OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Research Evaluation is 6. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Cross-sectional analysis of self-promotional language in texts of grant proposals across gender	41
Globalization of scientific communication: Evidence from authors in academic journals by country of origin	31
Competitive performativity of academic social networks: the subjectivation of competition on ResearchGate	25
Do thematic funding instruments lead researchers in new directions? Strategic funding priorities and topic switching among British grant recipients	25
Enriching research quality: A proposition for stakeholder heterogeneity	21
How bibliometric evaluation makes the academia an ‘Iron Cage’: Evidence from Chinese academics	20
Towards a sustainable and responsible model for monitoring open science and research—analysis of the Finnish model for monitoring open science and research	20
Replicability and the humanities: the problem with universal measures of research quality	19
Impact types and approaches in assessing research impact: from a scoping review to a comprehensive framework	17
Generative AI can and should accelerate research evaluation reform to better recognize ‘distinctly human contributions’	17
The footprint of a metrics-based research evaluation system on Spain’s philosophical scholarship: An analysis of researchers’ perceptions	14
From ‘research impact’ to ‘research value’: a new approach to support research for societal benefit	14
Can talent policy promote green technology innovation?	13
Simultaneous submissions without simultaneous peer review	13
Evaluation of economic incentives for Chinese university patent transfers: Is increasing the inventor share rate more effective?	13
Correction to: Stated preference methods and STI policy studies: a foreground approach	13
How impact-focused funding influences researchers’ knowledge mobilization activities	12
Evaluating LLM-assisted research: stage-sensitive asymmetries in productivity and epistemic control	11
One size fits all? A comparative review of policy-making in the area of research impact evaluation in the UK, Poland and Norway	11
Tilting at twin windmills: On article quotas and journal impact factors	11
When publication metrics become the fetish: The research evaluation systems’ relationship with academic work engagement and burnout	10
Research impact as understood by two funders of agricultural research in South Africa	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
Drivers of research misconduct: exploring evidence of neocolonial influences in Nepal	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
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
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
Do funding modes matter? A multilevel analysis of funding allocation mechanisms on university research performance	8
Unveiling research productivity barriers via fuzzy AHP: a case of management faculty in India	7
Transfer versus co-production: Knowledge as ‘MEANS’ to sustainability as an ‘END’	7
Determining and weighting effective outputs of humanities research to meet scientific and professional goals: A study of language and literature fields	7
When theory meets practice in transformative innovation policy evaluation: experiences from Sweden	7
Evaluation as a source of unhappiness in academia—unpacking the boundaries of responsible research assessment	7
Quality from within: Entry points to research quality in the humanities	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	6
The future of scholarly communication: rethinking peer review and editorial roles in the digital age	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
Equality and employment aspects of the UK Research Excellence Framework	6
Data inaccuracy quantification and uncertainty propagation for bibliometric indicators	6
Research evaluation in Brazil and the Netherlands: a comparative study	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
Local reach, global significance? The politics of scale and the competing imaginaries of the UK research impact agenda	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
‘I want to be able to do what I know the tools will allow us to do’: Practicing evaluative bibliometrics through digital infrastructure	6