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Papers

(The median citation count of Evaluation is 0. 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
Participatory systems mapping for complex energy policy evaluation	27
Building a system-based Theory of Change using Participatory Systems Mapping	22
A critical realist approach to systems thinking in evaluation	17
Enriching evaluation practice through care ethics	15
Conducting focus groups in realist evaluation	14
Unpacking context in realist evaluations: Findings from a comprehensive review	14
How do policy evaluators understand complexity?	14
Tensions of evaluating innovation in a living lab: Moving beyond actionable knowledge production	13
Methodological reflections on using qualitative research to explore the causal mechanisms of complex health interventions	12
The coronavirus response: Boxed in by models	11
Policy evaluation for a complex world: Practical methods and reflections from the UK Centre for the Evaluation of Complexity across the Nexus	11
Evaluation for planetary health	8
What should evaluation learn from COP 26? Views of evaluation practitioners	8
Towards systemic evaluation in turbulent times – Second-order practice shift	7
Positing a schema of measurable outcomes of cultural engagement	7
Monitoring and evaluation for thinking and working politically	7
Evaluators in the Anthropocene	7
Re-framing accountability and learning through evaluation: Insights from the Italian higher education evaluation system	6
How can multi-criteria analysis support deliberative spatial planning? A critical review of methods and participatory frameworks	6
Accountability versus learning in aid evaluation: A practice-oriented exploration of persistent dilemmas	6
Biopolitical power and paradoxes in evaluation research with transnational migrant youth	6
Clarifying realist analytic and interdisciplinary consensus processes in a complex health intervention: A worked example of Judgemental Rationality in action	5
Diagnostic evaluation and Bayesian Updating: Practical solutions to common problems	5
How does the commissioning process hinder the uptake of complexity-appropriate evaluation?	5
Developing an ethical rationale for collaborative approaches to evaluation	4

Don’t panic: Bringing complexity thinking to UK Government evaluation guidance	4
A theory-based approach to evaluations intended to inform transitions toward sustainability	4
From abstract to ideal–The limits of models. A reply to Pawson’s ‘boxed in by models’	4
The constitutive effects of social investment evaluation	4
Improving a framework for evaluating participatory science	4
Categories of context in realist evaluation	4
Applying Big Data visualization to detect trends in 30 years of performance reports	4
Evaluating the impact of policy research: Evidence from the evaluation of rural policy research in developing countries	4
Development of a ‘real-world’ logic model through testing the feasibility of a complex healthcare intervention: the challenge of reconciling scalability and context-sensitivity	4
Surviving the Anthropocene: How evaluation can contribute to knowledge and better policymaking	3
Grounding evaluation capacity development in systems theory	3
Using contribution analysis to evaluate large-scale, transformation change processes	3
How to normalize reflexive evaluation? Navigating between legitimacy and integrity	3
Re-purposing evaluation to learn about social justice: Reconfiguring epistemological politics through the regulative ideal of ‘participatory parity’	3
Why is impact measurement abandoned in practice? Evidence use in evaluation and contracting for five European Social Impact Bonds	3
How and how well do workplace assessments work? Using contextual variations in a theory-based evaluation with a largeN	2
Including multiple perspectives in participatory multi-criteria analysis: A framework for investigation	2
Worlds apart or coproduction? Investigating the relationship between knowledge users and producers	2
Cased-based modelling and scenario simulation for ex-post evaluation	2
Eliciting stories of gender-transformative change: Investigating the effectiveness of question prompt formulations in qualitative gender assessments	2
Ethics of evaluation for socio-ecological transformation: Case-based critical systems analysis of motivation, power, expertise, and legitimacy	2
A theory-based approach to designing interventions for Planetary Health	2
Choosing a qualitative comparative analysis solution in multi-method impact evaluation	2
Using environmental evaluation systems and their contribution to sustainable development	2
How can critical deliberative theory help to solve the methodological challenges of evaluating from a gender + perspective?	2
How to develop a realist programme theory using Margaret Archer’s structure–agency–culture framework: The case of adolescent accountability for sexual and reproductive health in urban resource-constra	2
Systems thinking concepts within a collaborative program evaluation methodology: The Hermes Program Evaluation	2
Program, complexity, and system when evaluating sustainable development	2
Don’t you forget about me: Independence of evaluations from the perspective of US evaluation clients—An exploratory study	2
The spontaneous theoreticians: How evaluators build and revise their knowledge of programs through experience	1
Power in and of evaluation: A framework of analysis	1
Applying the eight principles of developmental evaluation: Complex Care Hub as a case example	1
Editorial	1
How can climate change and its interaction with other compounding risks be considered in evaluation? Experiences from Vietnam	1
Strengthening evaluation capacity in Government: Why institutionalisation matters and why it is not sufficient	1
The unused potential of process tracing as evaluation approach: The case of cluster policy evaluation	1
Frameworks for program evaluation: Considerations on research, practice, and institutions	1
Developing a theory of change methodology to support the evaluation of place-based systems change interventions to support child and adolescent mental health and well-being	1
Evaluation through narratives: A practical case of Participatory Narrative Inquiry in women empowerment evaluation in Niger	1
Using systematic reviews to inform environmental policy-making	1
Pivoting to online: The benefits, challenges and possibilities for international programme evaluations	0
Understanding evaluation use from an organisational perspective: A review of the literature and a research agenda	0
Understanding the theoretical underpinnings of preventative early parenting interventions: A theory-based evaluation	0
Principles and methods to advance value for money	0
Editorial	0
French language abstracts	0
Diagnostic evaluation with simulated probabilities	0
The curious case of the realist trial: Methodological oxymoron or unicorn?	0
A graphical method for causal program attribution in theory-based evaluation	0
Editorial	0

French language abstracts	0
Can we use deliberation to change evaluation systems? How an advisory group contributed to policy change	0
Evaluation during war: Current realities and future possibilities of Ukrainian monitoring and evaluation	0
Evaluating local system change using a comparative maturity matrix	0
Developing middle-range theories within a realist evaluation of how health committees support community capacity for health	0
French language abstracts	0
Editorial	0
New challenges for the evaluation community: Impactful contributions in times of urgency	0
Navigating the boundaries between evaluators and similar applied professionals	0
Editorial	0
French language abstracts	0
French Language Abstracts	0
Contribution of practical wisdom to resolving ethical issues	0
Causal mapping for evaluators	0
Challenges and strategies for implementers and evaluators working in conflict settings	0
How evaluation is understood and practised in the European Parliament	0
Applying SCALE 3D for evaluating transformative social innovation	0
The potential of consecutive qualitative comparative analysis as a systematic strategy for configurational theorizing	0
Navigating competing demands in monitoring and evaluation: Five key paradoxes	0
ParEvo: A methodology for the exploration and evaluation of alternative futures	0
Editor’s Note	0
Comprehensive evaluation framework building for integrated development program	0
French language abstracts	0
French language abstracts	0
Realistic evaluation of social inclusion	0
Evaluating the impact of business coaching programmes by taking perceptions seriously	0
French language abstracts	0
Evaluating site selection at design in food systems interventions: A formative geospatial approach	0
Giving critical theoretical and evaluation practice context to ‘Testing, Testing’ in Jamaica	0
Contribution tracing for organisational-wide planning, improved collaboration and evaluative thinking	0
News from the community	0
How are accountability and organisational learning related? A study of German bilateral development cooperation	0
Preventing children’s death by heatstroke: How alternative accident theories affect policy design and evaluation	0
French language abstracts	0
French language abstracts	0
News from the Community	0
News from the community	0
French language abstracts	0
The sceptical turn in evaluation and what to do with it: Keynote presentation delivered by Peter Dahler-Larsen and Estelle Raimondo at the EES conference in Copenhagen, June 10, 2022	0
Editorial	0
Regulatory Scrutiny Board: A support for evidence-based policymaking in the European Commission	0
Editorial	0
Interorganizational evaluation capacity building in the public, health and community sectors	0
French language abstracts	0
News from the community July 2020	0
Co-creation and societal impact: Toward a generic framework for research impact assessment	0
Theorizing how interventions work in evaluation: Process-tracing methods and theorizing process theories of change	0
French language abstracts	0
Editorial	0
DOME: A mixed-method evaluation of the impacts of complex programmes against educational poverty	0
EES Presidents Introduction to the special issue	0
French language abstracts	0
Erratum to “Participatory systems mapping for complex energy policy evaluation”	0
Editorial	0
French language abstracts	0
French language abstracts	0
In memoriam	0
Editorial	0
The use of mediation analysis in evaluation of complex health interventions	0
Using digital technology to enhance youth participatory evaluation	0
Combining process tracing and synthetic control method: Bridging two ways of making causal inference in evaluation research	0
Understanding the what, how, and why in advocacy: Assessing the applicability of participatory process evaluation methodology in an advocacy context	0
Reflections on good practice in evaluating Violence Reduction Units: Experiences from across England and Wales	0
European Evaluation Society Presidents’ introduction to the Special Issue	0
News from the community	0
Using co-creation to address monitoring and evaluation challenges: The experience of South Africa’s evaluation hackathon	0
Editorial	0
Editor’s Note	0
What works in democracy support? How to fill evidence and usability gaps through evaluation	0
News from the community	0
A model for effective partnership working to support programme evaluation	0
Speaking truth to power: Exploring a Ministry’s evaluation department through evaluators’ and policymakers’ eyes	0
Planetary health: Creating rapid impact assessment tools	0
Editorial	0
Theory building from qualitative evaluation	0
Editorial	0
What role should we play to be effective evaluators? – practitioner reflections	0