OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Minerva is 4. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
A Review of Ian Scoones, Navigating Uncertainty: Radical Rethinking for a Turbulent World	87
Research Assessment Reform as Collective Action Problem: Contested Framings of Research System Transformation	43
Strategic Bureaucracy: The Convergence of Bureaucratic and Strategic Management Logics in the Organizational Restructuring of Universities	37
The Platformization of Science: Towards a Scientific Digital Platform Taxonomy	27
Eric S. Hintz, American Independent Inventors in an Era of Corporate R&D	24
Katherine E. Smith, Justyna Bandola-Gill, Nasar Meer, Ellen Stewart and Richard Watermeyer, The Impact Agenda: Controversies, Consequences and Challenges	24
Professionalizing the Professional Bureaucracy: On Training and Expertise for Leadership Positions in Universities	21
Acceptable Use: Morality and Credibility Struggles in Swedish 1960s Alcohol and Illicit Drug (Ab)use Research and Policy	16
The Independence of Research—A Review of Disciplinary Perspectives and Outline of Interdisciplinary Prospects	16
Digital Twins of the Earth Between Vision and Fiction	16
Public-Private Partnerships and the Landscape of Neglected Tropical Disease Research: The Shifting Logic and Spaces of Knowledge Production	15
Retraction Stigma and its Communication via Retraction Notices	13
“A Militia of Anarchists Run by a General”. A Case of Scientific Policy Advice in Austria During the Pandemic	11
Dynamics of International Research Collaboration in Higher Education in the Global Majority Systems: Evidence from Three Contexts	10
The Rise of Global Health Emergency Governance	10
The Feeling Rules of Peer Review: Defining, Displaying, and Managing Emotions in Evaluation for Research Funding	9
Navigating Societal Impact: Strategic Management in Horizon 2020 SSH Projects	9
New Arguments for a pure lottery in Research Funding: A Sketch for a Future Science Policy Without Time-Consuming Grant Competitions	8
Could I Write Like Carol Weiss?	8
Investigating Knowledge Flows in Scientific Communities: The Potential of Bibliometric Methods	8
Making Sense of Science, University, and Industry: Sensemaking Narratives of Finnish and Israeli Scientists	8
Conception and Interpretation of Interdisciplinarity in Research Practice: Findings from Group Discussions in the Emerging Field of Digital Transformation	7
Who Am I? The Influence of Knowledge Networks on PhD Students’ Formation of a Researcher Role Identity	7
Academic Reform in Fractured Disciplines – On the Interaction of Bologna, New-Public-Management and the Dynamics of Disciplinary Development	7
Mark Solovey and Christian Dayé, eds., Cold War Social Science: Transnational Entanglements	7

Territorial Inequalities and (de)Concentration of Public Investment in Science: A Study on CONICET (Argentina) and the Tensions Between Academic Excellence and Equity	7
Social Innovation: A Retrospective Perspective	7
Big Science, Big Trouble? Understanding Conflict in and Around Big Science Projects and Networks	6
Diving into Relevance: How Deep Sea Researchers Articulate Societal Relevance within their Epistemic Living Spaces	6
A Masked Truth? Public Discussions about Face Masks on a French Health Forum	6
Towards the Recognition of Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Researchers	5
“Are You a TA Practitioner, Then?” – Identity Constructions in Post-Normal Science	5
Understanding Conceptual Impact of Scientific Knowledge on Policy: The Role of Policymaking Conditions	5
Peter Scott, Retreat or Resolution? Tackling the Crisis of Mass Higher Education	5
Mapping the German Diamond Open Access Journal Landscape	5
Correction to: Conjuration and Conspiracy. The Controversy Over the German Covid Policy as a Mediumistic Trial, or: The Medium is the Mess	4
A Sociocultural Perspective on Scholars Developing Research Skills via Research Communities in Vietnam	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
Knowledge Brokering Repertoires: Academic Practices at Science-Policy Interfaces as an Epistemological Bricolage	4