Science and Public Policy

Papers
(The median citation count of Science and Public Policy is 2. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Correction to: Dynamics of expectations in the bioeconomy—Hopes, disillusionments, and conflicting futures92
Policy seduction and governance resistance? Examining public funding agencies and academic institutions on decarbonisation research62
Intangible assets investment and firm innovation performance: evidence from Europe38
Technological innovation as a cost leadership strategy catalyst: impact on organizational performance in developing countries31
When science meets geopolitics: global AI research network transformation (2000–2025)31
Making responsible research and innovation meaningful in citizen science30
Perspectives: the challenges of displaced and exiled scientists27
Science diplomacy in the European and Latin American and Caribbean research infrastructure collaboration26
Bridging the digital divide: how generative AI-powered digital platforms enhance e-government service delivery24
Co-production trajectories: rethinking impact formation in knowledge co-production24
The spatial mobility network and influencing factors of the higher education population in China24
Missions as boundary objects for transformative change: understanding coordination across policy, research, and stakeholder communities23
Priorities in research portfolios: exploring the need for upstream research in cardiometabolic and mental health22
Science diplomacy from a nation-state’s perspective: a general framing and its application to Global South countries22
Competition, open innovation, and growth challenges in the semiconductor industry: the case of Europe’s clusters21
Coevolution between institutions and scientific organizations: The case of IMPA21
Exploring scientific advice for local politics in Germany: the critical role of quasi-scientific actors19
From theory to practice: how decentralized implementation of missions affects directionality, legitimacy, and coordination19
Embracing heterogeneity: Why plural understandings strengthen interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity18
Shaping food innovation ecosystems: roles and activities of a focal actor17
Measuring behavioural additionality in public contractors subject to performance incentives: an index of innovation capability17
The globalization of science diplomacy in the early 1970s: a historical exploration17
Contextualizing the emerging and contested role of sleuths in the science monitoring system17
Exploring geopolitics and innovation: the role of bilateral relationships in shaping research collaboration16
Policy feedback dynamics in fintech ecosystems: navigating vicious and virtuous cycles in emerging economies16
Peer effects of the young returnee scientists: Evidence from the state key laboratories in China16
‘We Need Time…’: An Expert Survey on Societal Acceptance of Urban Drones16
Public deliberation and the regulation of gene drive in the USA16
Returnees and innovation: evidence from Chinese publicly listed firms15
Scientizing the world: on mechanisms and outcomes of the institutionalization of science15
The development of attitudes toward science and technology: a longitudinal analysis of Generation X14
University–industry linkages in China from the agency perspective of university engagement: a systematic literature review14
Science diplomacy in the Global South—an introduction13
The role of intermediaries in nurturing innovation ecosystems: a case study of Singapore’s manufacturing sector13
Balancing interests between freedom and censorship: Organizational strategies for quality assurance in science communication13
Diversity and directionality: friends or foes in sustainability transitions?12
Mission incomplete: Layered practices of monitoring and evaluation in Swedish transformative innovation policy12
Normative, empirical, and pragmatic ethical objections to Singapore permitting human genetic enhancement via germline genome editing12
Pacing space: futuring practices and temporal ownership in the European space sector12
Prioritizing diversity? The allocation of US federal R&D funding12
Diversification, integration, and opening: developments in modelling for policy12
Effect of university technology transfer office on patents’ market value: evidence from patent transactions11
Multilevel innovation policy mix in China: do local programmes complement national programmes?11
Perspectives on advancing innovation and human flourishing through a network of AI institutes11
Disciplining interdisciplinarity: Infrastructure, identity, and interdisciplinary practice in nanoELSI research11
North–South research funding dynamics of collaborative projects: researchers’ appropriation strategies of agencies’ project frameworks11
Conversing with theory in context: frameworking patient involvement in health research agenda setting11
Participatory research in Canada (2013-2018): a cross-sectional survey of academic researchers11
R&D effort and knowledge sourcing: the search for better profitability and higher growth11
Bridging conflicting frames in policies for digital transformation11
Being internationally mobile while keeping domestic social capital: how postdocs from China manage precarity11
Steering at a distance: research centre funding schemes as instruments for university change11
Digital governance and AI: boosting OFDI’s impact on regional innovation performance11
The realization of living labs at the post-experiment stage: the role of University in Korea11
Making space for CRISPR: scientists’ translation work to make gene editing a legitimate technology10
What makes an entrepreneurial university? Institutional moderators of ecosystem impacts in a developing country10
The study of policy coordination: an approach to integrate expert assessment with automated content analysis10
Operation warp speed: Harbinger of American industrial innovation policies10
Insights for place-sensitive innovation policies: evidence from SMEs’ preferences for additive manufacturing10
Environmental information disclosure policy and green total factor productivity: evidence from firm level10
To govern or be governed: an integrated framework for AI governance in the public sector10
Regulatory entrepreneurship’s threat to digital sovereignty: the case of Worldcoin in Kenya10
Grasping the impalpable: critical appraisal of the role of public policy for intangibles10
From experimentation to structural change: fostering institutional entrepreneurship for public engagement in research and innovation9
Pathways to gender equality in academia. National factors shaping women’s early career progression across Europe9
International partnerships for building STI capabilities: insights from centres of excellence in Latin America9
An institutionalist perspective on smart specialization: Towards a political economy of regional innovation policy9
COVID-19 Health Certificates: analysis of policy implementation, framings, and controversies in nine European countries9
Universities in less developed regions: analyzing their local research impact9
Perspectives on the use of ChatGPT in academic publications9
Correction to: Embracing heterogeneity: Why plural understandings strengthen interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity9
A research on the effectiveness of innovation policy for regional innovation under Chinese long-range plan9
Sharing research data: researcher behaviour and attitudes9
Household sector innovation, diffusion failure, and business ownership: evidence from South Africa8
Typology of university behaviour in innovation ecosystems: from institutional maturity to mission diversity8
Making sense of transdisciplinarity: Interpreting science policy in a biotechnology centre8
Reviewing the reviewers: how social and traditional media repurpose open promotion reviews8
Research excellence and scientific advisory boards8
Developing a policy innovation system (PIS) approach in the case of biodiversity offsetting in Finland8
Public perception of scientific advisory bodies: the case of France’s Covid-19 Scientific Council8
The legislative effect of ignorance: institutional risk and the regulation of new genomic techniques8
“New spectrum of intangible assets”8
Mission-oriented innovation policy as a hybridisation process: the case of transforming a national fertilising system7
Just following the money? How research funding shapes the governance of university research7
Intangible inputs, trade-in-knowledge, and manufacturing innovation in global value chains7
An assessment of EU’s photovoltaic panel waste policies: current framework and strategic vision for 20507
The promise of artificial intelligence in combating public corruption in the emerging economies: A conceptual framework7
Mobilizing research for contextualized innovation: scarcity and urgency as drivers during Covid-19 in the South7
The limits of co-production: linking regulatory capacity to co-production of authoritative knowledge for environmental policy7
How has mission-oriented innovation policy addressed justice considerations? A systematic review7
Evolution of the STIP literature: discovering the growing role of innovation governance concepts7
Do winners pick government? How scale-up experience shapes entrepreneurs’ assessments of innovation policy mixes7
“It is controlling, but you don’t really care.” Researchers’ perceptions of legitimation of research policy7
Local market, central government support, and local governments’ homegrown development strategy in high-tech industries7
Administrative burden in Australian universities: Insights into dimensions and drivers from a nationwide survey6
Legitimising an emerging transformer mission: an abductive exploration of energy poverty policy in the Netherlands6
Deciphering the accelerated expansion of China’s NEV sector post-2020: a cross-system analysis using multi-level perspective6
Ideology, knowledge, and the assessment of science policy agencies6
Science diplomacy from the Global South: the case of intergovernmental science organizations6
How a timely policy contributes to technological capability building: insights from Iran’s biopharmaceutical sector6
Research security by roundtable: analysis of Germany’s committees for the ethics of security-relevant research6
Science advice at the top: a global overview of chief science advisor model in governance6
Business agility, intangible capital, and economic performance during the Covid-19 crisis6
Distrust in grant peer review—reasons and remedies6
Universities of applied sciences’ EU research project participation through the lens of differentiation6
A dynamic view on the Latin American innovation system at continental, national, and local level6
Beyond automation and augmentation: reframing innovation policy for the work in the age of AI6
China’s distinctive civil–military integration policy and firm innovation6
Climate change scepticism in Spain: are the political and ideological drivers so important?6
Enhancing international collaboration in science, technology, and innovation to achieve sustainable development goals6
Exploring indicators for monitoring sociotechnical system transitions through portfolio networks5
Policy entrepreneurs, entrepreneurial strategies, and institutional contexts in Interreg Europe5
Generative AI in public administration: evaluating a fine-tuned large language model for policy briefing notes5
New industrial policy between territorial assumptions and spatial practices: the case of Technum Québec5
Researcher roles in collaborative governance interventions5
From global climate goals to local practice—mission-oriented policy enactment in three Swedish regions5
Researchers engaging with society: who does what?5
An assessment of the US Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program: A study of project failure5
A typology of urban knowledge sharing: from a systematic literature review to an integrated model5
A novel approach to study institutional bundles driving AI-based MedTech innovations for cancer in India5
European scholarly journals from small- and mid-size publishers: mapping journals and public funding mechanisms5
AI governance in North Africa: an ecosystems approach5
4IR technology adoption in the south African airline industry: drivers, constraints and labour market effects5
Stockholm science: the syndrome, not the city!!!5
The involvement of nonacademic partners in societally-targeted funded research5
Does offensive patent insurance promote corporate innovation? Evidence from a quasi-experiment5
A computational approach to study the gap and barriers between science and policy5
The impact of enhancing early career funding opportunities for female scientists on research performance4
Navigating the multiple views of value in assessing public procurement4
Bridging climate change science and policy through TMNs in Turkey: CoM as a boundary-object4
Can institutional innovation mitigate supply chain risks? Evidence from China’s free trade zones4
Evaluation of public perceptions on nanotechnology regulation in Costa Rica4
Learn from whom? The roles of government R&D subsidies and organizational reputations4
The internationalization of science parks in China from a realist international relations perspective4
Barriers as moderators in the innovation process4
Fostering a research integrity culture: Actionable advice for institutions4
Why are Latin American countries in the limbo of open-access scientific publications?4
Steering the wheel to deliver what? Innovation, coalitions, and directionality in Latin American biologics4
Author-paid publication fees corrupt science and should be abandoned4
When do trademarks improve the measurement of innovation? An analysis of innovations from Dutch SMEs4
How do cities promote culture? Italian municipal cultural expenditure from 2001 to 20194
Correction to: The innovation–inclusion nexus in countries of Latin America: foresight for shaping new policy approaches4
Which kind of research papers influence policymaking4
Why do researchers change their research directions? Evidence from biomedical scientists4
Can innovation vouchers promote SMEs’ innovation in China: A flexible conditional difference-in-differences analysis4
Transfer of university patents and its impact on follow-on invention4
Progress is neither swift nor easy: assessing funding agencies’ capacity to address science inequities4
Editorial ‘Innovation-driven knowledge economies and transformation in the Global South’4
Risk-sensitive innovation: leveraging interactions between technologies to navigate technology risks4
Societal guardrails for AI? Perspectives on what we know about public opinion on artificial intelligence4
Assessing the effects of information disclosure on technology commercialization: an agent-based approach4
Building India’s semiconductor ecosystem: policies, capabilities, and challenges in achieving technological self-reliance3
A legitimacy approach to social innovation initiatives at universities3
Closing the loop without reinventing the wheel: public procurement for innovation promoting a circular economy3
What are transformative missions, really? Three dimensions for one shared understanding3
Unravelling SW industry trading networks: the role of reciprocity, transitivity, and firm characteristics3
Value dissonance in research(er) assessment: individual and perceived institutional priorities in review, promotion, and tenure3
Discussion on the entrepreneurial university in Spain: The case of the Madrid Region3
AI models for detecting and generating hate speech: implications for Ethiopian policy3
Field science and scientific collaboration in the Svalbard Archipelago: beyond science diplomacy3
Certifying complexity? The case of a European gender equality certification scheme for research-performing organizations3
Public supported R&D: knowledge spillovers from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases3
Exploring key licensing technologies and trends of public research institutions through technology patent networks3
How do mission-oriented innovation policies work? A theory of action derived from the EU missions3
Exploring digital transformation adoption of scientific researchers3
Global innovation cooperation and governance: evidence from China3
Innovation and knowledge-based inclusive transformation of rural areas in Algeria: examining the PPDRI programme3
Herding in policy responses to coronavirus disease 20193
Industrial policy initiatives in manufacturing: Examining cross-country interventions through an evolutionary typology of technology systems3
SME digital transformation and the COVID-19 pandemic: a case study of a hard-hit metropolitan area3
Can open peer review improve uptake of preprints into policies? Evidence from a causal inference3
Anti-transparency within the EU shift to open science3
Making sense of knowledge-brokering organisations: boundary organisations or policy entrepreneurs?2
Comparing national innovation sustainability: evidence from China and Singapore2
Environmental policy and R&D productivity: A case study from the Korean Emissions Trading Scheme2
Social innovation, transformation, and public policy: towards a conceptualization and critical appraisal2
Corporate venture capital and state-owned enterprises’ innovation: a panel investigation on Chinese state-owned enterprises2
Exploring role, actions, and influence of industry associations in politics of health innovation in India2
Achieving societal and academic impacts of research: A comparison of networks, values, and strategies2
Perspectives on recognizing open research data in research assessment2
Improving the Regional Innovation Scoreboard for policy: how about innovation efficiency?2
Taking pluralism seriously: a new perspective on evidence-based policy2
The early emergence of ombuds systems in Japanese science universities2
Brazilian Air Force acquisition policies: observing absorptive capacity and contingent factors in aeronautical beneficiary companies2
Whose knowledge counts? Power dynamics in the co-production of knowledge and innovation in agri-food systems2
Conditions for a successful latecomer development in green technologies2
Green manufacturing and corporate ESG performance: quasi-natural experiments in green factory certification policy2
A four-asset technology-based growth policy2
Policy-making and evaluation of gender equality programmes: Context, power, and resistance in the transformation process2
Mission cocreation or domination? Explorative and exploitative forces in shaping the Dutch circular agriculture mission2
Technology entrepreneurship and innovation hubs: Perspectives on the universal regulatory sandbox2
Perspective on research–policy interface as a partnership: The study of best practices in CREATE2
Balancing regulations, paperwork, and access: how administrative capacity and networks shape scientific material exchange?2
Foundations for African feminism as an ethics for artificial intelligence2
Science and the nation-state: What China’s experience reveals about the role of policy in science2
Scientific collaborations between Latin America and Europe: an approach from science diplomacy towards international engagement2
Correction to: Making sense of knowledge-brokering organisations: boundary organisations or policy entrepreneurs?2
Innovation policy responses to address vulnerabilities of national innovation systems: long-lasting impacts of COVID-192
Online panel work through a gender lens: implications of digital peer review meetings2
Designing an instrument for scaling public sector innovations2
Do scientific research funds support emerging topic research in Chinese humanities and social sciences?2
Buyer’s market-oriented culture, strategic procurement capability, and customer performance in the public procurement of innovations2
Transformative innovation policy meets responsible research and innovation: a critical reflection2
Government subsidies, private R&D, and global value chains position: the moderating role of task complexity2
Correction to: Bridging Climate Change Science and Policy through TMNs in Turkey: CoM as a boundary object2
Evidence-neglect: addressing a barrier to UK health and climate policy ambitions2
The innovation–inclusion nexus in countries of Latin America: foresight for shaping new policy approaches2
Government management systems and enterprise innovation: insights from China’s national development zones2
Machinery industry as a digital catalyst: evaluating R&D portfolios and trade-offs using a CGE-based analysis2
The impact of winning funding on researcher productivity, results from a randomized trial2
Correction to: Working with curiosity: Knowledge transfer practitioners’ ambivalence at CERN2
0.16851615905762