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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Benefits, Motivations, and Challenges of International Collaborative Research: A Sociology of Science Case Study	80
Transformative outcomes: assessing and reorienting experimentation with transformative innovation policy	57
Towards wide-scale adoption of open science practices: The role of open science communities	33
Governing varieties of mission-oriented innovation policies: A new typology	31
Does It Pay to Do Novel Science? The Selectivity Patterns in Science Funding	28
Globally Bred Chinese Talents Returning Home: An Analysis of a Reverse Brain-Drain Flagship Policy	27
Capturing the invisible. Sociotechnical imaginaries of energy. The critical overview	26
Rejecting acceptance: learning from public dialogue on self-driving vehicles	23
Transformative innovation policy approach to e-waste management in Ghana: Perspectives of actors on transformative changes	23
The promises and premises of mission-oriented innovation policy—A reflection and ways forward	22
Policy options for green regional development: Adopting a production and application perspective	19
What governs attitudes toward artificial intelligence adoption and governance?	19
Democratic and expert legitimacy: Science, politics and the public during the COVID-19 pandemic	18
Fifty years of University-industry collaboration: a global bibliometrics overview	18
‘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	16
Cross-country analysis of higher education institutions’ efficiency: The role of strategic positioning	15
Competition, open innovation, and growth challenges in the semiconductor industry: the case of Europe’s clusters	13
Education and training policies for research integrity: Insights from a focus group study	13
A processual approach to friction in quadruple helix collaborations	13
Decoupling in science and education: A collateral damage beyond deteriorating US–China relations	13
An institutionalist perspective on smart specialization: Towards a political economy of regional innovation policy	12
Missions as boundary objects for transformative change: understanding coordination across policy, research, and stakeholder communities	12
What motivates academics for external engagement? Exploring the effects of motivational drivers and organizational fairness	12
The design of transformative research and innovation policy instruments for grand challenges: The policy-nesting perspective	12

The university third mission and the European Structural Funds in peripheral regions: Insights from Finland	11
The Post-Normal Challenges of COVID-19: Constructing Effective and Legitimate Responses	11
Funding for few, anticipation among all: Effects of excellence funding on academic research groups	11
Researchers’ institutional mobility: bibliometric evidence on academic inbreeding and internationalization	11
Mission incomplete: Layered practices of monitoring and evaluation in Swedish transformative innovation policy	11
Under pressure: A systematic review of stress and its impact among graduate students	10
Evaluating blockchain technology and related policies in China and the USA	10
Taking the pulse of science diplomacy and developing practices of valuation	10
Can transparency undermine peer review? A simulation model of scientist behavior under open peer review	10
Embracing heterogeneity: Why plural understandings strengthen interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity	10
Use of science in public policy: Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic efforts to ‘Follow the Science’	10
Threat of policy alienation: Exploring the implementation of Open Science policy in research practice	10
Opportunity or responsibility? Tracing co-creation in the European policy discourse	10
Switching between worlds apart: Negotiating European space sector cultures through innovation	10
Opening up science for a sustainable world: An expansive normative structure of open science in the digital era	10
The Innovation Superclusters Initiative in Canada: A new policy strategy?	10
Impacts for whom? Assessing inequalities in NSF-funded broader impacts using the Inclusion-Immediacy Criterion	9
A comparative analysis of innovation policies in Hong Kong and Shenzhen within the Greater Bay Area initiative	9
How (not) to design and implement a large-scale, interdisciplinary research infrastructure	9
How do institutional changes facilitate university-centric networks in Taiwan? The Triple Helix model of innovation view	9
Supporting health researchers to realize meaningful patient involvement in research: Exploring researchers’ experiences and needs	9
Making a Research Infrastructure: Conditions and Strategies to Transform a Service into an Infrastructure	9
The past futures of techno-scientific promises	9
Research funding randomly allocated? A survey of scientists’ views on peer review and lottery	9
What counts: Making sense of metrics of research value	8
Enemies of the future? Questioning the regimes of promising in emerging science and technology	8
From ‘productive interactions’ to ‘enabling conditions’: The role of organizations in generating societal impact of academic research	8
The impact of a national research assessment on the publications of sociologists in Italy	8
Cyborg ethics and regulation: ethical issues of human enhancement	8
Negotiating space for knowledge co-production	8
Towards Evaluating the Research Impact made by Universities of Applied Sciences	8
High-tech infrastructure and economic growth: The Materials Genome Initiative	8
Empowering professionalism in mission-oriented innovation	8
Co-production of knowledge in transdisciplinary communities of practice: Experiences from food governance in South Africa	8
How policies emerge and interact with each other? A bibliometric analysis of policies in China	8
How universities influence societal impact practices: Academics’ sense-making of organizational impact strategies	8
Boosting innovation in small- and medium-sized enterprises through tax incentives: lessons from the UK	8
Walking the talk? Innovation policy approaches to unleash the transformative potentials of the Nordic bioeconomy	8
Technological structure network analysis to explore the hotspots of academic patents in international technology transfer	8
Strengthening the university third mission through building community capabilities alongside university capabilities	7
The Impact of University–Industry Relationships on Firms’ Performance: A Meta-Regression Analysis	7
The rise of UK–China research collaboration: Trends, opportunities and challenges	7
Technology transfer models for knowledge-based regional development: New R&D institutes in Guangdong, China	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
Are there political cycles hidden inside collaborative innovation efficiency? An empirical study based on Chinese cities	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
Public deliberation and the regulation of gene drive in the USA	7
Promoting the ICT Industry for the future with fears from the past	7

Partial lottery can make grant allocation more fair, more efficient, and more diverse	7
The role of Universities in Transformative Innovation Policy	6
The more the merrier? Inventor team size, diversity, and innovation quality	6
A framework for open policy analysis	6
Canada’s changing innovation landscape	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
What is behind multiple institutional affiliations in academia?	6
Science diplomacy from the Global South: the case of intergovernmental science organizations	6
Understanding why civil servants are reluctant to carry out transition tasks	6
Chinese public university patents during 2006–20: a comprehensive investigation and comparative study	6
Do winners pick government? How scale-up experience shapes entrepreneurs’ assessments of innovation policy mixes	6
The Balanced State of Application-oriented Public Research and Technology Organisations	6
Restoring the antibiotic R&D market to combat the resistance crisis	6