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
Bridging the digital divide: how generative AI-powered digital platforms enhance e-government service delivery	22
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
Science diplomacy from a nation-state’s perspective: a general framing and its application to Global South countries	20
Missions as boundary objects for transformative change: understanding coordination across policy, research, and stakeholder communities	20
The globalization of science diplomacy in the early 1970s: a historical exploration	19
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
Shaping food innovation ecosystems: roles and activities of a focal actor	18
Coevolution between institutions and scientific organizations: The case of IMPA	18
Priorities in research portfolios: exploring the need for upstream research in cardiometabolic and mental health	17
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
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
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
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
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
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
Insights for place-sensitive innovation policies: evidence from SMEs’ preferences for additive manufacturing	12
Bridging conflicting frames in policies for digital transformation	12
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
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
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
From experimentation to structural change: fostering institutional entrepreneurship for public engagement in research and innovation	10
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
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
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
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
Developing a policy innovation system (PIS) approach in the case of biodiversity offsetting in Finland	8
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
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
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
“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