OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Research Evaluation is 5. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Cross-sectional analysis of self-promotional language in texts of grant proposals across gender	33
How bibliometric evaluation makes the academia an ‘Iron Cage’: Evidence from Chinese academics	23
Replicability and the humanities: the problem with universal measures of research quality	22
Do thematic funding instruments lead researchers in new directions? Strategic funding priorities and topic switching among British grant recipients	22
Towards a sustainable and responsible model for monitoring open science and research—analysis of the Finnish model for monitoring open science and research	17
Competitive performativity of academic social networks: the subjectivation of competition on ResearchGate	17
Globalization of scientific communication: Evidence from authors in academic journals by country of origin	17
Enriching research quality: A proposition for stakeholder heterogeneity	15
Simultaneous submissions without simultaneous peer review	15
Impact types and approaches in assessing research impact: from a scoping review to a comprehensive framework	14
The footprint of a metrics-based research evaluation system on Spain’s philosophical scholarship: An analysis of researchers’ perceptions	14
How impact-focused funding influences researchers’ knowledge mobilization activities	14
Correction to: Stated preference methods and STI policy studies: a foreground approach	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
Can talent policy promote green technology innovation?	12
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	11
Revisiting R&I policy assessment in the EU: a semantic analysis of ERAWATCH and RIO reports	11
Research impact seen from the user side	10
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
Peer review’s irremediable flaws: Scientists’ perspectives on grant evaluation in Germany	9
Research impact as understood by two funders of agricultural research in South Africa	9
When theory meets practice in transformative innovation policy evaluation: experiences from Sweden	9

Linking science and industry: influence of scientific research on technological innovation through patent citations	9
Unveiling research productivity barriers via fuzzy AHP: a case of management faculty in India	8
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
Do funding modes matter? A multilevel analysis of funding allocation mechanisms on university research performance	8
Interdisciplinary research and policy impacts: Assessing the significance of knowledge coproduction	7
Determining and weighting effective outputs of humanities research to meet scientific and professional goals: A study of language and literature fields	7
Unpacking the discourse surrounding the impact agenda in the Hong Kong Research Assessment Exercise 2020	6
Equality and employment aspects of the UK Research Excellence Framework	6
Assessing university policies for enhancing societal impact of academic research: A multicriteria mapping approach	6
Quality from within: Entry points to research quality in the humanities	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
Evaluation as a source of unhappiness in academia—unpacking the boundaries of responsible research assessment	6
Improving universities’ activities in academic startup support through public interventions: The effectiveness of the German programme ‘EXIST—leverage of potentials’	6
Toward a modular evaluation approach of real-world laboratories: Findings from a literature review	5
Spreading the gospel: Legitimating university rankings as boundary work	5
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
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
Data inaccuracy quantification and uncertainty propagation for bibliometric indicators	5
Devices of evaluation: Institutionalization and impact—Introduction to the special issue	5
Research evaluation in Brazil and the Netherlands: a comparative study	5
A participatory approach to tracking system transformation in clusters and innovation ecosystems—Evolving practice in Sweden’s Vinnväxt programme	5
Exploring research quality and journal representation: a comparative study of African Journals Online, Scopus, and Web of Science	5
Evaluating co-creation in social innovation projects: Towards a process orientated framework for EU projects and beyond	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
Evaluating participatory research projects through a harmonized, online, self-reflection, and impact-assessment methodology	5
Repertoires of research value: performing societal impact across countries	5
Prestige of scholarly book publishers—An investigation into criteria, processes, and practices across countries	5