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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Cross-sectional analysis of self-promotional language in texts of grant proposals across gender	40
Competitive performativity of academic social networks: the subjectivation of competition on ResearchGate	29
Replicability and the humanities: the problem with universal measures of research quality	27
Do thematic funding instruments lead researchers in new directions? Strategic funding priorities and topic switching among British grant recipients	24
Globalization of scientific communication: Evidence from authors in academic journals by country of origin	24
How bibliometric evaluation makes the academia an ‘Iron Cage’: Evidence from Chinese academics	23
Towards a sustainable and responsible model for monitoring open science and research—analysis of the Finnish model for monitoring open science and research	21
Simultaneous submissions without simultaneous peer review	19
The footprint of a metrics-based research evaluation system on Spain’s philosophical scholarship: An analysis of researchers’ perceptions	18
Impact types and approaches in assessing research impact: from a scoping review to a comprehensive framework	18
Generative AI can and should accelerate research evaluation reform to better recognize ‘distinctly human contributions’	16
From ‘research impact’ to ‘research value’: a new approach to support research for societal benefit	15
Competencies for multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary work: a conceptual model for transdisciplinary effectiveness	15
Correction to: Stated preference methods and STI policy studies: a foreground approach	14
Evaluation of economic incentives for Chinese university patent transfers: Is increasing the inventor share rate more effective?	13
How impact-focused funding influences researchers’ knowledge mobilization activities	13
One size fits all? A comparative review of policy-making in the area of research impact evaluation in the UK, Poland and Norway	13
Evaluating LLM-assisted research: stage-sensitive asymmetries in productivity and epistemic control	12
Seeking alignment: reproducing and transforming impact practices in transdisciplinary research projects	12
Can talent policy promote green technology innovation?	12
When publication metrics become the fetish: The research evaluation systems’ relationship with academic work engagement and burnout	10
Research impact seen from the user side	10
Revisiting R&I policy assessment in the EU: a semantic analysis of ERAWATCH and RIO reports	10
Linking science and industry: influence of scientific research on technological innovation through patent citations	9
Improving the reporting of research impact assessments: a systematic review of biomedical funder research impact assessments	9

Early career academic's odyssey: A narrative study of her professional identity construction	9
When theory meets practice in transformative innovation policy evaluation: experiences from Sweden	9
Research impact as understood by two funders of agricultural research in South Africa	9
Peer review’s irremediable flaws: Scientists’ perspectives on grant evaluation in Germany	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
Transfer versus co-production: Knowledge as ‘MEANS’ to sustainability as an ‘END’	8
Unveiling research productivity barriers via fuzzy AHP: a case of management faculty in India	8
Do funding modes matter? A multilevel analysis of funding allocation mechanisms on university research performance	8
Unpacking the discourse surrounding the impact agenda in the Hong Kong Research Assessment Exercise 2020	7
Evaluation as a source of unhappiness in academia—unpacking the boundaries of responsible research assessment	7
Determining and weighting effective outputs of humanities research to meet scientific and professional goals: A study of language and literature fields	7
The future of scholarly communication: rethinking peer review and editorial roles in the digital age	7
UGC-CARE delisted: consequences and concerns for Indian research ecosystem	7
Artificial intelligence in academic practices and policy discourses across ‘Big 5’ publishers	7
A typology of peer-reviewers: role, characteristics, and egoistic and altruistic perspectives	7
Giving credit where credit is due: evaluating, publishing, and rewarding 3D scholarship	7
Quality from within: Entry points to research quality in the humanities	7
Equality and employment aspects of the UK Research Excellence Framework	7
Local reach, global significance? The politics of scale and the competing imaginaries of the UK research impact agenda	7
Evaluating transformative innovation policy in a formative way: Insights from Vinnova’s food mission experiment	6
Evaluating participatory research projects through a harmonized, online, self-reflection, and impact-assessment methodology	6
‘I want to be able to do what I know the tools will allow us to do’: Practicing evaluative bibliometrics through digital infrastructure	6
Data inaccuracy quantification and uncertainty propagation for bibliometric indicators	6
Spreading the gospel: Legitimating university rankings as boundary work	6
Research evaluation in Brazil and the Netherlands: a comparative study	6
Improving universities’ activities in academic startup support through public interventions: The effectiveness of the German programme ‘EXIST—leverage of potentials’	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
Toward a modular evaluation approach of real-world laboratories: Findings from a literature review	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
Evaluating co-creation in social innovation projects: Towards a process orientated framework for EU projects and beyond	5
In the eye of beholder? The notions of quality in the humanities	5
Targeted, actionable and fair: Reviewer reports as feedback and its effect on ECR career choices	5
Exploring research quality and journal representation: a comparative study of African Journals Online, Scopus, and Web of Science	5
The influence of research topics on ERC grant success: bottom-up, but not topic-neutral	5
Acknowledged organizations in biomedical and life sciences research: a large-scale analysis of classification, citation, and topic evolution	5
Towards a more informed and balanced use of scientific performance metrics	5
How can societally-targeted research funding shape researcher networks and practices?	5
Devices of evaluation: Institutionalization and impact—Introduction to the special issue	5
Affective auditing: The emotional weight of the research excellence framework	4
Dealing with potentials and drawbacks of peer review panels: About the intertwined layers of determinacy and indeterminacy	4
Gender gaps in the peer review process. Different sources in the evaluation process for the allocation of grants in Argentina	4
From knowledge to impact: tracing stakeholder engagement pathways within different research areas	4
Effects of transdisciplinary research on scientific knowledge and reflexivity	4
Funding lotteries for research grant allocation: An extended taxonomy and evaluation of their fairness	4
Diverse roles of twitter in research evaluation: original tweets and retweets capture different types of engagements with scholarly articles	4
Explaining employment sector choices of doctoral graduates in Germany	4
Gender diversity and publication activity—an analysis of STEM in the UK	3

The nexus between research impact and sustainability assessment: From stakeholders’ perspective	3
When everyone writes like a pro: rethinking grant review in the age of AI	3
Evaluating the contribution of inter- and transdisciplinary networks to collaborative research	3
Certainly uncertain: how biomedical researchers (e)valuated scientific knowledge about COVID-19 during the pandemic	3
Gender gaps in the promotion of mid-career university academic staff: a meta-analytic study	3
Proving research misconduct	3
What is a high-quality research environment? Evidence from the UK’s research excellence framework	3
Scientific impact at the expense of happiness? Work/life balance in performance-driven research careers	3
The impact of researchers’ perceived pressure on their publication strategies	3
Peer review research assessment: are the reviewers really experts?	3
Predicting future publishing success among sociologists at time of hire in the US Higher education system	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
Can journal reviewers dependably assess rigour, significance, and originality in theoretical papers? Evidence from physics	2
Funding acknowledgements and funding concentration in the social sciences and humanities: ‘ a tale of two unis ’	2
A consistent solution to the university diversity	2
Publishing infrastructures in the semi-periphery: how research assessment shapes the research output of Spain and Lithuania	2
From intent to impact—The decline of broader impacts throughout an NSF project life cycle	2
Organizational characteristics and the social impact of UK research: disciplinary patterns from REF 2021	2
Making transdisciplinary funding more effective: lessons from a literature review and focus group interviews	2
The decrease of scientific diffusion after a journal title change	2
International research collaboration in personalized medicine between Europe and Latin America and the Caribbean	2
Meetings that matter: the dual benefits of panel peer review	2