OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Research Policy is 52. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
War and Transition	306
The Kaldor–Verdoorn law at the age of robots and AI	267
An identity perspective on the diffusion of user innovations in the household sector	208
Linguistic distance to English impedes research performance	159
Technological invention and local labour markets: Evidence from France, Germany and the UK	155
From hackers to start-ups: Innovation commons and local entrepreneurial activity	151
Beyond scientific excellence: International mobility and the entrepreneurial activities of academic scientists	150
Editorial Board	148
Characterising innovation policy mixes in innovation systems	143
Firm R&D investment and export market exposure	139
Measurement errors and estimation biases with incomplete social networks: replication studies on intra-firm inventor network analysis	132
Institutional quality and success in U.S. equity crowdfunding	127
Academics engaging in knowledge transfer and co-creation: Push causation and pull effectuation?	120
Secondary market listings in equity crowdfunding: The missing link?	116
Social movements and institutional entrepreneurship as facilitators of technology transition: The case of free/open-source software	110
Navigating implementation dilemmas in technology-forcing policies: A comparative analysis of accelerated smart meter diffusion in the Netherlands, UK, Norway, and Portugal (2000-2019)	108
Does FDI bring knowledge externalities for host country firms to develop complex technologies? The catalytic role of overseas returnee clustering structures	103
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’	100
Unleashing creative potential: The role of stable institutional ownership in exploratory innovation	99
Do you see what I see? How expertise and a decision-maker role influence the recognition and selection of novel ideas	92
Are intellectual property rights working for society?	87
Disentangling international research collaboration in the Spanish academic context: Is there a desirable researcher human capital profile?	86
From mainstream to niche: How value regimes shift in emerging economy upgrading	84
Copyright levies and cloud storage: Ex-ante policy evaluation with a field experiment	82
Storm crowds: Evidence from Zooniverse on crowd contribution design	77

Disclosure rules and declared essential patents	75
Patents, industry control, and the rise of the giant American corporation	73
How fast is this novel technology going to be a hit? Antecedents predicting follow-on inventions	72
Entrepreneurship in Cities	68
Technological capability strength/asymmetry and supply chain process innovation: The contingent roles of institutional environments	68
The bidirectional causality of tie stability and innovation performance	67
Hiding practices in employee-user innovation	65
Distilling and renewing science team search through external engagement	64
Transformational complexity, systemic complexity and economic development	62
Wolves at the door to the unknown: Innovation search and hedge fund activism	62
Unbundling the impact of current and future competition on cooperation in coopetition projects for innovation	62
Labor market reform and innovation: Evidence from Spain	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	61
Does local knowledge spillover matter for firm productivity? The role of financial access and corporate governance	61
OK computer: Worker perceptions of algorithmic recruitment	61
Founder social capital and value appropriation in R&D alliance agreements	61
The determinants of parallel invention: Measuring the role of information sharing and personal interaction between inventors	60
Dynamics of first-time patenting firms	60
Economic complexity and the green economy	60
Investment in intangible assets and economic complexity	59
The Government Patent Register: A new resource for measuring U.S. government-funded patenting	58
How do university-firm interactions affect firm innovation speed? The case of Chinese science-intensive SMEs	58
On the signaling effect of reward-based crowdfunding: (When) do later stage venture capitalists rely more on the crowd than their peers?	56
Nest without birds: Inventor mobility and the left-behind patents	56
Unpacking the process of resource allocation within an entrepreneurial ecosystem	55
The complex nature of regional knowledge production: Evidence on European regions	52
Winning the second race of technology standardization: Strategic maneuvers in SEP follow-on innovations	52