OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Policy Sciences is 7. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Political ideology and vaccination willingness: implications for policy design	45
Managing pandemics as super wicked problems: lessons from, and for, COVID-19 and the climate crisis	44
Policy capacities and effective policy design: a review	43
Uncertainty, risk and the use of algorithms in policy decisions: a case study on criminal justice in the USA	35
Barriers to the digital transformation of infrastructure sectors	30
The politics of Artificial Intelligence regulation and governance reform in the European Union	26
Pathways to policy integration: a subsystem approach	24
When multiple streams make a river: analyzing collaborative policymaking institutions using the multiple streams framework	19
Policy feedback and institutional context in energy transitions	18
Institutional complexity traps in policy integration processes: a long-term perspective on Swiss flood risk management	18
Empirical research on policy integration: a review and new directions	17
Policy learning as complex contagion: how social networks shape organizational beliefs in forest-based climate change mitigation	16
Inaction, under-reaction action and incapacity: communication breakdown in Italy’s vaccination governance	16
Why does the combination of policy entrepreneur and institutional entrepreneur roles matter for the institutionalization of policy ideas?	16
Mapping the use of knowledge in policymaking: barriers and facilitators from a subjectivist perspective (1990–2020)	16
Mapping design activities and methods of public sector innovation units through the policy cycle model	13
The importance of policy design fit for effectiveness: a qualitative comparative analysis of policy integration in regional transport planning	12
A threat-centered theory of policy entrepreneurship	12
Evaluation use and learning in public policy	10
Dealing with cross-sectoral policy problems: An advocacy coalition approach to climate and water policy integration in Northeast Brazil	10
Public contestation over agricultural pollution: a discourse network analysis on narrative strategies in the policy process	10
Public policy schools in the global south: a mapping and analysis of the emerging landscape	9
Environmental policy integration in a newly established natural resource-based sector: the role of advocacy coalitions and contrasting conceptions of sustainability	9
Spillover effects of central cities on sustainability efforts in a metropolitan area	9
Rethinking the commissioning of consultants for enhancing government policy capacity	9

The promises and perils of populism for democratic policymaking: the case of Mexico	9
Explaining why public officials perceive interest groups as influential: on the role of policy capacities and policy insiderness	9
Narratives in power and policy design: the case of border management and external migration controls in Italy	9
Reap what you sow: implementing agencies as strategic actors in policy feedback dynamics	8
Seeking policy solutions in a complex system: experimentalist governance in China’s healthcare reform	8
Vaccine alliance building blocks: a conjoint experiment on popular support for international COVID-19 cooperation formats	8
Autonomy of policy instrument attitudes: concept, theory and evidence	8
Power struggles in policy feedback processes: incremental steps towards a circular economy within Dutch wastewater policy	7
The European 2030 climate and energy package: do domestic strategy adaptations precede EU policy change?	7