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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Social innovation & governance: a scoping review	47
Populism and emotions: Italian political leaders’ communicative strategies to engage Facebook users	25
Social entrepreneurship and social innovation: looking inside the box and moving out of it	24
Improving the academic experience of students with disabilities in higher education: faculty members of Social Sciences and Law speak out	16
Social resentment, blame attribution and Euroscepticism: the role of status insecurity, relative deprivation and powerlessness	15
Resilient cross-border regional innovation systems for sustainability? A systematic review of drivers and constraints	15
In search of a consensus definition of innovation: a qualitative synthesis of 208 definitions using grounded theory approach	15
Sour grapes:ressentimentas the affective response of grievance politics	15
Emotions in the European Union's decision-making: the reform of the Dublin System in the context of the refugee crisis	12
The role of national affluence, carbon emissions, and democracy in Europeans’ climate perceptions	11
Explanatory models of regional innovation performance in Europe: policy implications for regions	11
Social relationships with nature: elements of a framework for socio-ecological structure analysis	11
Mediated emotions: shame and pride in Polish right-wing media coverage of the 2019 European Parliament elections	11
When emotions run high: affective responses to crises in Europe	11
Evaluating inclusion in distance learning: a survey of university staff attitudes, practices and training needs	10
How to frame the governance dimension of social innovation: theoretical considerations and empirical evidence	10
Poorly designed deliberation: explaining thebanlieues’ non-involvement in the Great Debate	9
Looking to the future? Including children, young people and future generations in deliberations on climate action: Ireland's Citizens’Assembly 2016–2018	9
Insecurity narratives and implicit emotional appeals in French competing populisms	9
The complexity of contemporary innovation policy and its governance in Finland	9
Inequality and renewable energy consumption in Sub-Saharan Africa: implication for high income countries	9
Comparing public funding approaches to the development and commercialization of care robots in the European Union and Japan	8
Public support for deliberative democracy. A specific look at the attitudes of citizens from disadvantaged groups	8
Transformative change and policy-making: the case of bioeconomy policies in the EU frontrunners and lessons for latecomers	8
Digitally-enabled social innovation. Mapping discourses on an emergent social technology	7

Historical institutionalism: a tool for researching the nonprofit sector in times of pandemic	7
Consumption value factors as determinants of use intention and behavior of car-sharing services in the Republic of Korea	7
Sharing political nostalgia in Hungary is yearning for the past successful on social media?	7
Controversies in social innovation research	7
Introducing the adopter perspective in social innovation research	7
Using deliberation for partisan purposes: evidence from the Hungarian National Consultation	7
Portrait of an inclusive lecturer: professional and personal attributes	6
Cross-border cooperation to strengthen innovation and knowledge transfer: An Iberian case	6
Korean webtoons and collective innovation: expanding Europe's creative industries through competitive localization	6
The level of the quality of life in the city and its monitoring	6
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	6
When citizens met politicians – the process and outcomes of mixed deliberation according to participant status and gender	6
The transformational role of a third actor within the Triple Helix Model – the case of Palestine	6
The role of proximity in stakeholder networks for Smart Specialisation: a Sparsely Populated Area case study	5
Who stewards whom? A paradox spectrum of human–nature relationships of Estonian dacha gardeners	5
Creating social innovation in urban development through collaborative processes	5
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
Sustainable urbanism: riverfront greenway planning from tradition to innovation	5
Critical areas for successful adoption of technological innovations in sea shipping – the autonomous ship case study	5
Social innovation and educational innovation: a qualitative review of innovation’s evolution	5
Social perception of technological innovations at sports facilities: justification for financing ‘white elephants’ from public sources? The case of Euro 2012 Stadiums in Poland	5
Social innovation in high-quality agricultural systems: metrics for assessing processes and outcomes	4
Experiential learning: a relational approach to sustaining community-led social innovation	4
Can a rapid mobility transition appear both desirable and achievable? Reflections on the role of competing narratives for socio-technical change and suggestions for a research agenda	4
The sustainable development goals and leadership in public sector: a case study of social innovation in the disability sector of Iran	4
In search of a nomadic pastoralism for the 21st century. A transdisciplinary development of future scenarios to foster a social-ecological transformation in Mongolia	4
Extending the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology with the problems of digital access to (re)connect the disconnected NEETs	3
Legal integration and the reconfiguration of identifications: material and symbolic effects of Brexit on British nationals in Berlin	3
Ecosystems of Innovation: Factors of Social Innovation and its Role in Public Policies	3
Narratives of fungal-based materials for a new bioeconomy era	3
On sustainability in regional innovation studies and smart specialisation	3
Smart grids, smart households, smart neighborhoods – contested narratives of prosumage and decentralization in Berlin’s urban Energiewende	3
Design thinking enabling innovation: a literature review	3
An exploration of potential growth pathways of social innovations in rural Europe	3
Job satisfaction and organizational commitment: comparing Generations X and Y	3
Institutional asymmetries in a low-coordination economy: the smart specialization paradox in Bosnia and Herzegovina	3
Platform companies on the internet as a new organizational form. A sociological perspective	3
A new elite? Higher education as seen through the lens of young people working in innovative technologies	3
Industrial culture as an agent of social innovation: reflections from Velenje, Slovenia	3
Incorporating pro-family and pro-female components into empirical welfare state classification: some new evidence for European countries	3
New migration policies and innovative practices. Slovenia between bordering and inclusion	3
From adjustment to structural changes – innovation activity of enterprises in the time of COVID-19 pandemic	3
Regional effectiveness of innovation: leaders and followers of the EU NUTS 0 and NUTS 2 regions	3
Building blocks of the reverse innovation process	3
Common Patterns in Coping with Under-Representation in Participatory Processes: Evidence from a Mutual Learning Space for Portuguese Local Authorities (LAs)	2
The algebra of the protagonist: sustainability, normativity and storytelling	2
Activation of unemployed through social procurement: from policy to practice	2
The STEEPVL and scenario analyses of the development of the Belt and Road Initiative in Poland	2
How does co-creation influence healthcare regulations? An analysis of co-creation in social innovation	2

Approaches in the concept of convergence. A critical review of the literature	2
Digital and sustainable innovation policies in Europe: comparative lessons	2
The participation of civil society in ETSI from the perspective of throughput legitimacy	2
Ways to foster the scientific system: it’s the people, stupid!	2
Revealing and resolving bottlenecks by multiple intermediaries in public procurement of innovation	2
Global environmental assessments and transformative change: the role of epistemic infrastructures and the inclusion of social sciences	2
A relations-based evaluation framework to support collaborative research and innovation (R&I) networks	2
Social innovation for a new energy model, from theory to action: contributions from the social and solidarity economy in the Basque Country	2
Household energy consumption and its social determinants in Mazandaran	2
The development of a typology and guideline for selecting innovation-encouraging procurement strategies in civil engineering	2
Understanding social innovation in refugee integration: actors, practices, politics in Europe	2
From skilled engineer to a thriving entrepreneur. On the determinants of successful entrepreneurship in technical sectors	2
Primary education stakeholders’ views on the European Union during the Greek economic crisis	1
State and unemployment in central capitalism and Brazil: the constitution of unemployment as a public problem and the degree of unemployment protection	1
Navigating transatlantic power dynamics in ICT standardization – The case of ETSI	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
Prospects for the return of Spanish scientists in the United Kingdom during the Great Recession	1
A systematic literature review on collaborative innovation in the public sector	1
Education and social innovation: a framework based on a systematic review	1
National innovative capacity and knowledge creation in advanced economies: an empirical investigation	1
Critical design: a new vision for fashion design studies	1
Opening the black box of social innovation in migration governance	1
China – Russia strategic partnership and the oil and gas collaboration	1
Multinational corporations and sustainable development goals: an interventionist approach toward quality tertiary education in Nigeria’s case study (Etisalat)	1
Alternative voting methods applied through ICT to enhance political participation in the Czech Republic	1
Impact of authorship on citation rates: a comparative analysis of top 9999 articles in social science	1
ETSI As a case study of organizational resilience in standard setting: strategies that ensure thriving despite organizational challenges	1
‘I was not aware that I did not know’: developing a sense of place with place-based education	1
EIT Digital: leveraging ecosystems for international entrepreneurial innovation	1
Up-scaling social innovation in asylum adjudication: the case of the Migrantes project in Sicily	1
Integrating low socio-economic minorities in a mixed region into technological entrepreneurship and high-tech activities	1
Developing normative criteria for meaningful citizen participation and deliberation in environmental policy	1
Environmental education of the elderly – towards an active, inclusive and trust-based ecosystem	1
Polarized opinions on Covid-19 and environmental policy measures. The role of social media use and personal concerns in German-speaking countries.	1
The effect of the Russian language immersion on academic achievement of students whose mother tongue is Azerbaijani	1
Nothing about us without us: innovating grantmaking processes with participatory methodology	1
Western Balkan countries’ innovation as determinant of their future growth and development	1
The future of aeromobilities in the light of global disruption	1
If no vote, at least voice? The potential and limits of deliberative procedures for the creation of a more inclusive democracy	1
Commuting and life satisfaction: evidence from Russia	1
Exploring narrative strategy: the role of narratives in the strategic positioning of organizational change	1
International, national and sectoral determinants of innovation: evolutionary perspective from the Czech, German, Hungarian and Slovak community innovation survey data	1
Identity, the politics of policing, and limits to legitimacy in Northern Ireland	1
Designing and implementing policies for transformative change in Europe: ideas, policy mixes, actors	1
The technology, innovation, and income inequality nexus: an investigation on G7 countries	1
From China to fostering rooting innovation in Nanyang: three generations of Malaysian Chinese family businesses in food manufacturing	1
Stimuli and barriers to innovation in wildlife policy – long-term institutional analysis of wolf management in Belarus	1
Innovative policies for industrial transition in the European Union: mitigating the social impacts?	1
Dermatologist, orthopaedist, and psychiatrist walk into a COVID ward: on the permeability of professional boundaries in a competition-free context	1
Effectiveness of distance and online education services in the context of the coronavirus pandemic: experience of empirical sociological research in Ukraine	1
Meeting automation challenges to labor markets: policy inspirations from the governance of Swiss VET	1
Relationship between interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity: an essentially contested concept perspective	1
The effect of online creative drama method on primary school students’ levels of happiness and fun in school: Solomon four-group design	1
Research bricolage on far-right metapolitics: superordinate intersectionality perspectives on digital identities	1
Towards a co-creative stakeholder engagement in Smart City projects: a life-cycle approach	1