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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Benefits, Motivations, and Challenges of International Collaborative Research: A Sociology of Science Case Study	58
Transformative outcomes: assessing and reorienting experimentation with transformative innovation policy	44
A framework for mission-oriented innovation policy: Alternative pathways through the problem–solution space	34
Towards wide-scale adoption of open science practices: The role of open science communities	27
Does It Pay to Do Novel Science? The Selectivity Patterns in Science Funding	24
COVID-19: Insights from innovation economists	23
Globally Bred Chinese Talents Returning Home: An Analysis of a Reverse Brain-Drain Flagship Policy	21
Governing varieties of mission-oriented innovation policies: A new typology	21
Capturing the invisible. Sociotechnical imaginaries of energy. The critical overview	21
Transformative innovation policy approach to e-waste management in Ghana: Perspectives of actors on transformative changes	21
Do environmental regulations affect FDI decisions? The pollution haven hypothesis revisited	20
What’s in a name? Perceptions and promotion of responsible research and innovation practices across Europe	19
Functional procurement for innovation, welfare, and the environment	19
The promises and premises of mission-oriented innovation policy—A reflection and ways forward	19
Rejecting acceptance: learning from public dialogue on self-driving vehicles	18
Policy options for green regional development: Adopting a production and application perspective	18
Does the high-tech enterprise certification policy promote innovation in China?	17
Fifty years of University-industry collaboration: a global bibliometrics overview	15
Local government competition and regional innovation efficiency: From the perspective of China-style fiscal federalism	14
Towards a responsible integration of artificial intelligence technology in the construction sector	14
Are there political cycles hidden inside collaborative innovation efficiency? An empirical study based on Chinese cities	14
‘Unite behind the Science!’ Climate movements’ use of scientific evidence in narratives on socio-ecological futures	13
Cross-country analysis of higher education institutions’ efficiency: The role of strategic positioning	13
Funding for few, anticipation among all: Effects of excellence funding on academic research groups	11
Decoupling in science and education: A collateral damage beyond deteriorating US–China relations	10

Organizational determinants and idiosyncrasies of firms’ absorptive capacity in a developing country	10
Education and training policies for research integrity: Insights from a focus group study	10
Can transparency undermine peer review? A simulation model of scientist behavior under open peer review	10
Democratic and expert legitimacy: Science, politics and the public during the COVID-19 pandemic	10
Making a Research Infrastructure: Conditions and Strategies to Transform a Service into an Infrastructure	9
Competition, open innovation, and growth challenges in the semiconductor industry: the case of Europe’s clusters	9
A processual approach to friction in quadruple helix collaborations	9
Threat of policy alienation: Exploring the implementation of Open Science policy in research practice	9
The university third mission and the European Structural Funds in peripheral regions: Insights from Finland	9
Public procurement and innovation: a systematic literature review	9
The design of transformative research and innovation policy instruments for grand challenges: The policy-nesting perspective	9
What does cultural innovation stand for? Dimensions, processes, outcomes of a new innovation category	9
Use of science in public policy: Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic efforts to ‘Follow the Science’	9
Researchers’ institutional mobility: bibliometric evidence on academic inbreeding and internationalization	9
Switching between worlds apart: Negotiating European space sector cultures through innovation	8
Opening up science for a sustainable world: An expansive normative structure of open science in the digital era	8
Mission incomplete: Layered practices of monitoring and evaluation in Swedish transformative innovation policy	8
Embracing heterogeneity: Why plural understandings strengthen interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity	8
An institutionalist perspective on smart specialization: Towards a political economy of regional innovation policy	8
How (not) to design and implement a large-scale, interdisciplinary research infrastructure	8
Impacts for whom? Assessing inequalities in NSF-funded broader impacts using the Inclusion-Immediacy Criterion	8
What motivates academics for external engagement? Exploring the effects of motivational drivers and organizational fairness	8
Evaluating blockchain technology and related policies in China and the USA	8
What counts: Making sense of metrics of research value	8
The Post-Normal Challenges of COVID-19: Constructing Effective and Legitimate Responses	8
The past futures of techno-scientific promises	8
A comparative analysis of innovation policies in Hong Kong and Shenzhen within the Greater Bay Area initiative	8
How universities influence societal impact practices: Academics’ sense-making of organizational impact strategies	7
High-tech infrastructure and economic growth: The Materials Genome Initiative	7
Technological structure network analysis to explore the hotspots of academic patents in international technology transfer	7
From collaborative to institutional reflexivity: Calibrating responsibility in the funding process	7
The evolution of the national innovation system as programmatic policy idea in Finland	7
Is the alignment between public research organisations' R&D competence and policies really critical for technology transfer?	7
How do institutional changes facilitate university-centric networks in Taiwan? The Triple Helix model of innovation view	7
CGE analysis of R&D investment policy considering trade-offs between economic growth and stability	7
The Innovation Superclusters Initiative in Canada: A new policy strategy?	7
Towards Evaluating the Research Impact made by Universities of Applied Sciences	7
Under pressure: A systematic review of stress and its impact among graduate students	7
Empowering professionalism in mission-oriented innovation	7
Co-production of knowledge in transdisciplinary communities of practice: Experiences from food governance in South Africa	7
Taking the pulse of science diplomacy and developing practices of valuation	7
Intellectual property, institutional dynamics, and firm innovation	6
The impact of a national research assessment on the publications of sociologists in Italy	6
The rise of UK–China research collaboration: Trends, opportunities and challenges	6
Technology transfer models for knowledge-based regional development: New R&D institutes in Guangdong, China	6
Enemies of the future? Questioning the regimes of promising in emerging science and technology	6
Imaginaries of innovation: Turning technology development into a public issue	6
What governs attitudes toward artificial intelligence adoption and governance?	6
Walking the talk? Innovation policy approaches to unleash the transformative potentials of the Nordic bioeconomy	6
Promoting the ICT Industry for the future with fears from the past	6

The Balanced State of Application-oriented Public Research and Technology Organisations	6
Systems of innovation, diversification, and the R&D trap: A case study of Kuwait	6
Boosting innovation in small- and medium-sized enterprises through tax incentives: lessons from the UK	6
Public deliberation and the regulation of gene drive in the USA	6
The Impact of University–Industry Relationships on Firms’ Performance: A Meta-Regression Analysis	6
Supporting health researchers to realize meaningful patient involvement in research: Exploring researchers’ experiences and needs	6
Canada’s changing innovation landscape	6
Restoring the antibiotic R&D market to combat the resistance crisis	5
A virtuous circle? The effects of university–industry relationships in a region with low absorptive capacity	5
Partial lottery can make grant allocation more fair, more efficient, and more diverse	5
Addressing digital diversity: Care matters in vulnerable digital relations in a Swedish library context	5
Artificial selection versus natural selection: Which causes the Matthew effect of science funding allocation in China?	5
Democracy, Complexity, and Science: Exploring Structural Sources of National Scientific Performance	5
From ‘productive interactions’ to ‘enabling conditions’: The role of organizations in generating societal impact of academic research	5
Drawing Lines in the Sand? Paths Forward for Triggering Regulation of Gene-Edited Crops	5
Missions as boundary objects for transformative change: understanding coordination across policy, research, and stakeholder communities	5
A framework for open policy analysis	5
How Heads of Departments Find It Meaningful to Engage with Gender Balance Policies	5
Staying or leaving? Patterns and determinants of Italian researchers’ migration	5
Opportunity or responsibility? Tracing co-creation in the European policy discourse	5
Local political turnover, R&D investment leap and corporate innovation performance: Evidence from China	5
Mission-Oriented Policy for Innovation and the Fuzzy Boundary of Market Creation: the Brazilian Shipbuilding Case	5
Cyborg ethics and regulation: ethical issues of human enhancement	5
An assessment of the US Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program: A study of project failure	5
Subsidy policies of a fresh supply chain considering the inputs of blockchain traceability service system	5
A bibliometric study on the R&D funding and academic research performance in Shenzhen	5