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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Project and knowledge management at European public space agencies: The need for a three-dimensional project management office	21
Brazilian Space Sector: Historical Analysis of the Public Budget	20
Ensuring PNT resilience in a time of navigation uncertainty	20
The W&T Realpolitik Scenario and Contact With Extraterrestrial Intelligence: A Reply to Wright et al.	19
Latin American participation in the space sector: A public policy perspective (2012–2022)	19
Media use and US Attitudes Toward Government and Private Space Exploration	19
Spaceport environmental policy in the new space era	19
Starlink for ASEAN: A Changemaker in the Race Toward Sustainable Development?	19
Intellectual Property Protection in Outer Space: Conflict in Theory and Application in Practice	18
Revisiting the role of space in European Security 20 years after. A practitioner's perspective	18
ASEAN regional cooperation in the space sector: Current status, potential gaps, and future perspectives	18
Finding space for the European Space Agency	16
Through the Thorns to Where? The Politics of Alternative Appropriations of Soviet Space Culture in Contemporary Russia	14
A discussion on policies and regulations governing the risks associated with radiation exposure for space tourism flight participants	13
Sweden's first defence and security space strategy: Aligning with allies	13
Who speaks for extraterrestrial ecosystems?: Why ET should have standing	11
Editorial Board	11
Cyber-attacks on Space Activities: Revisiting the Responsibility Regime of Article VI of the Outer Space Treaty	11
Editorial Board	10
Editorial Board	10
A Review of Country Classification Frameworks in the Space Sector: Priorities, Limitations, and Global Considerations	9
Space policy and industrial development in middle powers: Malaysia and Turkey in comparative perspective	9
Transfer of Space Technologies in Iran: Drivers and Constraints of Success	9
The hidden constraints on America’s space economy: Fixing the frictions in U.S. commercial space partnerships	9
A new paradigm for space education	8

Israel’s public policy on space debris management: Between technological capacity and political will	8
Editorial Board	7
Can a referendum solve problems of shared sovereignty on Mars?	7
The potential for conflict in cislunar space: Findings from a tabletop exercise	7
Planning space exploration: Appraising and appreciating a curated collection of NASA's roadmap visualizations	7
The Decision-Making Process of China's Human Spaceflight Program	7
Developing safety-zone rules: Based on an institutional choice framework	6
Improving the safety zone mechanism: Shifting the focus from safety zones to safety obligations	6
Editorial Board	6
Does Open Innovation Open Doors for Underrepresented Groups to Contribute to Technology Innovation?: Evidence from a Space Robotics Challenge	6
Editorial Board	6
A holistic framework for classifying countries in the space sector	5
Safeguarding European space sovereignty—Recommendations for operational climate services to support resilience	5
Examining the meaning of sustainability on the Moon	5
Editorial Board	5
Operational and regulatory assessment for satellites recycling	5
The Importance of ALCE's Role as a Political Actor Rather Than a Coordinator of Regional Space Activities	5
Evaluating the Public Value of Improving Early Detection Accuracy of Cumulonimbus Using a Geostationary Satellite in South Korea	5
Is there a market for micro-launch vehicles?	5
Centralizing Korea's space governance: Institutional impacts and strategic implications one year after launching KASA	5
Review and comparison of three emerging regional space agencies: the African Space Agency, the Arab Space Coordination Group, and the Latin American and Caribbean Space Agency	5
Medium-to long-term strategies in the field of space transportation systems formulated by the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency under the Inter-Uni	5
SETI From the Perspective of Intercivilizational Politics	5
Crisis in space: Assessing Japan's legal gaps in space emergency response	5
China's branding problem: Image management and the US-China space relationship	5
Toward Coherence: A Space Sector Public-Private Partnership Typology	4
Exogeoconservation of Mars	4
Artemis Accords: Are Safety Zones Practical for Long Term Commercial Lunar Resource Utilisation?	4
Centring Environmentalism in Space Governance: Interrogating Dominance and Authority Through a Critical Legal Geography of Outer Space	4
Security challenges when space merges with cyberspace	4
Editorial Board	4
Peaceful Use of Lasers in Space? Potential, Risks, and Norms for Using Lasers in Space	3
Towards sustainability in Space food packaging	3
Governing space traffic: bureaucracy, politics, and orbital debris	3
WITHDRAWN: Introduction	3
Reprint of Introduction to the special issue on international space politics	3
India's Space Pursuit and the Changing Matrix of South Asian Security	3
The Public Acquisition of Space Science Information in the 21st Century	3
Integrating space, sustainability, and regionalism as a framework for cooperative space programmes	3
Gender and other forms of intersecting inequality in space: The case of the Australian space sector	3
Commercial Lunar Ice Mining: Is There a Role for Royalties?	3
SPACECAST 2020 twenty-nine years on: The legacy of a 1994 Air Force white paper seen through contemporary American planetary defense	3
The EU's dual policy dilemma: Orbital sustainability and digital autonomy policies intertwined	3
Indian space policy 2023: An evaluation	3
Toward an international legal framework for the protection of outer space heritage	3
Toward a Spacefaring Society: Enhancing Undergraduate General Education and Learning Outcomes with Space Policy Course Themes	3
The Astropreneurial Co-creation of the New Space Economy	3
To Each According to Their Space-Need: Communes in Outer Space	3
Evaluating the benefits of dark and quiet skies in an age of satellite mega-constellations	2
Bioethical Issues in Human Modification for Protection against the Effects of Space Radiation	2

Editorial Board	2
The Worst Case: Planetary Defense against a Doomsday Impactor	2
European Union space surveillance and tracking: State of affairs in 2025 and strategic vision	2
Orbit Bound. Predictors of ‘readiness to space’ and government support	2
Russia in Outer Space: A Shrinking Space Power in the Era of Global Change	2
A cosmopolitan approach to international law (CAIL) reflection on the space development experience of Africa	2
Exploration, exploitation, and expansion: A three-wave framework for unpacking the shift in U.S. space politics from directing a national space program to orchestrating an ecosystem	2
History, concepts and challenges of proposing an 18th UN Sustainable Development Goal related to Space	2
The transformation of India's space policy: From space for development to the pursuit of security and prestige	2
Editorial Board	1
Space economy of India, its impact on the rest of the economy	1
Blockchain applications and the relational normativity of international space law	1
Indian Space Force: A Strategic Inevitability	1
The future of space Security: Toward NATO's evolving functional areas in the era of hybrid warfare	1
Editorial Board	1
Chinese Commercial Space Launchers: Historical Perspective; Policy Framework	1
Strategic Management and Organization in the Space Sector – Introduction to the Special Issue	1
Teaching social science aspects of space: A transdisciplinary approach	1
Assessing the Particularity and Potentiality of Civil–Military Integration Strategy for Space Activities in China	1
Space mining as an emerging organisational field: An institutional logics perspective	1
A U.S. Perspective on Deterrence and Geopolitics in Space	1
Toward the stars: Technological, ethical, and sociopolitical dimensions of interstellar exploration	1
U.S. Space Policy and Theories of International Relations: The Case for Analytical Eclecticism	1
Identifying risks for success in space tourism: A proactive approach for Türkiye	1
Editorial Board	1
Beyond new space: Changing organizational forms, collaborative innovation and public and semi-public domains	1
To the Moon and Back: Reexamining Presidential Decision-Making and the Apollo Program	1
China's space data commercialization in light of government support for the digital economy: legal challenges and solutions	1
Strengthening Links Between European Union Space and Defence: Adopting a Combined Approach	1
Normal accident theory and learning from major accidents at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)	1
Japan in the New Lunar Space Race	1
A New Wave of “Space Nationalism” in the United States: Why Are Evangelicals Good With It?	1
Everybody's Business to Know About Space: Cross-Disciplinarity and the Challenges of the New Space Age	1
WITHDRAWN: Navigating uncertainty and policy alignment: Assessing BRIN’s role in Indonesia’s space program	1
The International Lunar Research Station: China's New Era of Space Cooperation and Its New Role in the Space Legal Order	1
Editorial Board	1
Leading the Moon to Mars Program: James Bridenstine as NASA administrator 2018–2021	1
Martian diversity: A government for pluralistic communities on Mars	1
The Prospect of Quantum Technologies in Space for Defence and Security	1