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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Correction to: Dynamics of expectations in the bioeconomy—Hopes, disillusionments, and conflicting futures56
Policy seduction and governance resistance? Examining public funding agencies and academic institutions on decarbonisation research51
How policies emerge and interact with each other? A bibliometric analysis of policies in China36
Researchers’ institutional mobility: bibliometric evidence on academic inbreeding and internationalization30
Science diplomacy in the European and Latin American and Caribbean research infrastructure collaboration25
Is renewable energy more favorable to diversity than conventional energy sources on R&D performance?25
Are there political cycles hidden inside collaborative innovation efficiency? An empirical study based on Chinese cities24
Science diplomacy from a nation-state’s perspective: a general framing and its application to Global South countries21
Making responsible research and innovation meaningful in citizen science19
Missions as boundary objects for transformative change: understanding coordination across policy, research, and stakeholder communities18
Perspectives: the challenges of displaced and exiled scientists18
Coevolution between institutions and scientific organizations: The case of IMPA17
The spatial mobility network and influencing factors of the higher education population in China17
Priorities in research portfolios: exploring the need for upstream research in cardiometabolic and mental health17
Academic human capital in universities: definition and proposal of a measurement scale17
Embracing heterogeneity: Why plural understandings strengthen interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity16
The globalization of science diplomacy in the early 1970s: a historical exploration16
‘We Need Time…’: An Expert Survey on Societal Acceptance of Urban Drones16
Walking the talk? Innovation policy approaches to unleash the transformative potentials of the Nordic bioeconomy16
Competition, open innovation, and growth challenges in the semiconductor industry: the case of Europe’s clusters15
Public deliberation and the regulation of gene drive in the USA14
University–industry linkages in China from the agency perspective of university engagement: a systematic literature review14
Prioritizing diversity? The allocation of US federal R&D funding14
Returnees and innovation: evidence from Chinese publicly listed firms14
The development of attitudes toward science and technology: a longitudinal analysis of Generation X13
Science diplomacy in the Global South—an introduction13
Retraction in the online world—Shall we rethink the policy?13
Mission incomplete: Layered practices of monitoring and evaluation in Swedish transformative innovation policy12
Balancing interests between freedom and censorship: Organizational strategies for quality assurance in science communication12
Peer effects of the young returnee scientists: Evidence from the state key laboratories in China12
The past futures of techno-scientific promises12
Scientizing the world: on mechanisms and outcomes of the institutionalization of science11
Local political turnover, R&D investment leap and corporate innovation performance: Evidence from China11
Capturing the invisible. Sociotechnical imaginaries of energy. The critical overview11
Policy feedback dynamics in fintech ecosystems: navigating vicious and virtuous cycles in emerging economies11
Diversification, integration, and opening: developments in modelling for policy11
Individual attributes and inventors matching: A study using data from the Brazilian co-patents network11
Diversity and directionality: friends or foes in sustainability transitions?11
The role of intermediaries in nurturing innovation ecosystems: a case study of Singapore’s manufacturing sector11
Being internationally mobile while keeping domestic social capital: how postdocs from China manage precarity11
Disciplining interdisciplinarity: Infrastructure, identity, and interdisciplinary practice in nanoELSI research10
To govern or be governed: an integrated framework for AI governance in the public sector10
North–South research funding dynamics of collaborative projects: researchers’ appropriation strategies of agencies’ project frameworks10
Operation warp speed: Harbinger of American industrial innovation policies10
Bridging conflicting frames in policies for digital transformation10
Multilevel innovation policy mix in China: do local programmes complement national programmes?10
Steering at a distance: research centre funding schemes as instruments for university change10
Assessment of success in university–industry cooperation literature: A bibliographic coupling analysis9
From experimentation to structural change: fostering institutional entrepreneurship for public engagement in research and innovation9
Digital governance and AI: boosting OFDI’s impact on regional innovation performance9
A research on the effectiveness of innovation policy for regional innovation under Chinese long-range plan9
The study of policy coordination: an approach to integrate expert assessment with automated content analysis9
Making space for CRISPR: scientists’ translation work to make gene editing a legitimate technology9
Institutionalizing public engagement in research and innovation: Toward the construction of institutional entrepreneurial collectives9
Correction to: Embracing heterogeneity: Why plural understandings strengthen interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity9
What makes an entrepreneurial university? Institutional moderators of ecosystem impacts in a developing country9
Perspectives on advancing innovation and human flourishing through a network of AI institutes9
An institutionalist perspective on smart specialization: Towards a political economy of regional innovation policy8
Public perception of scientific advisory bodies: the case of France’s Covid-19 Scientific Council8
Making sense of transdisciplinarity: Interpreting science policy in a biotechnology centre8
Perspectives on the use of ChatGPT in academic publications8
Do winners pick government? How scale-up experience shapes entrepreneurs’ assessments of innovation policy mixes8
Unboxing knowledge in collaboration between academia and society: A story about conceptions and epistemic uncertainty8
Universities in less developed regions: analyzing their local research impact8
Research excellence and scientific advisory boards8
A comparative analysis of innovation policies in Hong Kong and Shenzhen within the Greater Bay Area initiative8
Household sector innovation, diffusion failure, and business ownership: evidence from South Africa7
On the boundary of services and research collaborations in Japanese state-of-the-art academic research infrastructures7
Evolution of the STIP literature: discovering the growing role of innovation governance concepts7
Online platforms for research data: A requirements and cost analysis7
The legislative effect of ignorance: institutional risk and the regulation of new genomic techniques7
The other side of the boundary: Productive interactions seen from the policy side7
“It is controlling, but you don’t really care.” Researchers’ perceptions of legitimation of research policy7
The limits of co-production: linking regulatory capacity to co-production of authoritative knowledge for environmental policy7
Rejecting acceptance: learning from public dialogue on self-driving vehicles7
Mobilizing research for contextualized innovation: scarcity and urgency as drivers during Covid-19 in the South7
Universities of applied sciences’ EU research project participation through the lens of differentiation7
Local market, central government support, and local governments’ homegrown development strategy in high-tech industries7
Role of professional autonomy and project commitment in the Korean government–funded R&D projects6
Economic incentive instruments and environmental innovation in China: Moderating effect of marketization6
Mission-oriented innovation policy as a hybridisation process: the case of transforming a national fertilising system6
Local R&D support as a driver of network diversification: A cross-regional comparison in Japan6
How a timely policy contributes to technological capability building: insights from Iran’s biopharmaceutical sector6
Science diplomacy from the Global South: the case of intergovernmental science organizations6
The promise of artificial intelligence in combating public corruption in the emerging economies: A conceptual framework6
Deciphering the accelerated expansion of China’s NEV sector post-2020: a cross-system analysis using multi-level perspective6
An assessment of EU’s photovoltaic panel waste policies: current framework and strategic vision for 20506
Distrust in grant peer review—reasons and remedies6
The role of Universities in Transformative Innovation Policy6
Enhancing international collaboration in science, technology, and innovation to achieve sustainable development goals6
A bibliometric study on the R&D funding and academic research performance in Shenzhen6
How has mission-oriented innovation policy addressed justice considerations? A systematic review6
China’s distinctive civil–military integration policy and firm innovation6
Exploring indicators for monitoring sociotechnical system transitions through portfolio networks5
Researchers engaging with society: who does what?5
An assessment of the US Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program: A study of project failure5
Technological structure network analysis to explore the hotspots of academic patents in international technology transfer5
Partial lottery can make grant allocation more fair, more efficient, and more diverse5
Addressing digital diversity: Care matters in vulnerable digital relations in a Swedish library context5
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
Policy entrepreneurs, entrepreneurial strategies, and institutional contexts in Interreg Europe5
A computational approach to study the gap and barriers between science and policy5
The rise of UK–China research collaboration: Trends, opportunities and challenges5
Frictions in the bioeconomy? A case study of policy translations and innovation practices5
A typology of urban knowledge sharing: from a systematic literature review to an integrated model5
Ideology, knowledge, and the assessment of science policy agencies5
Taking the pulse of science diplomacy and developing practices of valuation5
Factors enabling social impact: The importance of institutional entrepreneurship in social science research5
Does offensive patent insurance promote corporate innovation? Evidence from a quasi-experiment5
Societal guardrails for AI? Perspectives on what we know about public opinion on artificial intelligence5
European scholarly journals from small- and mid-size publishers: mapping journals and public funding mechanisms5
Field science and scientific collaboration in the Svalbard Archipelago: beyond science diplomacy4
Assessing the effects of information disclosure on technology commercialization: an agent-based approach4
What motivates academics for external engagement? Exploring the effects of motivational drivers and organizational fairness4
Correction to: The innovation–inclusion nexus in countries of Latin America: foresight for shaping new policy approaches4
When do trademarks improve the measurement of innovation? An analysis of innovations from Dutch SMEs4
Researcher roles in collaborative governance interventions4
Barriers as moderators in the innovation process4
Navigating the multiple views of value in assessing public procurement4
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
The internationalization of science parks in China from a realist international relations perspective4
A novel approach to study institutional bundles driving AI-based MedTech innovations for cancer in India4
Can innovation vouchers promote SMEs’ innovation in China: A flexible conditional difference-in-differences analysis4
Fostering a research integrity culture: Actionable advice for institutions4
Can open peer review improve uptake of preprints into policies? Evidence from a causal inference4
Discussion on the entrepreneurial university in Spain: The case of the Madrid Region4
Author-paid publication fees corrupt science and should be abandoned4
Making university and industry research collaboration: Evidence from co-inventions in Japan4
Learn from whom? The roles of government R&D subsidies and organizational reputations4
Risk-sensitive innovation: leveraging interactions between technologies to navigate technology risks4
Evaluation of public perceptions on nanotechnology regulation in Costa Rica4
Bridging climate change science and policy through TMNs in Turkey: CoM as a boundary-object4
Making personalized medicine ethical: a critical examination of the new promises of ‘personalized health’ in Switzerland3
Certifying complexity? The case of a European gender equality certification scheme for research-performing organizations3
Global innovation cooperation and governance: evidence from China3
Industrial policy initiatives in manufacturing: Examining cross-country interventions through an evolutionary typology of technology systems3
Value dissonance in research(er) assessment: individual and perceived institutional priorities in review, promotion, and tenure3
A four-asset technology-based growth policy3
Anti-transparency within the EU shift to open science3
Why are Latin American countries in the limbo of open-access scientific publications?3
Canada’s changing innovation landscape3
SME digital transformation and the COVID-19 pandemic: a case study of a hard-hit metropolitan area3
Systems of innovation, diversification, and the R&D trap: A case study of Kuwait3
Herding in policy responses to coronavirus disease 20193
A legitimacy approach to social innovation initiatives at universities3
Closing the loop without reinventing the wheel: public procurement for innovation promoting a circular economy3
Exploring digital transformation adoption of scientific researchers3
Social innovation, transformation, and public policy: towards a conceptualization and critical appraisal3
The publicness of publicly funded research3
Do scientific research funds support emerging topic research in Chinese humanities and social sciences?3
Perspective on research–policy interface as a partnership: The study of best practices in CREATE2
Policy-making and evaluation of gender equality programmes: Context, power, and resistance in the transformation process2
Opportunity or responsibility? Tracing co-creation in the European policy discourse2
Science and the nation-state: What China’s experience reveals about the role of policy in science2
Channels to shape procurement decision-making of public organisations for innovation through framework conditions2
Brazilian Air Force acquisition policies: observing absorptive capacity and contingent factors in aeronautical beneficiary companies2
Online panel work through a gender lens: implications of digital peer review meetings2
Restoring the antibiotic R&D market to combat the resistance crisis2
Buyer’s market-oriented culture, strategic procurement capability, and customer performance in the public procurement of innovations2
What governs attitudes toward artificial intelligence adoption and governance?2
Environmental policy and R&D productivity: A case study from the Korean Emissions Trading Scheme2
Achieving societal and academic impacts of research: A comparison of networks, values, and strategies2
Scientific collaborations between Latin America and Europe: an approach from science diplomacy towards international engagement2
Evidence-neglect: addressing a barrier to UK health and climate policy ambitions2
Correction to: Bridging Climate Change Science and Policy through TMNs in Turkey: CoM as a boundary object2
Corporate venture capital and state-owned enterprises’ innovation: a panel investigation on Chinese state-owned enterprises2
Chinese public university patents during 2006–20: a comprehensive investigation and comparative study2
Innovation policy responses to address vulnerabilities of national innovation systems: long-lasting impacts of COVID-192
University–industry cooperation: a taxonomy of intermediaries2
The impact of winning funding on researcher productivity, results from a randomized trial2
Government subsidies, private R&D, and global value chains position: the moderating role of task complexity2
Nanotechnology and knowledge relatedness: how to identify optimal regional partners in EU innovation networks?2
Mission cocreation or domination? Explorative and exploitative forces in shaping the Dutch circular agriculture mission2
Misalignment and unintended consequences: unraveling governance challenges in China’s national integrated circuit industry investment fund2
The design of transformative research and innovation policy instruments for grand challenges: The policy-nesting perspective2
From ‘productive interactions’ to ‘enabling conditions’: The role of organizations in generating societal impact of academic research2
Making sense of knowledge-brokering organisations: boundary organisations or policy entrepreneurs?2
Improving the Regional Innovation Scoreboard for policy: how about innovation efficiency?2
Correction to: Working with curiosity: Knowledge transfer practitioners’ ambivalence at CERN2
Technology entrepreneurship and innovation hubs: Perspectives on the universal regulatory sandbox2
The early emergence of ombuds systems in Japanese science universities2
Research funding randomly allocated? A survey of scientists’ views on peer review and lottery2
Analysis of COVID-19 recovery and resilience policy in Finland: a transformative policy mix approach2
Correction to: Making sense of knowledge-brokering organisations: boundary organisations or policy entrepreneurs?2
The role of thematic specialization in international scientific collaboration: the case of Chagas research2
Taking pluralism seriously: a new perspective on evidence-based policy2
Promoting the ICT Industry for the future with fears from the past2
Effectively financing private sector innovation? Toward a conceptual policy framework2
Whose knowledge counts? Power dynamics in the co-production of knowledge and innovation in agri-food systems2
Heterogeneous influences of specialization and diversification on regional R&D performance: a China, Europe, and US comparison2
The Innovation Superclusters Initiative in Canada: A new policy strategy?2
The innovation–inclusion nexus in countries of Latin America: foresight for shaping new policy approaches2
Designing an instrument for scaling public sector innovations2
Erratum to: Restoring the antibiotic R&D market to combat the resistance crisis2
Variability and negligence: grant peer review panels evaluating impact ex ante2
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