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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Welcome to Planet B: co-designing transdisciplinary research questions to uncover super wicked problems	19
Advanced services as a new frontier for China’s value chain cooperation with European manufacturing	18
European Wikipedia platforms, sharing economy and national differences in participation: a case study	15
Up-scaling social innovation in asylum adjudication: the case of the Migrantes project in Sicily	14
Speaking of a ‘climate crisis’: Fridays for Future's attempts to reframe climate change	12
Rowing against decline: regional innovation systems and marginality in the era of digital transition	11
Developing normative criteria for meaningful citizen participation and deliberation in environmental policy	11
Taking a historical perspective: students’ understanding of the Turkish Alphabet Reform (November 1928)	10
Leveraging artificial intelligence to detect and prevent corporate fraud in Chinese enterprises	10
The role of affect balance and external boredom in the relationship between loneliness and problematic smartphone use	10
The effect of online creative drama method on primary school students’ levels of happiness and fun in school: Solomon four-group design	9
New Europeans on the cultural cleavage: has Macron created a new transnational party family?	9
Notes on the declining American institutions in university rankings: a trend against the Germany–Britain–America shift?	9
Embeddedness of innovation processes: collaborations, institutions, creativity and constructed meanings	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
Education for ever changing times: the on-going quest for the best solutions in a post-modern world	8
“War took my home, but not my future”: adaptation of war-affected Ukrainian students in Australia and Germany	7
Administrative traditions and the role of conditionality for governance reforms: evidence from the EU regional innovation policy	7
A study of spontaneous narrative formation: coronavirus and narratives of doom	7
Honi the Circle-Maker: an ancient narrative for creating temenos in challenging times	7
Diffusion of innovation, innovation studies, and innovation policies: cross-fertilisation to improve smart specialisation strategies (S3)	7
Be lucky!? – the interrelations of luck, success, and dependency relationships in the context of a disadvantaged community	7
The Early Warning System: people’s indirect empowerment to reduce the democratic deficit	6
The role of creativity in new product development process. Insights from the leading bank in Romania	6
Forced migration in wartime: decision-making and trajectory	6

Voting or consensus? An empirical study of decision-making in the European standards body ETSI	6
Navigating transatlantic power dynamics in ICT standardization – The case of ETSI	6
Let’s talk! Calling for a debate on the GDPR's impact on qualitative research	6
EU Policies and prospects for achieving ‘Chip autonomy’ amid global localization trend in chip supply chain	6
On the narrative rationality of a legend that grows: from ‘Da Yu Taming the Flood’ to the ‘Five Events of Da Yu’	6
Actual trends in critical making and collaborative innovation research	6
Stakeholders’ justifications in innovation: the case of cell-based meat	6
Conceptualising euro-optimism via frames analysis: case study of Slovenia	6
The implications of the EU cohesion policy instruments and cross-border cooperation projects on social entrepreneurship in Euroregions	6
Editorial	6
From global production networks to global knowledge networks a case study on Ford-Otosan automotive company in Türkiye	5
Design thinking enabling innovation: a literature review	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	5
Deliberation in times of crisis – how can citizens’ councils deal with pressing political issues like the Corona pandemic?	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
Impact of authorship on citation rates: a comparative analysis of top 9999 articles in social science	5
Innovation biography and network analysis as instruments for evaluating inclusion policy the case of Single Contact Points for Employers	5
Forms of agency in strategies of relocalization by translocal networks of community-led initiatives in Europe	4
Why context matters: understanding transdisciplinary research through the lens of nine context factors	4
Learning from public sector innovation pilots: the case of autonomous bus pilots	4
A relations-based evaluation framework to support collaborative research and innovation (R&I) networks	4
Dermatologist, orthopaedist, and psychiatrist walk into a COVID ward: on the permeability of professional boundaries in a competition-free context	4
Relationship between patenting and economic development – message implied by the Czechoslovakian experience from 1918 to 1991	4
Social innovation as a process: pursuing a pathway to the labour market inclusion of refugee women in Berlin	4
The contribution of cooperation networks to service innovation in micro-enterprises: a management perspective	4
Multinational corporations and sustainable development goals: an interventionist approach toward quality tertiary education in Nigeria’s case study (Etisalat)	4
Macron’s European project: two faces of Europeanism	4
The driving effect of the Euro on inbound tourism: multiperiod DID method	4
ETSI’s legitimacy is guaranteed by its openness and endorsement of its standards by the market	4
The development of a typology and guideline for selecting innovation-encouraging procurement strategies in civil engineering	4
Searching for epistemological passe-partout: naming and defining the current technological revolution	4
Activation of unemployed through social procurement: from policy to practice	4
Commuting and life satisfaction: evidence from Russia	4
Narratives for personal and collective transformations	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
Inside the black box: in search of conceptual tools for evaluating and designing social innovative practices	3
From China to fostering rooting innovation in Nanyang : three generations of Malaysian Chinese family businesses in food manufacturing	3
Correction	3
Resilience under fire: navigating societal challenges, agency, and innovation in times of war	3
Why do social innovations not scale out? A case study of social innovations implemented by rural NGOs from post-socialist Poland	3
Institutional asymmetries in a low-coordination economy: the smart specialization paradox in Bosnia and Herzegovina	3
Healthcare innovation and leadership in non-profit organisations: past, present and future trends	3
Job satisfaction and organizational commitment: comparing Generations X and Y	3
Who stewards whom? A paradox spectrum of human–nature relationships of Estonian dacha gardeners	3
Innovation and leadership in computational social science’s prevalent trend: implications to management science, public policy and social development	3
Older adults and use of video games	3
A systematic literature review on collaborative innovation in the public sector	3
Innovation policy and deep transitions: instruments, institutions and implementation in complex contexts	3

Global environmental assessments and transformative change: the role of epistemic infrastructures and the inclusion of social sciences	3
Influencing factors of academic staff’ knowledge sharing: a case of government universities in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia	3
Human survivability studies: concept, methodology, case studies, and prospects	3
First field in the Croatian coat of arms: (re)constructing the contested symbol in online news	2
Europeanism? Which novelty does Livre bring to the Portuguese party system in relation to the EU?	2
The (ab)sense of a conceptualization of social cohesion in social work: a systematic narrative literature review	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
Adaptation models of Ukrainian refugees in Germany	2
The role of ETSI in the EU’s regulation and governance of artificial intelligence	2
In search of a nomadic pastoralism for the 21st century. A transdisciplinary development of future scenarios to foster a social-ecological transformation in Mongolia	2
Consensus under strain: policy ideas and decline of Finnish public innovation funding in the 2010s	2
Blockchain and public sector innovations: understanding decentralized models of technology adoption in e-government	2
The conceptual framework of shock innovation in education: non-diffusive spread of innovations triggered with the pandemic	2
Communicating crisis news amid polarization: how political affiliations influence information processing of a political crisis	2
Can we do inclusive politics in urgent times?	2
Labour and social inclusion paths for refugees. A comparison between Bologna and Vienna	2
International, national and sectoral determinants of innovation: evolutionary perspective from the Czech, German, Hungarian and Slovak community innovation survey data	2
Climate change and class structure: greenhouse gas emissions of social classes in the United Kingdom	2
Big data in computational social science and humanities	2
Household energy consumption and its social determinants in Mazandaran	2
Sectoral specialization and productivity in European metropolitan regions: empirical insights and policy implications	2
Effect of war and displacement on psychological distress: a study of Ukrainian Citizens	2
Citizens’ assemblies in Brazil: an analysis of the role of mini-publics on building democratic participatory climate public policies	2
Research bricolage on far-right metapolitics: superordinate intersectionality perspectives on digital identities	2
What has caused China’s socioeconomic rise? evidence for the neglected role of a new shared property rights model	2
A challenger from within. Civilisational discourse in Orbán's Hungary	2
The technology, innovation, and income inequality nexus: an investigation on G7 countries	2
Applying a transdisciplinary approach to sustainable groundwater governance: experience of Azumino City, Japan	2
China – Russia strategic partnership and the oil and gas collaboration	2
Environmental education of the elderly – towards an active, inclusive and trust-based ecosystem	1
Conceptualizing cognitive and behavioral elements of individual’s creativity and innovation: systematic literature review	1
Triple Helix spaces: a tale of three helices	1
Nationalism, conflict and violence: comprehensive approach	1
The Commission strikes back: regulatory authority and legitimacy in European technology standardization. A commentary on Cantero Gamito and Kamara	1
Social innovation in non-profit organizations: a measurement scale	1
Queer terror management theory on trial: an initial test for the effects of death attitudes on gender stereotypes	1
The role of economic sectors in absorbing EU regional funding on business innovation. The Andalusia case study	1
Bridging generations: the power of digitization and social innovation in preserving rural cultural heritage	1
European cybersecurity standardisation: a tale of two solitudes in view of Europe’s cyber resilience	1
Service robot performance and hospitality employees’ job loss insecurity and turnover*	1
New-institutional explanations for energy transition in Iran: investigating the interplays between institutions, actors, and technology	1
Public deliberation and policy crisis: the moderating effects of deliberation on policy support determinants	1
Encouraging institutional change with cultural theory	1
‘I was not aware that I did not know’: developing a sense of place with place-based education	1
Ecosystems of Innovation: Factors of Social Innovation and its Role in Public Policies	1
The algebra of the protagonist: sustainability, normativity and storytelling	1
Beyond the hype: unpacking Italian university students’ engagement with generative AI for learning and academic integrity	1
Assessment of the impact of government support to technology business incubators in India	1
Planning cells in technology research and development – participation for a multisensory screening system in the hospital context	1
Toward a balanced framework for innovation assessment in public and mission-oriented organizations: evidence from defense industries	1
Public support for European Union integration during migration and COVID-19 crises: dynamic and determinants	1
The impact of cultural dimensions on happiness, with special reference to the Member States of the European union	1
Housing decommodification vs. housing outcomes: a comparative study of the European countries	1
The role of political institutions in the religious sphere before and during the Russo-Ukrainian war: national security vs. freedom of religion	1
Methodology to promote inter- and transdisciplinary knowledge integration by identifying the functional concept using network analysis	1
RTDI policy frames and EU’s technological performance	1
Can maps help in reflecting on nature? The added value of participatory mapping in focus group interviews	1
Warrior ethos and the spirit of nationalism	1
Virtual cycling in sports clubs: innovation adoption within institutional logics	1
Social innovation and educational innovation: a qualitative review of innovation’s evolution	1
Western Balkan countries’ innovation as determinant of their future growth and development	1
Daunted by design: creating tools of slow violence	1
Evaluation and assessment as main concerns of higher education students after COVID-19 confinement	1
Deep learning with R	1
What matters in the local adaptation of Western social innovation to China: deep core beliefs, institutional boundary conditions or managerial practices?	1
Correction	1
Is Globalisation sufficient for Innovation? A National Systems of Innovation approach in distinct levels of Competitiveness	1
The memories we (dis)like: wartime global news and Ukrainian-language poetry as semantic weapons	1
How gender differences in informal networking result in unequal access to interorganizational R&D projects	1
From theory to practice: assessing the impact of innovative English teaching on college students’ language proficiency	1
Learning at stations on the secondary level in biology education: the determination of toxic plants	1
New migration policies and innovative practices. Slovenia between bordering and inclusion	1
ETSI’s legitimacy as an ESO in times of crisis: commentary on Volpato and Eliantonio, Temple and De Vries	1