OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Policy and Society is 6. 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
From active collaborators to source of new regulatory politics: regulatory intermediaries in India	225
Correction to: Remaking the Sustainable Development Goals: relational Indigenous epistemologies	108
Statistical capacity development and the production of epistemic infrastructures	72
Comparisons as a discursive tool: shaping megaproject narratives in the United Kingdom	55
Malignity in decentralization of natural resource governance in India	53
The use of blockchain by international organizations: effectiveness and legitimacy	51
Producing decent work indicators: contested numbers at the ILO	51
Policy knowledge production in de-democratizing contexts	46
From benign to malign: unintended consequences and the growth of Zombie policies	46
Digitalization and beyond: the effects of Covid-19 on post-pandemic educational policy and delivery in Europe	45
Policy advisory system quality under multilevel governance: the German COVID-19 experience	45
Health reforms and policy capacity: the Canadian experience	41
When AIs become oracles: generative artificial intelligence, anticipatory urban governance, and the future of cities	38
Bypassing clientelism through policy design: generating intelligence for effective social policies	32
Heritage governance in Bali and Ifugao ricescapes: exploring the dynamic roles of Indigenous intermediaries in cultural preservation and development	32
Steering the future: expert knowledge and stakeholder voices in autonomous vehicle policy reports	30
When code isn’t law: rethinking regulation for artificial intelligence	30
The alegality of blockchain technology	30
Outsourcing authority in global policy: legitimating the anti-money laundering regime through professionalization	29
Dealing with the challenges of legitimacy, values, and politics in policy advice	28
Re-thinking the coronavirus pandemic as a policy punctuation: COVID-19 as a path-clearing policy accelerator	28
Assessing public support for social policy in times of crisis: evidence from the Child Tax Credit during the COVID-19 era in the United States	28
Responsible governance of generative AI: conceptualizing GenAI as complex adaptive systems	26
Bridging the “consent gap”: mechanisms of legitimization in a cross-border megaproject	26
The divide in the EU green taxonomy: how conflict impacts the quality of policy advisory systems	23

The World Health Organization as an engine of ideational robustness	23
Health policy and COVID-19: path dependency and trajectory	22
The policy dilemmas of blockchain	22
How to induce honesty: results from a large-scale experiment	22
Policy sequencing can increase public support for ambitious climate policy	21
Comparing ministerial evidence cultures: a quantitative analysis	19
Government-affiliated intermediaries in climate policy: managing “productive tensions” between flexibility and control	19
A matter of culture? Conceptualizing and investigating “Evidence Cultures” within research on evidence-informed policymaking	19
The vicious circle of policy advisory systems and knowledge regimes in consolidated authoritarian regimes	18
Paradigmatic stability, ideational robustness, and policy persistence: exploring the impact of policy ideas on policy-making	18
Long-term policy impacts of the coronavirus: normalization, adaptation, and acceleration in the post-COVID state	18
Scales of justice. Large dams and water rights in the Tigris–Euphrates basin	17
Correction to: COVID-19, poverty reduction, and partisanship in Canada and the United States	17
Why and how is the power of Big Tech increasing in the policy process? The case of generative AI	16
Knowing (in) organizations: calculative cultures and paradigmatic learning in the case of the World Bank	15
“I do not consent”: political legitimacy, misinformation, and the compliance challenge in Australia’s Covid-19 policy response	15
Collaborative governance in politicized times: the battle over asylum policies in Italian cities	15
Participatory methodologies and caring about numbers in the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals Agenda	15
COVID-19 and welfare state support: the case of universal basic income	15
Statistical entrepreneurs: the political work of infrastructuring the SDG indicators	15
Framing contestation and public influence on policymakers: evidence from US artificial intelligence policy discourse	14
COVID-19 as a trigger for innovation in policy action for older persons? Evidence from Asia	14
Ideational robustness of economic ideas in action: the case of European Union economic governance through a decade of crisis	13
Understanding street-level managers’ compliance: a comparative study of policy implementation in Switzerland, Italy, Germany, and Israel	13
European coordinators as senior policy intermediaries in the implementation of the trans-European transport network	13
Global public policy in a quantified world: Sustainable Development Goals as epistemic infrastructures	13
From crisis to reform? Exploring three post-COVID pathways	12
Maintaining trust in a technologized public sector	12
Remaking the Sustainable Development Goals: relational Indigenous epistemologies	12
Change is inevitable, quality is optional, and context matters: dynamics influencing the development of an optimal policy advisory system	12
Employing the policy capacity framework for health system strengthening	11
Actors, alterations, and authorities: three observations of global policy and its transnational administration	11
Activation policy: bruised and battered but still standing	11
Words not deeds: the weak culture of evidence in the Canadian policy style	11
Expert legitimacy and competing legitimation in Italian school reforms	11
Contagious inequality: economic disparities and excess mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic	11
The return of Keynesianism? Exploring path dependency and ideational change in post-covid fiscal policy	10
Spreading expertise: think tanks as digital advocators in the social media era	10
The education Sustainable Development Goal and the generative power of failing metrics	10
Building policy capacity for managing rapid, complex change in China’s health system	9
Deep core advocacy coalitions	9
Good models borrow, great models steal: intellectual property rights and generative AI	9
The politics of COVID-19 experts: comparing winners and losers in Italy and the UK	8
Malignity in policy sciences: a theory and framework	8
Welfare chauvinism in divided societies: the role of national identity in social policy preferences	8
Intermediation in policy and politics: rethinking the architecture and process of governance	8
Advocacy coalitions as political organizations	8
The ways that external and internal dynamics influence intermediaries in the climate policy process	8
Managing national expert and advisory committees in the Chinese policy advisory system	8
From “new social risks” to “COVID social risks”: the challenges for inclusive society in South Korea, Hong Kong, and Taiwan amid the pandemic	8

Ideational robustness in turbulent times	7
Inequalities and the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil: analyzing un-coordinated responses in social assistance and education	7
Participatory governance in megaprojects: the Lyon–Turin high-speed railway among structure, agency, and democratic participation	6
An instrument constituency of data science—the case of Data for Good initiatives in the UK nonprofit sector	6
Discourses of growth in megaproject-based urban development: a comparative study of Poland and Finland	6
Expert knowledge for global pandemic policy: a chorus of evidence or a clutter of global commissions?	6
Blame avoidance and credit-claiming dynamics in government policy communications: evidence from leadership tweets in four OECD countries during the 2020–2022 COVID-19 pandemic	6