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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
The future as developmental construct in the work of Harold Lasswell	78
Hijacking or helping?—How political actors use the COVID-19 pandemic in the climate discourse to advocate their policy beliefs and preferences	47
Environmental identity and perceived salience of policy issues in coastal communities: a moderated-mediation analysis	44
(Un)usual advocacy coalitions in a multi-system setting: the case of hydrogen in Germany	35
Policy integration as a political process	32
The promises and perils of populism for democratic policymaking: the case of Mexico	28
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	26
Assessing evidence based on scale can be a useful predictor of policy outcomes	24
Blame and responsibility attribution across actor dimensions: public media discourse on antimicrobial resistances	23
Beyond evidence-based policymaking? Exploring knowledge formation and source effects in US migration policymaking	21
Understanding EU forest policy governance through a cultural theory lens	20
Peak policy lab or chasing windmills? The overlooked issue of misaligned policy design	20
Accountability for policy decisions: addressing gaps in theory and practice	20
Consultancy firms’ roles in policy diffusion: a systematic review from the environmental governance field	19
Against the odds: How policy capacity can compensate for weak instruments in promoting sustainable food	18
Female members of parliament, right-wing parties, and the inclusiveness of immigration policy: evidence from 26 European countries	18
Conflicting and complementary policy goals as sectoral integration challenge: an analysis of sectoral interplay in flood risk management	17
How issue salience and political leadership facilitate policy integration: The adoption of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive in the European Union	15
Tackling the soft non-technical challenges of the adoption of complexity science in policymaking	15
The intersection of digital and social infrastructures in (a)spatial policymaking	15
Nudging citizens co-production: Assessing multiple behavioral strategies	15
Patterns of evidence use in Nigerian policymaking: insights from latent class analysis	14
Global, selective, or both? The case for differentiated cooperation in AI governance	14
How budgets change: punctuations, trends, and super-trends	14
Beyond plans, governance structures, and organizational strategies: how emotional mechanisms can make a difference in emergency response processes	13

Political emotions: a new policy science for tackling the climate crisis	13
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	12
The emotional politics of problem definition: Israel’s judicial reform in a polarized public sphere	12
Compound path dependence in green transitions: a comparative analysis of EV policy coordination in Indonesia and Thailand	11
From hierarchy to continuum: classifying the technical dimension of policy goals	11
A semi-automated approach to policy-relevant evidence synthesis: combining natural language processing, causal mapping, and graph analytics for public policy	11
Media actors as policy entrepreneurs: a case study of “No Jab, No Play” and “No Jab, No Pay” mandatory vaccination policies in Australia	11
Approaches to policy framing: deepening a conversation across perspectives	11
Translocal climate club as a wall of fame? A panel study on the US cities’ membership in the Global Covenant of Mayors, 2014–2024	10
Making the eyes of the state: algorithmic alienation and mundane creativity in Peruvian street-level bureaucrats	10
The policy integration game? Congruence of outputs and implementation in policy integration	10
Co-design in policymaking: from an emerging to an embedded practice	9
How foes become allies: the shifting role of business in climate politics	9
Policy learning over the legislative process: insights from a statewide housing policy debate in Colorado	9
Understanding the role of institutions in the multiple streams approach through the recognition of the diaspora as a development agent in Cameroon	9
An advocacy coalition framework analysis of local government autonomy in Nigeria	9
Agenda-setting in nascent policy subsystems: issue and instrument priorities across venues	9
Evidence for policy-makers: A matter of timing and certainty?	8
The policy cycle’s missing distinction: why strategy is not delivery	8
Policy analytical capacity and "Eastern" styles of policy analysis: evidence from West Java Province, Indonesia	8
Explaining differences in research utilization in evidence-based government ministries	8
Designing duality: from procedural policy instrument to the statecraft of hybrid sovereignty	7
Shattering stereotypes and the critical Lasswell	7
Policy innovation from local governments in the Global South: the case of Popular Pharmacy in Chile	7
The politics of experimental policymaking: the influence of blame avoidance and credit claiming	7
A value-centered approach to developing grand strategy for human-wildlife coexistence	7
Theorizing the functions and patterns of agency in the policymaking process	7
Can policy experiments achieve policy change? The politics of experimentation in Canadian cultural policy	7
Transitioning from planning to implementation: comparing collaborative governance and developmental dynamics in 4 watersheds	7
Advancing the multiple streams framework for decision-making: the case of integrating ethics into the Norwegian oil fund strategy	7
Devil in the details? Policy settings and calibrations of national excellence-centers	6
Laws as blades: A conceptual framework of legislative design	6
(Not) just policy success: Incorporating justice in policy evaluation	6
International actors and national policies: the introduction of the national care system in Uruguay	6
The pursuit of welfare efficiency: when institutional structures turn ‘less’ into ‘more’	6
Conjectures on a relational turn in policy studies	6
Implementing policy integration: policy regimes for care policy in Chile and Uruguay	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
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
Policy fit: lessons from ocean governance in Australia	4
Local implementation of U.S. federal immigration programs: context, control, and the problems of intergovernmental implementation	4
Analyzing industrial policy portfolios	4
Following neighbors or regional leaders? Unpacking the effect of geographic proximity in local climate policy diffusion	4
Towards a theory of policy bubbles	4
Why perfect policy coherence is unattainable (and may be ill-advised)	4
Explaining why public officials perceive interest groups as influential: on the role of policy capacities and policy insiderness	4
Investigating policy coherence through policy strategies: a comparative analysis of Nordic gambling policies	4
The political polarization over abortion: An analysis of advocacy coalition belief systems	4

When transformation challenges legacy: tensions in the layering of urban transport policies	3
Climbing the 'ladder of intrusiveness': the Italian government's strategy to push the Covid-19 vaccination coverage further	3
Operationalizing Lasswell’s call for clarification of value goals: an equity-based approach to normative public policy analysis	3
Advice that resonates: explaining the variability in consultants’ policy influence	3
Empirical research on policy integration: a review and new directions	3
Seeking policy solutions in a complex system: experimentalist governance in China’s healthcare reform	3
Navigating the role of emotions in expertise: public framing of expertise in the Czech public controversy on birth care	3
Policy feedback and institutional context in energy transitions	3
Pioneer advantage or late-mover advantage? An examination of the interplay between policy diffusion sequence and policy outcomes	3
How exclusion structures policy conflict in collaborative governance	3
Enlightenment, politicisation or mere window dressing? Europeanisation and the use of evidence for policy making in Bulgaria	3
Reactions to policy action: socio-political conditions of backlash to climate change policy	3