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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Cross-sectional analysis of self-promotional language in texts of grant proposals across gender	92
Toward a modular evaluation approach of real-world laboratories: Findings from a literature review	67
The Corona-Eye: Exploring the risks of COVID-19 on fair assessments of impact for REF2021	25
Teachers conceptualizing and developing assessment for skill development: Trialing a maker assessment framework	24
Exploring research impact models: A systematic scoping review	24
Key factors affecting the promotion of researchers of the Argentine Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET)	22
A Research Pathway Model for evaluating the implementation of practice-based research: The case of self-management health innovations	17
Globalization of scientific communication: Evidence from authors in academic journals by country of origin	15
The funding and research trends in library and information science of NSSFC: Comparison of awards and papers	15
Enriching research quality: A proposition for stakeholder heterogeneity	13
University policy engagement bodies in the UK and the variable meanings of and approaches to impact	12
Evaluation of the arts in performance-based research funding systems: An international perspective	12
The legal foundation of responsible research assessment: An overview on European Union and Italy	12
Towards a sustainable and responsible model for monitoring open science and research—analysis of the Finnish model for monitoring open science and research	12
Determining and weighting effective outputs of humanities research to meet scientific and professional goals: A study of language and literature fields	11
Quality from within: Entry points to research quality in the humanities	10
How bibliometric evaluation makes the academia an ‘Iron Cage’: Evidence from Chinese academics	10
Where do field-specific notions of research quality come from?	10
Targeted, actionable and fair: Reviewer reports as feedback and its effect on ECR career choices	9
The practicalities of a partial lottery to allocate research funding	9
Do thematic funding instruments lead researchers in new directions? Strategic funding priorities and topic switching among British grant recipients	9
The impact of Italian performance-based research funding systems on the intensity of international research collaboration	8
Competitive performativity of academic social networks: the subjectivation of competition on ResearchGate	8
Unpacking the discourse surrounding the impact agenda in the Hong Kong Research Assessment Exercise 2020	7
Public research funding and science-based innovation: An analysis of ERC research grants, publications and patents	7

Expression of concern: Journal citation reports and the definition of a predatory journal: The case of the Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)	7
Using contribution mapping to evaluate the research impact of Universities of Applied Sciences	7
Boundary-work and social closure in academic recruitment: Insights from the transdisciplinary subject area Swedish as a Second Language	7
Peer review in funding-by-lottery: A systematic overview and expansion	7
Correction to: Targeted, actionable and fair: Reviewer reports as feedback and its effect on ECR career choices	7
Documenting development of interdisciplinary collaboration among researchers by visualizing connections	6
The systemic approach as an instrument to evaluate higher education systems: Opportunities and challenges	6
Say my name, say my name: Academic authorship conventions between editorial policies and disciplinary practices	6
Explaining employment sector choices of doctoral graduates in Germany	5
Gender diversity and publication activity—an analysis of STEM in the UK	5
ASIRPAReal-Time in the making or how to empower researchers to steer research towards desired societal goals	5
Does R&D tax credit impact firm behaviour? Micro evidence for Portugal	5
‘Scaling’ the academia: Perspectives of academics on the impact of their practices	5
Effects of transdisciplinary research on scientific knowledge and reflexivity	5
The footprint of a metrics-based research evaluation system on Spain’s philosophical scholarship: An analysis of researchers’ perceptions	5
Evaluating the Revised National Institutes of Health clinical trial definition impact on recruitment progress	5
Methods for measuring social and conceptual dimensions of convergence science	5
Improving the efficiency of research proposals evaluation: A two-stage procedure	4
The forced battle between peer-review and scientometric research assessment: Why the CoARA initiative is unsound	4
Dealing with potentials and drawbacks of peer review panels: About the intertwined layers of determinacy and indeterminacy	4
Funding lotteries for research grant allocation: An extended taxonomy and evaluation of their fairness	4
Noted, but not decisive. A cross-disciplinary analysis of metrics usage in Polish evaluative cultures	4
What is a high-quality research environment? Evidence from the UK’s research excellence framework	4
Turning academics into researchers: The development of National Researcher Categorization Systems in Latin America	4
How can we make ‘research quality’ a theoretical concept?	4
Assessing university policies for enhancing societal impact of academic research: A multicriteria mapping approach	3
Characteristics of contemporary health research practice: A shift from ivory tower to collaborative power	3
Improving universities’ activities in academic startup support through public interventions: The effectiveness of the German programme ‘EXIST—leverage of potentials’	3
Affective auditing: The emotional weight of the research excellence framework	3
Societal targeting in researcher funding: An exploratory approach	3
Automated citation recommendation tools encourage questionable citations	3
The price of quality: Scholarly publishing business is the primary predictor of citation-based indicators of journal performance in ecology and evolutionary biology	3
The nexus between research impact and sustainability assessment: From stakeholders’ perspective	3
Do peers share the same criteria for assessing grant applications?	3
On the societal impact of publicly funded Circular Bioeconomy research in Europe	3
Devices of future excellence: Detaching excellence recognition from ‘eminent men’	3
Using theory to understand how policy change happens: Insights from agricultural research for development	3
S&T resource allocation considering both performance and potential: The case of Chinese research institutes	3
Pathway profiles: Learning from five main approaches to assessing interdisciplinarity	3
Evaluating transformative innovation policy in a formative way: Insights from Vinnova’s food mission experiment	3
Does monitoring performance act as an incentive for improving research performance? National and organizational level analysis of Finnish universities	3
It takes two to tango: Examining productive interactions in urban research collaboration	3
Evidence of research mastery: How applicants argue the feasibility of their research projects	3
Assessing the variety of collaborative practices in translational research: An analysis of scientists’ ego-networks	3
Voices from the field	2
How far does an emphasis on stakeholder engagement and co-production in research present a threat to academic identity and autonomy? A prospective study across five European countries	2
Data inaccuracy quantification and uncertainty propagation for bibliometric indicators	2
Who gets the grant? A persona-based investigation into research funding panelist preferences	2
Proving research misconduct	2
How qualitative criteria can improve the assessment process of interdisciplinary research proposals	2

Individual and organizational effects of international mobility policy: Effects of Mexico’s Scholarship Program in nanotechnology	2
Can talent policy promote green technology innovation?	2
The impact of researchers’ perceived pressure on their publication strategies	2
Towards higher standardization of funding acknowledgements in scientific publications: Current status in the case of a national and a European research fellowship scheme	2
Capabilities for transdisciplinary research	2
Creating evaluative homogeneity: Experience of constructing a national journal ranking	2
Sceptics and champions: participant insights on the use of partial randomization to allocate research culture funding	2
Correction to: Stated preference methods and STI policy studies: a foreground approach	2
A formative approach to the evaluation of Transformative Innovation Policies	2
Evaluation of economic incentives for Chinese university patent transfers: Is increasing the inventor share rate more effective?	2
Evaluating in times of paradigmatic change: some reflections on how to conduct ex-post evaluations amidst the transformative turn in research and innovation policy	2
Understanding the social and political dimensions of research(er) assessment: evaluative flexibility and hidden criteria in promotion processes at research institutes	2
Researcher experiences in practice-based interdisciplinary research	2
Biographical representation, from narrative to list: The evolution of curricula vitae in the humanities, 1950 to 2010	2
Revisiting R&I policy assessment in the EU: a semantic analysis of ERAWATCH and RIO reports	2