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Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly Template

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About the Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly format

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly is a peer-reviewed journal published by SAGE, covering Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering, Religion, Society, and Development, Social Capital and Networks. Over its lifetime it has published 2,403 papers, which have received 86,079 citations.

PublisherSAGE
Reference styleAuthor–year (Harvard)
Author–year — (Smith, 2023) in the text
Smith, A., Jones, B. and Lee, C. (2023) 'A representative article title', Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 12(3), pp. 45–58.

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Publishes research inNonprofit Sector and Volunteering Religion, Society, and Development Social Capital and Networks Public Policy and Administration Research Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development
ISSN0899-7640
Citation impact (2-yr)1.6
h-index132
i10-index1,280
Top institutions publishing hereIndiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis
Journal websitenvs.sagepub.com
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Papers published in Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly per year

78
2014
71
2015
70
2016
66
2017
97
2018
70
2019
72
2020
87
2021
85
2022
81
2023
59
2024
87
2025

Citation impact of Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly by publication year

3.1K
2014
1.9K
2015
1.6K
2016
1.7K
2017
2.5K
2018
1.7K
2019
1.8K
2020
1.2K
2021
1.2K
2022
527
2023
196
2024
83
2025

Citations each year’s papers have accumulated so far — the most recent years are still building up.

Most-cited papers in Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly

A Literature Review of Empirical Studies of Philanthropy

René Bekkers, Pamala Wiepking · 10 Sep 2010

The authors present an overview of the academic literature on charitable giving based on a literature review of more than 500 articles. They structure their review around the central question of why people donate money to charitable organizations. They identify eight mechanisms as the most important forces that drive charitable giving: (a) awareness of need;…

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Diversification of Revenue Strategies: Evolving Resource Dependence in Nonprofit Organizations

Karen A. Froelich · 1 Sep 1999

This article examines the effects of three major revenue strategies in nonprofit organizations. Evolving resource dependence is demonstrated by the shifting reliance on each source of funds: private contributions, government funding, and commercial activities. A wide-ranging literature review is condensed into summary profiles comparing revenue volatility, goal displacement, process, and structure effects of each strategy.…

Volunteerism Research

John F. Wilson · 13 Feb 2012

I use a volunteer process model to organize a review of recent research on volunteerism, focusing mainly on journal articles reporting survey research results. Scholars from several different disciplines and countries have contributed to a body of work that is becoming more theoretically sophisticated and methodologically rigorous. The first stage of the process model—antecedents of…

Determinants of Voluntary Association Participation and Volunteering: A Literature Review

David Horton Smith · 1 Sep 1994

This article reviews the American literature in social science for the period 1975–1992 on the determinants of volunteer participation in programs and associations. It finds that most studies are too narrow in the hinds of variables that they include and that explanatory power is reduced as a result. Such participation is significantly greater for certain…

Defining Who is a Volunteer: Conceptual and Empirical Considerations

Ram A. Cnaan, Femida Handy, Margaret Wadsworth · 1 Sep 1996

T1he term volunteer is used too broadly in denoting nonsalaried service. In this article, the authors attempt to delineate the boundaries of the term volunteer. They first reviewed 11 widely used definitions of volunteer. Using a content analysis, they identified four key dimensions commonly found in most definitions of volunteer. They then proposed an internal…

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly template — frequently asked questions

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What reference style does Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly use?
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly uses Author–year (Harvard) references, shown as author–year markers such as (Smith, 2023) in the text. DocuGuru formats every in-text citation and the reference list in this exact style automatically. A reference appears like this: Smith, A., Jones, B. and Lee, C. (2023) 'A representative article title', Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 12(3), pp. 45–58.
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