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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Social innovation & governance: a scoping review	35
The Smart City journey: a systematic review and future research agenda	24
Improving the academic experience of students with disabilities in higher education: faculty members of Social Sciences and Law speak out	16
Social entrepreneurship and social innovation: looking inside the box and moving out of it	16
Populism and emotions: Italian political leaders’ communicative strategies to engage Facebook users	14
The rise of the ‘Netflix tax’ and what it means for sustaining European audiovisual markets	13
Evaluating inclusion in distance learning: a survey of university staff attitudes, practices and training needs	12
In search of a consensus definition of innovation: a qualitative synthesis of 208 definitions using grounded theory approach	11
Energy 4 all? Investigating gendered energy justice implications of community-based micro-hydropower cooperatives in Ethiopia	10
Explanatory models of regional innovation performance in Europe: policy implications for regions	10
Between state-led and corporation-led co-productions: how has film co-production been exploited by states in Europe	10
The role of globalization in modulating the effect of environmental degradation on inclusive human development	9
Resilient cross-border regional innovation systems for sustainability? A systematic review of drivers and constraints	9
How to frame the governance dimension of social innovation: theoretical considerations and empirical evidence	9
From innovations to exnovations. Conflicts, (De-)Politicization processes, and power relations are key in analysing the ecological crisis	9
Comparing public funding approaches to the development and commercialization of care robots in the European Union and Japan	8
Inequality and renewable energy consumption in Sub-Saharan Africa: implication for high income countries	8
The Chilean energy “transition”: between successful policy and the assimilation of a post-political energy condition	8
Emotions in the European Union's decision-making: the reform of the Dublin System in the context of the refugee crisis	8
Sour grapes:ressentimentas the affective response of grievance politics	8
Social resentment, blame attribution and Euroscepticism: the role of status insecurity, relative deprivation and powerlessness	8
The complexity of contemporary innovation policy and its governance in Finland	8
Looking to the future? Including children, young people and future generations in deliberations on climate action: Ireland's Citizens’Assembly 2016–2018	7
Social relationships with nature: elements of a framework for socio-ecological structure analysis	7
When emotions run high: affective responses to crises in Europe	7

The role of national affluence, carbon emissions, and democracy in Europeans’ climate perceptions	7
Transformative change and policy-making: the case of bioeconomy policies in the EU frontrunners and lessons for latecomers	7
Culture and innovation in the international context: a literature overview	6
Public support for deliberative democracy. A specific look at the attitudes of citizens from disadvantaged groups	6
Poorly designed deliberation: explaining thebanlieues’ non-involvement in the Great Debate	6
Consumption value factors as determinants of use intention and behavior of car-sharing services in the Republic of Korea	6
When citizens met politicians – the process and outcomes of mixed deliberation according to participant status and gender	6
Controversies in social innovation research	6
The level of the quality of life in the city and its monitoring	6
Mediated emotions: shame and pride in Polish right-wing media coverage of the 2019 European Parliament elections	6
Innovation policy and performance of Polish enterprises: in search for cluster cooperation additionality	5
Is the sharing economy inclusive? The age-related segmentation of Polish inhabitants from the perspective of the sharing economy in tourism	5
Leadership and collective entrepreneurship: evidence from the health care sector	5
Innovations in innovation policy: reconstructing the emergence, legitimation and dynamics of cluster policies in Germany	5
Cross-border cooperation to strengthen innovation and knowledge transfer: An Iberian case	5
Insecurity narratives and implicit emotional appeals in French competing populisms	5
Social change and innovation for times of crises	5
Rethinking unity in diversity: the potential of European identity in rapidly diversifying societies	4
Portrait of an inclusive lecturer: professional and personal attributes	4
Critical areas for successful adoption of technological innovations in sea shipping – the autonomous ship case study	4
Introducing the adopter perspective in social innovation research	4
Sustainable urbanism: riverfront greenway planning from tradition to innovation	4
Tracing scientisation in the EU Commission’s expert group system	4
An exploration of potential growth pathways of social innovations in rural Europe	4
The role of proximity in stakeholder networks for Smart Specialisation: a Sparsely Populated Area case study	4
Social innovation and educational innovation: a qualitative review of innovation’s evolution	4
The implementation of grassroots product-oriented social innovations by non-governmental organisations: proposal of a measurement tool	4
Korean webtoons and collective innovation: expanding Europe's creative industries through competitive localization	4
Digitally-enabled social innovation. Mapping discourses on an emergent social technology	4
National specificity and convergence in the European anti-GM movement: the cases of Austria, Germany, France, Spain and the UK	4
The transformational role of a third actor within the Triple Helix Model – the case of Palestine	4
Understanding the value of co-creation for social innovation interpretations of social innovation and co-creation in European policy-related documents between 1995 and 2018	4
Using deliberation for partisan purposes: evidence from the Hungarian National Consultation	4
Historical institutionalism: a tool for researching the nonprofit sector in times of pandemic	3
Social perception of technological innovations at sports facilities: justification for financing ‘white elephants’ from public sources? The case of Euro 2012 Stadiums in Poland	3
The myth of subsidies in the film industry: a comparative analysis of European and US approaches	3
Smart Rural: current status of the intelligent, technological, social and sustainable rural development in the European Union	3
Understanding ‘Don't know’ answers to survey questions - an International comparative analysis using interview paradata	3
Regional effectiveness of innovation: leaders and followers of the EU NUTS 0 and NUTS 2 regions	3
A new elite? Higher education as seen through the lens of young people working in innovative technologies	3
Building blocks of the reverse innovation process	3
Industrial culture as an agent of social innovation: reflections from Velenje, Slovenia	3
Interpreting taskscapes: the rituals of guided Nature-Based (Dis)Integration in Sweden	3
Job satisfaction and organizational commitment: comparing Generations X and Y	3
Ecosystems of Innovation: Factors of Social Innovation and its Role in Public Policies	3
Social innovation for a new energy model, from theory to action: contributions from the social and solidarity economy in the Basque Country	3
Creating social innovation in urban development through collaborative processes	3
Extending the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology with the problems of digital access to (re)connect the disconnected NEETs	3
Silver economy as a response to demographic challenges in polish regions: realistic strategy or Utopia?	3
Legal integration and the reconfiguration of identifications: material and symbolic effects of Brexit on British nationals in Berlin	3

Who stewards whom? A paradox spectrum of human–nature relationships of Estonian dacha gardeners	3
Experiential learning: a relational approach to sustaining community-led social innovation	2
Innovation skills training in a lifelong learning programme for unemployed people, in Catalonia (Spain)	2
Does innovation support and maturity matter for firms’ performance in a moderately developed regional innovation system in Central Europe?	2
Sharing political nostalgia in Hungary is yearning for the past successful on social media?	2
Smart grids, smart households, smart neighborhoods – contested narratives of prosumage and decentralization in Berlin’s urban Energiewende	2
The sustainable development goals and leadership in public sector: a case study of social innovation in the disability sector of Iran	2
Incorporating pro-family and pro-female components into empirical welfare state classification: some new evidence for European countries	2
Social innovation in high-quality agricultural systems: metrics for assessing processes and outcomes	2
Effectiveness of distance and online education services in the context of the coronavirus pandemic: experience of empirical sociological research in Ukraine	2
Digital and sustainable innovation policies in Europe: comparative lessons	2
The STEEPVL and scenario analyses of the development of the Belt and Road Initiative in Poland	2
New migration policies and innovative practices. Slovenia between bordering and inclusion	2
On sustainability in regional innovation studies and smart specialisation	2
The algebra of the protagonist: sustainability, normativity and storytelling	2
Household energy consumption and its social determinants in Mazandaran	1
EIT Digital: leveraging ecosystems for international entrepreneurial innovation	1
Understanding social innovation in refugee integration: actors, practices, politics in Europe	1
Polarized opinions on Covid-19 and environmental policy measures. The role of social media use and personal concerns in German-speaking countries.	1
Stimuli and barriers to innovation in wildlife policy – long-term institutional analysis of wolf management in Belarus	1
Narratives of fungal-based materials for a new bioeconomy era	1
Approaches in the concept of convergence. A critical review of the literature	1
Multinational corporations and sustainable development goals: an interventionist approach toward quality tertiary education in Nigeria’s case study (Etisalat)	1
The technology, innovation, and income inequality nexus: an investigation on G7 countries	1
Up-scaling social innovation in asylum adjudication: the case of the Migrantes project in Sicily	1
Activation of unemployed through social procurement: from policy to practice	1
The development of a typology and guideline for selecting innovation-encouraging procurement strategies in civil engineering	1
Designing and implementing policies for transformative change in Europe: ideas, policy mixes, actors	1
Revealing and resolving bottlenecks by multiple intermediaries in public procurement of innovation	1
Environmental education of the elderly – towards an active, inclusive and trust-based ecosystem	1
The effect of the Russian language immersion on academic achievement of students whose mother tongue is Azerbaijani	1
From skilled engineer to a thriving entrepreneur. On the determinants of successful entrepreneurship in technical sectors	1
Common Patterns in Coping with Under-Representation in Participatory Processes: Evidence from a Mutual Learning Space for Portuguese Local Authorities (LAs)	1
If no vote, at least voice? The potential and limits of deliberative procedures for the creation of a more inclusive democracy	1
Development policies and politics in neoliberal times: policy mixes and transformative public-civil collaboration for sustainable collective wellbeing in Spain’s regions (1980s–2010s)	1
In search of a nomadic pastoralism for the 21st century. A transdisciplinary development of future scenarios to foster a social-ecological transformation in Mongolia	1
Measuring the success of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria: findings on the strategic and tactical outcomes of the uses of terrorism	1
Primary education stakeholders’ views on the European Union during the Greek economic crisis	1
Prospects for the return of Spanish scientists in the United Kingdom during the Great Recession	1
Conflicting and reinforcing identities in expanding Europe from 1995 to 2019. Findings revisited in an even larger Europe	1
Innovative policies for industrial transition in the European Union: mitigating the social impacts?	1
Platform companies on the internet as a new organizational form. A sociological perspective	1
National innovative capacity and knowledge creation in advanced economies: an empirical investigation	1
Relationship between interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity: an essentially contested concept perspective	1
Identity, the politics of policing, and limits to legitimacy in Northern Ireland	1
‘I was not aware that I did not know’: developing a sense of place with place-based education	1