OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Policy and Politics is 4. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
The policy process of adopting environmental standards for coal plants in India: accommodating transnational politics in the Multiple Streams Framework	83
Institutional stability and change in environmental governance	75
Reviewer acknowledgements	57
The opportunities and challenges of politically designed co-creation platforms	37
How diverse and inclusive are policy process theories?1	34
The impact of rate capping on local government expenditure	29
Taking risks and breaking new frontiers: introduction to the Special Issue and the cardinal challenges for policy and politics scholarship	24
The implications of COVID-19 for concepts and practices of citizenship	22
Identifying proactive and reactive policy entrepreneurs in collaborative networks in flood risk management	22
Externalising policy advice within subnational governments	21
Feminist democratic innovations in policy and politics	19
The neglected politics behind evidence-based policy: shedding light on instrument constituency dynamics	18
A theoretical framework for studying the co-creation of innovative solutions and public value	14
Policy responsiveness and media attention	14
Institutional logics as a framework for understanding third sector development: an analysis of Quebec and Scotland	13
The promise and performance of data ecosystems: Australia’s COVID-19 response	13
The dynamic role of governments in adopting policy innovations in China	12
Does HIV status affect attitudes on welfare deservingness? A survey experiment on welfare policy in the US	10
The relationship between national identity and the United Nations General Assembly voting patterns: a Narrative Policy Framework analysis	10
When do disasters spark transformative policy change and why?	9
Challenging the insider outsider approach to advocacy: how collaboration networks and belief similarities shape strategy choices	8
How does policy learning take place across a multilevel governance architecture during crises?	8
Reviewer Acknowledgements	7
Can policy instruments shape the policy problems they aim to solve? How interest registers redefined conflicts of interest	6
Using bricolage and robustness theory to explain the dynamism of collaborative governance	6

Lessons from policy theories for the pursuit of equity in health, education and gender policy	6
How young people can shape environmental policy in urban spaces	6
‘Law but not law’: explaining unenacted policy as a type of policy failure	6
Welfare solidarity in multi-ethnic societies: can social investment reduce the anti-immigrant bias?	5
A critical political analysis of wellbeing support for postgraduate researchers in higher education	5
Investigating the scientific knowledge–policy interface in EU climate policy	5
The limits to the internationalisation of regulation: divergent enforcement strategies in China’s food safety regulation	4
Policy coordination and integration in local government: perspectives on barriers	4
How evidence-based policymaking helps and hinders policy conflict	4
Drivers of fintech policy evolution: the role of policy learning and institutions	4
Emotions and anti-carceral advocacy in Canada: ‘All of the anger this creates in our bodies is also a tool to kill us’	4
Analysing expert advice on political decisions in times of crisis	4
Emotions and the policy process: enthusiasm, anger and fear	4
Promoting social goals through economisation? Social investment and the counterintuitive case of homelessness	4
Heading for health policy reform: transforming regions of care from geographical place into governance object	4
An intersectional analysis of contestations within women’s movements: the case of Scottish domestic abuse policymaking	4