursuing Impact: Mission-driven strategic planning for Nonprofits	6
Modernization and the Shifting Bases of Philanthropy? An Empirical Study on Motivations of Individual Giving Based on CLDS	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
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
How to Code a Million Missions: Developing Bespoke Nonprofit Activity Codes Using Machine Learning Algorithms	5
All Earned Revenue is Not Created Equal: Revenue Embeddedness as a Framework for Exploring Crowding-In/Crowding-Out Effects	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
Mandatory Financial Statements Disclosure and Nonprofits’ Debt Structure: An Empirical Analysis	5
Toward a New Typology of Professional and Voluntary Care	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
Trust and Motivation in High-Risk Volunteering: An Empirical Study of Norwegian Search-and-Rescue Volunteers	5
Interorganizational Network Portfolios and Social Media Adoption by Nonprofit 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
Resilience in Arts and Cultural Nonprofit Organizations: An Analysis of the Covid-19 Crisis in France	5
Overlapping Functions: Volunteering and Other Forms of Civic Participation in the COVID-19 Disaster	4
Intermediated Co-production of Emergency Response: How Non-profit Organizations Build Trust in Citizens	4
What Counts? How to use Different Sources of NGO Data	4
Engaging Refugee Volunteers in Co-creation: The Role of Non-profit Leadership	4
Stigmatized Issues, Divergent Meanings: The Entanglement of Meaning-Making and Forms of Power Among Stakeholders in Liberia’s Mental Health Program	4
Social Entrepreneurial Orientation in Nonprofits: The Development and Testing of a Multidimensional Scale	4
The Invisible Labour of Solidarity: The Glorification of Volunteering and the Feminization of Work in the History of the Italian Social and Solidarity Economy	4
Using Dictator Game Experiments to Learn About Charitable Giving	4
The Wells-Du Bois Protocol for Machine Learning Bias: Building Critical Quantitative Foundations for Third Sector Scholarship	4
Conceptualizing, Measuring, and Theorizing the Third Sector: Embedding Statistical and Methodological Developments Awaiting Broader Scholarly Take-up	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
Book Review: China’s Citizenship Challenge Labour NGOs and the Struggle for Migrant Workers’ Right by Malgorzata Jakimow	4
Liv Egholm and Lars Bo Kaspersen (eds.): Civil Society: Between Concepts and Empirical Grounds	4
Correction to: NGOs’ Approach to the Reintegration of Returned Female Labor Migrants in Bangladesh	4
Absorptive Philanthropic Governance: The Resilience and Differentiation of Chinese Philanthropic Foundations Amidst the Pandemic	4
Exploring Donor Influence and Public Engagement: Computational and Thematic Analyses of Social Media Messages	4
Inquiring Systems and Development Led Inquiry: Uniting the Efforts of Farmers, Development Professionals, and Researchers	4