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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Correction to: Dynamics of expectations in the bioeconomy—Hopes, disillusionments, and conflicting futures102
Intangible assets investment and firm innovation performance: evidence from Europe74
Research funding, science production, and international collaborations: Luxembourg’s maturing national science system41
When science meets geopolitics: global AI research network transformation (2000–2025)39
Policy seduction and governance resistance? Examining public funding agencies and academic institutions on decarbonisation research33
Perspectives: the challenges of displaced and exiled scientists32
Making responsible research and innovation meaningful in citizen science31
Co-production trajectories: rethinking impact formation in knowledge co-production29
The spatial mobility network and influencing factors of the higher education population in China25
Technological innovation as a cost leadership strategy catalyst: impact on organizational performance in developing countries23
Beyond institutional age and size: what drives innovation-related performance in Brazilian Federal Universities22
Science diplomacy in the European and Latin American and Caribbean research infrastructure collaboration22
Bridging the digital divide: how generative AI-powered digital platforms enhance e-government service delivery22
Missions as boundary objects for transformative change: understanding coordination across policy, research, and stakeholder communities20
Science diplomacy from a nation-state’s perspective: a general framing and its application to Global South countries20
From theory to practice: how decentralized implementation of missions affects directionality, legitimacy, and coordination19
Exploring geopolitics and innovation: the role of bilateral relationships in shaping research collaboration19
Exploring scientific advice for local politics in Germany: the critical role of quasi-scientific actors19
The globalization of science diplomacy in the early 1970s: a historical exploration19
Coevolution between institutions and scientific organizations: The case of IMPA18
Shaping food innovation ecosystems: roles and activities of a focal actor18
Contextualizing the emerging and contested role of sleuths in the science monitoring system17
Measuring behavioural additionality in public contractors subject to performance incentives: an index of innovation capability17
Priorities in research portfolios: exploring the need for upstream research in cardiometabolic and mental health17
Research use in policy organizations: a qualitative comparative analysis of Norwegian ministries16
Competition, open innovation, and growth challenges in the semiconductor industry: the case of Europe’s clusters15
Literary and artistic practices, higher researcher happiness, and no lower scientific performance15
Diversity and directionality: friends or foes in sustainability transitions?14
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 science14
Mission incomplete: Layered practices of monitoring and evaluation in Swedish transformative innovation policy14
Policy feedback dynamics in fintech ecosystems: navigating vicious and virtuous cycles in emerging economies14
University–industry linkages in China from the agency perspective of university engagement: a systematic literature review14
Normative, empirical, and pragmatic ethical objections to Singapore permitting human genetic enhancement via germline genome editing14
‘We Need Time…’: An Expert Survey on Societal Acceptance of Urban Drones14
Pacing space: futuring practices and temporal ownership in the European space sector13
Conversing with theory in context: frameworking patient involvement in health research agenda setting13
Returnees and innovation: evidence from Chinese publicly listed firms13
Diversification, integration, and opening: developments in modelling for policy13
Regulatory flexibility and innovation efficiency: rethinking the role of regulators in evolving innovation systems13
North–South research funding dynamics of collaborative projects: researchers’ appropriation strategies of agencies’ project frameworks13
Balancing interests between freedom and censorship: Organizational strategies for quality assurance in science communication13
The development of attitudes toward science and technology: a longitudinal analysis of Generation X13
Multilevel innovation policy mix in China: do local programmes complement national programmes?13
Effect of university technology transfer office on patents’ market value: evidence from patent transactions13
Prioritizing diversity? The allocation of US federal R&D funding13
Science diplomacy in the Global South—an introduction13
Being internationally mobile while keeping domestic social capital: how postdocs from China manage precarity13
Perspectives on advancing innovation and human flourishing through a network of AI institutes12
Making space for CRISPR: scientists’ translation work to make gene editing a legitimate technology12
Participatory research in Canada (2013-2018): a cross-sectional survey of academic researchers12
R&D effort and knowledge sourcing: the search for better profitability and higher growth12
Insights for place-sensitive innovation policies: evidence from SMEs’ preferences for additive manufacturing12
Bridging conflicting frames in policies for digital transformation12
From pilot to policy: European university alliances and their contribution to the European research area11
Regulatory entrepreneurship’s threat to digital sovereignty: the case of Worldcoin in Kenya11
Operation warp speed: Harbinger of American industrial innovation policies11
To govern or be governed: an integrated framework for AI governance in the public sector11
The study of policy coordination: an approach to integrate expert assessment with automated content analysis11
Digital governance and AI: boosting OFDI’s impact on regional innovation performance11
Steering at a distance: research centre funding schemes as instruments for university change11
The realization of living labs at the post-experiment stage: the role of University in Korea11
From experimentation to structural change: fostering institutional entrepreneurship for public engagement in research and innovation10
What makes an entrepreneurial university? Institutional moderators of ecosystem impacts in a developing country10
Environmental information disclosure policy and green total factor productivity: evidence from firm level10
A research on the effectiveness of innovation policy for regional innovation under Chinese long-range plan9
Reviewing the reviewers: how social and traditional media repurpose open promotion reviews9
Grasping the impalpable: critical appraisal of the role of public policy for intangibles9
Universities in less developed regions: analyzing their local research impact9
Sharing research data: researcher behaviour and attitudes9
Pathways to gender equality in academia. National factors shaping women’s early career progression across Europe9
COVID-19 Health Certificates: analysis of policy implementation, framings, and controversies in nine European countries9
Perspectives on the use of ChatGPT in academic publications9
Correction to: Embracing heterogeneity: Why plural understandings strengthen interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity9
Public perception of scientific advisory bodies: the case of France’s Covid-19 Scientific Council9
International partnerships for building STI capabilities: insights from centres of excellence in Latin America9
Building lasting trust: the resilience of science-policy interfaces (SPIs) during the COVID-19 pandemic9
Perspectives on digital innovation and the governance imperative: from E-business to AI-mediated decision systems9
Mobilizing research for contextualized innovation: scarcity and urgency as drivers during Covid-19 in the South8
Research excellence and scientific advisory boards8
Household sector innovation, diffusion failure, and business ownership: evidence from South Africa8
Universities of applied sciences’ EU research project participation through the lens of differentiation8
Typology of university behaviour in innovation ecosystems: from institutional maturity to mission diversity8
Do winners pick government? How scale-up experience shapes entrepreneurs’ assessments of innovation policy mixes8
Making sense of transdisciplinarity: Interpreting science policy in a biotechnology centre8
“New spectrum of intangible assets”8
Just following the money? How research funding shapes the governance of university research8
The legislative effect of ignorance: institutional risk and the regulation of new genomic techniques8
The use of research by societal stakeholders in a formal policy-making process: governing gambling in Norway8
The promise of artificial intelligence in combating public corruption in the emerging economies: A conceptual framework8
Developing a policy innovation system (PIS) approach in the case of biodiversity offsetting in Finland8
Intangible inputs, trade-in-knowledge, and manufacturing innovation in global value chains7
Local market, central government support, and local governments’ homegrown development strategy in high-tech industries7
The limits of co-production: linking regulatory capacity to co-production of authoritative knowledge for environmental policy7
Mission-oriented innovation policy as a hybridisation process: the case of transforming a national fertilising system7
An assessment of EU’s photovoltaic panel waste policies: current framework and strategic vision for 20507
Research security by roundtable: analysis of Germany’s committees for the ethics of security-relevant research7
Evolution of the STIP literature: discovering the growing role of innovation governance concepts7
How has mission-oriented innovation policy addressed justice considerations? A systematic review7
“It is controlling, but you don’t really care.” Researchers’ perceptions of legitimation of research policy7
Science off the books: institutional friction and the invisible costs of research governance6
Administrative burden in Australian universities: Insights into dimensions and drivers from a nationwide survey6
Science advice at the top: a global overview of chief science advisor model in governance6
Legitimising an emerging transformer mission: an abductive exploration of energy poverty policy in the Netherlands6
Architects of catch-up: a synergistic financial engine for China’s pharmaceutical industry6
Distrust in grant peer review—reasons and remedies6
Enhancing international collaboration in science, technology, and innovation to achieve sustainable development goals6
How a timely policy contributes to technological capability building: insights from Iran’s biopharmaceutical sector6
Beyond automation and augmentation: reframing innovation policy for the work in the age of AI6
A dynamic view on the Latin American innovation system at continental, national, and local level6
4IR technology adoption in the south African airline industry: drivers, constraints and labour market effects5
Deciphering the accelerated expansion of China’s NEV sector post-2020: a cross-system analysis using multi-level perspective5
Ideology, knowledge, and the assessment of science policy agencies5
Researchers engaging with society: who does what?5
From global climate goals to local practice—mission-oriented policy enactment in three Swedish regions5
The flipside of the coin? The role of university-industry collaborations on research independence and orientation5
Exploring indicators for monitoring sociotechnical system transitions through portfolio networks5
The new frontier of research competition: perspectives on national AI4S strategies5
Climate change scepticism in Spain: are the political and ideological drivers so important?5
China’s distinctive civil–military integration policy and firm innovation5
An assessment of the US Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program: A study of project failure5
Stockholm science: the syndrome, not the city!!!5
The involvement of nonacademic partners in societally-targeted funded research5
New industrial policy between territorial assumptions and spatial practices: the case of Technum Québec5
Policy entrepreneurs, entrepreneurial strategies, and institutional contexts in Interreg Europe5
Science diplomacy from the Global South: the case of intergovernmental science organizations5
AI governance in North Africa: an ecosystems approach5
Business agility, intangible capital, and economic performance during the Covid-19 crisis5
Generative AI in public administration: evaluating a fine-tuned large language model for policy briefing notes5
European scholarly journals from small- and mid-size publishers: mapping journals and public funding mechanisms5
Societal guardrails for AI? Perspectives on what we know about public opinion on artificial intelligence5
When politics meets science: how principal investigators’ political identity shapes knowledge co-creation in publicly-funded research4
Artificial intelligence applications and researchers’ wages: from the perspective of R&D resources optimization4
Barriers as moderators in the innovation process4
Editorial ‘Innovation-driven knowledge economies and transformation in the Global South’4
When do trademarks improve the measurement of innovation? An analysis of innovations from Dutch SMEs4
A computational approach to study the gap and barriers between science and policy4
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
Evaluation of public perceptions on nanotechnology regulation in Costa Rica4
The internationalization of science parks in China from a realist international relations perspective4
Why do researchers change their research directions? Evidence from biomedical scientists4
Researcher roles in collaborative governance interventions4
A typology of urban knowledge sharing: from a systematic literature review to an integrated model4
Which kind of research papers influence policymaking4
Rethinking excellence: the impact of the Excellence Initiative on the relative productivity of German universities4
How do cities promote culture? Italian municipal cultural expenditure from 2001 to 20194
Progress is neither swift nor easy: assessing funding agencies’ capacity to address science inequities4
Fostering a research integrity culture: Actionable advice for institutions4
Does offensive patent insurance promote corporate innovation? Evidence from a quasi-experiment4
Risk-sensitive innovation: leveraging interactions between technologies to navigate technology risks4
A novel approach to study institutional bundles driving AI-based MedTech innovations for cancer in India4
Navigating the multiple views of value in assessing public procurement3
Can institutional innovation mitigate supply chain risks? Evidence from China’s free trade zones3
Discussion on the entrepreneurial university in Spain: The case of the Madrid Region3
Can innovation vouchers promote SMEs’ innovation in China: A flexible conditional difference-in-differences analysis3
Certifying complexity? The case of a European gender equality certification scheme for research-performing organizations3
Field science and scientific collaboration in the Svalbard Archipelago: beyond science diplomacy3
Anti-transparency within the EU shift to open science3
Can open peer review improve uptake of preprints into policies? Evidence from a causal inference3
Transfer of university patents and its impact on follow-on invention3
Steering the wheel to deliver what? Innovation, coalitions, and directionality in Latin American biologics3
The impact of enhancing early career funding opportunities for female scientists on research performance3
What are transformative missions, really? Three dimensions for one shared understanding3
Comparing national innovation sustainability: evidence from China and Singapore3
Closing the loop without reinventing the wheel: public procurement for innovation promoting a circular economy3
How do mission-oriented innovation policies work? A theory of action derived from the EU missions3
Innovation and knowledge-based inclusive transformation of rural areas in Algeria: examining the PPDRI programme3
Author-paid publication fees corrupt science and should be abandoned3
Exploring digital transformation adoption of scientific researchers3
Assessing the effects of information disclosure on technology commercialization: an agent-based approach3
A legitimacy approach to social innovation initiatives at universities3
Global innovation cooperation and governance: evidence from China3
The European Union’s use of scientific knowledge in SDG policymaking: a topic model approach3
AI models for detecting and generating hate speech: implications for Ethiopian policy3
Building India’s semiconductor ecosystem: policies, capabilities, and challenges in achieving technological self-reliance3
Why are Latin American countries in the limbo of open-access scientific publications?3
Green manufacturing and corporate ESG performance: quasi-natural experiments in green factory certification policy2
Conditions for a successful latecomer development in green technologies2
SME digital transformation and the COVID-19 pandemic: a case study of a hard-hit metropolitan area2
Mind the gap: connecting AI innovation to widespread public value2
How does career development support transform personal, social, and organizational resources into STEM researchers’ passions?2
Herding in policy responses to coronavirus disease 20192
Translating global innovation scripts: science and innovation policy and organisational change in Chilean universities2
Online panel work through a gender lens: implications of digital peer review meetings2
Policy-making and evaluation of gender equality programmes: Context, power, and resistance in the transformation process2
Transformative innovation policy meets responsible research and innovation: a critical reflection2
Making sense of knowledge-brokering organisations: boundary organisations or policy entrepreneurs?2
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
Value dissonance in research(er) assessment: individual and perceived institutional priorities in review, promotion, and tenure2
Public supported R&D: knowledge spillovers from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases2
Exploring key licensing technologies and trends of public research institutions through technology patent networks2
Unravelling SW industry trading networks: the role of reciprocity, transitivity, and firm characteristics2
Do scientific research funds support emerging topic research in Chinese humanities and social sciences?2
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
Designing an instrument for scaling public sector innovations2
Whose knowledge counts? Power dynamics in the co-production of knowledge and innovation in agri-food systems2
Mission cocreation or domination? Explorative and exploitative forces in shaping the Dutch circular agriculture mission2
A four-asset technology-based growth policy2
As open as possible? Comparing Scandinavian approaches to research security2
Industrial policy initiatives in manufacturing: Examining cross-country interventions through an evolutionary typology of technology systems2
Investigating innovation and social change using a novel framework: The case of Financial Technology in Nigeria2
Buyer’s market-oriented culture, strategic procurement capability, and customer performance in the public procurement of innovations2
Machinery industry as a digital catalyst: evaluating R&D portfolios and trade-offs using a CGE-based analysis2
The early emergence of ombuds systems in Japanese science universities2
Correction to: Working with curiosity: Knowledge transfer practitioners’ ambivalence at CERN2
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