OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Systems Research and Behavioral Science 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Managing sustainability using system dynamics: Selected papers from the Tenth European System Dynamics Workshop, at the University of Stuttgart, Germany	35
Structures of Ideological Systems Programming. The Case of Sustainability in Prices	30
A scratch below a system's surface	28
Corrigendum to Systemic innovation: Towards a new paradigm in systems thinking and innovation	27
Editorial SRBS Special Issue 2024	24
Moral and managerial perspectives on cooperatives: Towards a Luhmannian reconciliation	20
From Systems Metaphors to Project Manager Intelligence: Fostering Stakeholder Relationships	19
A Method for Evaluating Human Resource Value at the Task Level: Integrating Hard and Soft Skills in Intelligent Decision Systems	18
Punishment or reward? Environmental information disclosure in Chinese listed companies based on evolutionary game systems	17
Autonomous Change	17
Mapping the Intellectual Structure and Evolution of Systems Thinking: A Bibliometric Analysis of Problem and Solution Domains	15
Organisational ambidexterity and knowledge management: A systems perspective towards Smart Model‐based Governance	14
Dynamic Modelling of Critical Infrastructures for Improved Disaster Habitation Recovery	14
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A Systems Thinking Approach to Preventing Zoonotic Spillovers: A Case Study From Ghana	12
Simulating Policy Impacts on the Evolution of Intellectual Property Securitisation Markets: An Agent‐Based Approach	12
A Participatory Approach to Enhance Screening System for Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorder in Critical Care Settings	12
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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	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
Networked Lives: The Emergence of Art as a Social System	12
SROP matrix: A systematic analysis tool for complex decision‐making	12
Analysing the rationality of the Gaia hypothesis	12
Multi‐stakeholder structured dialogues: Five generations of evolution of dialogic design	12
Unilateral consensus: Legitimation as a societal phenomenon in Luhmannian systems theory	11

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Lean 4.0 in the value co‐creation in agro‐industrial services: An agenda for future studies for the efficient resource use	10
Purposeful Evolution in Organisational Cybernetics: Symbiosis, Co‐Evolution, Transduction and Axiology in Viable Systems	10
Using systems thinking to understand the experiences of overseas‐trained teachers in Australia	10
RETRACTION: Role of Innovative Behaviour as a Missing Linchpin in Artificial Intelligence Adoption to Enhancing Job Security and Job Performance	10
Who Is the System? On the Externalisation and Depersonalisation of Responsibility for Abuse	10
Exploring Systems Approaches to Innovation Management From Second‐Order Science in the West and China: System of Systems and TiXi	9
The paradox of standards and innovation: Reconceptualising standards and standardisation with the help of Niklas Luhmann	9
Towards low‐carbon transition: Coordinating development and decarbonisation in rural logistics	9
What Are the Key Factors Affecting AI Algorithmic Price Discrimination in China? Evidence From Complex Adaptive Systems Modelling	9
Leverage Points for Meaningful Participation: A 5‐Point Framework From a Rural South African Landscape	8
Application of systems thinking and system dynamics in managing risks and stakeholders in construction projects: A systematic literature review	8
Enriching systems practice with African perspectives	8
Lifecycle‐Based Governance to Build Reliable Ethical AI Systems	8
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Symbolic Overload and the Autopoietic Unconscious: A Systems‐Theoretical Reconstruction	8
The Societally Corrupting Potential of Moral Communication	8
Mode 2 critical systems practice for complex safety decisions: Reflections from New Zealand's dairy industry	8
Creative‐Becoming Holism: Reflections on and Development of Creative Holism in the Case of Science Education	7
Enhancing sustainability performance of universities: A DMAIC approach	7
Bridging Expert Insight and AI Reasoning: A Hybrid Systems Model of Iran's Fertility Dynamics	7
Corrigendum	7
Conceptualising Systems Thinking: The Fundamentals, Methodologies and Tools	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
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The Great Question of the State: Why a Country Is Resilient Even With the Most Incompetent Governance	7
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Training Requirements for Collective Intelligence (CI) and Systems Thinking (ST) Facilitators	6
Ritual and university education: Systemic coexistence after COVID‐19	6
From Particle to Purpose: A Systems‐Theoretical Model of Unity and Coherent Adaptation	6
How to make climate policy more effective? The search for high leverage points by the multidisciplinary Dutch expert team ‘Energy System 2050’	6
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Systems Thinking as Being‐in‐the‐World	6
The Mediator's Mind: Navigating Party Psychology and Behavioural Dynamics in Dispute Resolution	6
Decolonising Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND): A Systems Theoretical Framework for Global Inclusivity	6
The principle of relativity from the organisational point of view¹	6
Freedom of Scientific Inquiry and Democracy. A Systems‐Theoretical Approach	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
Building project resilience: A critical systems practice approach	6
Accommodation and critique: A necessary tension	6
Rebound Effects of Digital Textile Microfactories in Fashion, a System Dynamics Study of CO ₂ Emissions	6
Investigating practical wisdom in complex system management: What is it and how do we get more?	5
Paradigm, specialty, pragmatism: Kuhn's legacy to methodological pluralism	5
The system‐process view of life from the perspective of systems science and its enlightenment to artificial life	5
From Particles to Firms: A Metaphorical Typology of Technological Relations, Evidence from the Nanotechnology Sector	5
Integrating distributive justice in system dynamics models of sustainability transitions	5
Review of Herzberg's Two‐Factor Theory: Limitations and Improvements	5
The impact of AI recommendation for homogeneous products on product demand	5
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

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Emergent Behavioural Patterns in Energy Systems: A Systems‐Analytics Framework for Renewable Investment Decisions for G20 Countries	5
Algorithmic responsibility without accountability: Understanding data‐intensive algorithms and decisions in organisations	5
The Organizational Systems Thinking Scale (OSTS): Development and Validation of a Third‐Order Hierarchical Framework	5
Toward a Humanistic–Institutional Synthesis: Reframing China's Science and Technology System Reform	5
Applying critical systems thinking through phronetic pluralism: Learning from human learning systems and the adaptive learning pathway	5
Employee power needs, leadership, and employee organizational commitment: A case study of high‐tech enterprises	5
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The Dynamics of Life model	5
Tracing General Systems Theory to Enlightenment Philosophy: Reflections on Lambert's, Kant's and Bertalanffy's Legacies	5
Blockchain‐driven IoT solutions in agriculture	5
System thinking skills and their effect upon supply chain resilience: A practitioner perspective	5
Project management and system dynamics modelling: Time to connect with innovation and sustainability	5
Systems approach in dynamic capabilities	5
Using simulation modelling and systems science to help contain COVID‐19: A systematic review	5
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Unlocking the Potential for Smart Technology Adoption: Leveraging Mental Health Apps for Improved Well‐Being	5
Intolerance of Ambiguity Mediates the Links Between Systems Thinking With Dichotomous Thinking and Attributional Complexity in a Canadian Sample	5
Festschrift for Mike Jackson: Call for papers for a special issue of Systems Research and Behavioral Science	4
Incorporating various perspectives in using instant messages in teaching programming: A critical system thinking perspective	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
AI‐enabled information sharing mechanism and enterprise performance	4
A fuzzy cognitive map approach to understand agricultural system and food prices in Türkiye: Policy recommendations for national food security	4
A fix that may fail: A qualitative model to explore potential rebound effects of digital textile microfactories	4
Toward Emergent Holism: A Mutually Constitutive Account for Systems Science and Holistic Philosophy	4
Exploring Similarities Between Systems: Concepts, Properties and Implications	4
Unveiling Regional Disparities: Exploring Cybersecurity Capabilities and Performance Through Systems Theory Approach	4
Governance Systems in Self‐Help Group–Based Microfinance: A Social Systems Perspective	4
Relational interpretation of quantum mechanics and Alexander Bogdanov's worldview	4
The challenge of inclusivity, capability and change in complex, multi‐stakeholder problem situations—Practical insight from the application of participative systems methods, models and facilitation wi	4
Innovation in the Spaces In‐Between: Creating the Nexus Between Human and Non‐Human Actors in Systemic Innovations	4
The impact of narcissistic leadership on organizational support: A study based on a sample of strategic emerging industries	4
The Review of Human–Machine Collaborative Intelligent Interaction With Driver Cognition in the Loop	4
Systems East & West 2.0	4
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Mental self‐renewal as a measure of systems thinking	4
Theory of the Next Society: Media Catastrophes, Triple Interpenetration and the Post‐Anthropocentric Condition	4
Research on the Influence of Network Social Capital on the Search of Digital Entrepreneurial Opportunities	4
Collusion or monitoring? Connected institutional investors and stock price crash risk in China	4
Observing the Environment of Technology	3
How Do We Measure and Increase Systems Thinking? Comparing Self‐Reported and Performative Metrics in Response to Building Causal Loop Models	3
Ideological Repurposing of Institutions of Higher Management Education: Historical Lessons and Contemporary Imperatives	3
Association Between Confucian Culture and Corporate Environmental Governance	3
Unravelling Wendt's Ontological Confusions and Justifying the Alternative of Autopoietic Theory	3
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Employing a Mental Model Framework to Explore Systems Thinking	3
Rural electrification in India: A wicked problem	3
Exploring the relationships between Industry 4.0 implementation factors through systems thinking and network analysis	3
Teaching Interdisciplinary Sciences in a Liberal Arts College	3
Theory and Methodology in Sociology–Guiding Distinction	3
Transformative Services and Systemic Well‐Being—Towards a Better Understanding of Distinction in Service Design	3
Foundational perspectives on systems practice for professions	3
Research on the Evolution of Digital Industry Innovation Ecosystem From the Perspective of Multiagent Symbiosis	3
Development of a New Emotional Intelligence Tool for Facilitating Systemic, Second‐Order Change Among Individuals, Teams and Organizations	3
Towards a sustainable integrated management approach to uncertainty surrounding COVID‐19	3
Understanding perceived influencers on project outcomes and quantifying disciplinary similarities in academic literature	3
Complex Adaptive Systems Through the Lens of Whitehead's Philosophy: A Research Note	3
A study of key factors that influence and enable patient empowerment: A systems approach	3
Within a mesh of expectations: Dealing with dilemmas in business families using systemic tools from family coaching	3
The Utility of Critical Systems Practice: A Supply Chain Practitioner Perspective	3
Behavioural and Systemic Extensions of the Even‐Swaps Method: Emergent Behaviour, Inventive Logic and Multiswap Chains	3
Exploring the Acceptability of Artificial Intelligence in Human Resources Management: Insights From Swiss Organizations	3
Activity Systems Modelling as a Complex Systemic Approach to Develop Learning Partnerships Between Community Initiatives and Municipal Governments	3
Reframing resilience as a systemic issue: Meta‐competencies that transform individuals and learning ecologies	3
Project schedule contingency planning: Building on von Bertalanffy's open systems theory and critical systems practice	3
Systemic Governance From Below: Story Telling to Empower Access to the Commons Through Mapping and Modelling: A Mixed Methods Approach	3
Living beings, coevolution and psychotherapy: The legacy of Humberto Maturana	3
Alexander Bogdanov and the question of unity: An emerging research agenda	3
System Dynamic Modelling for the Development of Smallholder Dairy Farming in Java Island, Indonesia	3
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Case study: Observing the World Music School Helsinki as a social ecological system to enhance community connectivity and resilience	3
Empowering Managers to Adopt Multimethodological Intervention Strategies to Address Complex Problematic Situations	3
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Reconsidering Infrastructure as Parallel‐Structure in Functionally Differentiated Society	3
Evolutionary and Revolutionary Adaptation Processes Are Driven by Identity in Cooperative Systems: Theory Testing and Extension Through a Multicase Study Approach	3