OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Research Evaluation is 3. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Cross-sectional analysis of self-promotional language in texts of grant proposals across gender	34
Towards a sustainable and responsible model for monitoring open science and research—analysis of the Finnish model for monitoring open science and research	28
How bibliometric evaluation makes the academia an ‘Iron Cage’: Evidence from Chinese academics	27
A Research Pathway Model for evaluating the implementation of practice-based research: The case of self-management health innovations	17
Competitive performativity of academic social networks: the subjectivation of competition on ResearchGate	17
Do thematic funding instruments lead researchers in new directions? Strategic funding priorities and topic switching among British grant recipients	16
Globalization of scientific communication: Evidence from authors in academic journals by country of origin	15
Simultaneous submissions without simultaneous peer review	14
Enriching research quality: A proposition for stakeholder heterogeneity	14
The footprint of a metrics-based research evaluation system on Spain’s philosophical scholarship: An analysis of researchers’ perceptions	13
Can talent policy promote green technology innovation?	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
When publication metrics become the fetish: The research evaluation systems’ relationship with academic work engagement and burnout	12
Evaluation of economic incentives for Chinese university patent transfers: Is increasing the inventor share rate more effective?	12
Tilting at twin windmills: On article quotas and journal impact factors	12
How impact-focused funding influences researchers’ knowledge mobilization activities	12
Research impact seen from the user side	12
Correction to: Stated preference methods and STI policy studies: a foreground approach	12
Revisiting R&I policy assessment in the EU: a semantic analysis of ERAWATCH and RIO reports	11
Research impact as understood by two funders of agricultural research in South Africa	11
Linking science and industry: influence of scientific research on technological innovation through patent citations	11
Self-evaluating participatory research projects: A content validation of the InSPIRES online impact evaluation tool	10
Peer review’s irremediable flaws: Scientists’ perspectives on grant evaluation in Germany	10
Early career academic's odyssey: A narrative study of her professional identity construction	9
Do funding modes matter? A multilevel analysis of funding allocation mechanisms on university research performance	9

Interdisciplinary research and policy impacts: Assessing the significance of knowledge coproduction	9
Transfer versus co-production: Knowledge as ‘MEANS’ to sustainability as an ‘END’	8
Improving the reporting of research impact assessments: a systematic review of biomedical funder research impact assessments	8
Unveiling research productivity barriers via fuzzy AHP: a case of management faculty in India	8
Determining and weighting effective outputs of humanities research to meet scientific and professional goals: A study of language and literature fields	7
Being a female academic under neoliberal evaluation: A systematic review	7
Evaluation as a source of unhappiness in academia—unpacking the boundaries of responsible research assessment	7
When theory meets practice in transformative innovation policy evaluation: experiences from Sweden	7
Teachers conceptualizing and developing assessment for skill development: Trialing a maker assessment framework	7
Measuring research quality in a more inclusive way: Evidence from the UK Research Excellence Framework	7
Quality from within: Entry points to research quality in the humanities	7
Unpacking the discourse surrounding the impact agenda in the Hong Kong Research Assessment Exercise 2020	6
Assessing university policies for enhancing societal impact of academic research: A multicriteria mapping approach	6
Improving universities’ activities in academic startup support through public interventions: The effectiveness of the German programme ‘EXIST—leverage of potentials’	6
Evaluating transformative innovation policy in a formative way: Insights from Vinnova’s food mission experiment	6
A typology of peer-reviewers: role, characteristics, and egoistic and altruistic perspectives	6
Repertoires of research value: performing societal impact across countries	5
Spreading the gospel: Legitimating university rankings as boundary work	5
Devices of evaluation: Institutionalization and impact—Introduction to the special issue	5
‘I want to be able to do what I know the tools will allow us to do’: Practicing evaluative bibliometrics through digital infrastructure	5
Research evaluation in Brazil and the Netherlands: a comparative study	5
Beyond bean counting: Is the policy effective for the innovation efficiency of wind power industry in China?	5
Data inaccuracy quantification and uncertainty propagation for bibliometric indicators	5
Evaluating participatory research projects through a harmonized, online, self-reflection, and impact-assessment methodology	4
A participatory approach to tracking system transformation in clusters and innovation ecosystems—Evolving practice in Sweden’s Vinnväxt programme	4
Exploring research quality and journal representation: a comparative study of African Journals Online, Scopus, and Web of Science	4
The funding and research trends in library and information science of NSSFC: Comparison of awards and papers	4
Toward a modular evaluation approach of real-world laboratories: Findings from a literature review	4
Evaluating co-creation in social innovation projects: Towards a process orientated framework for EU projects and beyond	4
Quis judicabit ipsos judices? A case study on the dynamics of competitive funding panel evaluations	4
How can societally-targeted research funding shape researcher networks and practices?	4
Targeted, actionable and fair: Reviewer reports as feedback and its effect on ECR career choices	4
Evaluating the Revised National Institutes of Health clinical trial definition impact on recruitment progress	4
Prestige of scholarly book publishers—An investigation into criteria, processes, and practices across countries	4
In the eye of beholder? The notions of quality in the humanities	4
Using the catastrophe theory to discover transformative research topics	4
Evaluation of the arts in performance-based research funding systems: An international perspective	4
The impact of Italian performance-based research funding systems on the intensity of international research collaboration	4
Proving research misconduct	3
The nexus between research impact and sustainability assessment: From stakeholders’ perspective	3
Funding lotteries for research grant allocation: An extended taxonomy and evaluation of their fairness	3
Effects of transdisciplinary research on scientific knowledge and reflexivity	3
What is a high-quality research environment? Evidence from the UK’s research excellence framework	3
Fraud, specialization, and efficiency in peer review	3
From intent to impact—The decline of broader impacts throughout an NSF project life cycle	3
A consistent solution to the university diversity	3
Measuring societal impact of research—Developing and validating an impact instrument for occupational health and safety	3
Affective auditing: The emotional weight of the research excellence framework	3
Gender diversity and publication activity—an analysis of STEM in the UK	3
Documenting development of interdisciplinary collaboration among researchers by visualizing connections	3

Societal targeting in researcher funding: An exploratory approach	3
International research collaboration in personalized medicine between Europe and Latin America and the Caribbean	3
Profile of authors publishing in ‘predatory’ journals and causal factors behind their decision: A systematic review	3
Predicting future publishing success among sociologists at time of hire in the US Higher education system	3
Do peers share the same criteria for assessing grant applications?	3
Explaining employment sector choices of doctoral graduates in Germany	3
Dealing with potentials and drawbacks of peer review panels: About the intertwined layers of determinacy and indeterminacy	3
The impact of researchers’ perceived pressure on their publication strategies	3
Toward a mission-oriented framework for funding public research institutions: a multi-case study approach	3
Can journal reviewers dependably assess rigour, significance, and originality in theoretical papers? Evidence from physics	3
Research calls, competition for funding and inefficiency	3