OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Policy Sciences is 3. 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
The future as developmental construct in the work of Harold Lasswell	62
Policy’s role in democratic conflict management	51
Environmental identity and perceived salience of policy issues in coastal communities: a moderated-mediation analysis	37
Hijacking or helping?—How political actors use the COVID-19 pandemic in the climate discourse to advocate their policy beliefs and preferences	35
Policy integration as a political process	31
The promises and perils of populism for democratic policymaking: the case of Mexico	27
Peak policy lab or chasing windmills? The overlooked issue of misaligned policy design	21
Consultancy firms’ roles in policy diffusion: a systematic review from the environmental governance field	21
(Un)usual advocacy coalitions in a multi-system setting: the case of hydrogen in Germany	21
Understanding EU forest policy governance through a cultural theory lens	20
The legacy of Harold D. Lasswell’s commitment to the policy sciences of democracy: observations on Douglas Torgerson’s the policy sciences of Harold Lasswell	19
Assessing evidence based on scale can be a useful predictor of policy outcomes	18
Against the odds: How policy capacity can compensate for weak instruments in promoting sustainable food	18
Beyond evidence-based policymaking? Exploring knowledge formation and source effects in US migration policymaking	17
The intersection of digital and social infrastructures in (a)spatial policymaking	16
Conflicting and complementary policy goals as sectoral integration challenge: an analysis of sectoral interplay in flood risk management	15
How issue salience and political leadership facilitate policy integration: The adoption of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive in the European Union	15
Female members of parliament, right-wing parties, and the inclusiveness of immigration policy: evidence from 26 European countries	15
How budgets change: punctuations, trends, and super-trends	15
Tackling the soft non-technical challenges of the adoption of complexity science in policymaking	14
Keep me posted, but don’t stress me out: how the positive effect of social networking services on civil servants’ information use and political capacities can be attenuated by social media stress	14
Nudging citizens co-production: Assessing multiple behavioral strategies	14
Media actors as policy entrepreneurs: a case study of “No Jab, No Play” and “No Jab, No Pay” mandatory vaccination policies in Australia	12
Political emotions: a new policy science for tackling the climate crisis	12
A semi-automated approach to policy-relevant evidence synthesis: combining natural language processing, causal mapping, and graph analytics for public policy	12

Beyond plans, governance structures, and organizational strategies: how emotional mechanisms can make a difference in emergency response processes	12
Translocal climate club as a wall of fame? A panel study on the US cities’ membership in the Global Covenant of Mayors, 2014–2024	11
Approaches to policy framing: deepening a conversation across perspectives	11
From hierarchy to continuum: classifying the technical dimension of policy goals	11
Making the eyes of the state: algorithmic alienation and mundane creativity in Peruvian street-level bureaucrats	11
The European 2030 climate and energy package: do domestic strategy adaptations precede EU policy change?	11
The policy integration game? Congruence of outputs and implementation in policy integration	11
Understanding the role of institutions in the multiple streams approach through the recognition of the diaspora as a development agent in Cameroon	11
Conceptualizing morality policy: a dyadic morality frame analysis of a gendered legislative debate on abortion	11
Policy learning over the legislative process: insights from a statewide housing policy debate in Colorado	10
Agenda-setting in nascent policy subsystems: issue and instrument priorities across venues	9
Policy analytical capacity and "Eastern" styles of policy analysis: evidence from West Java Province, Indonesia	9
Co-design in policymaking: from an emerging to an embedded practice	9
The politics of experimental policymaking: the influence of blame avoidance and credit claiming	9
Can policy experiments achieve policy change? The politics of experimentation in Canadian cultural policy	8
Explaining differences in research utilization in evidence-based government ministries	8
How foes become allies: the shifting role of business in climate politics	8
Evidence for policy-makers: A matter of timing and certainty?	8
Policy innovation from local governments in the Global South: the case of Popular Pharmacy in Chile	8
Integrating biodiversity: a longitudinal and cross-sectoral analysis of Swiss politics	8
Designing duality: from procedural policy instrument to the statecraft of hybrid sovereignty	7
Advancing the multiple streams framework for decision-making: the case of integrating ethics into the Norwegian oil fund strategy	7
Transitioning from planning to implementation: comparing collaborative governance and developmental dynamics in 4 watersheds	7
A value-centered approach to developing grand strategy for human-wildlife coexistence	7
Stability and change in the public’s policy agenda: a punctuated equilibrium approach	7
Shattering stereotypes and the critical Lasswell	7
Theorizing the functions and patterns of agency in the policymaking process	7
Policy inaction meets policy learning: four moments of non-implementation	6
The pursuit of welfare efficiency: when institutional structures turn ‘less’ into ‘more’	6
(Not) just policy success: Incorporating justice in policy evaluation	6
Conjectures on a relational turn in policy studies	5
Devil in the details? Policy settings and calibrations of national excellence-centers	5
Participatory decision-making in the policy integration process: indigenous consultation and sustainable development in Mexico	5
Exploring the eternal struggle: The Narrative Policy Framework and status quo versus policy change	5
International actors and national policies: the introduction of the national care system in Uruguay	5
Why perfect policy coherence is unattainable (and may be ill-advised)	5
Evidencing the benefits of cluster policies: towards a generalised framework of effects	5
Laws as blades: A conceptual framework of legislative design	5
Local implementation of U.S. federal immigration programs: context, control, and the problems of intergovernmental implementation	5
Implementing policy integration: policy regimes for care policy in Chile and Uruguay	5
Explaining why public officials perceive interest groups as influential: on the role of policy capacities and policy insiderness	4
Mobilising international embeddedness to resist radical policy change and dismantling: the case of Brazil under Jair Bolsonaro (2019–2022)	4
The many faces of the politics of shame in European policymaking	4
A diamond in the rough: digging up and polishing Harold D. Lasswell’s decision functions	4
Analyzing industrial policy portfolios	4
Global perspectives on scientists’ roles in legislative policymaking	3
Towards a theory of policy bubbles	3
Pioneer advantage or late-mover advantage? An examination of the interplay between policy diffusion sequence and policy outcomes	3
Empirical research on policy integration: a review and new directions	3
Navigating the role of emotions in expertise: public framing of expertise in the Czech public controversy on birth care	3

Investigating policy coherence through policy strategies: a comparative analysis of Nordic gambling policies	3
Measuring the impact of consultative citizen participation: reviewing the congruency approaches for assessing the uptake of citizen ideas	3
Advice that resonates: explaining the variability in consultants’ policy influence	3
Climbing the 'ladder of intrusiveness': the Italian government's strategy to push the Covid-19 vaccination coverage further	3
The political polarization over abortion: An analysis of advocacy coalition belief systems	3
Following neighbors or regional leaders? Unpacking the effect of geographic proximity in local climate policy diffusion	3
Seeking policy solutions in a complex system: experimentalist governance in China’s healthcare reform	3
How exclusion structures policy conflict in collaborative governance	3
Space for stories: legislative narratives and the establishment of the US Space Force	3