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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Participatory systems mapping for complex energy policy evaluation	28
Building a system-based Theory of Change using Participatory Systems Mapping	22
A critical realist approach to systems thinking in evaluation	17
Conducting focus groups in realist evaluation	16
Unpacking context in realist evaluations: Findings from a comprehensive review	15
Enriching evaluation practice through care ethics	15
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	13
Policy evaluation for a complex world: Practical methods and reflections from the UK Centre for the Evaluation of Complexity across the Nexus	12
The coronavirus response: Boxed in by models	11
Evaluation for planetary health	8
What should evaluation learn from COP 26? Views of evaluation practitioners	8
Positing a schema of measurable outcomes of cultural engagement	7
Towards systemic evaluation in turbulent times – Second-order practice shift	7
Evaluators in the Anthropocene	7
Monitoring and evaluation for thinking and working politically	7
Accountability versus learning in aid evaluation: A practice-oriented exploration of persistent dilemmas	6
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
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
Development of a ‘real-world’ logic model through testing the feasibility of a complex healthcare intervention: the challenge of reconciling scalability and context-sensitivity	5
Don’t panic: Bringing complexity thinking to UK Government evaluation guidance	5
How does the commissioning process hinder the uptake of complexity-appropriate evaluation?	5

Diagnostic evaluation and Bayesian Updating: Practical solutions to common problems	5
Surviving the Anthropocene: How evaluation can contribute to knowledge and better policymaking	4
Developing an ethical rationale for collaborative approaches to evaluation	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
Evaluating the impact of policy research: Evidence from the evaluation of rural policy research in developing countries	4
Categories of context in realist evaluation	4
The constitutive effects of social investment evaluation	4
Improving a framework for evaluating participatory science	4
Using contribution analysis to evaluate large-scale, transformation change processes	3
Why is impact measurement abandoned in practice? Evidence use in evaluation and contracting for five European Social Impact Bonds	3
Re-purposing evaluation to learn about social justice: Reconfiguring epistemological politics through the regulative ideal of ‘participatory parity’	3
Grounding evaluation capacity development in systems theory	3
How can critical deliberative theory help to solve the methodological challenges of evaluating from a gender + perspective?	3
How to normalize reflexive evaluation? Navigating between legitimacy and integrity	3
Using environmental evaluation systems and their contribution to sustainable development	3