OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Research Policy is 50. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
War and Transition	339
An identity perspective on the diffusion of user innovations in the household sector	283
Linguistic distance to English impedes research performance	260
Technological invention and local labour markets: Evidence from France, Germany and the UK	200
Social movements and institutional entrepreneurship as facilitators of technology transition: The case of free/open-source software	184
Characterising innovation policy mixes in innovation systems	165
Editorial Board	147
Measurement errors and estimation biases with incomplete social networks: replication studies on intra-firm inventor network analysis	146
Beyond scientific excellence: International mobility and the entrepreneurial activities of academic scientists	142
OrgTech: Evidence of organizational innovations in patent data	130
From hackers to start-ups: Innovation commons and local entrepreneurial activity	125
Academics engaging in knowledge transfer and co-creation: Push causation and pull effectuation?	123
Institutional quality and success in U.S. equity crowdfunding	112
Secondary market listings in equity crowdfunding: The missing link?	106
Navigating implementation dilemmas in technology-forcing policies: A comparative analysis of accelerated smart meter diffusion in the Netherlands, UK, Norway, and Portugal (2000-2019)	99
Firm R&D investment and export market exposure	98
Does FDI bring knowledge externalities for host country firms to develop complex technologies? The catalytic role of overseas returnee clustering structures	93
The Kaldor–Verdoorn law at the age of robots and AI	89
The jurisdiction of the subjective expected utility (SEU) approach to risk-taking in science – A response to Franzoni and Stephan (2023), ‘uncertainty and risk-taking in science’	83
Unleashing creative potential: The role of stable institutional ownership in exploratory innovation	80
Patents, industry control, and the rise of the giant American corporation	80
Disentangling international research collaboration in the Spanish academic context: Is there a desirable researcher human capital profile?	78
Storm crowds: Evidence from Zooniverse on crowd contribution design	77
Do you see what I see? How expertise and a decision-maker role influence the recognition and selection of novel ideas	75
The impacts of U.S. Section 337 investigations on Chinese technology firms	74

Copyright levies and cloud storage: Ex-ante policy evaluation with a field experiment	74
How fast is this novel technology going to be a hit? Antecedents predicting follow-on inventions	74
Technological capability strength/asymmetry and supply chain process innovation: The contingent roles of institutional environments	73
Unbundling the impact of current and future competition on cooperation in coopetition projects for innovation	72
Are intellectual property rights working for society?	71
Founder social capital and value appropriation in R&D alliance agreements	71
Money matters: The role of money as a regional and corporate financial resource for circular economy transition at firm-level	70
Death squad or quality improvement? The impact of introducing post-grant review on U.S. patent legal quality	70
Hiding practices in employee-user innovation	70
Transformational complexity, systemic complexity and economic development	69
OK computer: Worker perceptions of algorithmic recruitment	69
Disclosure rules and declared essential patents	68
Entrepreneurship in Cities	68
From mainstream to niche: How value regimes shift in emerging economy upgrading	68
Wolves at the door to the unknown: Innovation search and hedge fund activism	68
Economic complexity and the green economy	65
The bidirectional causality of tie stability and innovation performance	64
Does local knowledge spillover matter for firm productivity? The role of financial access and corporate governance	63
Focusing the ecosystem lens on innovation studies	59
Dynamics of first-time patenting firms	56
Nest without birds: Inventor mobility and the left-behind patents	56
How do university-firm interactions affect firm innovation speed? The case of Chinese science-intensive SMEs	55
The Government Patent Register: A new resource for measuring U.S. government-funded patenting	53
The determinants of parallel invention: Measuring the role of information sharing and personal interaction between inventors	53
Investment in intangible assets and economic complexity	50
Editorial Board	50
Appropriability risk and knowledge search on digital platforms	50
Richard R Nelson (1930–2025): Evolutionary economist and innovation scholar	50