OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Research Evaluation is 2. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Cross-sectional analysis of self-promotional language in texts of grant proposals across gender	42
Globalization of scientific communication: Evidence from authors in academic journals by country of origin	36
Competitive performativity of academic social networks: the subjectivation of competition on ResearchGate	27
Towards a sustainable and responsible model for monitoring open science and research—analysis of the Finnish model for monitoring open science and research	26
How bibliometric evaluation makes the academia an ‘Iron Cage’: Evidence from Chinese academics	21
Do thematic funding instruments lead researchers in new directions? Strategic funding priorities and topic switching among British grant recipients	21
Replicability and the humanities: the problem with universal measures of research quality	20
Generative AI can and should accelerate research evaluation reform to better recognize ‘distinctly human contributions’	19
The footprint of a metrics-based research evaluation system on Spain’s philosophical scholarship: An analysis of researchers’ perceptions	17
Impact types and approaches in assessing research impact: from a scoping review to a comprehensive framework	17
From ‘research impact’ to ‘research value’: a new approach to support research for societal benefit	15
Simultaneous submissions without simultaneous peer review	14
Correction to: Stated preference methods and STI policy studies: a foreground approach	13
Evaluating LLM-assisted research: stage-sensitive asymmetries in productivity and epistemic control	13
Evaluation of economic incentives for Chinese university patent transfers: Is increasing the inventor share rate more effective?	13
One size fits all? A comparative review of policy-making in the area of research impact evaluation in the UK, Poland and Norway	12
Seeking alignment: reproducing and transforming impact practices in transdisciplinary research projects	12
How impact-focused funding influences researchers’ knowledge mobilization activities	12
Can talent policy promote green technology innovation?	12
Revisiting R&I policy assessment in the EU: a semantic analysis of ERAWATCH and RIO reports	11
Tilting at twin windmills: On article quotas and journal impact factors	11
Research impact as understood by two funders of agricultural research in South Africa	10
Research impact seen from the user side	10
When publication metrics become the fetish: The research evaluation systems’ relationship with academic work engagement and burnout	10
Linking science and industry: influence of scientific research on technological innovation through patent citations	9

Peer review’s irremediable flaws: Scientists’ perspectives on grant evaluation in Germany	9
Early career academic's odyssey: A narrative study of her professional identity construction	9
Drivers of research misconduct: exploring evidence of neocolonial influences in Nepal	9
Measuring research quality in a more inclusive way: Evidence from the UK Research Excellence Framework	8
UGC-CARE delisted: consequences and concerns for Indian research ecosystem	8
Unveiling research productivity barriers via fuzzy AHP: a case of management faculty in India	8
When theory meets practice in transformative innovation policy evaluation: experiences from Sweden	8
Improving the reporting of research impact assessments: a systematic review of biomedical funder research impact assessments	8
Transfer versus co-production: Knowledge as ‘MEANS’ to sustainability as an ‘END’	7
Artificial intelligence in academic practices and policy discourses across ‘Big 5’ publishers	7
Unpacking the discourse surrounding the impact agenda in the Hong Kong Research Assessment Exercise 2020	7
Equality and employment aspects of the UK Research Excellence Framework	7
Determining and weighting effective outputs of humanities research to meet scientific and professional goals: A study of language and literature fields	7
Evaluation as a source of unhappiness in academia—unpacking the boundaries of responsible research assessment	7
Local reach, global significance? The politics of scale and the competing imaginaries of the UK research impact agenda	7
Quality from within: Entry points to research quality in the humanities	7
Do funding modes matter? A multilevel analysis of funding allocation mechanisms on university research performance	7
The future of scholarly communication: rethinking peer review and editorial roles in the digital age	7
‘I want to be able to do what I know the tools will allow us to do’: Practicing evaluative bibliometrics through digital infrastructure	6
Research evaluation in Brazil and the Netherlands: a comparative study	6
Evaluating transformative innovation policy in a formative way: Insights from Vinnova’s food mission experiment	6
Assessing university policies for enhancing societal impact of academic research: A multicriteria mapping approach	6
Repertoires of research value: performing societal impact across countries	6
Data inaccuracy quantification and uncertainty propagation for bibliometric indicators	6
A typology of peer-reviewers: role, characteristics, and egoistic and altruistic perspectives	6
Evaluating participatory research projects through a harmonized, online, self-reflection, and impact-assessment methodology	6
Spreading the gospel: Legitimating university rankings as boundary work	6
Improving universities’ activities in academic startup support through public interventions: The effectiveness of the German programme ‘EXIST—leverage of potentials’	6
In the eye of beholder? The notions of quality in the humanities	5
Quis judicabit ipsos judices? A case study on the dynamics of competitive funding panel evaluations	5
Towards a more informed and balanced use of scientific performance metrics	5
Prestige of scholarly book publishers—An investigation into criteria, processes, and practices across countries	5
Development and content validation of the CAREFUL-AI framework for evaluating AI-generated scientific manuscripts: an exploratory cross-platform study	5
The influence of research topics on ERC grant success: bottom-up, but not topic-neutral	5
How can societally-targeted research funding shape researcher networks and practices?	5
Evaluation of the arts in performance-based research funding systems: An international perspective	5
Devices of evaluation: Institutionalization and impact—Introduction to the special issue	5
Evaluating co-creation in social innovation projects: Towards a process orientated framework for EU projects and beyond	5
Exploring research quality and journal representation: a comparative study of African Journals Online, Scopus, and Web of Science	5
Acknowledged organizations in biomedical and life sciences research: a large-scale analysis of classification, citation, and topic evolution	5
Targeted, actionable and fair: Reviewer reports as feedback and its effect on ECR career choices	4
The impact of Italian performance-based research funding systems on the intensity of international research collaboration	4
Gender gaps in the peer review process. Different sources in the evaluation process for the allocation of grants in Argentina	4
What is a high-quality research environment? Evidence from the UK’s research excellence framework	4
Affective auditing: The emotional weight of the research excellence framework	4
Funding lotteries for research grant allocation: An extended taxonomy and evaluation of their fairness	4
From knowledge to impact: tracing stakeholder engagement pathways within different research areas	4
Explaining employment sector choices of doctoral graduates in Germany	4
Gender diversity and publication activity—an analysis of STEM in the UK	4
The nexus between research impact and sustainability assessment: From stakeholders’ perspective	4

Toward a modular evaluation approach of real-world laboratories: Findings from a literature review	4
Diverse roles of twitter in research evaluation: original tweets and retweets capture different types of engagements with scholarly articles	4
Dealing with potentials and drawbacks of peer review panels: About the intertwined layers of determinacy and indeterminacy	4
Effects of transdisciplinary research on scientific knowledge and reflexivity	4
Gender gaps in the promotion of mid-career university academic staff: a meta-analytic study	4
Peer review research assessment: are the reviewers really experts?	3
The impact of researchers’ perceived pressure on their publication strategies	3
Predicting future publishing success among sociologists at time of hire in the US Higher education system	3
Funding acknowledgements and funding concentration in the social sciences and humanities: ‘ a tale of two unis ’	3
Meetings that matter: the dual benefits of panel peer review	3
When everyone writes like a pro: rethinking grant review in the age of AI	3
Proving research misconduct	3
Making transdisciplinary funding more effective: lessons from a literature review and focus group interviews	2
From intent to impact—The decline of broader impacts throughout an NSF project life cycle	2
Does new public management repel talent? Findings from a choice experiment among German researchers	2
Evaluating the outcomes of Embrapa’s scientific contributions on policy documents: an exploratory assessment using the Overton database	2
A consistent solution to the university diversity	2
Can journal reviewers dependably assess rigour, significance, and originality in theoretical papers? Evidence from physics	2
Boundary-work and social closure in academic recruitment: Insights from the transdisciplinary subject area Swedish as a Second Language	2
Time-to-position as an indicator of research system efficiency and equity: evidence from early career scholars in Taiwan	2
International research collaboration in personalized medicine between Europe and Latin America and the Caribbean	2
Missed marks: understanding the disconnect of research methodology courses in combating predatory publishing	2
Toward a mission-oriented framework for funding public research institutions: a multi-case study approach	2
University policy engagement bodies in the UK and the variable meanings of and approaches to impact	2