OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Policy Sciences is 7. 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Fighting fake news in the COVID-19 era: policy insights from an equilibrium model	86
Political ideology and vaccination willingness: implications for policy design	40
Managing pandemics as super wicked problems: lessons from, and for, COVID-19 and the climate crisis	37
Local adaptation policy responses to extreme weather events	32
Designing policy for the long term: agency, policy feedback and policy change	32
Policy capacities and effective policy design: a review	32
Uncertainty, risk and the use of algorithms in policy decisions: a case study on criminal justice in the USA	28
Barriers to the digital transformation of infrastructure sectors	27
Tempest in a teapot? Toward new collaborations between mainstream policy process studies and interpretive policy studies	23
The politics of Artificial Intelligence regulation and governance reform in the European Union	18
Pathways to policy integration: a subsystem approach	18
When multiple streams make a river: analyzing collaborative policymaking institutions using the multiple streams framework	16
Why public organizations contribute to crosscutting policy programs: the role of structure, culture, and ministerial control	16
Why does the combination of policy entrepreneur and institutional entrepreneur roles matter for the institutionalization of policy ideas?	16
Inaction, under-reaction action and incapacity: communication breakdown in Italy’s vaccination governance	16
Policy over- and under-design: an information quality perspective	15
The promises and pitfalls of polysemic ideas: ‘One Health’ and antimicrobial resistance policy in Australia and the UK	15
Institutional complexity traps in policy integration processes: a long-term perspective on Swiss flood risk management	15
Mapping the use of knowledge in policymaking: barriers and facilitators from a subjectivist perspective (1990–2020)	13
Policy learning as complex contagion: how social networks shape organizational beliefs in forest-based climate change mitigation	13
Policy success for whom? A framework for analysis	12
Mapping design activities and methods of public sector innovation units through the policy cycle model	11
Policy feedback and institutional context in energy transitions	10
Public policy schools in the global south: a mapping and analysis of the emerging landscape	9
Classifying public policies with Moral Foundations Theory	9

Immediate rewards or delayed gratification? A conjoint survey experiment of the public’s policy preferences	9
Empirical research on policy integration: a review and new directions	9
The importance of policy design fit for effectiveness: a qualitative comparative analysis of policy integration in regional transport planning	9
A threat-centered theory of policy entrepreneurship	9
Autonomy of policy instrument attitudes: concept, theory and evidence	8
Spillover effects of central cities on sustainability efforts in a metropolitan area	8
Dealing with cross-sectoral policy problems: An advocacy coalition approach to climate and water policy integration in Northeast Brazil	8
Narratives in power and policy design: the case of border management and external migration controls in Italy	8
Evaluation use and learning in public policy	7
Seeking policy solutions in a complex system: experimentalist governance in China’s healthcare reform	7
Power struggles in policy feedback processes: incremental steps towards a circular economy within Dutch wastewater policy	7
The European 2030 climate and energy package: do domestic strategy adaptations precede EU policy change?	7
Vaccine alliance building blocks: a conjoint experiment on popular support for international COVID-19 cooperation formats	7
How to blame and make a difference: perceived responsibility and policy consequences in two Swedish pro-migrant campaigns	7