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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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
David John Frank & John W. Meyer, The University and the Global Knowledge Society	77
Research Assessment Reform as Collective Action Problem: Contested Framings of Research System Transformation	35
A Review of Ian Scoones, Navigating Uncertainty: Radical Rethinking for a Turbulent World	32
Strategic Bureaucracy: The Convergence of Bureaucratic and Strategic Management Logics in the Organizational Restructuring of Universities	24
The Platformization of Science: Towards a Scientific Digital Platform Taxonomy	22
Eric S. Hintz, American Independent Inventors in an Era of Corporate R&D	20
Acceptable Use: Morality and Credibility Struggles in Swedish 1960s Alcohol and Illicit Drug (Ab)use Research and Policy	15
Katherine E. Smith, Justyna Bandola-Gill, Nasar Meer, Ellen Stewart and Richard Watermeyer, The Impact Agenda: Controversies, Consequences and Challenges	15
Public-Private Partnerships and the Landscape of Neglected Tropical Disease Research: The Shifting Logic and Spaces of Knowledge Production	14
The Independence of Research—A Review of Disciplinary Perspectives and Outline of Interdisciplinary Prospects	13
Digital Twins of the Earth Between Vision and Fiction	13
Retraction Stigma and its Communication via Retraction Notices	12
“A Militia of Anarchists Run by a General”. A Case of Scientific Policy Advice in Austria During the Pandemic	11
The Rise of Global Health Emergency Governance	10
Navigating Societal Impact: Strategic Management in Horizon 2020 SSH Projects	10
Investigating Knowledge Flows in Scientific Communities: The Potential of Bibliometric Methods	9
New Arguments for a pure lottery in Research Funding: A Sketch for a Future Science Policy Without Time-Consuming Grant Competitions	8
Social Innovation: A Retrospective Perspective	8
Making Sense of Science, University, and Industry: Sensemaking Narratives of Finnish and Israeli Scientists	8
The Feeling Rules of Peer Review: Defining, Displaying, and Managing Emotions in Evaluation for Research Funding	8
Academic Reform in Fractured Disciplines – On the Interaction of Bologna, New-Public-Management and the Dynamics of Disciplinary Development	7
Could I Write Like Carol Weiss?	7
Big Science, Big Trouble? Understanding Conflict in and Around Big Science Projects and Networks	6
Conception and Interpretation of Interdisciplinarity in Research Practice: Findings from Group Discussions in the Emerging Field of Digital Transformation	6
Territorial Inequalities and (de)Concentration of Public Investment in Science: A Study on CONICET (Argentina) and the Tensions Between Academic Excellence and Equity	6

Mark Solovey and Christian Dayé, eds., Cold War Social Science: Transnational Entanglements	6
“Are You a TA Practitioner, Then?” – Identity Constructions in Post-Normal Science	5
Who Am I? The Influence of Knowledge Networks on PhD Students’ Formation of a Researcher Role Identity	5
Diving into Relevance: How Deep Sea Researchers Articulate Societal Relevance within their Epistemic Living Spaces	4
Mapping the German Diamond Open Access Journal Landscape	4
Correction to: Conjuration and Conspiracy. The Controversy Over the German Covid Policy as a Mediumistic Trial, or: The Medium is the Mess	4
Towards the Recognition of Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Researchers	4
Understanding Conceptual Impact of Scientific Knowledge on Policy: The Role of Policymaking Conditions	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
A Masked Truth? Public Discussions about Face Masks on a French Health Forum	4
A Sociocultural Perspective on Scholars Developing Research Skills via Research Communities in Vietnam	4
Peter Scott, Retreat or Resolution? Tackling the Crisis of Mass Higher Education	4
Censorship and Suppression of Covid-19 Heterodoxy: Tactics and Counter-Tactics	3
The Communication Function of Universities: Is There a Place for Science Communication?	3
Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, Split and Splice. A Phenomenology of Experimentation	3
“We Share All Data with Each Other”: Data-Sharing in Peer-to-Peer Relationships	3
Knowledge Brokering Repertoires: Academic Practices at Science-Policy Interfaces as an Epistemological Bricolage	3
Metascience as a Scientific Social Movement	3
Public Value Promises and Outcome Reporting in Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy	3
Environmental Care: How Marine Scientists Relate to Environmental Changes	2
The Societal Territory of Academic Disciplines: How Disciplines Matter to Society	2
What is “Dialogue” in Public Engagement with Science and Technology? Bridging STS and Deliberative Democracy	2
Between Delivery and Luck: Projectification of Academic Careers and Conflicting Notions of Worth at the Postdoc Level	2
Academic Inbreeding: Academic Oligarchy, Effects, and Barriers to Change	2
Reimagining Health as a ‘Flow on Effect’ of Biomedical Innovation: Research Policy as a Site of State Activism	2
Mapping for Mapping’s Sake? Ecosystems Services Maps and the Modes of (Ir)relevance of Ecological Knowledge for Nature Conservation	2
Academia in the Grip of the Wolf and Its Utopia	2
Enhancing China’s Incentive System for Scientific Innovation: A Review and Recommendations	2
Abstracting It All: The Soviet Institute of Scientific Information (VINITI) and the Promise of Centralisation, 1952–1977	2
Stress-Inducing and Anxiety-Ridden: A Practice-Based Approach to the Construction of Status-Bestowing Evaluations in Research Funding	2
What is the Space for “Place” in Social Studies of Astronomy?	2
Out of the Ivory Tower: The Patenting Activity of Canadian University Professors Before the 1980s	1
Scientific Production Convergence: An Empirical Analysis Across Nations	1
Bringing Together Species Observations: A Case Story of Sweden’s Biodiversity Informatics Infrastructures	1
More Than Euros: Exploring the Construction of Project Grants as Prizes and Consolations	1
The Changing Interrelationship Between Scientific Knowledge and Economic Power	1
All that Matters are Forests and Seas? Practising Relevance in Interdisciplinary Environment-Focused Social Science Fields	1
Reproducing Inequality: Collaboration Habitus and its Epistemic Implications in African-European Research Projects on Forests	1
The Framing of Diversity Statements in European Universities: The Role of Imprinting and Institutional Legacy	1
Convergence Research as a ‘System-of-Systems’: A Framework and Research Agenda	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
Cultural Shifts in High Energy Physics Collaboration from the Cold War to the Present: A Historical and Philosophical Perspective	1
Becoming an Impact-Driven University: A Socio-Technical Analysis of the Reconfiguration of Relevance During Institutional Transformation	1
Science and Innovation: A Cyclical Approach	1
Vaccine Hesitancy and the Concept of Trust: An Analysis Based on the Israeli COVID-19 Vaccination Campaign	1
Park Rangers and Science-Public Expertise: Science as Care in Biosecurity for Kauri Trees in Aotearoa/New Zealand	1
In the Name of Diversity: Analyzing the Adoptions of Diversity-Related Offices in U.S. Higher Education, 1968-2020	1
Stories of Disaster as Sites of Mitigation: Knowledge Production and Affective Engagement in the Narrativization of Nuclear Incidents in Different Media	1
Benchmarking and the Technicization of Academic Discourse: The Case of the EU at-Risk of Poverty or Social Exclusion Composite Indicator	1

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