OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Systemic Practice and Action Research is 1. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Parents, Pupils, Pedagogues, and Policies: A Rectangle of School Education for Immigrant’s Children	20
A Little Less Conversation, a Little More Action: Participatory Insider Action Research in an Executive Team	15
Teacher Candidates’ Experiences in Using Story-writing Technique to Learn Educational Philosophies: a Turkey Sample	15
Correction: A Systems Thinking Approach for Community Health and Wellbeing	11
Social Systems Theory and Family Business: A Perspective Article	10
Community of Learning as a World-Building Environment	10
Embracing Levin’s Legacy: Advancing Socio-Technical Learning and Development in Human-Robot Team Design Through STS Approaches	9
The Role of Hierarchy in Realizing Collective Leadership in a Self-Managing Organization	9
Conducting Action Research to Improve Operational Efficiency in Manufacturing: The Case of a First-Tier Automotive Supplier	9
Indigenous Sundanese Leadership: Eco-Systemic Lessons on Zero Emissions	7
Environmental Education Performance Evaluation in a Higher Education Institution	7
Towards a Checklist for Improving Action Research Quality in Healthcare Contexts	7
‘Virtual’ Action Research: Two examples	7
The Use of Critical Social Heurstics to Explore Enhancement of Benefits Realization of a Knowledge Management System	7
Engaging the End User in Waste from Electrical and Electronic Equipment Management: An Action Research Study	6
Digital Transformations Through the Lens of the Collaborative, Co-Generative and Domesticative	6
Correction: Codes of Conduct for Collaboration as Social Rule Systems for Transdisciplinary Processes	6
Correction: Adopting an Ecosystem Approach to Digitalization-driven Organizational Change? Actionable Knowledge from a Collaborative Project	6
A Practical Action Research of Portfolio Assessment on Building the Learning Community for Graduate Students in Taiwan	6
Transdisciplinary Cyber-systemic Design of Instruments to Measure Academic Performance in Middle and Higher Education Systems	5
Exploring Action Research Sponsorship: Role and Enactment	5
Institutional Reconstruction of Promoting and Maintaining the Level of Compliance with Health Protocols in Indonesia during the Pandemic	5
Organic Metalogue Across Spaces and Places to Rethink Species Relationships in a Community of Practice	5
The Interplay of Alcohol and Wellbeing in the Workplace: Combining Soft Systems Methodology and Foucauldian Approach	5
Integration of Art into STEM Education at Primary Schools: an Action Research Study with Primary School Teachers	5

The Art of Teaching Professional Practice: An Action Research Methodology Inspired by Ulrich’s Systems Concepts	4
Correction to: Participatory Action Research, Social Networks, and Gender Influence Soil Fertility Management in Tanzania	4
A Hybrid Use of Soft Systems Methodology for Developing a Framework of Evidence-Based Teaching for Hospitality and Tourism Instructors in Vietnam	4
ORP Gym: Online Oral Repetition Practice Support System for Large-scale Japanese-Speaking Courses Abroad	4
Bridging the Gap Between Labour Unions and the Management Through Leadership Development Programs?	4
Morten Levin Festschrift: Bridging Theory and Practice in Action Research	4
A Systems Thinking Approach for Community Health and Wellbeing	4
Deploying Sustainability Through Employee Participation. An Action Research Proposal	4
Risk Perception and Risk Communication from a Systems Perspective: a Study on Safety Behavioural Intervention Frameworks and Functions	4
A Comparative Study of Two Networked (neoendogenous) Development Approaches: The EU LEADER and China’s Resident Work Team in Poor Villages (RWTIPV)	3
Holistic Flexibility for Deploying Systems Thinking as a Cognitive Skill	3
Creating New Knowledge while Solving a Relevant Practical Problem: Success Factors for an Action Research-Based PhD Thesis in Business and Management	3
Fostering Participatory Action Research in Higher Degree Research Settings Through a Transdisciplinary Peer-Mentoring Collaborative	3
Building Democracy at Work: The Contributions of Morten Levin to Action Research and Organizational Development	3
The Art of Soft Systems Inquiry: Retracing the Footsteps of Churchman and Checkland	3
Problem Structuring Methods in Social-Ecological Systems	3
Exploring Opportunities for Sustainable Housing: The Case of East Africa	3
Advice as a Form of Structural Coupling: Intersystem Organizations and Scientific Communication in the Japanese Response to COVID-19	3
A Framework for Stakeholder Involvement in eHealth Action Research	3
Correction to: Intrinsic Conflict Among Nigerian Public Security Forces: A Systems Model for Compliant Security Service Delivery in Nigeria	2
Strategic Objectives for Aligning Healthcare and IT Practices in Providing Integrated Care for Multimorbid Patients: A Soft Systems Methodology Perspective	2
Constructing the collaborative Working Relationships in one of the Big Four Firms	2
A Strategy for Designing a Research Project Using Critical Systems Heuristics: A Research Design Addressing Data Analytics Students’ Employability	2
Space of Challenges (SOC) Framework: Problems, Issues and Dilemmas in Sustainable Housing	2
Closing the Theory-Practice Gap: Socio-Economic Approach and Action Research in Management	2
Viable IT Risk Management System by Viable System Model (VSM): Action Research for Managing IT-related Risk in the Banking Service	2
Entropy in Education System: Transformation of an Individual Through Meaningful Interactions in a Community of Inquiry	2
Combining social innovation and systems thinking to improve charity's performance in downtown of Tehran	2
Action Research Environments: Challenges for their Initiation and Sustainability	2
Institutional Divergence of Digital Item Bank Management in Bureaucratic Hybridization: An Application of SSM Based Multi-Method	2
Retrospective analysis of a triple helix environmental technology partnership: transformational learning through action research	1
Strengthening Rural Governance for Rural Development Through Collaborative Strategy: the Application of Soft System Methodology and Textual Network Analysis	1
The Role of Management Science in Forming Next Era Semantics	1
Towards a Viable Knowledge Environment within an Academic Institution	1
Abegar Indigenous Conflict Resolution System: a Community Based Reconciliation	1
Micro-Skills for Learning Soft Systems Methodology? Challenges and Opportunities in an Undergraduate Dissertation Project	1
An Action Research on the Development of the Reflective Thinking Skills of Preservice Preschool Teachers*	1
Action Research in Agricultural Development Projects: Case Study of a Dairy Project in Ethiopia	1
Truth Tables, True Distinctions. Paradoxes of the Source Code of Science	1
Reimagining Famagusta: The Dialogic Design Theory of Change in action	1
Investigating the Competing Values of Digitalizing Organizational Learning: An Action Research Ethnography	1
Review of Finding the Wind: A Novel for Young People of Any Age (2022)	1
Wave Pattern of Multi-Agent Social Actions	1
Ecocentric Living: A Way Forward Towards Zero Carbon: A Conversation about Indigenous Law and Leadership Based on Custodianship and Praxis	1
When Successful Action Research is not Legitimized as Scientific Contribution by the Central Sponsors: How can Morten Levin’s Three Pillars of Action Research Support the Arch of Research Collaboratio	1
Book Review: How to do Action Research for Transformation, at a Time of Eco-Social Crisis	1
Navigating the First Years: Newly Qualified Teachers’ Experiences with Professional Learning Communities	1
Correction: System Action Learning: Reorientating Practice for System Change in Preventive Health	1
Systemic Business Intervention to Treat Complex Problems in Companies	1
True Learning Organization – Organization of People Dedicated to Spirituality	1

Video-Based Action Learning and Research: Increased Transformative Capacity among Team Leaders of a Youth Care Protection Agency	1
‘…These Workshops are like Sunday´s Church Visit – but then, it’s Monday Again…’—using Understanding to Bridge Ambitious Talk and Action	1
Merging Worklife Organizational Innovation and Educational Programs: Promoting Continuous Adaptations to the Global Economy	1
Using a Theory of Change Approach for Inclusive and Resilient Urban Food Systems in Uganda	1
The ‘Covid-Trigger’: New Light on Urban Agriculture and Systemic Approach to Urbanism to Co-Create a Sustainable Lisbon	1
Complex Problems and Dealing with them on a Research Methods Course in a Business School	1
An Integrative Framework of Ethical Leadership	1
Organising for Resilience to Climate Change in Critical Infrastructures: The Application of Viable System Model in an Oil Refinery	1
Demonstrating the Elaborated Action Design Research (eADR) Model to Address Communication Challenges During Software Development	1
When Rigor Meets Relevance: the Development of Hybrid Actionable Knowledge Production Systems	1
Mutual Adoption of Soft Systems Methodology, Co-Creation, Enterprise Architecture, and Balanced Scorecard for Continuous Assessment and Improvement of Programmes on Integrated Care for Multimorbid Pat	1
System Action Learning: Reorientating Practice for System Change in Preventive Health	1
Correction to: A Systemic Evaluation of the State of Affairs Following the Negative Outcome of the Referendum in Cyprus Using the Structured Dialogic Design Process	1
Communicating Scientific Knowledge as News on Social Media: Analyses in Frames of Luhmann’s System Theory	1
The Complexity of Co-Generative Learning Between University and Regional Actors	1
Going in or Going out– Practicing Embedded Research as a True Insider	1
An Action Research Investigation of the Impact of Using Online Feedback Videos to Promote Self-Reflection on the Microteaching of Preservice EFL Teachers	1