OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Policy Sciences is 5. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Low-fidelity policy design, within-design feedback, and the Universal Credit case	47
Note from the Editor: Lasswell Prize Announcement for Policy Sciences Volume 56 (2023)	47
Advancing scholarship on policy conflict through perspectives from oil and gas policy actors	44
Note from the Editor: Lasswell Prize Announcement for Volume 53 (2020)	30
Rethinking disproportionate policy making by introducing proportionate politics	26
Measuring the impact of consultative citizen participation: reviewing the congruency approaches for assessing the uptake of citizen ideas	25
The pursuit of welfare efficiency: when institutional structures turn ‘less’ into ‘more’	19
Seeking policy solutions in a complex system: experimentalist governance in China’s healthcare reform	18
Public contestation over agricultural pollution: a discourse network analysis on narrative strategies in the policy process	18
Policy’s role in democratic conflict management	17
Evidencing the benefits of cluster policies: towards a generalised framework of effects	17
Policy inaction meets policy learning: four moments of non-implementation	16
(Un)usual advocacy coalitions in a multi-system setting: the case of hydrogen in Germany	16
Policy integration as a political process	16
Pioneer advantage or late-mover advantage? An examination of the interplay between policy diffusion sequence and policy outcomes	16
Engines of learning? Policy instruments, cities and climate governance	13
Grandpa Joe’s hunting rifle: morality policy framing in Canadian Parliament	12
Institutional coordination arrangements as elements of policy design spaces: insights from climate policy	11
PPP performance evaluation: the social welfare goal, principal–agent theory and political economy	11
The promises and perils of populism for democratic policymaking: the case of Mexico	10
Navigating the role of emotions in expertise: public framing of expertise in the Czech public controversy on birth care	10
A semi-automated approach to policy-relevant evidence synthesis: combining natural language processing, causal mapping, and graph analytics for public policy	10
The future as developmental construct in the work of Harold Lasswell	9
Environmental identity and perceived salience of policy issues in coastal communities: a moderated-mediation analysis	9
Political ideology and vaccination willingness: implications for policy design	9

Climate fatalism, partisan cues, and support for the Inflation Reduction Act	8
Environmental policy integration in a newly established natural resource-based sector: the role of advocacy coalitions and contrasting conceptions of sustainability	8
Understanding policy transfer through social network analysis: expanding methodologies with an intensive case study approach	8
Climbing the 'ladder of intrusiveness': the Italian government's strategy to push the Covid-19 vaccination coverage further	8
Empirical research on policy integration: a review and new directions	8
Inaction, under-reaction action and incapacity: communication breakdown in Italy’s vaccination governance	7
Approaches to policy framing: deepening a conversation across perspectives	7
Against the odds: How policy capacity can compensate for weak instruments in promoting sustainable food	6
Consultancy firms’ roles in policy diffusion: a systematic review from the environmental governance field	6
International actors and national policies: the introduction of the national care system in Uruguay	6
Media actors as policy entrepreneurs: a case study of “No Jab, No Play” and “No Jab, No Pay” mandatory vaccination policies in Australia	6
Exploring the eternal struggle: The Narrative Policy Framework and status quo versus policy change	6
Beyond evidence-based policymaking? Exploring knowledge formation and source effects in US migration policymaking	5
Advice that resonates: explaining the variability in consultants’ policy influence	5
The European 2030 climate and energy package: do domestic strategy adaptations precede EU policy change?	5
From hierarchy to continuum: classifying the technical dimension of policy goals	5
Chameleonic knowledge: a study of ex ante analysis in large infrastructure policy processes	5
Devil in the details? Policy settings and calibrations of national excellence-centers	5
Barriers to the digital transformation of infrastructure sectors	5
From institutional tipping points to affective and direct tips: mythical institutions, policy ineffectiveness, and nonlinear political dynamics in East Germany, 1989–1990	5
Space for stories: legislative narratives and the establishment of the US Space Force	5