Most cited papers in Human Rights and Development

Human Rights and Development

What are the most cited papers in Human Rights and Development?

The most cited paper in Human Rights and Development is "Unpacking 'Participation': models, meanings and practices" (Andréa Cornwall, 2008), with 1,711 citations. Next come "World Poverty and Human Rights" (1,635) and "Human Rights and Gender Violence: Translating International Law into Local Justice" (1,591).

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Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 266 citations is listed.

Most cited papers, sortable by citations and release date
#	Paper
1	Unpacking 'Participation': models, meanings and practices Andréa Cornwall · Community Development Journal Open access	5 Jun 2008	1,711
2	World Poverty and Human Rights Thomas W Pogge · Ethics & International Affairs	Mar 2005	1,635
3	Human Rights and Gender Violence: Translating International Law into Local Justice Stacy K. McGoldrick · Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews	2007	1,591
4	Do Human Rights Treaties Make a Difference? Oona A. Hathaway · The Yale Law Journal	Jun 2002	1,357
5	Gender Planning and Development: Theory, Practice and Training Devaki Jain, Caroline O. N. Moser · Feminist Review	1995	1,288
6	ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE: Human Health and Environmental Inequalities Robert Joseph Brulle, David Naguib Pellow · Annual Review of Public Health Review	9 Aug 2005	1,128
7	Depoliticising development: The uses and abuses of participation Sarah C. White · Development in Practice	Feb 1996	967
8	Goodbye Washington Consensus, hello Washington confusion?: A review of the World Bank's 'Economic growth in the 1990s: Learning from a decade of reform' Dani Rodrik · Panoeconomicus Open access	2008	938
9	United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA): Stuart Hannabuss · Reference Reviews	2001	931
10	Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Dignity of the Human Being with Regard to the Application of Biology and Medicine: Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine Hendriks · European Journal of Health Law	1997	821
11	The Right to the City: Social Justice and the Fight for Public Space David Grazian · Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews	May 2004	792
12	Governance, good governance and global governance: Conceptual and actual challenges Thomas G. Weiss · Third World Quarterly	Oct 2000	786
13	The “Commons” Versus the “Commodity”: Alter‐globalization, Anti‐privatization and the Human Right to Water in the Global South Karen Bakker · Antipode	Jun 2007	770
14	Social impact assessment: the state of the art Ana Maria Esteves, Daniel M. Franks, Frank M. Vanclay · Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal Open access	Mar 2012	697
15	Human Development Report 2011. Sustainability and Equity: A Better Future for All Jeni Klugman · SSRN Electronic Journal PreprintOpen access	2 Nov 2011	683
16	Governance without a state: Can it work? Tanja A. Börzel, Thomas Risse · Regulation & Governance Open access	22 Jul 2010	657
17	Trading Human Rights: How Preferential Trade Agreements Influence Government Repression Emilie Marie Hafner-Burton · International Organization Open access	Jul 2005	615
18	The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Bertrand G. Ramcharan Book chapter	2002	605
19	Beyond Legalism: Towards a Thicker Understanding of Transitional Justice Kieran McEvoy · Journal of Law and Society	20 Nov 2007	603
20	Responsibility and Global Labor Justice Iris Marion Young · Journal of Political Philosophy Open access	29 Oct 2004	588
21	Do International Human Rights Treaties Improve Respect for Human Rights? Eric Neumayer · Journal of Conflict Resolution Open access	4 Nov 2005	585
22	Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Malcolm Langford, Jeff A. King · Cambridge University Press eBooks Book chapter	19 Jan 2009	583
23	Our Common Interest: Report of the Commission for Africa Suzanne E. Franks · The Political Quarterly	Jul 2005	505
24	Health systems and the right to health: an assessment of 194 countries Gunilla Backman, Paul Hunt, Rajat Khosla et al. · The Lancet Open access	Dec 2008	499
25	Legal Culture and Transformative Constitutionalism Karl E. Klare · South African Journal on Human Rights	1998	495
26	The Millennium Development Goals Sean T Kehoe, James Neilson, Jane Elizabeth Norman · Cambridge University Press eBooks Book chapter	12 Feb 2014	491
27	The Fate of Public International Law: Between Technique and Politics Martti Koskenniemi · Modern Law Review	2007	480
28	Exploring the Nexus: Bringing Together Sustainability, Environmental Justice and Equity Julian Agyeman, Robert Doyle Bullard, Bob Evans · Space and Polity	Apr 2002	480
29	Scientific evidence on the political impact of the Sustainable Development Goals Frank Biermann, Thomas Hickmann, Carole‐Anne Sénit et al. · Nature Sustainability Open access	20 Jun 2022	477
30	The implementation shortfall André F. Perold · The Journal of Portfolio Management	30 Apr 1988	467
31	Discourse and Power in Development: Michel Foucault and the Relevance of His Work to the Third World Arturo Escobar · Alternatives Global Local Political	Jul 1984	460
32	How the Millennium Development Goals are Unfair to Africa William Russell Easterly · World Development	3 Jul 2008	455
33	A United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (2005–14) Ingrid Mulà, Daniella Tilbury · Journal of Education for Sustainable Development	Mar 2009	431
34	Basic Income: A Simple and Powerful Idea for the Twenty-First Century Philippe Van Parijs · Politics & Society	Mar 2004	430
35	Governance, democracy and development in the Third World Adrian Leftwich · Third World Quarterly	1993	426
36	Justice Lost! The Failure of International Human Rights Law To Matter Where Needed Most Emilie Marie Hafner-Burton, Kiyoteru Tsutsui · Journal of Peace Research	25 Jun 2007	426
37	Politics by Number: Indicators as Social Pressure in International Relations Judith G. Kelley, Beth A. Simmons · American Journal of Political Science	23 Apr 2014	421
38	Putting the ‘rights‐based approach’ to development into perspective Andréa Cornwall, Celestine Nyamu‐Musembi · Third World Quarterly Open access	Sep 2004	421
39	The Millennium Development Goals: a cross-sectoral analysis and principles for goal setting after 2015 Jeff K. Waage, Rukmini Banerji, Oona M. R. Campbell et al. · The Lancet Open access	Sep 2010	416
40	The Politics of Perception: Use and Abuse of Transparency International's Approach to Measuring Corruption Staffan Andersson, Paul Heywood · Political Studies	6 Mar 2009	415
41	Gender mainstreaming since Beijing: A review of success and limitations in international institutions Caroline O. N. Moser, A. M. Moser · Gender & Development	Jul 2005	415
42	Ubuntu as a Moral Theory and Human Rights in South Africa Thaddeus Metz · PhilPapers (PhilPapers Foundation) Open access	2011	403
43	Explaining the Deterrence Effect of Human Rights Prosecutions for Transitional Countries1 Hun Joon Kim, Kathryn Sikkink · International Studies Quarterly	Dec 2010	402
44	Multicultural jurisdictions cultural differences and women's rights Ayelet Shachar	2001	399
45	Including Disabled People in Poverty Reduction Work: “Nothing About Us, Without Us” Rebecca Yeo, Karen Moore · World Development	Mar 2003	398
46	Whose Justice? Rethinking Transitional Justice from the Bottom Up Patricia Lundy, Mark E. McGovern · Journal of Law and Society Open access	9 May 2008	390
47	A Corte Interamericana de direitos humanos Andressa de Sousa e Silva · Revista Jurídica da Presidência Open access	2006	386
48	Domestic Judicial Institutions and Human Rights Treaty Violation Emilia Justyna Powell, Jeffrey K. Staton · International Studies Quarterly	Mar 2009	384
49	The SWPER index for women's empowerment in Africa: development and validation of an index based on survey data Fernanda Ewerling, John William Lynch, Cesar Gomes Victora et al. · The Lancet Global Health Open access	26 Jul 2017	384
50	UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Aart C Hendriks · European Journal of Health Law	2007	379

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