OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Science and Public Policy is 7. 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.)

Article	Citations
Correction to: Dynamics of expectations in the bioeconomy—Hopes, disillusionments, and conflicting futures	102
Intangible assets investment and firm innovation performance: evidence from Europe	74
Research funding, science production, and international collaborations: Luxembourg’s maturing national science system	41
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 research	33
Perspectives: the challenges of displaced and exiled scientists	32
Making responsible research and innovation meaningful in citizen science	31
Co-production trajectories: rethinking impact formation in knowledge co-production	29
The spatial mobility network and influencing factors of the higher education population in China	25
Technological innovation as a cost leadership strategy catalyst: impact on organizational performance in developing countries	23
Beyond institutional age and size: what drives innovation-related performance in Brazilian Federal Universities	22
Science diplomacy in the European and Latin American and Caribbean research infrastructure collaboration	22
Bridging the digital divide: how generative AI-powered digital platforms enhance e-government service delivery	22
Missions as boundary objects for transformative change: understanding coordination across policy, research, and stakeholder communities	20
Science diplomacy from a nation-state’s perspective: a general framing and its application to Global South countries	20
From theory to practice: how decentralized implementation of missions affects directionality, legitimacy, and coordination	19
Exploring geopolitics and innovation: the role of bilateral relationships in shaping research collaboration	19
Exploring scientific advice for local politics in Germany: the critical role of quasi-scientific actors	19
The globalization of science diplomacy in the early 1970s: a historical exploration	19
Coevolution between institutions and scientific organizations: The case of IMPA	18
Shaping food innovation ecosystems: roles and activities of a focal actor	18
Contextualizing the emerging and contested role of sleuths in the science monitoring system	17
Measuring behavioural additionality in public contractors subject to performance incentives: an index of innovation capability	17
Priorities in research portfolios: exploring the need for upstream research in cardiometabolic and mental health	17
Research use in policy organizations: a qualitative comparative analysis of Norwegian ministries	16

Competition, open innovation, and growth challenges in the semiconductor industry: the case of Europe’s clusters	15
Literary and artistic practices, higher researcher happiness, and no lower scientific performance	15
Mission incomplete: Layered practices of monitoring and evaluation in Swedish transformative innovation policy	14
Policy feedback dynamics in fintech ecosystems: navigating vicious and virtuous cycles in emerging economies	14
University–industry linkages in China from the agency perspective of university engagement: a systematic literature review	14
Normative, empirical, and pragmatic ethical objections to Singapore permitting human genetic enhancement via germline genome editing	14
‘We Need Time…’: An Expert Survey on Societal Acceptance of Urban Drones	14
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 sector	14
Scientizing the world: on mechanisms and outcomes of the institutionalization of science	14
Conversing with theory in context: frameworking patient involvement in health research agenda setting	13
Returnees and innovation: evidence from Chinese publicly listed firms	13
Diversification, integration, and opening: developments in modelling for policy	13
Regulatory flexibility and innovation efficiency: rethinking the role of regulators in evolving innovation systems	13
North–South research funding dynamics of collaborative projects: researchers’ appropriation strategies of agencies’ project frameworks	13
Balancing interests between freedom and censorship: Organizational strategies for quality assurance in science communication	13
The development of attitudes toward science and technology: a longitudinal analysis of Generation X	13
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 transactions	13
Prioritizing diversity? The allocation of US federal R&D funding	13
Science diplomacy in the Global South—an introduction	13
Being internationally mobile while keeping domestic social capital: how postdocs from China manage precarity	13
Pacing space: futuring practices and temporal ownership in the European space sector	13
Perspectives on advancing innovation and human flourishing through a network of AI institutes	12
Making space for CRISPR: scientists’ translation work to make gene editing a legitimate technology	12
Participatory research in Canada (2013-2018): a cross-sectional survey of academic researchers	12
R&D effort and knowledge sourcing: the search for better profitability and higher growth	12
Insights for place-sensitive innovation policies: evidence from SMEs’ preferences for additive manufacturing	12
Bridging conflicting frames in policies for digital transformation	12
Regulatory entrepreneurship’s threat to digital sovereignty: the case of Worldcoin in Kenya	11
Operation warp speed: Harbinger of American industrial innovation policies	11
To govern or be governed: an integrated framework for AI governance in the public sector	11
The study of policy coordination: an approach to integrate expert assessment with automated content analysis	11
Digital governance and AI: boosting OFDI’s impact on regional innovation performance	11
Steering at a distance: research centre funding schemes as instruments for university change	11
The realization of living labs at the post-experiment stage: the role of University in Korea	11
From pilot to policy: European university alliances and their contribution to the European research area	11
What makes an entrepreneurial university? Institutional moderators of ecosystem impacts in a developing country	10
Environmental information disclosure policy and green total factor productivity: evidence from firm level	10
From experimentation to structural change: fostering institutional entrepreneurship for public engagement in research and innovation	10
Grasping the impalpable: critical appraisal of the role of public policy for intangibles	9
Universities in less developed regions: analyzing their local research impact	9
Sharing research data: researcher behaviour and attitudes	9
Pathways to gender equality in academia. National factors shaping women’s early career progression across Europe	9
COVID-19 Health Certificates: analysis of policy implementation, framings, and controversies in nine European countries	9
Perspectives on the use of ChatGPT in academic publications	9
Correction to: Embracing heterogeneity: Why plural understandings strengthen interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity	9
Public perception of scientific advisory bodies: the case of France’s Covid-19 Scientific Council	9
International partnerships for building STI capabilities: insights from centres of excellence in Latin America	9
Building lasting trust: the resilience of science-policy interfaces (SPIs) during the COVID-19 pandemic	9

Perspectives on digital innovation and the governance imperative: from E-business to AI-mediated decision systems	9
A research on the effectiveness of innovation policy for regional innovation under Chinese long-range plan	9
Reviewing the reviewers: how social and traditional media repurpose open promotion reviews	9
Mobilizing research for contextualized innovation: scarcity and urgency as drivers during Covid-19 in the South	8
Research excellence and scientific advisory boards	8
Universities of applied sciences’ EU research project participation through the lens of differentiation	8
Developing a policy innovation system (PIS) approach in the case of biodiversity offsetting in Finland	8
Typology of university behaviour in innovation ecosystems: from institutional maturity to mission diversity	8
Do winners pick government? How scale-up experience shapes entrepreneurs’ assessments of innovation policy mixes	8
Making sense of transdisciplinarity: Interpreting science policy in a biotechnology centre	8
Just following the money? How research funding shapes the governance of university research	8
Household sector innovation, diffusion failure, and business ownership: evidence from South Africa	8
The legislative effect of ignorance: institutional risk and the regulation of new genomic techniques	8
The use of research by societal stakeholders in a formal policy-making process: governing gambling in Norway	8
The promise of artificial intelligence in combating public corruption in the emerging economies: A conceptual framework	8
“New spectrum of intangible assets”	8
Evolution of the STIP literature: discovering the growing role of innovation governance concepts	7
How has mission-oriented innovation policy addressed justice considerations? A systematic review	7
“It is controlling, but you don’t really care.” Researchers’ perceptions of legitimation of research policy	7
Intangible inputs, trade-in-knowledge, and manufacturing innovation in global value chains	7
Local market, central government support, and local governments’ homegrown development strategy in high-tech industries	7
The limits of co-production: linking regulatory capacity to co-production of authoritative knowledge for environmental policy	7
Mission-oriented innovation policy as a hybridisation process: the case of transforming a national fertilising system	7
An assessment of EU’s photovoltaic panel waste policies: current framework and strategic vision for 2050	7
Research security by roundtable: analysis of Germany’s committees for the ethics of security-relevant research	7