OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Minerva is 5. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Research Assessment Reform as Collective Action Problem: Contested Framings of Research System Transformation	47
A Review of Ian Scoones, Navigating Uncertainty: Radical Rethinking for a Turbulent World	42
Strategic Bureaucracy: The Convergence of Bureaucratic and Strategic Management Logics in the Organizational Restructuring of Universities	31
The Platformization of Science: Towards a Scientific Digital Platform Taxonomy	30
Katherine E. Smith, Justyna Bandola-Gill, Nasar Meer, Ellen Stewart and Richard Watermeyer, The Impact Agenda: Controversies, Consequences and Challenges	26
Eric S. Hintz, American Independent Inventors in an Era of Corporate R&D	25
Acceptable Use: Morality and Credibility Struggles in Swedish 1960s Alcohol and Illicit Drug (Ab)use Research and Policy	23
Professionalizing the Professional Bureaucracy: On Training and Expertise for Leadership Positions in Universities	19
Writing in the Sciences: Scientists, Scientific Writers, and the Division of Writing Labour	17
Retraction Stigma and its Communication via Retraction Notices	17
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	13
Digital Twins of the Earth Between Vision and Fiction	13
Entrepreneurialism Meets Sustainability: Exploring Tensions in the Transition to Sustainable Entrepreneurial Universities	13
“A Militia of Anarchists Run by a General”. A Case of Scientific Policy Advice in Austria During the Pandemic	12
Wissenschaftsreflexion: What is it? What is the need for it? Contemporary challenges for studies in science	11
Academia’s Expansion—On the Incorporation, Intrusion, and Bridging of Social Fields	11
The Rise of Global Health Emergency Governance	10
Investigating Knowledge Flows in Scientific Communities: The Potential of Bibliometric Methods	10
The Feeling Rules of Peer Review: Defining, Displaying, and Managing Emotions in Evaluation for Research Funding	10
Navigating Societal Impact: Strategic Management in Horizon 2020 SSH Projects	10
Dynamics of International Research Collaboration in Higher Education in the Global Majority Systems: Evidence from Three Contexts	10
From Student to Scholar: Peer Evaluation in the Berlin Philological Seminar	10
Science, Foreign Policy, and Corporate Global China: Industry-Science Collaborations in Switzerland	10
Territorial Inequalities and (de)Concentration of Public Investment in Science: A Study on CONICET (Argentina) and the Tensions Between Academic Excellence and Equity	9

Could I Write Like Carol Weiss?	9
Cutting Across Disciplines: Co-Production and the Rise of a Computational Culture	9
Mark Solovey and Christian Dayé, eds., Cold War Social Science: Transnational Entanglements	9
Big Science, Big Trouble? Understanding Conflict in and Around Big Science Projects and Networks	8
Making Sense of Science, University, and Industry: Sensemaking Narratives of Finnish and Israeli Scientists	7
Who Am I? The Influence of Knowledge Networks on PhD Students’ Formation of a Researcher Role Identity	7
Social Innovation: A Retrospective Perspective	6
Conception and Interpretation of Interdisciplinarity in Research Practice: Findings from Group Discussions in the Emerging Field of Digital Transformation	6
A Masked Truth? Public Discussions about Face Masks on a French Health Forum	6
New Arguments for a pure lottery in Research Funding: A Sketch for a Future Science Policy Without Time-Consuming Grant Competitions	6
“Are You a TA Practitioner, Then?” – Identity Constructions in Post-Normal Science	6
Towards the Recognition of Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Researchers	5
Peter Scott, Retreat or Resolution? Tackling the Crisis of Mass Higher Education	5
Mapping the German Diamond Open Access Journal Landscape	5
Understanding Conceptual Impact of Scientific Knowledge on Policy: The Role of Policymaking Conditions	5
The Library and the Database: Contrasting Expectations in Two Imaginaries for the Research Literature	5
Correction to: Conjuration and Conspiracy. The Controversy Over the German Covid Policy as a Mediumistic Trial, or: The Medium is the Mess	5
Diving into Relevance: How Deep Sea Researchers Articulate Societal Relevance within their Epistemic Living Spaces	5