OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Science and Public Policy is 5. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Policy entrepreneurs, entrepreneurial strategies, and institutional contexts in Interreg Europe	80
Opening up science for a sustainable world: An expansive normative structure of open science in the digital era	66
Exploring indicators for monitoring sociotechnical system transitions through portfolio networks	39
How Heads of Departments Find It Meaningful to Engage with Gender Balance Policies	31
Factors enabling social impact: The importance of institutional entrepreneurship in social science research	31
Do scientific research funds support emerging topic research in Chinese humanities and social sciences?	29
Researchers engaging with society: who does what?	28
Correction to: Dynamics of expectations in the bioeconomy—Hopes, disillusionments, and conflicting futures	26
Knowledge Transfers from Federally Funded Research and Development Centers	23
Are we nearly there yet? New technology adoption and labor demand in Peru	22
Effectiveness of targeted public university funding on universities’ start-up support: evidence from ‘EXIST—Potentials’	21
Knowledge transfer profiles of public research organisations: the role of fields of knowledge specialisation	19
Negotiating space for knowledge co-production	18
From experimentation to structural change: fostering institutional entrepreneurship for public engagement in research and innovation	18
Gerontocracy, labor market bottlenecks, and generational crises in modern science	16
What makes an entrepreneurial university? Institutional moderators of ecosystem impacts in a developing country	13
Coloniality in science diplomacy—evidence from the Atlantic Ocean	13
Ideology, knowledge, and the assessment of science policy agencies	13
Subsidy policies of a fresh supply chain considering the inputs of blockchain traceability service system	13
The Post-Normal Challenges of COVID-19: Constructing Effective and Legitimate Responses	12
Overcoming vested interests against innovation through political entrepreneurship: A comparative study of Korean mobility cases	12
An assessment of the US Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program: A study of project failure	12
Taking the pulse of science diplomacy and developing practices of valuation	12
The evolution of Industry 4.0 capacities across regions in EU research programmes	11
Making sense of knowledge-brokering organisations: boundary organisations or policy entrepreneurs?	11

A four-asset technology-based growth policy	11
Is renewable energy more favorable to diversity than conventional energy sources on R&D performance?	11
What counts: Making sense of metrics of research value	10
Boundary speak in sustainability studies: Computational reading of a transversal field	10
Boundary work in the regional innovation policy mix: SME digital technology diffusion policies in Wales	10
How policies emerge and interact with each other? A bibliometric analysis of policies in China	10
Policy seduction and governance resistance? Examining public funding agencies and academic institutions on decarbonisation research	10
Researchers’ institutional mobility: bibliometric evidence on academic inbreeding and internationalization	10
The design of transformative research and innovation policy instruments for grand challenges: The policy-nesting perspective	10
Multilevel innovation policy mix: impact of regional, national, and European R&D grants	10
From global climate goals to local practice—mission-oriented policy enactment in three Swedish regions	10
The Innovation Superclusters Initiative in Canada: A new policy strategy?	10
Mission cocreation or domination? Explorative and exploitative forces in shaping the Dutch circular agriculture mission	9
Whose knowledge counts? Power dynamics in the co-production of knowledge and innovation in agri-food systems	9
Online panel work through a gender lens: implications of digital peer review meetings	9
Buyer’s market-oriented culture, strategic procurement capability, and customer performance in the public procurement of innovations	9
Designing an instrument for scaling public sector innovations	9
Exploring the interplay between social distancing, innovation adoption, and privacy concerns amid the COVID-19 crisis	9
The study of policy coordination: an approach to integrate expert assessment with automated content analysis	9
Environmental policy and R&D productivity: A case study from the Korean Emissions Trading Scheme	9
Correction to: Embracing heterogeneity: Why plural understandings strengthen interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity	8
A research on the effectiveness of innovation policy for regional innovation under Chinese long-range plan	8
Use of science in public policy: Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic efforts to ‘Follow the Science’	8
Cyborg ethics and regulation: ethical issues of human enhancement	8
The Balanced State of Application-oriented Public Research and Technology Organisations	8
A new facet of cumulative advantage in higher education finance	8
Does the inclusion of non-academic reviewers make any difference for grant impact panels?	8
Evolution of the emergency drug innovation network and policy implications: Evidence from COVID-19 drug patents	8
Environmental scanning perspective: The moderating effects of organizational risk and government subsidy in innovation search process	8
Does offensive patent insurance promote corporate innovation? Evidence from a quasi-experiment	8
The Impact of I-Corps on Accelerating Venture Discontinuation in a Southeastern US University	8
Cooperative innovation and crises: Foreign subsidiaries, state-owned enterprises, and domestic private firms	8
Erratum to: Effective science and technology assessment advice for Congress: comparing options	8
Policy-making and evaluation of gender equality programmes: Context, power, and resistance in the transformation process	7
Correction to: Making sense of knowledge-brokering organisations: boundary organisations or policy entrepreneurs?	7
Brazilian Air Force acquisition policies: observing absorptive capacity and contingent factors in aeronautical beneficiary companies	7
The impact of winning funding on researcher productivity, results from a randomized trial	7
Government subsidies, private R&D, and global value chains position: the moderating role of task complexity	7
Guidance on research integrity provided by pan-European discipline-specific learned societies: A scoping review	7
The impacts of Centers for AIDS Research program and its enlargement on HIV/AIDS research collaboration	7
The translation of transformative policy ambitions in funding research for climate change	7
Correction to: Working with curiosity: Knowledge transfer practitioners’ ambivalence at CERN	7
Correction to: Co-creating end-user roles. Understanding the new variety of user involvement in public sector innovation	7
Institutional logics in the open science practices of university–industry research collaboration	6
Technological structure network analysis to explore the hotspots of academic patents in international technology transfer	6
Universities in less developed regions: analyzing their local research impact	6
Scientific collaborations between Latin America and Europe: an approach from science diplomacy towards international engagement	6
Missions as boundary objects for transformative change: understanding coordination across policy, research, and stakeholder communities	6
Assessment of success in university–industry cooperation literature: A bibliographic coupling analysis	6
A computational approach to study the gap and barriers between science and policy	6

Peer-review procedures as practice, decision, and governance—the road to theories of peer review	6
Deconstructing impact: A framework for impact evaluation in grant applications	6
What is behind multiple institutional affiliations in academia?	6
Listing quality: Chinese journal lists in incoherent valuation regimes	6
Governing varieties of mission-oriented innovation policies: A new typology	6
Evaluating blockchain technology and related policies in China and the USA	6
Switching between worlds apart: Negotiating European space sector cultures through innovation	5
Addressing digital diversity: Care matters in vulnerable digital relations in a Swedish library context	5
Partial lottery can make grant allocation more fair, more efficient, and more diverse	5
Stability versus flexibility in projectified science–policy context: what is the role of science advisors?	5
European scholarly journals from small- and mid-size publishers: mapping journals and public funding mechanisms	5
The spatial distribution of public support for AI research	5
The early emergence of ombuds systems in Japanese science universities	5
Democratic and expert legitimacy: Science, politics and the public during the COVID-19 pandemic	5
Frictions in the bioeconomy? A case study of policy translations and innovation practices	5
An institutionalist perspective on smart specialization: Towards a political economy of regional innovation policy	5
A typology of urban knowledge sharing: from a systematic literature review to an integrated model	5
The rise of UK–China research collaboration: Trends, opportunities and challenges	5
Institutionalizing public engagement in research and innovation: Toward the construction of institutional entrepreneurial collectives	5
Taking pluralism seriously: a new perspective on evidence-based policy	5
Research funding randomly allocated? A survey of scientists’ views on peer review and lottery	5
Science diplomacy from a nation-state’s perspective: a general framing and its application to Global South countries	5
CGE analysis of R&D investment policy considering trade-offs between economic growth and stability	5
The spatial mobility network and influencing factors of the higher education population in China	5