OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Policy Sciences 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
The future as developmental construct in the work of Harold Lasswell	85
(Un)usual advocacy coalitions in a multi-system setting: the case of hydrogen in Germany	54
Hijacking or helping?—How political actors use the COVID-19 pandemic in the climate discourse to advocate their policy beliefs and preferences	49
Environmental identity and perceived salience of policy issues in coastal communities: a moderated-mediation analysis	43
The promises and perils of populism for democratic policymaking: the case of Mexico	36
Policy integration as a political process	32
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	29
Assessing evidence based on scale can be a useful predictor of policy outcomes	24
Beyond evidence-based policymaking? Exploring knowledge formation and source effects in US migration policymaking	24
Accountability for policy decisions: addressing gaps in theory and practice	24
Blame and responsibility attribution across actor dimensions: public media discourse on antimicrobial resistances	22
Understanding EU forest policy governance through a cultural theory lens	22
Against the odds: How policy capacity can compensate for weak instruments in promoting sustainable food	22
Consultancy firms’ roles in policy diffusion: a systematic review from the environmental governance field	21
Peak policy lab or chasing windmills? The overlooked issue of misaligned policy design	20
The intersection of digital and social infrastructures in (a)spatial policymaking	19
Female members of parliament, right-wing parties, and the inclusiveness of immigration policy: evidence from 26 European countries	18
A framework for fragility: guiding measurement for policy	17
How issue salience and political leadership facilitate policy integration: The adoption of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive in the European Union	17
Conflicting and complementary policy goals as sectoral integration challenge: an analysis of sectoral interplay in flood risk management	17
How budgets change: punctuations, trends, and super-trends	16
Nudging citizens co-production: Assessing multiple behavioral strategies	16
Global, selective, or both? The case for differentiated cooperation in AI governance	15
Tackling the soft non-technical challenges of the adoption of complexity science in policymaking	15
AI “nationality”, policy types, and public support for embedding AI in policymaking	14

Beyond plans, governance structures, and organizational strategies: how emotional mechanisms can make a difference in emergency response processes	13
The emotional politics of problem definition: Israel’s judicial reform in a polarized public sphere	13
Patterns of evidence use in Nigerian policymaking: insights from latent class analysis	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	13
From hierarchy to continuum: classifying the technical dimension of policy goals	12
A semi-automated approach to policy-relevant evidence synthesis: combining natural language processing, causal mapping, and graph analytics for public policy	12
Making the eyes of the state: algorithmic alienation and mundane creativity in Peruvian street-level bureaucrats	12
Compound path dependence in green transitions: a comparative analysis of EV policy coordination in Indonesia and Thailand	12
Political emotions: a new policy science for tackling the climate crisis	12
Approaches to policy framing: deepening a conversation across perspectives	12
Media actors as policy entrepreneurs: a case study of “No Jab, No Play” and “No Jab, No Pay” mandatory vaccination policies in Australia	12
Understanding the role of institutions in the multiple streams approach through the recognition of the diaspora as a development agent in Cameroon	11
Co-design in policymaking: from an emerging to an embedded practice	11
Policy learning over the legislative process: insights from a statewide housing policy debate in Colorado	11
An advocacy coalition framework analysis of local government autonomy in Nigeria	11
Agenda-setting in nascent policy subsystems: issue and instrument priorities across venues	10
The policy integration game? Congruence of outputs and implementation in policy integration	10
The politics of experimental policymaking: the influence of blame avoidance and credit claiming	10
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
The policy cycle’s missing distinction: why strategy is not delivery	9
Policy analytical capacity and "Eastern" styles of policy analysis: evidence from West Java Province, Indonesia	9
Evidence for policy-makers: A matter of timing and certainty?	9
Explaining differences in research utilization in evidence-based government ministries	9
How foes become allies: the shifting role of business in climate politics	8
Designing duality: from procedural policy instrument to the statecraft of hybrid sovereignty	8
Can policy experiments achieve policy change? The politics of experimentation in Canadian cultural policy	8
Policy innovation from local governments in the Global South: the case of Popular Pharmacy in Chile	8
Shattering stereotypes and the critical Lasswell	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
The pursuit of welfare efficiency: when institutional structures turn ‘less’ into ‘more’	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
Devil in the details? Policy settings and calibrations of national excellence-centers	6
International actors and national policies: the introduction of the national care system in Uruguay	6
(Not) just policy success: Incorporating justice in policy evaluation	6
Conjectures on a relational turn in policy studies	6
Exploring the eternal struggle: The Narrative Policy Framework and status quo versus policy change	5
Local implementation of U.S. federal immigration programs: context, control, and the problems of intergovernmental implementation	5
Why perfect policy coherence is unattainable (and may be ill-advised)	5
Participatory decision-making in the policy integration process: indigenous consultation and sustainable development in Mexico	5
Mobilising international embeddedness to resist radical policy change and dismantling: the case of Brazil under Jair Bolsonaro (2019–2022)	5
Laws as blades: A conceptual framework of legislative design	5
Implementing policy integration: policy regimes for care policy in Chile and Uruguay	5
Analyzing industrial policy portfolios	5
The political polarization over abortion: An analysis of advocacy coalition belief systems	4
Following neighbors or regional leaders? Unpacking the effect of geographic proximity in local climate policy diffusion	4
Pioneer advantage or late-mover advantage? An examination of the interplay between policy diffusion sequence and policy outcomes	4
Explaining why public officials perceive interest groups as influential: on the role of policy capacities and policy insiderness	4
When transformation challenges legacy: tensions in the layering of urban transport policies	4

Policy fit: lessons from ocean governance in Australia	4
Investigating policy coherence through policy strategies: a comparative analysis of Nordic gambling policies	4
The many faces of the politics of shame in European policymaking	4
Towards a theory of policy bubbles	4