OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Minerva is 1. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Strategic Bureaucracy: The Convergence of Bureaucratic and Strategic Management Logics in the Organizational Restructuring of Universities	44
A Review of Ian Scoones, Navigating Uncertainty: Radical Rethinking for a Turbulent World	41
The Platformization of Science: Towards a Scientific Digital Platform Taxonomy	29
Research Assessment Reform as Collective Action Problem: Contested Framings of Research System Transformation	27
Katherine E. Smith, Justyna Bandola-Gill, Nasar Meer, Ellen Stewart and Richard Watermeyer, The Impact Agenda: Controversies, Consequences and Challenges	25
Eric S. Hintz, American Independent Inventors in an Era of Corporate R&D	24
Acceptable Use: Morality and Credibility Struggles in Swedish 1960s Alcohol and Illicit Drug (Ab)use Research and Policy	22
Professionalizing the Professional Bureaucracy: On Training and Expertise for Leadership Positions in Universities	18
The University: Exalted Institution and Ruined Organization	17
Public-Private Partnerships and the Landscape of Neglected Tropical Disease Research: The Shifting Logic and Spaces of Knowledge Production	16
Writing in the Sciences: Scientists, Scientific Writers, and the Division of Writing Labour	16
Retraction Stigma and its Communication via Retraction Notices	12
Digital Twins of the Earth Between Vision and Fiction	11
The Rise of Global Health Emergency Governance	10
Entrepreneurialism Meets Sustainability: Exploring Tensions in the Transition to Sustainable Entrepreneurial Universities	10
Wissenschaftsreflexion: What is it? What is the need for it? Contemporary challenges for studies in science	10
From Student to Scholar: Peer Evaluation in the Berlin Philological Seminar	10
“A Militia of Anarchists Run by a General”. A Case of Scientific Policy Advice in Austria During the Pandemic	10
The Feeling Rules of Peer Review: Defining, Displaying, and Managing Emotions in Evaluation for Research Funding	9
Dynamics of International Research Collaboration in Higher Education in the Global Majority Systems: Evidence from Three Contexts	9
Investigating Knowledge Flows in Scientific Communities: The Potential of Bibliometric Methods	9
Making Sense of Science, University, and Industry: Sensemaking Narratives of Finnish and Israeli Scientists	9
Navigating Societal Impact: Strategic Management in Horizon 2020 SSH Projects	9
Territorial Inequalities and (de)Concentration of Public Investment in Science: A Study on CONICET (Argentina) and the Tensions Between Academic Excellence and Equity	8
Mark Solovey and Christian Dayé, eds., Cold War Social Science: Transnational Entanglements	8

Big Science, Big Trouble? Understanding Conflict in and Around Big Science Projects and Networks	8
Could I Write Like Carol Weiss?	8
Social Innovation: A Retrospective Perspective	7
Who Am I? The Influence of Knowledge Networks on PhD Students’ Formation of a Researcher Role Identity	7
Conception and Interpretation of Interdisciplinarity in Research Practice: Findings from Group Discussions in the Emerging Field of Digital Transformation	6
Towards the Recognition of Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Researchers	6
New Arguments for a pure lottery in Research Funding: A Sketch for a Future Science Policy Without Time-Consuming Grant Competitions	6
Understanding Conceptual Impact of Scientific Knowledge on Policy: The Role of Policymaking Conditions	5
“Are You a TA Practitioner, Then?” – Identity Constructions in Post-Normal Science	5
Correction to: Conjuration and Conspiracy. The Controversy Over the German Covid Policy as a Mediumistic Trial, or: The Medium is the Mess	5
Mapping the German Diamond Open Access Journal Landscape	5
Diving into Relevance: How Deep Sea Researchers Articulate Societal Relevance within their Epistemic Living Spaces	5
Peter Scott, Retreat or Resolution? Tackling the Crisis of Mass Higher Education	5
A Masked Truth? Public Discussions about Face Masks on a French Health Forum	5
Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, Split and Splice. A Phenomenology of Experimentation	4
Knowledge Brokering Repertoires: Academic Practices at Science-Policy Interfaces as an Epistemological Bricolage	4
The Politics Behind Overinterpreted and Underexplored Models: A Review of Andrea Saltelli and Monica Di Fiore (eds.), The Politics of Modelling - Numbers between Science and Policy	4
Metascience as a Scientific Social Movement	3
“We Share All Data with Each Other”: Data-Sharing in Peer-to-Peer Relationships	3
Academic Inbreeding: Academic Oligarchy, Effects, and Barriers to Change	3
The Communication Function of Universities: Is There a Place for Science Communication?	3
What is the Space for “Place” in Social Studies of Astronomy?	3
The Societal Territory of Academic Disciplines: How Disciplines Matter to Society	3
What Makes Knowledge Relevant? A Practice-Theoretical Perspective	3
Environmental Care: How Marine Scientists Relate to Environmental Changes	3
Making Expert Bodies: A Sociological Analysis of the Formation of Regulatory Agencies in U.S. Politics	3
Abstracting It All: The Soviet Institute of Scientific Information (VINITI) and the Promise of Centralisation, 1952–1977	3
Good Science from Below: Of Early-Stage Researchers’ Registers of Valuing, Response-Abilities, and Care for Good Research	3
Censorship and Suppression of Covid-19 Heterodoxy: Tactics and Counter-Tactics	3
Modes of Relevance in Research: Towards Understanding the Promises and Possibilities of Doing Relevance	3
Reimagining Health as a ‘Flow on Effect’ of Biomedical Innovation: Research Policy as a Site of State Activism	3
Enhancing China’s Incentive System for Scientific Innovation: A Review and Recommendations	3
Stress-Inducing and Anxiety-Ridden: A Practice-Based Approach to the Construction of Status-Bestowing Evaluations in Research Funding	3
Internationalizing Doctoral Education: Examining the Relationship Between International Engagement Opportunities and Research Production	3
Bringing Together Species Observations: A Case Story of Sweden’s Biodiversity Informatics Infrastructures	2
Mapping for Mapping’s Sake? Ecosystems Services Maps and the Modes of (Ir)relevance of Ecological Knowledge for Nature Conservation	2
Vaccine Hesitancy and the Concept of Trust: An Analysis Based on the Israeli COVID-19 Vaccination Campaign	2
Science and Innovation: A Cyclical Approach	2
Convergence Research as a ‘System-of-Systems’: A Framework and Research Agenda	2
Out of the Ivory Tower: The Patenting Activity of Canadian University Professors Before the 1980s	2
Between Delivery and Luck: Projectification of Academic Careers and Conflicting Notions of Worth at the Postdoc Level	2
Park Rangers and Science-Public Expertise: Science as Care in Biosecurity for Kauri Trees in Aotearoa/New Zealand	2
What is “Dialogue” in Public Engagement with Science and Technology? Bridging STS and Deliberative Democracy	2
The Framing of Diversity Statements in European Universities: The Role of Imprinting and Institutional Legacy	2
Between Gift-Giving and Accumulation: Peer Review Economies in Psychology	2
Benchmarking and the Technicization of Academic Discourse: The Case of the EU at-Risk of Poverty or Social Exclusion Composite Indicator	1
Engagement in the Journal Peer Reviewing Process Among STEM Doctoral Students in China	1
More Than Euros: Exploring the Construction of Project Grants as Prizes and Consolations	1
Becoming an Impact-Driven University: A Socio-Technical Analysis of the Reconfiguration of Relevance During Institutional Transformation	1
Steering the Direction of Research through Organizational Identity Formation	1

A Tale of Two Academic Communities: Digital Imaginaries of Automatic Screening Tools in Editorial Practice	1
Citizen Science in Deliberative Systems: Participation, Epistemic Injustice, and Civic Empowerment	1
The Persistence of Gender Inequality in e-Science: The Case of eSec	1
Towards a “Hinterland” for Doing Relevance. A Typology of Practices and Competencies to Guide the Development of more Relevant Research and Career Paths	1
From Problem-Solving to Meaning-Making: Reframing the Societal Relevance of Research	1
The Changing Interrelationship Between Scientific Knowledge and Economic Power	1
Ursula van Beek (ed.), Democracy under Pressure. Resilience or Retreat?	1
Stories of Disaster as Sites of Mitigation: Knowledge Production and Affective Engagement in the Narrativization of Nuclear Incidents in Different Media	1
Cultural Shifts in High Energy Physics Collaboration from the Cold War to the Present: A Historical and Philosophical Perspective	1
In the Name of Diversity: Analyzing the Adoptions of Diversity-Related Offices in U.S. Higher Education, 1968-2020	1
All that Matters are Forests and Seas? Practising Relevance in Interdisciplinary Environment-Focused Social Science Fields	1
Scientists as Experts in Public Debates Characterised by Scientific Uncertainty: The Swedish COVID-19 Debate	1
Reproducing Inequality: Collaboration Habitus and its Epistemic Implications in African-European Research Projects on Forests	1
Participatory Convergence: Integrating Convergence and Participatory Action Research	1
Enriching the Existing Knowledge About Co-creation: Identifying Dimensions of Co-creation Using Explicit Theory in Various Research Fields	1
Is More Science Really Less Science? The Scientization of Science, 1900–2020	1