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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
David John Frank & John W. Meyer, The University and the Global Knowledge Society	57
Conceptions of Professionalism in U.S. Research Universities: Evidence from the gradSERU Survey	28
The Science Policy Script, Revised	26
The Societal Territory of Academic Disciplines: How Disciplines Matter to Society	19
Abstracting It All: The Soviet Institute of Scientific Information (VINITI) and the Promise of Centralisation, 1952–1977	14
The Impacts of Incentives for International Publications on Research Cultures in Chinese Humanities and Social Sciences	13
Strategic Bureaucracy: The Convergence of Bureaucratic and Strategic Management Logics in the Organizational Restructuring of Universities	13
Evaluation Practices of Doctoral Examination Committees: Boundary-Work Under Pressure	12
A Data-Political Spectacle: How COVID-19 Became A Source of Societal Division in Denmark	12
An Uneasy Peace: How STEM Progressive, Traditionalist, and Bridging Faculty Understand Campus Conflicts over Diversity, Anti-Racism, and Free Expression	11
Citation Elites in Polytheistic and Umbrella Disciplines: Patterns of Stratification and Concentration in Danish and British Science	10
Mapping the German Diamond Open Access Journal Landscape	8
The Platformization of Science: Towards a Scientific Digital Platform Taxonomy	8
A Masked Truth? Public Discussions about Face Masks on a French Health Forum	8
“They Don't Understand Us, but We Have to Understand Them”: Interrogating the Making of Interdisciplinary Research in Chilean Climate Science	8
Understanding Conceptual Impact of Scientific Knowledge on Policy: The Role of Policymaking Conditions	7
Stress-Inducing and Anxiety-Ridden: A Practice-Based Approach to the Construction of Status-Bestowing Evaluations in Research Funding	7
Structural Power and Epistemologies in the Scientific Field: Why a Rapid Reconciliation Between Functional and Evolutionary Biology is Unlikely	7
“Are You a TA Practitioner, Then?” – Identity Constructions in Post-Normal Science	6
More Than Euros: Exploring the Construction of Project Grants as Prizes and Consolations	6
Making Science Relevant: Comparing Two Science Advisory Organizations Beyond the Linear Knowledge Model	6
Conjuration and Conspiracy. The Controversy over the German Covid Policy as a Mediumistic Trial, or: The Medium is the Mess	5
MICHAEL D. SMITH, The Abundant University: Remaking Higher Education for a Digital World	5
Becoming an Impact-Driven University: A Socio-Technical Analysis of the Reconfiguration of Relevance During Institutional Transformation	5
Entrepreneurial Orientation and Knowledge Transfer Effectiveness: The Effect of Organizational Commercial Slack	4

Benchmarking and the Technicization of Academic Discourse: The Case of the EU at-Risk of Poverty or Social Exclusion Composite Indicator	4
Roger D. Launius, Reaching for the Moon: A Short History of the Space Race	4
A Sociocultural Perspective on Scholars Developing Research Skills via Research Communities in Vietnam	4
Pushing Boundaries: The European Universities Initiative as a Case of Transnational Institution Building	4
Acceptable Use: Morality and Credibility Struggles in Swedish 1960s Alcohol and Illicit Drug (Ab)use Research and Policy	3
‘Lasting Impact on the Studies of Knowledge and Society’: A Review of Nico Stehr, Knowledge Capitalism	3
From Effects of Governance to Causes of Epistemic Change	3
Katherine E. Smith, Justyna Bandola-Gill, Nasar Meer, Ellen Stewart and Richard Watermeyer, The Impact Agenda: Controversies, Consequences and Challenges	3
Peter Scott, Retreat or Resolution? Tackling the Crisis of Mass Higher Education	3
Illiberal Reactions to Higher Education	3
Eric S. Hintz, American Independent Inventors in an Era of Corporate R&D	3
A Tale of Two Academic Communities: Digital Imaginaries of Automatic Screening Tools in Editorial Practice	3
Academia in the Grip of the Wolf and Its Utopia	3
Crafting Cumulative Advantage: A Systemic Approach to the Career Development of Highly Productive Researchers	3
Mapping Approaches to ‘Citizen Science’ and ‘Community Science’ and Everything In-between: The Evolution of New Epistemic Territory?	2
A Review of Mark Dennis Robinson, The Market in Mind—How Financialization is Shaping Neuroscience, Translational Medicine and Innovation in Biotechnology	2
Steering the Direction of Research through Organizational Identity Formation	2
Mapping for Mapping’s Sake? Ecosystems Services Maps and the Modes of (Ir)relevance of Ecological Knowledge for Nature Conservation	2
What is “Dialogue” in Public Engagement with Science and Technology? Bridging STS and Deliberative Democracy	2
Correction to: Conjuration and Conspiracy. The Controversy Over the German Covid Policy as a Mediumistic Trial, or: The Medium is the Mess	2
The Science and Politics of Climate Engineering—Social Science Perspectives	2
What is the Space for “Place” in Social Studies of Astronomy?	2
Citizen Science in Deliberative Systems: Participation, Epistemic Injustice, and Civic Empowerment	2
Between Delivery and Luck: Projectification of Academic Careers and Conflicting Notions of Worth at the Postdoc Level	2
Stories of Disaster as Sites of Mitigation: Knowledge Production and Affective Engagement in the Narrativization of Nuclear Incidents in Different Media	2
Performing Expertise in Building Regulation: ‘Codespeak’ and Fire Safety Experts	2
Cultural Shifts in High Energy Physics Collaboration from the Cold War to the Present: A Historical and Philosophical Perspective	2
Boundary Discourse of Crossdisciplinary and Cross-Sector Research: Refiguring the Landscape of Science	2
China’s Research Evaluation Reform: What are the Consequences for Global Science?	1
The Independence of Research—A Review of Disciplinary Perspectives and Outline of Interdisciplinary Prospects	1
Public-Private Partnerships and the Landscape of Neglected Tropical Disease Research: The Shifting Logic and Spaces of Knowledge Production	1
Knowledge Brokering Repertoires: Academic Practices at Science-Policy Interfaces as an Epistemological Bricolage	1
Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga, What Do Science, Technology and Innovation Mean from Africa?	1
The Impact of Impact: An Invitation to Philosophise	1
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	1
Ursula van Beek (ed.), Democracy under Pressure. Resilience or Retreat?	1
The Framing of Diversity Statements in European Universities: The Role of Imprinting and Institutional Legacy	1
Re-invent Yourself! How Demands for Innovativeness Reshape Epistemic Practices	1
The Therapeutic University	1
Honest Evaluation in the Academy	1
Out of the Ivory Tower: The Patenting Activity of Canadian University Professors Before the 1980s	1
Transnational Co-production of Knowledge: The Standardisation of Typhoon Warning Codes in the Far East, 1900–1939	1
Do Interpersonal Networks Mediate the Relationship Between International Academic Mobility and Entrepreneurial Knowledge?	1
Surviving Science – Coping with Exit-Decisions in Physics and History	1
Retraction Stigma and its Communication via Retraction Notices	1
Participatory Convergence: Integrating Convergence and Participatory Action Research	1