OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Policy Sciences is 8. 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
Uncertainty, risk and the use of algorithms in policy decisions: a case study on criminal justice in the USA	28
Conceptualizing consultation approaches: identifying combinations of consultation tools and analyzing their implications for stakeholder diversity	28
Tempest in a teapot? Toward new collaborations between mainstream policy process studies and interpretive policy studies	23
‘For good measure’: data gaps in a big data world	21
Barriers to the digital transformation of infrastructure sectors	21
The politics of Artificial Intelligence regulation and governance reform in the European Union	17
Pathways to policy integration: a subsystem approach	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
Inaction, under-reaction action and incapacity: communication breakdown in Italy’s vaccination governance	15
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
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 over- and under-design: an information quality perspective	14
Mapping the use of knowledge in policymaking: barriers and facilitators from a subjectivist perspective (1990–2020)	12
Policy success for whom? A framework for analysis	12
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
Policy learning as complex contagion: how social networks shape organizational beliefs in forest-based climate change mitigation	10
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
Immediate rewards or delayed gratification? A conjoint survey experiment of the public’s policy preferences	9
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
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