OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Journal of Islamic and Middle Eastern Finance and Manage is 1. 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
Hospitality management in times of crisis: a corporate social responsibility perspective	64
Measuring burdening effect of Shariah knowledge on sales performance; does work experience matter? A multi-group analysis in the Islamic finance industry	43
Exploring the greenium in the green Sukuk universe: evidence from the primary market	41
US sanctions, workforce dynamics, and corporate entrepreneurship: evidence from Iran	29
Exploring the stock market development and sustainable development nexus: insights from emerging market economies	26
Developing a Shari’ah based FinTech Money Creation Free [SFMCF] model for Islamic banking	25
Fiscal reform: a computable general equilibrium (CGE) analysis for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia	24
The impact of financial management practices on accountability of Islamic social enterprise (ISE)	24
Cash holdings and firm performance: empirical analysis from Shariah-compliant and conventional corporations	24
Are Muslim CEOs pursuing intangible value creation over profitability? International evidence	23
Guest editorial: Islamic finance in South Asia	20
Equity financing and Islamic bank stability: evidence from Malaysia and Indonesia	19
Are Islamic financial institutions more resilient against the COVID-19 pandemic in the GCC countries?	18
Political risk and portfolio performance: implications for Shariah-compliant investors	17
Self-determination theory and individuals’ intention to participate in donation crowdfunding	17
Economical rights versus God’s rights: criticising of the implementation Shariah economic in Indonesia	17
Profit- and loss-sharing partnership: the case of the two-tier mudharaba in Islamic banking	17
IPO valuation in an emerging market – a study in Iran	16
Development of a comprehensive sustainability performance index for takaful operators: integrating Maqasid Al-Shariah and stakeholder perspectives	16
An analysis of extreme risk spillover effects and their determinants between AI-related assets and Islamic banking indices	16
Nexus between competition, concentration and bank risk-taking in Indonesian Islamic banking	15
The impact of Islamic banking model and Islamic financial development on bank performance: evidence from dual banking economies	15
Exploring customer engagement value from relationship benefits	13
Capital structure and earnings management: evidence from Saudi Arabia	12
Pricing risk contribution of general Takaful by spatial generalized linear mixed models at the level of tariff cells	12

Impact of Qard-al-Hasan (interest-free loan) program in reducing multidimensional poverty: an evidence from the southwest Bangladesh	11
Determinants of gross international reserves in the case of the Maldives	11
Shari’ah governance and transparency: evidence from stock price synchronicity of Islamic banks	11
Islamic banking finance and private sector investment in dual banking systems: the impact of institutional quality	11
Work ethic, cultural impact and perceived performance – innovative insights from three countries	11
Assessing the impact of external determinants on the social performance of Islamic banks	11
Zakat administration in times of COVID-19 pandemic in Indonesia: a knowledge discovery via text mining	10
Zakat payment from cryptocurrencies and crypto assets	10
Impact of Brexit on Islamic stock markets: employing MGARCH-DCC and wavelet correlation analysis	10
Intellectual capital disclosure and financial performance nexus in Islamic and conventional banks in the GCC countries	9
The sustainability and performance of Bank Wakaf Mikro: waqf-based microfinance in Indonesia	9
Factors affecting financial engineering and product development in Islamic Financial Institutions	9
Revisiting Zakat with a distribution of weighted Shapley value	9
The potential of Islamic social finance to alleviate poverty in the era of COVID-19: the moderating effect of ethical orientation	9
Designing waqf-based financing model for livestock project: empirical evidence from Indonesia	9
Ownership structure, board characteristics, and performance of Indonesian Islamic rural banks	8
Monetary transmissions mechanism for Islamic capital markets: evidence from Markov switching dynamic regression approach	8
Exploring financial inclusion in MENA countries: an entropy weight approach	8
Beyond Sharpe ratio: comparison of risk-adjusted performance of Shariah-compliant and conventional indices	8
Noninterest equality or noninterest finance? Evidence from time-varying networks	8
How do stock markets react to dividend announcements during the COVID-19 pandemic? Evidence from the GCC markets	8
ESG activities and bank performance with the moderating influence of competition and regulatory quality: a study in the organization of Islamic countries	8
Intellectual capital disclosure (ICD) in Islamic banks: does the diversity of Shariah committee matters?	8
An analysis of online sadaqah acceptance among university graduates in Malaysia	7
Impacts of Sharīʿah supervision and corporate social responsibility on banks’ risk-taking behavior and profitability	7
Asymmetric dependence structures and decoupling hypothesis: Islamic versus conventional equity indices with copula approach	7
Exploring the moderating role of religious orientation on Islamic Fintech adoption	7
An analysis of spatial effects of terrorism on stock market returns in the Middle East countries	6
The role of Islamic social finance in societal welfare: a case study of selected IFBOs in southwest Nigeria	6
Examining preference shares from the Shari’ah perspective: a systematic literature review	6
Exploring the dynamics of bank liquidity holding in Islamic and conventional banks	6
Connectedness analysis of price return index among Malaysian economic sectors	6
Harmonizing Maqasid al-Shari’ah with sustainable waste management practices: a conceptual framework for principles and implementation	6
Price-limit effectiveness: evidence from the Borsa Istanbul (BIST)	6
Capitalism in modern ignorance (jahilliyah): exploring Islamic alternatives to reshape human behaviour and provide solutions for the 21st century	6
Guest editorial: Special issue on Covid-19 pandemic crisis and Islamic finance	6
The new legalities of Islamic contractual interpretation: institutional frameworks and the displacement of intention	5
Allocation discretion, price discounts and returns in Turkish initial public offerings	5
Do you want my loyalty? Then understand what drives my trust – a conventional and Islamic banking perspective	5
Socially responsible investment (SRI) Sukuk as a financing alternative for post COVID-19 development project	5
Interplay of financial market performance, macroeconomic indicators and business sentiment: a comprehensive study of the Turkish economy	5
Revisiting the impact of Islamic finance on economic growth: a decomposition analysis using Indonesia as a testing ground	5
Strategies implementing cash waqf system for Baitul Maal wat Tamwil to improve its commercial and social activities	5
Are donor funds used effectively? An examination of Islamic and conventional microfinance institutions	5
Cash waqf engagement among Malaysian millennials: the digitization of generosity	5
A proposed model for Zakah on financial instruments: accounting approach	5
Financial analysts’ personal values, perceived behavioural risk and investment decisions in evaluating CSR	5
Competitive strategies-performance nexus and the mediating role of enterprise risk management practices: a multi-group analysis for fully fledged Islamic banks and conventional banks with Islamic wind	5
The impact of zakat in poverty alleviation and income inequality reduction from the perspective of gender in West Java, Indonesia	5
Salam financing: from common local issues to a potential international framework	5

Empirical evaluation of structure-conduct-performance paradigm as applied to the Iranian Islamic banking system	4
Indonesian Islamic moral incentives in credit card debt repayment: a feature selection using various data mining	4
An insight into the signaling role of Sharia status: a case from an emerging IPO market	4
Does time orientation improve Islamic cultural finance	4
Impact of capital inflows on bank profitability: a comparative analysis of dual banking systems	4
Does bank governance affect risk and efficiency? Evidence from Islamic banks in GCC countries	4
Factors influencing zakat payment among Ethiopian Muslims: a PLS-SEM analysis	4
Banking system stability in the MENA region: the impact of market power and capital requirements on banks’ risk-taking behavior	4
Corporate risk-taking, financial constraints and cash holdings: evidence from Saudi Arabia	4
Creditworthiness pattern prediction and detection for GCC Islamic banks using machine learning techniques	4
Explanation and classification of technological entrepreneurship financing policies: lessons from Iran	3
Does the conventional money market overnight rate influence the investment rate of Islamic deposits? Evidence from Malaysia	3
Antecedents of Islamic welfare: productivity, education, and the financial aspect	3
Investigating similarities between Islamic and conventional banks in GCC countries: a dynamic time warping approach	3
COVID-19 and GCC stock market performance: an analysis of the boon (financial stimulus package) and curse (oil price plunge) effects	3
Corporate governance, national culture and bank performance: evidence from MENA countries	3
The integration of Maqasid Shariah in evaluating stablecoins and traditional cryptocurrencies for Islamic portfolios diversification	3
The drivers of liquidity risk in the GCC dual banking sector: the impact of the bank’s business model	3
Modeling returns of sukuk and related indices with system GMM: evidence from the MENA region	3
Toward the Black–Litterman with Shariah-compliant asset pricing model: a case study on the Indonesian stock market during the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Islamic banking stability amidst the COVID-19 pandemic: the role of digital financial inclusion	3
Evaluating the technical efficiency of Saudi Arabian telecommunications companies using window DEA and AHP techniques	3
The impact of climate change on financial stability: evidence from Maldives	2
Shariah capabilities and value propositions of Islamic banking	2
A proposed zakat model for digital assets from the Shariah perspective	2
Lender’s position in the profit and loss sharing Islamic finance: an analytical perspective of Izutsu’s hypotheses on “Islam” and “Hilm”	2
Islamic stock markets and COVID-19-induced shocks: simulations with global VAR approach	2
Contagion risk: cases of Islamic and emerging market banks	2
Empathy or perceived credibility? An empirical study of Muslim donating behaviour through online charitable crowdfunding in Indonesia	2
The effects of corporate disclosure on firm value and firm performance: evidence from Turkey	2
Bank-specific factors, market conditions and the riskiness of Islamic and conventional banks: evidence from recent quantile approaches	2
Designing micro-fintech models for Islamic micro financial institutions in Indonesia	2
An empirical analysis of the dynamic impact of DeFi on GCC foreign exchange forward markets: portfolio implication	2
Governance of Islamic social finance: learnings from existing literature	2
Investigating the role of Fintech innovations and green finance toward sustainable economic development: a bibliometric analysis	2
Islamic approach to corporate social responsibility: an international model for Islamic banks	2
The heterogeneous effect of leverage on firm performance: a quantile regression analysis	2
Human governance a pathway to integrity in counteracting corruption	2
Social influence or religiosity? New factors determining the adoption of Paytech services in Islamic countries	2
The approach of Islamic economists to the prohibition of interest in the context of Böhm-Bawerk’s time preference theory of interest	2
The effect of corporate governance on financial fragility in non-financial companies: a Minskyian approach	1
Re-examining money, debt and Islamic banking in the USA	1
Integrating environmental, social and governance (ESG) principles with Maqasid al-Shariah: a blueprint for sustainable takaful operations	1
Shariah-compliance and IPO underpricing: evidence from Pakistan Stock Exchange	1
Economic and political factors on herding in Islamic GCC stock markets during COVID-19 pandemic	1
Heterogeneous stock market impact of Russia–Ukraine War for oil and gas companies	1
The national-level potential of Zakat and its integration into the fiscal framework: sector-specific insights from the economy of Bangladesh	1
Retraction notice: Evaluation of the Islamic interbank benchmark rate	1
Mapping an Islamic venture capital setup using foresight-based social construction approach	1
Ethical banking behavior among millennials and Gen-Z in Malaysia	1
An aspirational hope of a Sharīʿah-based microfinance model to alleviate extreme poverty	1
Do economic uncertainty and political risk steer CDS dynamics? An analysis of the Türkiye CDS	1
Covid-19 and informational efficiency in Asian emerging markets: a comparative study of conventional and Shariah-compliant stocks	1
Management ownership and the performance of Islamic microfinance institutions: a panel data analysis of Indonesian Islamic rural banks	1
Stock market effects of military conflicts on defence industry	1
An artificial neural network augmented GARCH model for Islamic stock market volatility: Do asymmetry and long memory matter?	1
Rethinking financial deepening in Islamic countries: political system and economic growth	1
Islamic banking in Bangladesh: a literature review and future research agenda	1
Diversification and performance of microfinance institutions: does Islamic microfinance model matter?	1
Theorizing Islamic entrepreneurship from an Islamic governance perspective	1
Contingent convertible Ijara pricing model	1
An analysis of Islamic financing access in Nigeria: perspectives of MSME owners	1
Examining the demand side factors of green banking adoption – a study exploring the case of Oman	1
Fiscal support and the impacts of tumbling oil prices from COVID-19 on MENA’s economy, energy consumption and environment	1
The role of Islamic FinTech in digital financial inclusion and sustainable development post covid-19: cross-country analysis	1
The impact of inflation on bank stability: evidence from the MENA banks	1
Performance of shariah-compliant and non-shariah-compliant ETFs: a comparative study	1
Predicting financial distress in non-financial sector of Pakistan using PCA and logit	1
The application of hibah al-ʿumra in disbursement of family Takāful benefits: an exploratory study	1
The effects of foreign currency exposure and Sharī’ah-compliant status on financial hedging strategy	1
The connectedness between Sukuk and conventional bond markets and the implications for investors	1
The effect of the number of bank relationships on firm leverage: high-risk shift and the curse of mainstream banks	1
Islamic microfinance services: a catalyst for poverty reduction in eastern Ethiopia	1