OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Evaluation is 4. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
French language abstracts	42
Editorial	33
Ethical reflexivity: A critical examination of ethics in public health intervention research	26
Imprinting and the evolution of evaluation: A descriptive account of social impact evaluation methodological practice	15
Foreword	13
French language abstracts	12
The transformational power of evaluation: Exploring long-term perspectives in evaluations of impacts and outcomes from the standpoint of practitioners	11
Realistic evaluation of social inclusion	11
Can we use deliberation to change evaluation systems? How an advisory group contributed to policy change	9
A graphical method for causal program attribution in theory-based evaluation	9
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	9
Organisational factors in evaluation use: results from a survey in five EU countries	9
Toward a citizen science framework for public policy evaluation: Lessons from a field experiment on Freedom of Information laws in Belgium	8
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	8
Text as data for evaluation: Natural language processing and large language models to generate novel insights from unstructured text data	8
French language abstracts	7
What role should we play to be effective evaluators? – practitioner reflections	7
A framework for evaluating women’s leadership programmes	6
Personas for program evaluation: Insights from a gender-focused evaluation in Cambodia	6
Lessening the unknown: An unintended consequences knowability classification schema for international development projects	6
Methodological bricolage, data pattern detection and realist explanation: A portfolio analysis of inclusive business support	6
DOME: A mixed-method evaluation of the impacts of complex programmes against educational poverty	6
Evaluation blogs, podcasts and webinars in the first half of 2025: Roundup review IV	6
Theory building from qualitative evaluation	5
Evaluation blogs, podcasts and webinars in 2024: A mid-year review	5

Using digital technology to enhance youth participatory evaluation	5
How evaluation is understood and practised in the European Parliament	5
Conducting focus groups in realist evaluation	5
Unraveling the complexities of learning in community development evaluation	5
Editorial	5
Post-truth and pathways for evaluators	4
Editorial	4
Choosing a qualitative comparative analysis solution in multi-method impact evaluation	4
Combining process tracing and synthetic control method: Bridging two ways of making causal inference in evaluation research	4
Evaluation during war: Current realities and future possibilities of Ukrainian monitoring and evaluation	4
Editorial	4
News from the community	4
A critical realist approach to systems thinking in evaluation	4
Evaluation blogs, podcasts, and webinars in 2023: A roundup review	4