OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Space Policy is 1. 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
Toward Sustainable Use of Space: Economic, Technological, and Legal Perspectives	22
The Advent of Artificial Intelligence in Space Activities: New Legal Challenges	19
Power Dynamics in the Age of Space Commercialisation	13
An Environmental Impact Assessment Framework for Space Resource Extraction	12
Developing an Adaptive Space Governance Framework	11
A World without Satellite Data as a Result of a Global Cyber-Attack	10
Countering Threats in Space Through International Cooperation	9
China's National Space Station: Opportunities, Challenges, and Solutions for International Cooperation	9
Satellite Earth Observation and National Data Regulation	8
Outer Space, an Area Recognised as Res Communis Omnium: Limits of National Space Mining Law	8
The Martian: Possible Scenarios for a Future Human Society on Mars	7
Historical Evolution of the Concept of Space Traffic Management Since 1932: The Need for a Change of Terminology	7
Estimating the United States Space Economy Using Input-Output Frameworks	7
Operation Burnt Frost: A View From Inside	6
Explore to Exploit: A Data-Centred Approach to Space Mining Regulation	6
Understanding the Economics of Orbital Pollution Through the Lens of Terrestrial Climate Change	6
Artemis Accords: Are Safety Zones Practical for Long Term Commercial Lunar Resource Utilisation?	6
Earth Observation and Economic Studies: A Cross-fertilization Perspective	6
Everybody's Business to Know About Space: Cross-Disciplinarity and the Challenges of the New Space Age	6
The 2019 Notice on Promoting the Systematic and Orderly Development of Commercial Carrier Rockets: The First Step Towards Regulating Private Space Activities in China	5
European Union Space Surveillance & Tracking (EU SST): State of Play and Perspectives	5
The Concept of Developmental Relativity: Thoughts on the Technological Synchrony of Interstellar Civilizations	5
Cyber-attacks on Space Activities: Revisiting the Responsibility Regime of Article VI of the Outer Space Treaty	5
Deterrence by Debris: The Downside to Cleaning up Space	5
Policy Considerations for Nascent Space Powers	5

Downstream Space Activities in the New Space Era: Paradigm Shift and Evaluation Challenges	5
To What Extent Will Space Debris Impact the Economy?	4
What Should We Do with Our Moon?: Ethics and Policy for Establishing International Multiuse Lunar Land Reserves	4
Mars Land Use Policy Implementation: Approaches and Best Methods	4
Examining the Growth of the Global Space Situational Awareness Sector: A Network Analysis Approach	4
The Prospect of Quantum Technologies in Space for Defence and Security	4
Should We Lie to Extraterrestrials? A Critique of the Voyager Golden Records	4
From the Sky to the Ground: Indigenous Peoples in an Age of Space Expansion	3
U.S. Space Policy and Theories of International Relations: The Case for Analytical Eclecticism	3
Discounting, Buck-Passing, and Existential Risk Mitigation: The Case of Space Colonization	3
Centring Environmentalism in Space Governance: Interrogating Dominance and Authority Through a Critical Legal Geography of Outer Space	3
The Astropreneurial Co-creation of the New Space Economy	3
Private Entities in Outer Space Activities: Liability Regime Reconsidered	3
Space-based Solar Power as a Catalyst for Space Development	3
Stubborn Stereotypes: Exploring the Gender Gap in Support for Space	3
A Review of Country Classification Frameworks in the Space Sector: Priorities, Limitations, and Global Considerations	3
We Come in Peace? A Rational Approach to METI	3
Commercial Lunar Ice Mining: Is There a Role for Royalties?	3
The International Lunar Research Station: China's New Era of Space Cooperation and Its New Role in the Space Legal Order	3
First Space Colony: What Political System Could We Expect?	3
First, Do Nothing: A Passive Protocol for First Contact	3
Security challenges when space merges with cyberspace	3
Bioethical Issues in Human Modification for Protection against the Effects of Space Radiation	3
Brazilian Space Sector: Historical Analysis of the Public Budget	3
The Growth of China’s Non-governmental Space Sector in the Context of Government Support for Public-Private Partnerships: An Assessment of Major Legal Challenges	2
Heavenly Mandate: Public Opinion and China's Space Activities	2
Does Open Innovation Open Doors for Underrepresented Groups to Contribute to Technology Innovation?: Evidence from a Space Robotics Challenge	2
Chinese Commercial Space Launchers: Historical Perspective; Policy Framework	2
Asteroid Mining Tax as a Tool to Keep Peace in Outer Space	2
Japan in the New Lunar Space Race	2
Toward a Spacefaring Society: Enhancing Undergraduate General Education and Learning Outcomes with Space Policy Course Themes	2
Sights on Mars: Continuity and Change in Support for Space Policy	2
A Middle East space race? Motivations, trajectories, and regional politics	2
Transfer of Space Technologies in Iran: Drivers and Constraints of Success	2
Satellite Data and Crowdsourcing	2
Space Community as an Enabler of Cosmopolitan Ideas Through Large Technical Systems	2
Beyond new space: Changing organizational forms, collaborative innovation and public and semi-public domains	2
Anti-weaponization of Outer Space for Maintaining Long-term Sustainability of Outer Space Activities	2
Indian Space Force: A Strategic Inevitability	2
Tortoise the Titan: Private Entities as Geoeconomic Tools in Outer Space	2
Peaceful Use of Lasers in Space? Potential, Risks, and Norms for Using Lasers in Space	2
Strengthening Links Between European Union Space and Defence: Adopting a Combined Approach	1
Is Australia Really Lost in Space?	1
To the Moon and Back: Reexamining Presidential Decision-Making and the Apollo Program	1
An Improved Cost Analysis of the Apollo Program	1
SETI From the Perspective of Intercivilizational Politics	1
Media use and US Attitudes Toward Government and Private Space Exploration	1
Which Jurisdiction for Private In-space Assembled Autonomous Platforms?	1
Solutions Looking for Problems? How Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences can Inform the Space Sector	1
Assessing the Particularity and Potentiality of Civil–Military Integration Strategy for Space Activities in China	1

Exogeoconservation of Mars	1
Toward Coherence: A Space Sector Public-Private Partnership Typology	1
Evaluating the Public Value of Improving Early Detection Accuracy of Cumulonimbus Using a Geostationary Satellite in South Korea	1
Russia in Outer Space: A Shrinking Space Power in the Era of Global Change	1
Intellectual Property Protection in Outer Space: Conflict in Theory and Application in Practice	1
Space Science in China: A Historical Perspective on Chinese Policy 1957–2020 and Policy Implication	1
India's Space Economy, 2011–12 to 2020–21: Its Size and Structure	1
For All (Wo)mankind: Advancing a Feminist Critique of US Space Policy	1
The Public Acquisition of Space Science Information in the 21st Century	1
Legacy of Faster, Better, Cheaper? Cost, Schedule, and Performance Objectives: Understanding the Impact of NASA Policy on Perceptions of Failures	1
Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: The Evolution of the Irish Space Sector from an Institutional Perspective	1
The Worst Case: Planetary Defense against a Doomsday Impactor	1
Is there a market for micro-launch vehicles?	1
The COST of Joining Legal Forces on a Celestial Body of Law and Beyond: Anticipating Future Clashes between Corpus Juris Spatialis, Lex Mercatoria, Antitrust and Ethics	1
The White House Executive Order on the Recovery and Use of Space Resources: Pushing the Boundaries of International Space Law?	1
A U.S. Perspective on Deterrence and Geopolitics in Space	1