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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
An identity perspective on the diffusion of user innovations in the household sector	331
Social movements and institutional entrepreneurship as facilitators of technology transition: The case of free/open-source software	311
Linguistic distance to English impedes research performance	298
From hackers to start-ups: Innovation commons and local entrepreneurial activity	180
Editorial Board	179
Beyond scientific excellence: International mobility and the entrepreneurial activities of academic scientists	168
Measurement errors and estimation biases with incomplete social networks: replication studies on intra-firm inventor network analysis	160
Institutional quality and success in U.S. equity crowdfunding	155
Technological invention and local labour markets: Evidence from France, Germany and the UK	151
Secondary market listings in equity crowdfunding: The missing link?	143
Does FDI bring knowledge externalities for host country firms to develop complex technologies? The catalytic role of overseas returnee clustering structures	141
Firm R&D investment and export market exposure	120
OrgTech: Evidence of organizational innovations in patent data	119
The Kaldor–Verdoorn law at the age of robots and AI	112
Academics engaging in knowledge transfer and co-creation: Push causation and pull effectuation?	107
Characterising innovation policy mixes in innovation systems	95
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’	92
Editorial Board	91
Copyright levies and cloud storage: Ex-ante policy evaluation with a field experiment	91
The impacts of U.S. Section 337 investigations on Chinese technology firms	89
Death squad or quality improvement? The impact of introducing post-grant review on U.S. patent legal quality	87
Home vs office: Does workspace design influence where academics conduct their research?	87
Creating a breakthrough invention: NASA’s internal knowledge generation for the Space Shuttle	87
Disentangling international research collaboration in the Spanish academic context: Is there a desirable researcher human capital profile?	86
How fast is this novel technology going to be a hit? Antecedents predicting follow-on inventions	84

Unleashing creative potential: The role of stable institutional ownership in exploratory innovation	83
OK computer: Worker perceptions of algorithmic recruitment	82
Hiding practices in employee-user innovation	80
Unbundling the impact of current and future competition on cooperation in coopetition projects for innovation	80
The bidirectional causality of tie stability and innovation performance	79
Wolves at the door to the unknown: Innovation search and hedge fund activism	78
Storm crowds: Evidence from Zooniverse on crowd contribution design	77
Disclosure rules and declared essential patents	77
Focusing the ecosystem lens on innovation studies	75
Innovation grant (S)hopping: Unpacking SMEs' support choices between multiple potential funding sources	72
Patents, industry control, and the rise of the giant American corporation	72
Technological capability strength/asymmetry and supply chain process innovation: The contingent roles of institutional environments	71
Do you see what I see? How expertise and a decision-maker role influence the recognition and selection of novel ideas	70
Economic complexity and the green economy	68
Founder social capital and value appropriation in R&D alliance agreements	65
From mainstream to niche: How value regimes shift in emerging economy upgrading	65
Are intellectual property rights working for society?	62
Does local knowledge spillover matter for firm productivity? The role of financial access and corporate governance	61
Money matters: The role of money as a regional and corporate financial resource for circular economy transition at firm-level	60
Are ideas being fished out?	60
Membership, governance, and lobbying in standard-setting organizations	58
Editorial Board	56
Gender differences in the determinants of becoming a professor in Germany. An event history analysis of academic psychologists from 1980 to 2019	56
Unpacking the process of resource allocation within an entrepreneurial ecosystem	55
Investment in intangible assets and economic complexity	53
Richard R Nelson (1930–2025): Evolutionary economist and innovation scholar	52
Transformation of Global Science core–periphery structure towards a multi-polar horizon: The Rise of China and the Global South from 1980–2020	52