OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Systems Research and Behavioral Science is 4. 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
Managing sustainability using system dynamics: Selected papers from the Tenth European System Dynamics Workshop, at the University of Stuttgart, Germany	38
A scratch below a system's surface	31
Corrigendum to Systemic innovation: Towards a new paradigm in systems thinking and innovation	30
Editorial SRBS Special Issue 2024	24
Organisational ambidexterity and knowledge management: A systems perspective towards Smart Model‐based Governance	22
Autonomous Change	20
Mapping the Intellectual Structure and Evolution of Systems Thinking: A Bibliometric Analysis of Problem and Solution Domains	19
Punishment or reward? Environmental information disclosure in Chinese listed companies based on evolutionary game systems	19
Dynamic Modelling of Critical Infrastructures for Improved Disaster Habitation Recovery	18
From Systems Metaphors to Project Manager Intelligence: Fostering Stakeholder Relationships	17
A Method for Evaluating Human Resource Value at the Task Level: Integrating Hard and Soft Skills in Intelligent Decision Systems	16
The Impact of Different Policies on Consumer Adoption of Higher‐Level Energy‐Saving Home Appliances in China Based on Social Network Modelling	15
Structures of Ideological Systems Programming. The Case of Sustainability in Prices	15
Issue Information	14
Moral and managerial perspectives on cooperatives: Towards a Luhmannian reconciliation	14
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Analysing the rationality of the Gaia hypothesis	13
SROP matrix: A systematic analysis tool for complex decision‐making	13
Pathways to well‐being in Tarumajaya, West Java: Post‐COVID 19 supporting better access to the commons through engagement and a critical systemic reflection on stories	13
Networked Lives: The Emergence of Art as a Social System	13
A Systems Thinking Approach to Preventing Zoonotic Spillovers: A Case Study From Ghana	13
A Participatory Approach to Enhance Screening System for Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorder in Critical Care Settings	12
From Algorithms to Ecosystems: Conceptual Links Between Artificial Intelligence and Biological Control	12
Multi‐stakeholder structured dialogues: Five generations of evolution of dialogic design	12
Using an interactive simulation tool of national energy and climate policy planning to explore environmental policy options from the perspectives of different interest groups	12

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Issue Information	10
Lean 4.0 in the value co‐creation in agro‐industrial services: An agenda for future studies for the efficient resource use	10
Application of systems thinking and system dynamics in managing risks and stakeholders in construction projects: A systematic literature review	10
What Are the Key Factors Affecting AI Algorithmic Price Discrimination in China? Evidence From Complex Adaptive Systems Modelling	10
Towards low‐carbon transition: Coordinating development and decarbonisation in rural logistics	10
Simulating Policy Impacts on the Evolution of Intellectual Property Securitisation Markets: An Agent‐Based Approach	10
Unilateral consensus: Legitimation as a societal phenomenon in Luhmannian systems theory	10
Purposeful Evolution in Organisational Cybernetics: Symbiosis, Co‐Evolution, Transduction and Axiology in Viable Systems	10
The paradox of standards and innovation: Reconceptualising standards and standardisation with the help of Niklas Luhmann	9
RETRACTION: Role of Innovative Behaviour as a Missing Linchpin in Artificial Intelligence Adoption to Enhancing Job Security and Job Performance	9
Leverage Points for Meaningful Participation: A 5‐Point Framework From a Rural South African Landscape	9
Exploring Systems Approaches to Innovation Management From Second‐Order Science in the West and China: System of Systems and TiXi	9
Symbolic Overload and the Autopoietic Unconscious: A Systems‐Theoretical Reconstruction	9
Using systems thinking to understand the experiences of overseas‐trained teachers in Australia	9
Mode 2 critical systems practice for complex safety decisions: Reflections from New Zealand's dairy industry	8
Lifecycle‐Based Governance to Build Reliable Ethical AI Systems	8
Creative‐Becoming Holism: Reflections on and Development of Creative Holism in the Case of Science Education	8
Enriching systems practice with African perspectives	8
Issue Information	8
Corrigendum	8
Who Is the System? On the Externalisation and Depersonalisation of Responsibility for Abuse	8
The Societally Corrupting Potential of Moral Communication	8
Mapping Systems Thinking Pedagogies in Social Science Education: A Scoping Review With an Emphasis on Sustainability	7
How to make climate policy more effective? The search for high leverage points by the multidisciplinary Dutch expert team ‘Energy System 2050’	7
Issue Information	7
The principle of relativity from the organisational point of view¹	7
Tracing General Systems Theory to Enlightenment Philosophy: Reflections on Lambert's, Kant's and Bertalanffy's Legacies	7
Bridging Expert Insight and AI Reasoning: A Hybrid Systems Model of Iran's Fertility Dynamics	7
Enhancing sustainability performance of universities: A DMAIC approach	7
Conceptualising Systems Thinking: The Fundamentals, Methodologies and Tools	7
The Great Question of the State: Why a Country Is Resilient Even With the Most Incompetent Governance	7
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Investigating practical wisdom in complex system management: What is it and how do we get more?	7
Using a Hybrid Collaborative Crisis Management Framework to Foster Long‐Term Growth in Post‐Disaster Reconstruction: Findings From the Chinese Paired Assistance Policy	7
Rebound Effects of Digital Textile Microfactories in Fashion, a System Dynamics Study of CO ₂ Emissions	7
Issue Information	7
Training Requirements for Collective Intelligence (CI) and Systems Thinking (ST) Facilitators	7
Emergent Behavioural Patterns in Energy Systems: A Systems‐Analytics Framework for Renewable Investment Decisions for G20 Countries	7
Accommodation and critique: A necessary tension	6
From Particle to Purpose: A Systems‐Theoretical Model of Unity and Coherent Adaptation	6
Paradigm, specialty, pragmatism: Kuhn's legacy to methodological pluralism	6
Systems Thinking as Being‐in‐the‐World	6
Building project resilience: A critical systems practice approach	6
The system‐process view of life from the perspective of systems science and its enlightenment to artificial life	6
The Mediator's Mind: Navigating Party Psychology and Behavioural Dynamics in Dispute Resolution	6
Hybrid Bio‐Algorithmic Intelligence: Co‐Designing AI and Nature‐Inspired Systems for Sustainable Transformation	6
Freedom of Scientific Inquiry and Democracy. A Systems‐Theoretical Approach	6
Decolonising Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND): A Systems Theoretical Framework for Global Inclusivity	6
Algorithmic responsibility without accountability: Understanding data‐intensive algorithms and decisions in organisations	6

Is Reading an Upstream Predictor of Science and Mathematics Achievements in PISA? A Bayesian Network Analysis for Policy Educational Interventions on Socio‐Economic Dispersion and Gender Gaps	6
Blockchain‐driven IoT solutions in agriculture	6
Ritual and university education: Systemic coexistence after COVID‐19	6
Issue Information	5
Applying critical systems thinking through phronetic pluralism: Learning from human learning systems and the adaptive learning pathway	5
Systems approach in dynamic capabilities	5
Issue Information	5
Project management and system dynamics modelling: Time to connect with innovation and sustainability	5
Incorporating various perspectives in using instant messages in teaching programming: A critical system thinking perspective	5
Designing Cognitive Viability in Complex Service Systems: Attention as a Systemic Constraint	5
Exploring Similarities Between Systems: Concepts, Properties and Implications	5
Employee power needs, leadership, and employee organizational commitment: A case study of high‐tech enterprises	5
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System thinking skills and their effect upon supply chain resilience: A practitioner perspective	5
The Organizational Systems Thinking Scale (OSTS): Development and Validation of a Third‐Order Hierarchical Framework	5
Integrating distributive justice in system dynamics models of sustainability transitions	5
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Enhancing the Intellectual Capital of Research and Development Centres using Business Intelligence: A System Dynamics Approach	5
The Viable System Model Through a Power‐Relations Lens: Towards a Power‐Aware Conceptual Framework	5
Toward a Humanistic–Institutional Synthesis: Reframing China's Science and Technology System Reform	5
A fuzzy cognitive map approach to understand agricultural system and food prices in Türkiye: Policy recommendations for national food security	5
The Dynamics of Life model	5
Intolerance of Ambiguity Mediates the Links Between Systems Thinking With Dichotomous Thinking and Attributional Complexity in a Canadian Sample	5
The impact of AI recommendation for homogeneous products on product demand	5
Issue Information	5
Unlocking the Potential for Smart Technology Adoption: Leveraging Mental Health Apps for Improved Well‐Being	5
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From Particles to Firms: A Metaphorical Typology of Technological Relations, Evidence from the Nanotechnology Sector	5
Using simulation modelling and systems science to help contain COVID‐19: A systematic review	5
Systems East & West 2.0	5
Review of Herzberg's Two‐Factor Theory: Limitations and Improvements	5
Festschrift for Mike Jackson: Call for papers for a special issue of Systems Research and Behavioral Science	5
When the Whole Is Less Than the Sum of Its Parts: Structural Coupling in Education	5
Research on the Influence of Network Social Capital on the Search of Digital Entrepreneurial Opportunities	4
Systemic Governance From Below: Story Telling to Empower Access to the Commons Through Mapping and Modelling: A Mixed Methods Approach	4
AI‐enabled information sharing mechanism and enterprise performance	4
Toward Emergent Holism: A Mutually Constitutive Account for Systems Science and Holistic Philosophy	4
Mental self‐renewal as a measure of systems thinking	4
The impact of narcissistic leadership on organizational support: A study based on a sample of strategic emerging industries	4
Correction to ‘Pathways to Well‐Being in Tarumajaya, West Java: Post‐COVID‐19 Supporting Better Access to the Commons Through Engagement and a Critical Systemic Reflection on Stories’	4
Living beings, coevolution and psychotherapy: The legacy of Humberto Maturana	4
Association Between Confucian Culture and Corporate Environmental Governance	4
Research on the Evolution of Digital Industry Innovation Ecosystem From the Perspective of Multiagent Symbiosis	4
Governance Systems in Self‐Help Group–Based Microfinance: A Social Systems Perspective	4
Innovation in the Spaces In‐Between: Creating the Nexus Between Human and Non‐Human Actors in Systemic Innovations	4
Collusion or monitoring? Connected institutional investors and stock price crash risk in China	4
The Review of Human–Machine Collaborative Intelligent Interaction With Driver Cognition in the Loop	4
Development of a New Emotional Intelligence Tool for Facilitating Systemic, Second‐Order Change Among Individuals, Teams and Organizations	4
How Do We Measure and Increase Systems Thinking? Comparing Self‐Reported and Performative Metrics in Response to Building Causal Loop Models	4
A fix that may fail: A qualitative model to explore potential rebound effects of digital textile microfactories	4
Theory of the Next Society: Media Catastrophes, Triple Interpenetration and the Post‐Anthropocentric Condition	4
Relational interpretation of quantum mechanics and Alexander Bogdanov's worldview	4
Unveiling Regional Disparities: Exploring Cybersecurity Capabilities and Performance Through Systems Theory Approach	4
Project schedule contingency planning: Building on von Bertalanffy's open systems theory and critical systems practice	4