OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Research Policy is 56. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	430
Do synthesis programs facilitate interdisciplinary research? Evidence from the NSFC’s Major Research Plan	363
An identity perspective on the diffusion of user innovations in the household sector	243
Specialisation and the career outcomes of inventors	227
Shelter in scholarship: Evidence from a global survey of hosts for displaced Ukrainian scientists	224
Secondary market listings in equity crowdfunding: The missing link?	189
The Kaldor–Verdoorn law at the age of robots and AI	187
Characterising innovation policy mixes in innovation systems	158
Does FDI bring knowledge externalities for host country firms to develop complex technologies? The catalytic role of overseas returnee clustering structures	157
Linguistic distance to English impedes research performance	141
From hackers to start-ups: Innovation commons and local entrepreneurial activity	133
Technological invention and local labour markets: Evidence from France, Germany and the UK	111
Firm R&D investment and export market exposure	110
Institutional quality and success in U.S. equity crowdfunding	103
Social movements and institutional entrepreneurship as facilitators of technology transition: The case of free/open-source software	103
OrgTech: Evidence of organizational innovations in patent data	103
Academics engaging in knowledge transfer and co-creation: Push causation and pull effectuation?	94
Editorial Board	90
Copyright levies and cloud storage: Ex-ante policy evaluation with a field experiment	88
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’	81
Patents, industry control, and the rise of the giant American corporation	79
Do you see what I see? How expertise and a decision-maker role influence the recognition and selection of novel ideas	79
Creating a breakthrough invention: NASA’s internal knowledge generation for the Space Shuttle	78
Death squad or quality improvement? The impact of introducing post-grant review on U.S. patent legal quality	74
The impacts of U.S. Section 337 investigations on Chinese technology firms	74

Wolves at the door to the unknown: Innovation search and hedge fund activism	73
Hiding practices in employee-user innovation	71
The bidirectional causality of tie stability and innovation performance	70
Technological capability strength/asymmetry and supply chain process innovation: The contingent roles of institutional environments	69
Did the defend trade secrets act spur the reliance on trade secrets?	69
Home vs office: Does workspace design influence where academics conduct their research?	69
Does local knowledge spillover matter for firm productivity? The role of financial access and corporate governance	68
Disclosure rules and declared essential patents	68
Unbundling the impact of current and future competition on cooperation in coopetition projects for innovation	67
Innovation grant (S)hopping: Unpacking SMEs' support choices between multiple potential funding sources	66
Are intellectual property rights working for society?	65
Disruptive sustainability through digital innovations: Overcoming information asymmetries to benefit small-scale producers	65
Economic complexity and the green economy	64
Unleashing creative potential: The role of stable institutional ownership in exploratory innovation	63
Growing up but staying home: Patient equity investors and firm scale-up	62
Money matters: The role of money as a regional and corporate financial resource for circular economy transition at firm-level	61
Focusing the ecosystem lens on innovation studies	60
Editorial Board	59
Disentangling international research collaboration in the Spanish academic context: Is there a desirable researcher human capital profile?	59
The Government Patent Register: A new resource for measuring U.S. government-funded patenting	58
Editorial Board	58
Transformation of Global Science core–periphery structure towards a multi-polar horizon: The Rise of China and the Global South from 1980–2020	57
Appropriability risk and knowledge search on digital platforms	57
Richard R Nelson (1930–2025): Evolutionary economist and innovation scholar	57
The determinants of parallel invention: Measuring the role of information sharing and personal interaction between inventors	57
Investment in intangible assets and economic complexity	56
Unpacking the process of resource allocation within an entrepreneurial ecosystem	56
Innovation effects of academic executives: Evidence from China	56
Membership, governance, and lobbying in standard-setting organizations	56
The complex nature of regional knowledge production: Evidence on European regions	56
Are ideas being fished out?	56