OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Evaluation is 3. 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
Participatory systems mapping for complex energy policy evaluation	34
Building a system-based Theory of Change using Participatory Systems Mapping	26
Unpacking context in realist evaluations: Findings from a comprehensive review	24
A critical realist approach to systems thinking in evaluation	20
Methodological reflections on using qualitative research to explore the causal mechanisms of complex health interventions	20
Conducting focus groups in realist evaluation	19
Tensions of evaluating innovation in a living lab: Moving beyond actionable knowledge production	15
Policy evaluation for a complex world: Practical methods and reflections from the UK Centre for the Evaluation of Complexity across the Nexus	14
The coronavirus response: Boxed in by models	11
Development of a ‘real-world’ logic model through testing the feasibility of a complex healthcare intervention: the challenge of reconciling scalability and context-sensitivity	10
How can multi-criteria analysis support deliberative spatial planning? A critical review of methods and participatory frameworks	10
Evaluation for planetary health	10
Monitoring and evaluation for thinking and working politically	10
A theory-based approach to evaluations intended to inform transitions toward sustainability	10
What should evaluation learn from COP 26? Views of evaluation practitioners	9
Accountability versus learning in aid evaluation: A practice-oriented exploration of persistent dilemmas	8
Categories of context in realist evaluation	7
How does the commissioning process hinder the uptake of complexity-appropriate evaluation?	6
Improving a framework for evaluating participatory science	6
Surviving the Anthropocene: How evaluation can contribute to knowledge and better policymaking	6
Don’t panic: Bringing complexity thinking to UK Government evaluation guidance	6
Developing an ethical rationale for collaborative approaches to evaluation	5
Ethics of evaluation for socio-ecological transformation: Case-based critical systems analysis of motivation, power, expertise, and legitimacy	5
From abstract to ideal–The limits of models. A reply to Pawson’s ‘boxed in by models’	5
How to normalize reflexive evaluation? Navigating between legitimacy and integrity	5

Including multiple perspectives in participatory multi-criteria analysis: A framework for investigation	5
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
Cased-based modelling and scenario simulation for ex-post evaluation	5
Re-purposing evaluation to learn about social justice: Reconfiguring epistemological politics through the regulative ideal of ‘participatory parity’	4
The constitutive effects of social investment evaluation	4
Grounding evaluation capacity development in systems theory	4
Power in and of evaluation: A framework of analysis	4
How can climate change and its interaction with other compounding risks be considered in evaluation? Experiences from Vietnam	4
Evaluating the impact of policy research: Evidence from the evaluation of rural policy research in developing countries	4
Using environmental evaluation systems and their contribution to sustainable development	4
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	3
Evaluation through narratives: A practical case of Participatory Narrative Inquiry in women empowerment evaluation in Niger	3
The unused potential of process tracing as evaluation approach: The case of cluster policy evaluation	3
Theorizing how interventions work in evaluation: Process-tracing methods and theorizing process theories of change	3
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	3
A theory-based approach to designing interventions for Planetary Health	3
Theory building from qualitative evaluation	3
Why is impact measurement abandoned in practice? Evidence use in evaluation and contracting for five European Social Impact Bonds	3
Program, complexity, and system when evaluating sustainable development	3
Causal mapping for evaluators	3