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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Correction to: Dynamics of expectations in the bioeconomy—Hopes, disillusionments, and conflicting futures	92
Policy seduction and governance resistance? Examining public funding agencies and academic institutions on decarbonisation research	62
Intangible assets investment and firm innovation performance: evidence from Europe	38
Technological innovation as a cost leadership strategy catalyst: impact on organizational performance in developing countries	31
When science meets geopolitics: global AI research network transformation (2000–2025)	31
Making responsible research and innovation meaningful in citizen science	30
Perspectives: the challenges of displaced and exiled scientists	27
Science diplomacy in the European and Latin American and Caribbean research infrastructure collaboration	26
The spatial mobility network and influencing factors of the higher education population in China	24
Bridging the digital divide: how generative AI-powered digital platforms enhance e-government service delivery	24
Co-production trajectories: rethinking impact formation in knowledge co-production	24
Missions as boundary objects for transformative change: understanding coordination across policy, research, and stakeholder communities	23
Science diplomacy from a nation-state’s perspective: a general framing and its application to Global South countries	22
Priorities in research portfolios: exploring the need for upstream research in cardiometabolic and mental health	22
Coevolution between institutions and scientific organizations: The case of IMPA	21
Competition, open innovation, and growth challenges in the semiconductor industry: the case of Europe’s clusters	21
Exploring scientific advice for local politics in Germany: the critical role of quasi-scientific actors	19
From theory to practice: how decentralized implementation of missions affects directionality, legitimacy, and coordination	19
Embracing heterogeneity: Why plural understandings strengthen interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity	18
Contextualizing the emerging and contested role of sleuths in the science monitoring system	17
Shaping food innovation ecosystems: roles and activities of a focal actor	17
Measuring behavioural additionality in public contractors subject to performance incentives: an index of innovation capability	17
The globalization of science diplomacy in the early 1970s: a historical exploration	17
Policy feedback dynamics in fintech ecosystems: navigating vicious and virtuous cycles in emerging economies	16
Peer effects of the young returnee scientists: Evidence from the state key laboratories in China	16

‘We Need Time…’: An Expert Survey on Societal Acceptance of Urban Drones	16
Public deliberation and the regulation of gene drive in the USA	16
Exploring geopolitics and innovation: the role of bilateral relationships in shaping research collaboration	16
Scientizing the world: on mechanisms and outcomes of the institutionalization of science	15
Returnees and innovation: evidence from Chinese publicly listed firms	15
University–industry linkages in China from the agency perspective of university engagement: a systematic literature review	14
The development of attitudes toward science and technology: a longitudinal analysis of Generation X	14
The role of intermediaries in nurturing innovation ecosystems: a case study of Singapore’s manufacturing sector	13
Balancing interests between freedom and censorship: Organizational strategies for quality assurance in science communication	13
Science diplomacy in the Global South—an introduction	13
Pacing space: futuring practices and temporal ownership in the European space sector	12
Prioritizing diversity? The allocation of US federal R&D funding	12
Diversification, integration, and opening: developments in modelling for policy	12
Diversity and directionality: friends or foes in sustainability transitions?	12
Mission incomplete: Layered practices of monitoring and evaluation in Swedish transformative innovation policy	12
Normative, empirical, and pragmatic ethical objections to Singapore permitting human genetic enhancement via germline genome editing	12
Bridging conflicting frames in policies for digital transformation	11
Being internationally mobile while keeping domestic social capital: how postdocs from China manage precarity	11
Steering at a distance: research centre funding schemes as instruments for university change	11
Digital governance and AI: boosting OFDI’s impact on regional innovation performance	11
The realization of living labs at the post-experiment stage: the role of University in Korea	11
Effect of university technology transfer office on patents’ market value: evidence from patent transactions	11
Multilevel innovation policy mix in China: do local programmes complement national programmes?	11
Perspectives on advancing innovation and human flourishing through a network of AI institutes	11
Disciplining interdisciplinarity: Infrastructure, identity, and interdisciplinary practice in nanoELSI research	11
North–South research funding dynamics of collaborative projects: researchers’ appropriation strategies of agencies’ project frameworks	11
Conversing with theory in context: frameworking patient involvement in health research agenda setting	11
Participatory research in Canada (2013-2018): a cross-sectional survey of academic researchers	11
R&D effort and knowledge sourcing: the search for better profitability and higher growth	11
Operation warp speed: Harbinger of American industrial innovation policies	10
Insights for place-sensitive innovation policies: evidence from SMEs’ preferences for additive manufacturing	10
Environmental information disclosure policy and green total factor productivity: evidence from firm level	10
To govern or be governed: an integrated framework for AI governance in the public sector	10
Regulatory entrepreneurship’s threat to digital sovereignty: the case of Worldcoin in Kenya	10
Grasping the impalpable: critical appraisal of the role of public policy for intangibles	10
Making space for CRISPR: scientists’ translation work to make gene editing a legitimate technology	10
What makes an entrepreneurial university? Institutional moderators of ecosystem impacts in a developing country	10
The study of policy coordination: an approach to integrate expert assessment with automated content analysis	10
Universities in less developed regions: analyzing their local research impact	9
Perspectives on the use of ChatGPT in academic publications	9
Correction to: Embracing heterogeneity: Why plural understandings strengthen interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity	9
A research on the effectiveness of innovation policy for regional innovation under Chinese long-range plan	9
Sharing research data: researcher behaviour and attitudes	9
From experimentation to structural change: fostering institutional entrepreneurship for public engagement in research and innovation	9
Pathways to gender equality in academia. National factors shaping women’s early career progression across Europe	9
International partnerships for building STI capabilities: insights from centres of excellence in Latin America	9
An institutionalist perspective on smart specialization: Towards a political economy of regional innovation policy	9
COVID-19 Health Certificates: analysis of policy implementation, framings, and controversies in nine European countries	9
Public perception of scientific advisory bodies: the case of France’s Covid-19 Scientific Council	8
The legislative effect of ignorance: institutional risk and the regulation of new genomic techniques	8

“New spectrum of intangible assets”	8
Household sector innovation, diffusion failure, and business ownership: evidence from South Africa	8
Typology of university behaviour in innovation ecosystems: from institutional maturity to mission diversity	8
Making sense of transdisciplinarity: Interpreting science policy in a biotechnology centre	8
Reviewing the reviewers: how social and traditional media repurpose open promotion reviews	8
Research excellence and scientific advisory boards	8
Developing a policy innovation system (PIS) approach in the case of biodiversity offsetting in Finland	8
Just following the money? How research funding shapes the governance of university research	7
Intangible inputs, trade-in-knowledge, and manufacturing innovation in global value chains	7
How has mission-oriented innovation policy addressed justice considerations? A systematic review	7
Evolution of the STIP literature: discovering the growing role of innovation governance concepts	7
Mobilizing research for contextualized innovation: scarcity and urgency as drivers during Covid-19 in the South	7
The limits of co-production: linking regulatory capacity to co-production of authoritative knowledge for environmental policy	7
Local market, central government support, and local governments’ homegrown development strategy in high-tech industries	7
Mission-oriented innovation policy as a hybridisation process: the case of transforming a national fertilising system	7
Do winners pick government? How scale-up experience shapes entrepreneurs’ assessments of innovation policy mixes	7
“It is controlling, but you don’t really care.” Researchers’ perceptions of legitimation of research policy	7
An assessment of EU’s photovoltaic panel waste policies: current framework and strategic vision for 2050	7
The promise of artificial intelligence in combating public corruption in the emerging economies: A conceptual framework	7