The World Bank Research Observer

501 papers and 31.7k indexed citations i.

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The 501 papers published in The World Bank Research Observer in the last decades have received a total of 31.7k indexed citations. Papers published in The World Bank Research Observer usually cover Economics and Econometrics (237 papers), Sociology and Political Science (113 papers) and Finance (86 papers) specifically the topics of Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth (69 papers), Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (67 papers) and Income, Poverty, and Inequality (58 papers). The most active scholars publishing in The World Bank Research Observer are Michael Woolcock, Deepa Narayan, Rémy Prud’homme, Holger Görg, Stefan Dercon, Ghazala Mansuri, Martin Ravallion, Joseph E. Stiglitz, Janine Aron and Kamal Saggi.

In The Last Decade

Fields of papers published in The World Bank Research Observer

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers published in The World Bank Research Observer. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers published in The World Bank Research Observer.

Countries where authors publish in The World Bank Research Observer

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This map shows the geographic impact of research published in The World Bank Research Observer. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by papers published in The World Bank Research Observer with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites The World Bank Research Observer more than expected).

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