OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Science and Public Policy is 6. 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 2020-07-01 to 2024-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Benefits, Motivations, and Challenges of International Collaborative Research: A Sociology of Science Case Study	70
Transformative outcomes: assessing and reorienting experimentation with transformative innovation policy	49
A framework for mission-oriented innovation policy: Alternative pathways through the problem–solution space	37
Towards wide-scale adoption of open science practices: The role of open science communities	31
Does It Pay to Do Novel Science? The Selectivity Patterns in Science Funding	26
COVID-19: Insights from innovation economists	26
Governing varieties of mission-oriented innovation policies: A new typology	25
Capturing the invisible. Sociotechnical imaginaries of energy. The critical overview	24
Transformative innovation policy approach to e-waste management in Ghana: Perspectives of actors on transformative changes	23
Globally Bred Chinese Talents Returning Home: An Analysis of a Reverse Brain-Drain Flagship Policy	23
The promises and premises of mission-oriented innovation policy—A reflection and ways forward	23
Do environmental regulations affect FDI decisions? The pollution haven hypothesis revisited	20
Rejecting acceptance: learning from public dialogue on self-driving vehicles	19
Functional procurement for innovation, welfare, and the environment	19
Does the high-tech enterprise certification policy promote innovation in China?	18
Policy options for green regional development: Adopting a production and application perspective	18
Fifty years of University-industry collaboration: a global bibliometrics overview	17
‘Unite behind the Science!’ Climate movements’ use of scientific evidence in narratives on socio-ecological futures	16
Local government competition and regional innovation efficiency: From the perspective of China-style fiscal federalism	15
Towards a responsible integration of artificial intelligence technology in the construction sector	15
Are there political cycles hidden inside collaborative innovation efficiency? An empirical study based on Chinese cities	14
Democratic and expert legitimacy: Science, politics and the public during the COVID-19 pandemic	14
Cross-country analysis of higher education institutions’ efficiency: The role of strategic positioning	14
What governs attitudes toward artificial intelligence adoption and governance?	13
Decoupling in science and education: A collateral damage beyond deteriorating US–China relations	12

A processual approach to friction in quadruple helix collaborations	12
Education and training policies for research integrity: Insights from a focus group study	11
The design of transformative research and innovation policy instruments for grand challenges: The policy-nesting perspective	11
Mission incomplete: Layered practices of monitoring and evaluation in Swedish transformative innovation policy	11
The university third mission and the European Structural Funds in peripheral regions: Insights from Finland	11
Funding for few, anticipation among all: Effects of excellence funding on academic research groups	11
An institutionalist perspective on smart specialization: Towards a political economy of regional innovation policy	10
Threat of policy alienation: Exploring the implementation of Open Science policy in research practice	10
Can transparency undermine peer review? A simulation model of scientist behavior under open peer review	10
Use of science in public policy: Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic efforts to ‘Follow the Science’	10
The Post-Normal Challenges of COVID-19: Constructing Effective and Legitimate Responses	10
What motivates academics for external engagement? Exploring the effects of motivational drivers and organizational fairness	10
Opening up science for a sustainable world: An expansive normative structure of open science in the digital era	10
What counts: Making sense of metrics of research value	9
How do institutional changes facilitate university-centric networks in Taiwan? The Triple Helix model of innovation view	9
Competition, open innovation, and growth challenges in the semiconductor industry: the case of Europe’s clusters	9
Researchers’ institutional mobility: bibliometric evidence on academic inbreeding and internationalization	9
Making a Research Infrastructure: Conditions and Strategies to Transform a Service into an Infrastructure	9
Embracing heterogeneity: Why plural understandings strengthen interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity	9
Public procurement and innovation: a systematic literature review	9
How (not) to design and implement a large-scale, interdisciplinary research infrastructure	9
Under pressure: A systematic review of stress and its impact among graduate students	9
A comparative analysis of innovation policies in Hong Kong and Shenzhen within the Greater Bay Area initiative	9
Switching between worlds apart: Negotiating European space sector cultures through innovation	9
Impacts for whom? Assessing inequalities in NSF-funded broader impacts using the Inclusion-Immediacy Criterion	8
Boosting innovation in small- and medium-sized enterprises through tax incentives: lessons from the UK	8
The past futures of techno-scientific promises	8
Missions as boundary objects for transformative change: understanding coordination across policy, research, and stakeholder communities	8
Co-production of knowledge in transdisciplinary communities of practice: Experiences from food governance in South Africa	8
The Innovation Superclusters Initiative in Canada: A new policy strategy?	8
How universities influence societal impact practices: Academics’ sense-making of organizational impact strategies	8
Opportunity or responsibility? Tracing co-creation in the European policy discourse	8
Empowering professionalism in mission-oriented innovation	8
From collaborative to institutional reflexivity: Calibrating responsibility in the funding process	8
Technological structure network analysis to explore the hotspots of academic patents in international technology transfer	8
Enemies of the future? Questioning the regimes of promising in emerging science and technology	8
High-tech infrastructure and economic growth: The Materials Genome Initiative	8
Supporting health researchers to realize meaningful patient involvement in research: Exploring researchers’ experiences and needs	8
Evaluating blockchain technology and related policies in China and the USA	8
Taking the pulse of science diplomacy and developing practices of valuation	8
Walking the talk? Innovation policy approaches to unleash the transformative potentials of the Nordic bioeconomy	7
Research funding randomly allocated? A survey of scientists’ views on peer review and lottery	7
Towards Evaluating the Research Impact made by Universities of Applied Sciences	7
The impact of a national research assessment on the publications of sociologists in Italy	7
Promoting the ICT Industry for the future with fears from the past	7
CGE analysis of R&D investment policy considering trade-offs between economic growth and stability	7
Systems of innovation, diversification, and the R&D trap: A case study of Kuwait	7
The Impact of University–Industry Relationships on Firms’ Performance: A Meta-Regression Analysis	7
Technology transfer models for knowledge-based regional development: New R&D institutes in Guangdong, China	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
Imaginaries of innovation: Turning technology development into a public issue	7
Strengthening the university third mission through building community capabilities alongside university capabilities	6
Democracy, Complexity, and Science: Exploring Structural Sources of National Scientific Performance	6
Local political turnover, R&D investment leap and corporate innovation performance: Evidence from China	6
Cyborg ethics and regulation: ethical issues of human enhancement	6
The Balanced State of Application-oriented Public Research and Technology Organisations	6
Chinese public university patents during 2006–20: a comprehensive investigation and comparative study	6
A virtuous circle? The effects of university–industry relationships in a region with low absorptive capacity	6
The rise of UK–China research collaboration: Trends, opportunities and challenges	6
How policies emerge and interact with each other? A bibliometric analysis of policies in China	6
Canada’s changing innovation landscape	6
Public deliberation and the regulation of gene drive in the USA	6
Partial lottery can make grant allocation more fair, more efficient, and more diverse	6
What is behind multiple institutional affiliations in academia?	6