| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Reinventing Institutions: Bricolage and the Social Embeddedness of Natural Resource Management | European Journal of Development Research | 2002 | 488 |
| 2 | What Do the Worldwide Governance Indicators Measure? | European Journal of Development Research | 2010 | 340 |
| 3 | What Do We Know About The Patterns and Determinants of Female Entrepreneurship Across Countries? | European Journal of Development Research | 2010 | 321 |
| 4 | Financial Globalisation Dynamic Thresholds for Financial Development: Evidence from Africa | European Journal of Development Research | 2017 | 284 |
| 5 | Financial Inclusion, Poverty Reduction and the Millennium Development Goals | European Journal of Development Research | 2009 | 280 |
| 6 | Towards an Elaborated Theory of Inclusive Development | European Journal of Development Research | 2015 | 229 |
| 7 | Conceptualising Inclusive Innovation: Modifying Systems of Innovation Frameworks to Understand Diffusion of New Technology to Low-Income Consumers | European Journal of Development Research | 2013 | 221 |
| 8 | Chinese FDI in Sub-Saharan Africa: Engaging with Large Dragons | European Journal of Development Research | 2009 | 199 |
| 9 | Female Entrepreneurship and Economic Activity | European Journal of Development Research | 2010 | 196 |
| 10 | China's Private Enterprises in Africa and the Implications for African Development | European Journal of Development Research | 2009 | 194 |
| 11 | Democratic Decentralisation through a Natural Resource Lens: An Introduction | European Journal of Development Research | 2004 | 178 |
| 12 | Foreign Direct Investment and its Role in Economic Development: Do We Need a New Agenda? | European Journal of Development Research | 2004 | 170 |
| 13 | The Supermarket Revolution in Developing Countries: Policies to Address Emerging Tensions Among Supermarkets, Suppliers and Traditional Retailers | European Journal of Development Research | 2006 | 157 |
| 14 | Evaluating the impact of technology development funds in emerging economies: evidence from Latin America | European Journal of Development Research | 2008 | 149 |
| 15 | Remittances and economic growth in developing countries | European Journal of Development Research | 2008 | 142 |
| 16 | Learning and Earning in Global Garment and Footwear Chains | European Journal of Development Research | 2006 | 140 |
| 17 | The Last Refuge of the Noble Savage? A Critical Assessment of Post-Development Theory | European Journal of Development Research | 1999 | 139 |
| 18 | Electronic Government (E-Government) and Development | European Journal of Development Research | 2004 | 139 |
| 19 | A novel approach to national technological accumulation and absorptive capacity: aggregating Cohen and Levinthal | European Journal of Development Research | 2008 | 137 |
| 20 | Gendered Institutions and Cross-National Patterns of Business Creation for Men and Women | European Journal of Development Research | 2010 | 133 |
| 21 | Linking Smallholder Farmers to Markets, Gender and Intra-Household Dynamics: Does the Choice of Commodity Matter? | European Journal of Development Research | 2011 | 131 |
| 22 | Chinese Migrants in Africa as New Agents of Development? An Analytical Framework | European Journal of Development Research | 2009 | 124 |
| 23 | ‘Helping a Large Number of People Become a Little Less Poor’: The Logic of Survival Entrepreneurs | European Journal of Development Research | 2012 | 124 |
| 24 | Female Entrepreneurship in Latin America and the Caribbean: Characteristics, Drivers and Relationship to Economic Development | European Journal of Development Research | 2010 | 121 |
| 25 | Response to ‘What do the Worldwide Governance Indicators Measure?’ | European Journal of Development Research | 2010 | 119 |
| 26 | From Global Value Chains (GVC) to Innovation Systems for Local Value Chains and Knowledge Creation | European Journal of Development Research | 2018 | 105 |
| 27 | The Role of Religion in Development: Towards a New Relationship between the European Union and Africa | European Journal of Development Research | 2006 | 104 |
| 28 | Northern and southern innovativity: a comparison across European and Latin American countries | European Journal of Development Research | 2008 | 103 |
| 29 | Frugal Innovation and Development: Aides or Adversaries? | European Journal of Development Research | 2016 | 103 |
| 30 | Foreign Aid and Democracy Promotion: Lessons from Africa | European Journal of Development Research | 2005 | 99 |
| 31 | Do Chinese Exports Crowd-out African Goods? An Econometric Analysis by Country and Sector | European Journal of Development Research | 2009 | 94 |
| 32 | User Committees: A Potentially Damaging Second Wave of Decentralisation? | European Journal of Development Research | 2004 | 93 |
| 33 | Gender Relations, Empowerment and Microcredit: Moving on from a Lost Decade | European Journal of Development Research | 2005 | 93 |
| 34 | Gender and Corruption: Lessons from Laboratory Corruption Experiments | European Journal of Development Research | 2011 | 93 |
| 35 | Global Value Chains, National Innovation Systems and Economic Development | European Journal of Development Research | 2018 | 92 |
| 36 | Living Off Uncertainty: The Intelligent Animal Production of Dryland Pastoralists | European Journal of Development Research | 2010 | 91 |
| 37 | Consumption Insurance and Vulnerability to Poverty: A Synthesis of the Evidence from Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Mali, Mexico and Russia | European Journal of Development Research | 2005 | 89 |
| 38 | Risk Attitudes and the ‘Vicious Circle of Poverty’ | European Journal of Development Research | 2005 | 89 |
| 39 | Patron—Client Networks and the Economic Effects of Corruption in Asia | European Journal of Development Research | 1998 | 88 |
| 40 | Technological innovation and productivity in late-transition Estonia: econometric evidence from innovation surveys | European Journal of Development Research | 2008 | 88 |
| 41 | Do Global Value Chains Offer Developing Countries Learning and Innovation Opportunities? | European Journal of Development Research | 2018 | 87 |
| 42 | Governance Patterns in Value Chains and their Development Impact | European Journal of Development Research | 2006 | 86 |
| 43 | By Choice and by Necessity: Entrepreneurship and Self-Employment in the Developing World | European Journal of Development Research | 2014 | 82 |
| 44 | FDI and ICT Effects on Productivity Growth: A Comparative Analysis of Developing and Developed Countries | European Journal of Development Research | 2010 | 81 |
| 45 | Total Public Debt and Growth in Developing Countries | European Journal of Development Research | 2012 | 81 |
| 46 | Thinning and Thickening: Productive Sector Policies in The Era of Global Value Chains | European Journal of Development Research | 2016 | 80 |
| 47 | Impact of FDI, ODA and Migrant Remittances on Economic Growth in Developing Countries: A Systems Approach | European Journal of Development Research | 2013 | 79 |
| 48 | Cannibalizing the Informal Economy: Frugal Innovation and Economic Inclusion in Africa | European Journal of Development Research | 2018 | 78 |
| 49 | New Technology and Catching Up | European Journal of Development Research | 1989 | 77 |
| 50 | FDI in Sub-Saharan Africa: Few Linkages, Fewer Spillovers | European Journal of Development Research | 2012 | 76 |
