OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Innovation-The European Journal of Social Science 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Welcome to Planet B: co-designing transdisciplinary research questions to uncover super wicked problems	21
Advanced services as a new frontier for China’s value chain cooperation with European manufacturing	16
European Wikipedia platforms, sharing economy and national differences in participation: a case study	16
Leveraging artificial intelligence to detect and prevent corporate fraud in Chinese enterprises	14
Taking a historical perspective: students’ understanding of the Turkish Alphabet Reform (November 1928)	11
Rowing against decline: regional innovation systems and marginality in the era of digital transition	11
The role of affect balance and external boredom in the relationship between loneliness and problematic smartphone use	10
Notes on the declining American institutions in university rankings: a trend against the Germany–Britain–America shift?	10
The effect of online creative drama method on primary school students’ levels of happiness and fun in school: Solomon four-group design	10
Developing normative criteria for meaningful citizen participation and deliberation in environmental policy	10
New Europeans on the cultural cleavage: has Macron created a new transnational party family?	10
Education for ever changing times: the on-going quest for the best solutions in a post-modern world	9
Analyzing latent social effects of social initiatives through social return on investment (SROI) analysis in wartime: a critical examination from an applied sociology perspective	8
Diffusion of innovation, innovation studies, and innovation policies: cross-fertilisation to improve smart specialisation strategies (S3)	8
Embeddedness of innovation processes: collaborations, institutions, creativity and constructed meanings	8
Let’s talk! Calling for a debate on the GDPR's impact on qualitative research	8
Administrative traditions and the role of conditionality for governance reforms: evidence from the EU regional innovation policy	8
Be lucky!? – the interrelations of luck, success, and dependency relationships in the context of a disadvantaged community	8
Honi the Circle-Maker: an ancient narrative for creating temenos in challenging times	8
The role of creativity in new product development process. Insights from the leading bank in Romania	7
EU Policies and prospects for achieving ‘Chip autonomy’ amid global localization trend in chip supply chain	7
Stakeholders’ justifications in innovation: the case of cell-based meat	7
Conceptualising euro-optimism via frames analysis: case study of Slovenia	7
The implications of the EU cohesion policy instruments and cross-border cooperation projects on social entrepreneurship in Euroregions	6
Voting or consensus? An empirical study of decision-making in the European standards body ETSI	6

Social acceptance of solar energy and the role of NGOs in Iran's energy transition: a case study in Golestan Province	6
“War took my home, but not my future”: adaptation of war-affected Ukrainian students in Australia and Germany	6
Navigating transatlantic power dynamics in ICT standardization – The case of ETSI	6
Forced migration in wartime: decision-making and trajectory	6
On the narrative rationality of a legend that grows: from ‘Da Yu Taming the Flood’ to the ‘Five Events of Da Yu’	5
Social innovation under institutional voids: micro–macro dynamics in Lithuania	5
Altruistic, ego-centred or both? A value-based typology of supporters of a pro-European movement	5
Design thinking enabling innovation: a literature review	5
Actual trends in critical making and collaborative innovation research	5
From global production networks to global knowledge networks a case study on Ford-Otosan automotive company in Türkiye	5
Innovation biography and network analysis as instruments for evaluating inclusion policy the case of Single Contact Points for Employers	5
Editorial	5
Impact of authorship on citation rates: a comparative analysis of top 9999 articles in social science	5
Deliberation in times of crisis – how can citizens’ councils deal with pressing political issues like the Corona pandemic?	5
Public research institutes in Brazil: evidence of research and innovation impact	5
The potential role of university community engagement in supporting transformative social innovation – experiences from Hungary	4
Searching for epistemological passe-partout: naming and defining the current technological revolution	4
Why context matters: understanding transdisciplinary research through the lens of nine context factors	4
Income comparisons and migrants’ subjective welfare: evidence from panel data analysis	4
Narratives for personal and collective transformations	4
Dermatologist, orthopaedist, and psychiatrist walk into a COVID ward: on the permeability of professional boundaries in a competition-free context	4
How economic perceptions shape the image of the EU? The evidence from 10 EU member states during the four consecutive waves of crises	4
Commuting and life satisfaction: evidence from Russia	4
Forms of agency in strategies of relocalization by translocal networks of community-led initiatives in Europe	4
The contribution of cooperation networks to service innovation in micro-enterprises: a management perspective	4
Macron’s European project: two faces of Europeanism	4
A relations-based evaluation framework to support collaborative research and innovation (R&I) networks	4
Resilience under fire: navigating societal challenges, agency, and innovation in times of war	4
Social innovation as a process: pursuing a pathway to the labour market inclusion of refugee women in Berlin	4
Activation of unemployed through social procurement: from policy to practice	4
Multinational corporations and sustainable development goals: an interventionist approach toward quality tertiary education in Nigeria’s case study (Etisalat)	4
ETSI’s legitimacy is guaranteed by its openness and endorsement of its standards by the market	4
Learning from public sector innovation pilots: the case of autonomous bus pilots	4
New Europeanism as a counterreaction to the EU polycrisis	4
Global environmental assessments and transformative change: the role of epistemic infrastructures and the inclusion of social sciences	3
Relationship between patenting and economic development – message implied by the Czechoslovakian experience from 1918 to 1991	3
Influencing factors of academic staff’ knowledge sharing: a case of government universities in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia	3
The driving effect of the Euro on inbound tourism: multiperiod DID method	3
Human survivability studies: concept, methodology, case studies, and prospects	3
Innovation and leadership in computational social science’s prevalent trend: implications to management science, public policy and social development	3
Why do social innovations not scale out? A case study of social innovations implemented by rural NGOs from post-socialist Poland	3
Correction	3
Civic engagement in transformative social innovation: how proximity factors shape drivers and barriers	3
Job satisfaction and organizational commitment: comparing Generations X and Y	3
A systematic literature review on collaborative innovation in the public sector	3
Can we do inclusive politics in urgent times?	2
The role of ETSI in the EU’s regulation and governance of artificial intelligence	2
The conceptual framework of shock innovation in education: non-diffusive spread of innovations triggered with the pandemic	2
Older adults and use of video games	2
Blockchain and public sector innovations: understanding decentralized models of technology adoption in e-government	2

Social innovation and educational innovation: a qualitative review of innovation’s evolution	2
Triple Helix spaces: a tale of three helices	2
Sectoral specialization and productivity in European metropolitan regions: empirical insights and policy implications	2
Big data in computational social science and humanities	2
Deliberative democracy in times of crisis: the capability of citizens‘ assemblies to overcome societal polarization	2
The flip side of digital technologies in internal party elections: a cybersecurity dilemma?	2
From China to fostering rooting innovation in Nanyang : three generations of Malaysian Chinese family businesses in food manufacturing	2
Consensus under strain: policy ideas and decline of Finnish public innovation funding in the 2010s	2
International, national and sectoral determinants of innovation: evolutionary perspective from the Czech, German, Hungarian and Slovak community innovation survey data	2
Healthcare innovation and leadership in non-profit organisations: past, present and future trends	2
Mapping social innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem in Türkiye: pathways to employment and welfare	2
China – Russia strategic partnership and the oil and gas collaboration	2
Encouraging institutional change with cultural theory	2
Citizens’ assemblies in Brazil: an analysis of the role of mini-publics on building democratic participatory climate public policies	2
First field in the Croatian coat of arms: (re)constructing the contested symbol in online news	2
Virtual influencers and generation Z: a cross-cultural study on trust, authenticity, and ethical perceptions in digital marketing	2
China and Australia: ostensible strategic partners, pragmatic transactional clients	2
Communicating crisis news amid polarization: how political affiliations influence information processing of a political crisis	2
A challenger from within. Civilisational discourse in Orbán's Hungary	2
Effect of war and displacement on psychological distress: a study of Ukrainian Citizens	2
What has caused China’s socioeconomic rise? evidence for the neglected role of a new shared property rights model	2
Innovation policy and deep transitions: instruments, institutions and implementation in complex contexts	2
Inside the black box: in search of conceptual tools for evaluating and designing social innovative practices	2
Europeanism? Which novelty does Livre bring to the Portuguese party system in relation to the EU?	2
Conceptualizing cognitive and behavioral elements of individual’s creativity and innovation: systematic literature review	2
Climate change and class structure: greenhouse gas emissions of social classes in the United Kingdom	2
Research bricolage on far-right metapolitics: superordinate intersectionality perspectives on digital identities	2
Western Balkan countries’ innovation as determinant of their future growth and development	2
Adaptation models of Ukrainian refugees in Germany	2
Labour and social inclusion paths for refugees. A comparison between Bologna and Vienna	2
The (ab)sense of a conceptualization of social cohesion in social work: a systematic narrative literature review	2
Applying a transdisciplinary approach to sustainable groundwater governance: experience of Azumino City, Japan	2
Public support for European Union integration during migration and COVID-19 crises: dynamic and determinants	1
Interactive network visualization on the integration of mindsets and sustainability – creating conditions for emergence through a relational narrative	1
A bibliometric review of innovative behavior in education, 1980–2023	1
Public deliberation and policy crisis: the moderating effects of deliberation on policy support determinants	1
The interplay between critical and mathematical thinking: mediating role of mathematics self-efficacy among preservice mathematics teachers	1
ETSI’s legitimacy as an ESO in times of crisis: commentary on Volpato and Eliantonio, Temple and De Vries	1
Service robot performance and hospitality employees’ job loss insecurity and turnover*	1
The impact of cultural dimensions on happiness, with special reference to the Member States of the European union	1
Queer terror management theory on trial: an initial test for the effects of death attitudes on gender stereotypes	1
Nationalism, conflict and violence: comprehensive approach	1
Warrior ethos and the spirit of nationalism	1
The role of economic sectors in absorbing EU regional funding on business innovation. The Andalusia case study	1
Deep learning with R	1
New-institutional explanations for energy transition in Iran: investigating the interplays between institutions, actors, and technology	1
Virtual cycling in sports clubs: innovation adoption within institutional logics	1
From theory to practice: assessing the impact of innovative English teaching on college students’ language proficiency	1
How gender differences in informal networking result in unequal access to interorganizational R&D projects	1
Prospects of European engagement: uniting or dividing? A case study of governing Eurooptimist parties in Czechia	1
The Commission strikes back: regulatory authority and legitimacy in European technology standardization. A commentary on Cantero Gamito and Kamara	1
Beyond the hype: unpacking Italian university students’ engagement with generative AI for learning and academic integrity	1
Multinational cooperation on challenging energy technologies: ‘ITER Project’ an EU mission	1
Data security and privacy in the tourist industry: challenges arising from the use of artificial intelligence and big data. A review of the literature	1
Assessment of the impact of government support to technology business incubators in India	1
The memories we (dis)like: wartime global news and Ukrainian-language poetry as semantic weapons	1
Housing decommodification vs. housing outcomes: a comparative study of the European countries	1
Correction	1
Planning cells in technology research and development – participation for a multisensory screening system in the hospital context	1
The role of political institutions in the religious sphere before and during the Russo-Ukrainian war: national security vs. freedom of religion	1
Daunted by design: creating tools of slow violence	1
Social innovation in Asia: dominant themes and emerging research communities	1
Methodology to promote inter- and transdisciplinary knowledge integration by identifying the functional concept using network analysis	1
Gender equality in political events: women taking responsibility, visibility and leadership	1
Education and social innovation: a framework based on a systematic review	1
Digital protectionism versus open digital markets: analysis of technology diffusion in European economies	1
Can maps help in reflecting on nature? The added value of participatory mapping in focus group interviews	1
What matters in the local adaptation of Western social innovation to China: deep core beliefs, institutional boundary conditions or managerial practices?	1
Evaluation and assessment as main concerns of higher education students after COVID-19 confinement	1
Bridging generations: the power of digitization and social innovation in preserving rural cultural heritage	1
Social innovation in non-profit organizations: a measurement scale	1
Toward a balanced framework for innovation assessment in public and mission-oriented organizations: evidence from defense industries	1
RTDI policy frames and EU’s technological performance	1
Is Globalisation sufficient for Innovation? A National Systems of Innovation approach in distinct levels of Competitiveness	1
European cybersecurity standardisation: a tale of two solitudes in view of Europe’s cyber resilience	1
Environmental education of the elderly – towards an active, inclusive and trust-based ecosystem	1
Learning at stations on the secondary level in biology education: the determination of toxic plants	1