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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
COVID-19 and the policy sciences: initial reactions and perspectives	340
Fighting fake news in the COVID-19 era: policy insights from an equilibrium model	83
Political ideology and vaccination willingness: implications for policy design	36
Managing pandemics as super wicked problems: lessons from, and for, COVID-19 and the climate crisis	35
Local adaptation policy responses to extreme weather events	32
Designing policy for the long term: agency, policy feedback and policy change	31
Policy capacities and effective policy design: a review	30
Conceptualizing consultation approaches: identifying combinations of consultation tools and analyzing their implications for stakeholder diversity	28
Uncertainty, risk and the use of algorithms in policy decisions: a case study on criminal justice in the USA	28
Tempest in a teapot? Toward new collaborations between mainstream policy process studies and interpretive policy studies	23
Barriers to the digital transformation of infrastructure sectors	21
‘For good measure’: data gaps in a big data world	21
Pathways to policy integration: a subsystem approach	17
The politics of Artificial Intelligence regulation and governance reform in the European Union	17
Why does the combination of policy entrepreneur and institutional entrepreneur roles matter for the institutionalization of policy ideas?	16
When multiple streams make a river: analyzing collaborative policymaking institutions using the multiple streams framework	16
Institutional complexity traps in policy integration processes: a long-term perspective on Swiss flood risk management	15
Why public organizations contribute to crosscutting policy programs: the role of structure, culture, and ministerial control	15
Inaction, under-reaction action and incapacity: communication breakdown in Italy’s vaccination governance	15
Policy over- and under-design: an information quality perspective	14
Exploring criteria for transformative policy capacity in the context of South Africa’s biodiversity economy	14
The promises and pitfalls of polysemic ideas: ‘One Health’ and antimicrobial resistance policy in Australia and the UK	14
Policy success for whom? A framework for analysis	12
Mapping the use of knowledge in policymaking: barriers and facilitators from a subjectivist perspective (1990–2020)	12
Policy learning as complex contagion: how social networks shape organizational beliefs in forest-based climate change mitigation	10

Policy feedback and institutional context in energy transitions	10
Mapping design activities and methods of public sector innovation units through the policy cycle model	10
Immediate rewards or delayed gratification? A conjoint survey experiment of the public’s policy preferences	9
The importance of policy design fit for effectiveness: a qualitative comparative analysis of policy integration in regional transport planning	9
A threat-centered theory of policy entrepreneurship	9
Public policy schools in the global south: a mapping and analysis of the emerging landscape	9
Classifying public policies with Moral Foundations Theory	9
Narratives in power and policy design: the case of border management and external migration controls in Italy	8
Empirical research on policy integration: a review and new directions	8
Autonomy of policy instrument attitudes: concept, theory and evidence	8
Spillover effects of central cities on sustainability efforts in a metropolitan area	8
Dealing with cross-sectoral policy problems: An advocacy coalition approach to climate and water policy integration in Northeast Brazil	8
How to blame and make a difference: perceived responsibility and policy consequences in two Swedish pro-migrant campaigns	7
The European 2030 climate and energy package: do domestic strategy adaptations precede EU policy change?	7
Vaccine alliance building blocks: a conjoint experiment on popular support for international COVID-19 cooperation formats	7
Power struggles in policy feedback processes: incremental steps towards a circular economy within Dutch wastewater policy	6
What, when and where of petitions submitted to the UK government during a time of chaos	6
Evaluation use and learning in public policy	6
Beliefs, social identity, and the view of opponents in Swedish carnivore management policy	6
Explaining why public officials perceive interest groups as influential: on the role of policy capacities and policy insiderness	6
Public contestation over agricultural pollution: a discourse network analysis on narrative strategies in the policy process	5
Explaining the political use of evaluation in international organizations	5
Reap what you sow: implementing agencies as strategic actors in policy feedback dynamics	5
Against the odds: How policy capacity can compensate for weak instruments in promoting sustainable food	5
Engines of learning? Policy instruments, cities and climate governance	5
Seeking policy solutions in a complex system: experimentalist governance in China’s healthcare reform	5
Understanding public blame attributions when private contractors are responsible for civilian casualties	5
Heated policy: policy actors’ emotional storylines and conflict escalation	5
Assessing the integration of cross-sectoral policy issues: a case study of Canada’s approach to Countering Radicalization to Violence	5
Policy inaction meets policy learning: four moments of non-implementation	5
Rethinking the commissioning of consultants for enhancing government policy capacity	5
‘Windows of opportunity’: exploring the relationship between social media and plastic policies during the COVID-19 Pandemic	4
Environmental policy integration in a newly established natural resource-based sector: the role of advocacy coalitions and contrasting conceptions of sustainability	4
Global policymakers and catastrophic risk	4
Reimagining instrument constituencies: the case of conservation policy in Mexico	4
Stability and change in the public’s policy agenda: a punctuated equilibrium approach	4
Measuring the impact of consultative citizen participation: reviewing the congruency approaches for assessing the uptake of citizen ideas	4
Policy analytical capacity and "Eastern" styles of policy analysis: evidence from West Java Province, Indonesia	3
Conflicting and complementary policy goals as sectoral integration challenge: an analysis of sectoral interplay in flood risk management	3
Evidencing the benefits of cluster policies: towards a generalised framework of effects	3
Expert hearings in mini-publics: How does the field of expertise influence deliberation and its outcomes?	3
Integrating biodiversity: a longitudinal and cross-sectoral analysis of Swiss politics	3
Contingency factors explaining policy adoption: body-worn camera policy across US states	3
Institutional coordination arrangements as elements of policy design spaces: insights from climate policy	3
Symposium: Affect and emotions in policy dynamics	3
Coping with intelligence deficits in poverty-alleviation policies in low-income countries	3
Climbing the 'ladder of intrusiveness': the Italian government's strategy to push the Covid-19 vaccination coverage further	3
The promises and perils of populism for democratic policymaking: the case of Mexico	3