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 2021-05-01 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
Katherine E. Smith, Justyna Bandola-Gill, Nasar Meer, Ellen Stewart and Richard Watermeyer, The Impact Agenda: Controversies, Consequences and Challenges	15
Acceptable Use: Morality and Credibility Struggles in Swedish 1960s Alcohol and Illicit Drug (Ab)use Research and Policy	15
Public-Private Partnerships and the Landscape of Neglected Tropical Disease Research: The Shifting Logic and Spaces of Knowledge Production	14
Digital Twins of the Earth Between Vision and Fiction	13
The Independence of Research—A Review of Disciplinary Perspectives and Outline of Interdisciplinary Prospects	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
Navigating Societal Impact: Strategic Management in Horizon 2020 SSH Projects	10
The Rise of Global Health Emergency Governance	10
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	8
The Feeling Rules of Peer Review: Defining, Displaying, and Managing Emotions in Evaluation for Research Funding	8
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
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
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

Big Science, Big Trouble? Understanding Conflict in and Around Big Science Projects and Networks	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