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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Policy’s role in democratic conflict management	54
The future as developmental construct in the work of Harold Lasswell	52
Environmental identity and perceived salience of policy issues in coastal communities: a moderated-mediation analysis	43
Public contestation over agricultural pollution: a discourse network analysis on narrative strategies in the policy process	36
Policy integration as a political process	35
The promises and perils of populism for democratic policymaking: the case of Mexico	25
(Un)usual advocacy coalitions in a multi-system setting: the case of hydrogen in Germany	24
Assessing evidence based on scale can be a useful predictor of policy outcomes	24
Consultancy firms’ roles in policy diffusion: a systematic review from the environmental governance field	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	20
Beyond evidence-based policymaking? Exploring knowledge formation and source effects in US migration policymaking	19
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	18
The intersection of digital and social infrastructures in (a)spatial policymaking	16
Female members of parliament, right-wing parties, and the inclusiveness of immigration policy: evidence from 26 European countries	15
Nudging citizens co-production: Assessing multiple behavioral strategies	14
Conflicting and complementary policy goals as sectoral integration challenge: an analysis of sectoral interplay in flood risk management	14
Dealing with cross-sectoral policy problems: An advocacy coalition approach to climate and water policy integration in Northeast Brazil	14
How budgets change: punctuations, trends, and super-trends	13
Beyond plans, governance structures, and organizational strategies: how emotional mechanisms can make a difference in emergency response processes	12
A threat-centered theory of policy entrepreneurship	12
A semi-automated approach to policy-relevant evidence synthesis: combining natural language processing, causal mapping, and graph analytics for public policy	11
The importance of policy design fit for effectiveness: a qualitative comparative analysis of policy integration in regional transport planning	11
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	11
Media actors as policy entrepreneurs: a case study of “No Jab, No Play” and “No Jab, No Pay” mandatory vaccination policies in Australia	10

Conceptualizing morality policy: a dyadic morality frame analysis of a gendered legislative debate on abortion	10
Approaches to policy framing: deepening a conversation across perspectives	10
Inaction, under-reaction action and incapacity: communication breakdown in Italy’s vaccination governance	9
The European 2030 climate and energy package: do domestic strategy adaptations precede EU policy change?	9
From hierarchy to continuum: classifying the technical dimension of policy goals	9
Understanding the role of institutions in the multiple streams approach through the recognition of the diaspora as a development agent in Cameroon	8
Agenda-setting in nascent policy subsystems: issue and instrument priorities across venues	8
Making the eyes of the state: algorithmic alienation and mundane creativity in Peruvian street-level bureaucrats	8
Co-design in policymaking: from an emerging to an embedded practice	8
Shattering stereotypes and the critical Lasswell	7
Institutional complexity traps in policy integration processes: a long-term perspective on Swiss flood risk management	7
Integrating biodiversity: a longitudinal and cross-sectoral analysis of Swiss politics	7
Rethinking the commissioning of consultants for enhancing government policy capacity	7
Power struggles in policy feedback processes: incremental steps towards a circular economy within Dutch wastewater policy	7
How foes become allies: the shifting role of business in climate politics	7
Explaining differences in research utilization in evidence-based government ministries	7
The politics of experimental policymaking: the influence of blame avoidance and credit claiming	7
The policy integration game? Congruence of outputs and implementation in policy integration	7
Theorizing the functions and patterns of agency in the policymaking process	7
Evidence for policy-makers: A matter of timing and certainty?	7
Policy analytical capacity and "Eastern" styles of policy analysis: evidence from West Java Province, Indonesia	7
Advancing the multiple streams framework for decision-making: the case of integrating ethics into the Norwegian oil fund strategy	6
Evidencing the benefits of cluster policies: towards a generalised framework of effects	6
The pursuit of welfare efficiency: when institutional structures turn ‘less’ into ‘more’	6
Stability and change in the public’s policy agenda: a punctuated equilibrium approach	6
Policy inaction meets policy learning: four moments of non-implementation	6
Devil in the details? Policy settings and calibrations of national excellence-centers	5
International actors and national policies: the introduction of the national care system in Uruguay	5
Exploring the eternal struggle: The Narrative Policy Framework and status quo versus policy change	5
Implementing policy integration: policy regimes for care policy in Chile and Uruguay	4
When multiple streams make a river: analyzing collaborative policymaking institutions using the multiple streams framework	4
A diamond in the rough: digging up and polishing Harold D. Lasswell’s decision functions	4
Local implementation of U.S. federal immigration programs: context, control, and the problems of intergovernmental implementation	4
Participatory decision-making in the policy integration process: indigenous consultation and sustainable development in Mexico	4
Do governments delay the implementation of parliamentary requests? Examining time variation in implementing legislative requests in Switzerland	4
Managing pandemics as super wicked problems: lessons from, and for, COVID-19 and the climate crisis	4
Mobilising international embeddedness to resist radical policy change and dismantling: the case of Brazil under Jair Bolsonaro (2019–2022)	4
Global perspectives on scientists’ roles in legislative policymaking	3
Pioneer advantage or late-mover advantage? An examination of the interplay between policy diffusion sequence and policy outcomes	3
Following neighbors or regional leaders? Unpacking the effect of geographic proximity in local climate policy diffusion	3
Policy experimentation and policy learning in Canadian cultural policy	3
The political polarization over abortion: An analysis of advocacy coalition belief systems	3
Measuring the impact of consultative citizen participation: reviewing the congruency approaches for assessing the uptake of citizen ideas	3
Rethinking disproportionate policy making by introducing proportionate politics	3
Engines of learning? Policy instruments, cities and climate governance	3
Global policymakers and catastrophic risk	3
Analyzing industrial policy portfolios	3
Vaccine alliance building blocks: a conjoint experiment on popular support for international COVID-19 cooperation formats	3
Towards a theory of policy bubbles	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
Explaining why public officials perceive interest groups as influential: on the role of policy capacities and policy insiderness	3
The many faces of the politics of shame in European policymaking	3