OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Policy Sciences is 9. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Policy’s role in democratic conflict management	57
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	50
Public contestation over agricultural pollution: a discourse network analysis on narrative strategies in the policy process	43
(Un)usual advocacy coalitions in a multi-system setting: the case of hydrogen in Germany	35
Policy integration as a political process	30
Hijacking or helping?—How political actors use the COVID-19 pandemic in the climate discourse to advocate their policy beliefs and preferences	27
The promises and perils of populism for democratic policymaking: the case of Mexico	25
Assessing evidence based on scale can be a useful predictor of policy outcomes	25
Consultancy firms’ roles in policy diffusion: a systematic review from the environmental governance field	22
Against the odds: How policy capacity can compensate for weak instruments in promoting sustainable food	21
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	19
Beyond evidence-based policymaking? Exploring knowledge formation and source effects in US migration policymaking	19
Understanding EU forest policy governance through a cultural theory lens	17
Female members of parliament, right-wing parties, and the inclusiveness of immigration policy: evidence from 26 European countries	15
Peak policy lab or chasing windmills? The overlooked issue of misaligned policy design	15
The intersection of digital and social infrastructures in (a)spatial policymaking	14
Nudging citizens co-production: Assessing multiple behavioral strategies	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
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	13
Conflicting and complementary policy goals as sectoral integration challenge: an analysis of sectoral interplay in flood risk management	13
A threat-centered theory of policy entrepreneurship	13
Political emotions: a new policy science for tackling the climate crisis	13
A semi-automated approach to policy-relevant evidence synthesis: combining natural language processing, causal mapping, and graph analytics for public policy	12

Conceptualizing morality policy: a dyadic morality frame analysis of a gendered legislative debate on abortion	11
The European 2030 climate and energy package: do domestic strategy adaptations precede EU policy change?	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	10
Making the eyes of the state: algorithmic alienation and mundane creativity in Peruvian street-level bureaucrats	10
From hierarchy to continuum: classifying the technical dimension of policy goals	10
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	9
Evidence for policy-makers: A matter of timing and certainty?	9
Co-design in policymaking: from an emerging to an embedded practice	9
Translocal climate club as a wall of fame? A panel study on the US cities’ membership in the Global Covenant of Mayors, 2014–2024	9
Understanding the role of institutions in the multiple streams approach through the recognition of the diaspora as a development agent in Cameroon	9
Rethinking the commissioning of consultants for enhancing government policy capacity	9