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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The future as developmental construct in the work of Harold Lasswell	77
Policy’s role in democratic conflict management	46
Environmental identity and perceived salience of policy issues in coastal communities: a moderated-mediation analysis	44
Hijacking or helping?—How political actors use the COVID-19 pandemic in the climate discourse to advocate their policy beliefs and preferences	32
Policy integration as a political process	28
The promises and perils of populism for democratic policymaking: the case of Mexico	26
(Un)usual advocacy coalitions in a multi-system setting: the case of hydrogen in Germany	24
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	23
Assessing evidence based on scale can be a useful predictor of policy outcomes	22
Against the odds: How policy capacity can compensate for weak instruments in promoting sustainable food	20
Beyond evidence-based policymaking? Exploring knowledge formation and source effects in US migration policymaking	20
Accountability for policy decisions: addressing gaps in theory and practice	20
Peak policy lab or chasing windmills? The overlooked issue of misaligned policy design	19
Consultancy firms’ roles in policy diffusion: a systematic review from the environmental governance field	19
Understanding EU forest policy governance through a cultural theory lens	18
Conflicting and complementary policy goals as sectoral integration challenge: an analysis of sectoral interplay in flood risk management	18
Female members of parliament, right-wing parties, and the inclusiveness of immigration policy: evidence from 26 European countries	18
The intersection of digital and social infrastructures in (a)spatial policymaking	17
How issue salience and political leadership facilitate policy integration: The adoption of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive in the European Union	17
Nudging citizens co-production: Assessing multiple behavioral strategies	15
Tackling the soft non-technical challenges of the adoption of complexity science in policymaking	15
Global, selective, or both? The case for differentiated cooperation in AI governance	14
How budgets change: punctuations, trends, and super-trends	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
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
Media actors as policy entrepreneurs: a case study of “No Jab, No Play” and “No Jab, No Pay” mandatory vaccination policies in Australia	12
A semi-automated approach to policy-relevant evidence synthesis: combining natural language processing, causal mapping, and graph analytics for public policy	12
Patterns of evidence use in Nigerian policymaking: insights from latent class analysis	12
From hierarchy to continuum: classifying the technical dimension of policy goals	12
Understanding the role of institutions in the multiple streams approach through the recognition of the diaspora as a development agent in Cameroon	11
Approaches to policy framing: deepening a conversation across perspectives	11
Making the eyes of the state: algorithmic alienation and mundane creativity in Peruvian street-level bureaucrats	11
The policy integration game? Congruence of outputs and implementation in policy integration	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
Agenda-setting in nascent policy subsystems: issue and instrument priorities across venues	9
Co-design in policymaking: from an emerging to an embedded practice	9
Policy analytical capacity and "Eastern" styles of policy analysis: evidence from West Java Province, Indonesia	9
An advocacy coalition framework analysis of local government autonomy in Nigeria	9
Policy learning over the legislative process: insights from a statewide housing policy debate in Colorado	9
How foes become allies: the shifting role of business in climate politics	8
Evidence for policy-makers: A matter of timing and certainty?	8
The politics of experimental policymaking: the influence of blame avoidance and credit claiming	8
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
Devil in the details? Policy settings and calibrations of national excellence-centers	7
Transitioning from planning to implementation: comparing collaborative governance and developmental dynamics in 4 watersheds	7
Theorizing the functions and patterns of agency in the policymaking process	7
(Not) just policy success: Incorporating justice in policy evaluation	7
Advancing the multiple streams framework for decision-making: the case of integrating ethics into the Norwegian oil fund strategy	7
Designing duality: from procedural policy instrument to the statecraft of hybrid sovereignty	7
Shattering stereotypes and the critical Lasswell	7
Evidencing the benefits of cluster policies: towards a generalised framework of effects	7
Policy innovation from local governments in the Global South: the case of Popular Pharmacy in Chile	7
A value-centered approach to developing grand strategy for human-wildlife coexistence	7
The pursuit of welfare efficiency: when institutional structures turn ‘less’ into ‘more’	7
Laws as blades: A conceptual framework of legislative design	6
Conjectures on a relational turn in policy studies	6
Exploring the eternal struggle: The Narrative Policy Framework and status quo versus policy change	6
Local implementation of U.S. federal immigration programs: context, control, and the problems of intergovernmental implementation	6
International actors and national policies: the introduction of the national care system in Uruguay	6
Why perfect policy coherence is unattainable (and may be ill-advised)	5
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
Explaining why public officials perceive interest groups as influential: on the role of policy capacities and policy insiderness	4
Towards a theory of policy bubbles	4
Mobilising international embeddedness to resist radical policy change and dismantling: the case of Brazil under Jair Bolsonaro (2019–2022)	4
The political polarization over abortion: An analysis of advocacy coalition belief systems	4
Policy fit: lessons from ocean governance in Australia	4
Analyzing industrial policy portfolios	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
Empirical research on policy integration: a review and new directions	3
Advice that resonates: explaining the variability in consultants’ policy influence	3
Reactions to policy action: socio-political conditions of backlash to climate change policy	3

Space for stories: legislative narratives and the establishment of the US Space Force	3
Seeking policy solutions in a complex system: experimentalist governance in China’s healthcare reform	3
Climbing the 'ladder of intrusiveness': the Italian government's strategy to push the Covid-19 vaccination coverage further	3
Enlightenment, politicisation or mere window dressing? Europeanisation and the use of evidence for policy making in Bulgaria	3
The role of actors' issue and sector specialization for policy integration in the parliamentary arena: an analysis of Swiss biodiversity policy using text as data	3
Following neighbors or regional leaders? Unpacking the effect of geographic proximity in local climate policy diffusion	3
When transformation challenges legacy: tensions in the layering of urban transport policies	3
Pioneer advantage or late-mover advantage? An examination of the interplay between policy diffusion sequence and policy outcomes	3
Operationalizing Lasswell’s call for clarification of value goals: an equity-based approach to normative public policy analysis	3
Policy feedback and institutional context in energy transitions	3
Navigating the role of emotions in expertise: public framing of expertise in the Czech public controversy on birth care	3
How exclusion structures policy conflict in collaborative governance	3