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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Correction to: Dynamics of expectations in the bioeconomy—Hopes, disillusionments, and conflicting futures86
Overcoming vested interests against innovation through political entrepreneurship: A comparative study of Korean mobility cases48
The Post-Normal Challenges of COVID-19: Constructing Effective and Legitimate Responses43
How policies emerge and interact with each other? A bibliometric analysis of policies in China41
Policy seduction and governance resistance? Examining public funding agencies and academic institutions on decarbonisation research41
Researchers’ institutional mobility: bibliometric evidence on academic inbreeding and internationalization39
Is renewable energy more favorable to diversity than conventional energy sources on R&D performance?35
The spatial mobility network and influencing factors of the higher education population in China29
Science diplomacy in the European and Latin American and Caribbean research infrastructure collaboration29
Making responsible research and innovation meaningful in citizen science27
Does the inclusion of non-academic reviewers make any difference for grant impact panels?22
Science diplomacy from a nation-state’s perspective: a general framing and its application to Global South countries22
Are there political cycles hidden inside collaborative innovation efficiency? An empirical study based on Chinese cities21
Missions as boundary objects for transformative change: understanding coordination across policy, research, and stakeholder communities18
Walking the talk? Innovation policy approaches to unleash the transformative potentials of the Nordic bioeconomy17
Does It Pay to Do Novel Science? The Selectivity Patterns in Science Funding17
Competition, open innovation, and growth challenges in the semiconductor industry: the case of Europe’s clusters16
Coevolution between institutions and scientific organizations: The case of IMPA16
Priorities in research portfolios: exploring the need for upstream research in cardiometabolic and mental health16
The globalization of science diplomacy in the early 1970s: a historical exploration15
Embracing heterogeneity: Why plural understandings strengthen interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity15
‘We Need Time…’: An Expert Survey on Societal Acceptance of Urban Drones15
Academic human capital in universities: definition and proposal of a measurement scale15
Local political turnover, R&D investment leap and corporate innovation performance: Evidence from China14
Balancing interests between freedom and censorship: Organizational strategies for quality assurance in science communication14
The role of intermediaries in nurturing innovation ecosystems: a case study of Singapore’s manufacturing sector14
Scientizing the world: on mechanisms and outcomes of the institutionalization of science13
Public deliberation and the regulation of gene drive in the USA13
Diversity and directionality: friends or foes in sustainability transitions?13
The development of attitudes toward science and technology: a longitudinal analysis of Generation X13
University–industry linkages in China from the agency perspective of university engagement: a systematic literature review12
Peer effects of the young returnee scientists: Evidence from the state key laboratories in China12
Returnees and innovation: evidence from Chinese publicly listed firms12
Prioritizing diversity? The allocation of US federal R&D funding12
Mission incomplete: Layered practices of monitoring and evaluation in Swedish transformative innovation policy12
Science diplomacy in the Global South—an introduction12
Retraction in the online world—Shall we rethink the policy?12
A Hierarchy of Interests: Discursive Practices on the Value of Particle and High-Energy Physics11
The promises and premises of mission-oriented innovation policy—A reflection and ways forward11
The past futures of techno-scientific promises11
North–South research funding dynamics of collaborative projects: researchers’ appropriation strategies of agencies’ project frameworks10
Multilevel innovation policy mix in China: do local programmes complement national programmes?10
Diversification, integration, and opening: developments in modelling for policy10
Individual attributes and inventors matching: A study using data from the Brazilian co-patents network10
Boosting innovation in small- and medium-sized enterprises through tax incentives: lessons from the UK9
Being internationally mobile while keeping domestic social capital: how postdocs from China manage precarity9
Disciplining interdisciplinarity: Infrastructure, identity, and interdisciplinary practice in nanoELSI research9
Capturing the invisible. Sociotechnical imaginaries of energy. The critical overview9
Bridging conflicting frames in policies for digital transformation9
Making space for CRISPR: scientists’ translation work to make gene editing a legitimate technology9
Democracy, Complexity, and Science: Exploring Structural Sources of National Scientific Performance9
Operation warp speed: Harbinger of American industrial innovation policies9
Steering at a distance: research centre funding schemes as instruments for university change9
Digital governance and AI: boosting OFDI’s impact on regional innovation performance8
The study of policy coordination: an approach to integrate expert assessment with automated content analysis8
A research on the effectiveness of innovation policy for regional innovation under Chinese long-range plan8
An institutionalist perspective on smart specialization: Towards a political economy of regional innovation policy8
To govern or be governed: an integrated framework for AI governance in the public sector8
Boundary speak in sustainability studies: Computational reading of a transversal field8
From experimentation to structural change: fostering institutional entrepreneurship for public engagement in research and innovation8
Assessment of success in university–industry cooperation literature: A bibliographic coupling analysis8
Universities in less developed regions: analyzing their local research impact8
Perspectives on advancing innovation and human flourishing through a network of AI institutes8
What makes an entrepreneurial university? Institutional moderators of ecosystem impacts in a developing country8
Correction to: Embracing heterogeneity: Why plural understandings strengthen interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity8
Perspectives on the use of ChatGPT in academic publications8
On the boundary of services and research collaborations in Japanese state-of-the-art academic research infrastructures7
Institutionalizing public engagement in research and innovation: Toward the construction of institutional entrepreneurial collectives7
Household sector innovation, diffusion failure, and business ownership: evidence from South Africa7
The legislative effect of ignorance: institutional risk and the regulation of new genomic techniques7
Do winners pick government? How scale-up experience shapes entrepreneurs’ assessments of innovation policy mixes7
Universities of applied sciences’ EU research project participation through the lens of differentiation7
“It is controlling, but you don’t really care.” Researchers’ perceptions of legitimation of research policy7
Research excellence and scientific advisory boards7
Rejecting acceptance: learning from public dialogue on self-driving vehicles7
Unboxing knowledge in collaboration between academia and society: A story about conceptions and epistemic uncertainty7
The other side of the boundary: Productive interactions seen from the policy side7
Evolution of the STIP literature: discovering the growing role of innovation governance concepts7
Local market, central government support, and local governments’ homegrown development strategy in high-tech industries7
Public perception of scientific advisory bodies: the case of France’s Covid-19 Scientific Council7
A comparative analysis of innovation policies in Hong Kong and Shenzhen within the Greater Bay Area initiative7
Making sense of transdisciplinarity: Interpreting science policy in a biotechnology centre7
Mission-oriented innovation policy as a hybridisation process: the case of transforming a national fertilising system7
The limits of co-production: linking regulatory capacity to co-production of authoritative knowledge for environmental policy7
Science diplomacy from the Global South: the case of intergovernmental science organizations6
Local R&D support as a driver of network diversification: A cross-regional comparison in Japan6
Online platforms for research data: A requirements and cost analysis6
Role of professional autonomy and project commitment in the Korean government–funded R&D projects6
China’s distinctive civil–military integration policy and firm innovation6
The role of Universities in Transformative Innovation Policy6
Enhancing international collaboration in science, technology, and innovation to achieve sustainable development goals6
An assessment of EU’s photovoltaic panel waste policies: current framework and strategic vision for 20506
Economic incentive instruments and environmental innovation in China: Moderating effect of marketization6
Decoupling in science and education: A collateral damage beyond deteriorating US–China relations6
The promise of artificial intelligence in combating public corruption in the emerging economies: A conceptual framework6
How a timely policy contributes to technological capability building: insights from Iran’s biopharmaceutical sector6
An assessment of the US Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program: A study of project failure5
Ideology, knowledge, and the assessment of science policy agencies5
Policy entrepreneurs, entrepreneurial strategies, and institutional contexts in Interreg Europe5
From global climate goals to local practice—mission-oriented policy enactment in three Swedish regions5
Knowledge transfer profiles of public research organisations: the role of fields of knowledge specialisation5
Deciphering the accelerated expansion of China’s NEV sector post-2020: a cross-system analysis using multi-level perspective5
A bibliometric study on the R&D funding and academic research performance in Shenzhen5
Researchers engaging with society: who does what?5
Exploring indicators for monitoring sociotechnical system transitions through portfolio networks5
How Heads of Departments Find It Meaningful to Engage with Gender Balance Policies5
Distrust in grant peer review—reasons and remedies5
Factors enabling social impact: The importance of institutional entrepreneurship in social science research5
Knowledge Transfers from Federally Funded Research and Development Centers5
Taking the pulse of science diplomacy and developing practices of valuation5
Governing varieties of mission-oriented innovation policies: A new typology4
The more the merrier? Inventor team size, diversity, and innovation quality4
When do trademarks improve the measurement of innovation? An analysis of innovations from Dutch SMEs4
What motivates academics for external engagement? Exploring the effects of motivational drivers and organizational fairness4
European scholarly journals from small- and mid-size publishers: mapping journals and public funding mechanisms4
Does offensive patent insurance promote corporate innovation? Evidence from a quasi-experiment4
Partial lottery can make grant allocation more fair, more efficient, and more diverse4
Researcher roles in collaborative governance interventions4
Risk-sensitive innovation: leveraging interactions between technologies to navigate technology risks4
Correction to: The innovation–inclusion nexus in countries of Latin America: foresight for shaping new policy approaches4
Learn from whom? The roles of government R&D subsidies and organizational reputations4
Can innovation vouchers promote SMEs’ innovation in China: A flexible conditional difference-in-differences analysis4
A typology of urban knowledge sharing: from a systematic literature review to an integrated model4
The rise of UK–China research collaboration: Trends, opportunities and challenges4
Addressing digital diversity: Care matters in vulnerable digital relations in a Swedish library context4
Evaluating blockchain technology and related policies in China and the USA4
Making university and industry research collaboration: Evidence from co-inventions in Japan4
Evaluation of public perceptions on nanotechnology regulation in Costa Rica4
The internationalization of science parks in China from a realist international relations perspective4
Frictions in the bioeconomy? A case study of policy translations and innovation practices4
Societal guardrails for AI? Perspectives on what we know about public opinion on artificial intelligence4
A novel approach to study institutional bundles driving AI-based MedTech innovations for cancer in India4
A computational approach to study the gap and barriers between science and policy4
Technological structure network analysis to explore the hotspots of academic patents in international technology transfer4
Making personalized medicine ethical: a critical examination of the new promises of ‘personalized health’ in Switzerland3
Navigating the multiple views of value in assessing public procurement3
Barriers as moderators in the innovation process3
Why are Latin American countries in the limbo of open-access scientific publications?3
The publicness of publicly funded research3
Value dissonance in research(er) assessment: individual and perceived institutional priorities in review, promotion, and tenure3
Closing the loop without reinventing the wheel: public procurement for innovation promoting a circular economy3
Field science and scientific collaboration in the Svalbard Archipelago: beyond science diplomacy3
Fostering a research integrity culture: Actionable advice for institutions3
Bridging climate change science and policy through TMNs in Turkey: CoM as a boundary-object3
Discussion on the entrepreneurial university in Spain: The case of the Madrid Region3
Anti-transparency within the EU shift to open science3
Canada’s changing innovation landscape3
SME digital transformation and the COVID-19 pandemic: a case study of a hard-hit metropolitan area3
A legitimacy approach to social innovation initiatives at universities3
Transfer of university patents and its impact on follow-on invention3
Assessing the effects of information disclosure on technology commercialization: an agent-based approach3
Global innovation cooperation and governance: evidence from China3
Certifying complexity? The case of a European gender equality certification scheme for research-performing organizations3
Social innovation, transformation, and public policy: towards a conceptualization and critical appraisal3
Herding in policy responses to coronavirus disease 20193
Industrial policy initiatives in manufacturing: Examining cross-country interventions through an evolutionary typology of technology systems3
Can open peer review improve uptake of preprints into policies? Evidence from a causal inference3
Designing an instrument for scaling public sector innovations2
Do scientific research funds support emerging topic research in Chinese humanities and social sciences?2
Policy-making and evaluation of gender equality programmes: Context, power, and resistance in the transformation process2
Correction to: Working with curiosity: Knowledge transfer practitioners’ ambivalence at CERN2
Perspective on research–policy interface as a partnership: The study of best practices in CREATE2
A four-asset technology-based growth policy2
Achieving societal and academic impacts of research: A comparison of networks, values, and strategies2
Taking pluralism seriously: a new perspective on evidence-based policy2
Mission cocreation or domination? Explorative and exploitative forces in shaping the Dutch circular agriculture mission2
The impact of winning funding on researcher productivity, results from a randomized trial2
Environmental policy and R&D productivity: A case study from the Korean Emissions Trading Scheme2
Scientific collaborations between Latin America and Europe: an approach from science diplomacy towards international engagement2
Brazilian Air Force acquisition policies: observing absorptive capacity and contingent factors in aeronautical beneficiary companies2
Promoting the ICT Industry for the future with fears from the past2
Erratum to: Restoring the antibiotic R&D market to combat the resistance crisis2
The Innovation Superclusters Initiative in Canada: A new policy strategy?2
The value priorities of consumer innovators2
Buyer’s market-oriented culture, strategic procurement capability, and customer performance in the public procurement of innovations2
Environmental scanning perspective: The moderating effects of organizational risk and government subsidy in innovation search process2
Science and the nation-state: What China’s experience reveals about the role of policy in science2
Making sense of knowledge-brokering organisations: boundary organisations or policy entrepreneurs?2
The early emergence of ombuds systems in Japanese science universities2
Systems of innovation, diversification, and the R&D trap: A case study of Kuwait2
Correction to: Making sense of knowledge-brokering organisations: boundary organisations or policy entrepreneurs?2
The Balanced State of Application-oriented Public Research and Technology Organisations2
Evidence-neglect: addressing a barrier to UK health and climate policy ambitions2
Whose knowledge counts? Power dynamics in the co-production of knowledge and innovation in agri-food systems2
Improving the Regional Innovation Scoreboard for policy: how about innovation efficiency?2
The innovation–inclusion nexus in countries of Latin America: foresight for shaping new policy approaches2
The design of transformative research and innovation policy instruments for grand challenges: The policy-nesting perspective2
Government subsidies, private R&D, and global value chains position: the moderating role of task complexity2
Online panel work through a gender lens: implications of digital peer review meetings2
Innovation policy responses to address vulnerabilities of national innovation systems: long-lasting impacts of COVID-192
Research funding randomly allocated? A survey of scientists’ views on peer review and lottery2
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