OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Innovation-The European Journal of Social Science Research is 2. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Advanced services as a new frontier for China’s value chain cooperation with European manufacturing	24
European Wikipedia platforms, sharing economy and national differences in participation: a case study	24
Welcome to Planet B: co-designing transdisciplinary research questions to uncover super wicked problems	16
Up-scaling social innovation in asylum adjudication: the case of the Migrantes project in Sicily	15
Speaking of a ‘climate crisis’: Fridays for Future's attempts to reframe climate change	14
Rowing against decline: regional innovation systems and marginality in the era of digital transition	13
The effect of online creative drama method on primary school students’ levels of happiness and fun in school: Solomon four-group design	13
Developing normative criteria for meaningful citizen participation and deliberation in environmental policy	13
Education for ever changing times: the on-going quest for the best solutions in a post-modern world	12
Notes on the declining American institutions in university rankings: a trend against the Germany–Britain–America shift?	12
Analyzing latent social effects of social initiatives through social return on investment (SROI) analysis in wartime: a critical examination from an applied sociology perspective	11
Introducing the adopter perspective in social innovation research	11
Looking to the future? Including children, young people and future generations in deliberations on climate action: Ireland's Citizens’Assembly 2016–2018	11
Stakeholders’ justifications in innovation: the case of cell-based meat	10
“War took my home, but not my future”: adaptation of war-affected Ukrainian students in Australia and Germany	10
Administrative traditions and the role of conditionality for governance reforms: evidence from the EU regional innovation policy	10
Honi the Circle-Maker: an ancient narrative for creating temenos in challenging times	10
The role of creativity in new product development process. Insights from the leading bank in Romania	9
Diffusion of innovation, innovation studies, and innovation policies: cross-fertilisation to improve smart specialisation strategies (S3)	9
A study of spontaneous narrative formation: coronavirus and narratives of doom	8
Voting or consensus? An empirical study of decision-making in the European standards body ETSI	7
Social resentment, blame attribution and Euroscepticism: the role of status insecurity, relative deprivation and powerlessness	7
Navigating transatlantic power dynamics in ICT standardization – The case of ETSI	7
The Early Warning System: people’s indirect empowerment to reduce the democratic deficit	7
On the narrative rationality of a legend that grows: from ‘Da Yu Taming the Flood’ to the ‘Five Events of Da Yu’	6

Forced migration in wartime: decision-making and trajectory	6
The development of a typology and guideline for selecting innovation-encouraging procurement strategies in civil engineering	6
Editorial	6
The implications of the EU cohesion policy instruments and cross-border cooperation projects on social entrepreneurship in Euroregions	6
Design thinking enabling innovation: a literature review	6
Actual trends in critical making and collaborative innovation research	6
Public research institutes in Brazil: evidence of research and innovation impact	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
The potential role of university community engagement in supporting transformative social innovation – experiences from Hungary	5
Commuting and life satisfaction: evidence from Russia	5
Altruistic, ego-centred or both? A value-based typology of supporters of a pro-European movement	5
The contribution of cooperation networks to service innovation in micro-enterprises: a management perspective	5
Social innovation as a process: pursuing a pathway to the labour market inclusion of refugee women in Berlin	4
Why context matters: understanding transdisciplinary research through the lens of nine context factors	4
A relations-based evaluation framework to support collaborative research and innovation (R&I) networks	4
Learning from public sector innovation pilots: the case of autonomous bus pilots	4
Multinational corporations and sustainable development goals: an interventionist approach toward quality tertiary education in Nigeria’s case study (Etisalat)	4
Paradoxes of (Il)liberal democracy: the role of Christian Democracy	4
ETSI’s legitimacy is guaranteed by its openness and endorsement of its standards by the market	4
Historical institutionalism: a tool for researching the nonprofit sector in times of pandemic	4
Correction	4
Sour grapes:ressentimentas the affective response of grievance politics	4
Activation of unemployed through social procurement: from policy to practice	4
If no vote, at least voice? The potential and limits of deliberative procedures for the creation of a more inclusive democracy	4
Dermatologist, orthopaedist, and psychiatrist walk into a COVID ward: on the permeability of professional boundaries in a competition-free context	4
Nothing about us without us: innovating grantmaking processes with participatory methodology	4
Narratives for personal and collective transformations	4
Resilience under fire: navigating societal challenges, agency, and innovation in times of war	3
Global environmental assessments and transformative change: the role of epistemic infrastructures and the inclusion of social sciences	3
Job satisfaction and organizational commitment: comparing Generations X and Y	3
From skilled engineer to a thriving entrepreneur. On the determinants of successful entrepreneurship in technical sectors	3
How economic perceptions shape the image of the EU? The evidence from 10 EU member states during the four consecutive waves of crises	3
Influencing factors of academic staff’ knowledge sharing: a case of government universities in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia	3
Diaspora, deliberation and democracy: examining externally-sponsored initiatives for the development of local fora in Bosnia and Herzegovina	3
The driving effect of the Euro on inbound tourism: multiperiod DID method	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
Adaptation models of Ukrainian refugees in Germany	2
Institutional asymmetries in a low-coordination economy: the smart specialization paradox in Bosnia and Herzegovina	2
Can we do inclusive politics in urgent times?	2
The STEEPVL and scenario analyses of the development of the Belt and Road Initiative in Poland	2
Grounding innovation: towards an integrated concept	2
First field in the Croatian coat of arms: (re)constructing the contested symbol in online news	2
Poorly designed deliberation: explaining thebanlieues’ non-involvement in the Great Debate	2
From China to fostering rooting innovation in Nanyang : three generations of Malaysian Chinese family businesses in food manufacturing	2
Citizens’ assemblies in Brazil: an analysis of the role of mini-publics on building democratic participatory climate public policies	2
A systematic literature review on collaborative innovation in the public sector	2
Inside the black box: in search of conceptual tools for evaluating and designing social innovative practices	2
Effect of war and displacement on psychological distress: a study of Ukrainian Citizens	2

Research bricolage on far-right metapolitics: superordinate intersectionality perspectives on digital identities	2
Sectoral specialization and productivity in European metropolitan regions: empirical insights and policy implications	2
The conceptual framework of shock innovation in education: non-diffusive spread of innovations triggered with the pandemic	2
Deliberative democracy in times of crisis: the capability of citizens‘ assemblies to overcome societal polarization	2
Older adults and use of video games	2
Healthcare innovation and leadership in non-profit organisations: past, present and future trends	2
Innovation policy and deep transitions: instruments, institutions and implementation in complex contexts	2
When citizens met politicians – the process and outcomes of mixed deliberation according to participant status and gender	2
International, national and sectoral determinants of innovation: evolutionary perspective from the Czech, German, Hungarian and Slovak community innovation survey data	2