OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Policy and Society 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
From active collaborators to source of new regulatory politics: regulatory intermediaries in India	104
Correction to: Remaking the Sustainable Development Goals: relational Indigenous epistemologies	83
Statistical capacity development and the production of epistemic infrastructures	65
Comparisons as a discursive tool: shaping megaproject narratives in the United Kingdom	51
Alignment and asymmetry: European and national crisis governance under the Recovery and Resilience Facility	47
Malignity in decentralization of natural resource governance in India	45
Policy termination in state-driven spheres: the role of inter-agency de-alignment	38
Policy advisory system quality under multilevel governance: the German COVID-19 experience	35
From benign to malign: unintended consequences and the growth of Zombie policies	35
Policy knowledge production in de-democratizing contexts	30
When AIs become oracles: generative artificial intelligence, anticipatory urban governance, and the future of cities	29
Bypassing clientelism through policy design: generating intelligence for effective social policies	26
Heritage governance in Bali and Ifugao ricescapes: exploring the dynamic roles of Indigenous intermediaries in cultural preservation and development	23
Outsourcing authority in global policy: legitimating the anti-money laundering regime through professionalization	23
When code isn’t law: rethinking regulation for artificial intelligence	23
Steering the future: expert knowledge and stakeholder voices in autonomous vehicle policy reports	19
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	18
Responsible governance of generative AI: conceptualizing GenAI as complex adaptive systems	18
Dealing with the challenges of legitimacy, values, and politics in policy advice	18
How to induce honesty: results from a large-scale experiment	17
The World Health Organization as an engine of ideational robustness	17
Evidence for the future? Strategic foresight as a source of evidence for policymaking	17
The divide in the EU green taxonomy: how conflict impacts the quality of policy advisory systems	17
From governing during the flood crisis to governing the flood crisis: the case of flood-risk management in Acre (Brazil)	17
Policy sequencing can increase public support for ambitious climate policy	16

Bridging the “consent gap”: mechanisms of legitimization in a cross-border megaproject	15
Government-affiliated intermediaries in climate policy: managing “productive tensions” between flexibility and control	14
The vicious circle of policy advisory systems and knowledge regimes in consolidated authoritarian regimes	14
A matter of culture? Conceptualizing and investigating “Evidence Cultures” within research on evidence-informed policymaking	13
Paradigmatic stability, ideational robustness, and policy persistence: exploring the impact of policy ideas on policy-making	13
A better nudge definition for behavioral public policy	12
Why and how is the power of Big Tech increasing in the policy process? The case of generative AI	12
Correction to: COVID-19, poverty reduction, and partisanship in Canada and the United States	12
Scales of justice. Large dams and water rights in the Tigris–Euphrates basin	12
Comparing ministerial evidence cultures: a quantitative analysis	12
“I do not consent”: political legitimacy, misinformation, and the compliance challenge in Australia’s Covid-19 policy response	11
Collaborative governance in politicized times: the battle over asylum policies in Italian cities	11
Framing contestation and public influence on policymakers: evidence from US artificial intelligence policy discourse	10
Knowing (in) organizations: calculative cultures and paradigmatic learning in the case of the World Bank	10
Conceptual rigor in behavioral public policy: ethics and epistemology under nudge saturation	10
Towards an inclusive approach to forest conservation and land use policy in Thailand	9
Political rootlessness, rather than capacity and subsystem support loss? Probing why policy derived from internationally popular norms may terminate easily	9
European coordinators as senior policy intermediaries in the implementation of the trans-European transport network	9
Unfair behavioral public policies	9
Ideational robustness of economic ideas in action: the case of European Union economic governance through a decade of crisis	9
The bibliometrics of the behavioural state: structure, agency, and institutions	8
Sustaining collaborations after a crisis: Australian disability and health policy and practice	8
Understanding street-level managers’ compliance: a comparative study of policy implementation in Switzerland, Italy, Germany, and Israel	7
Activation policy: bruised and battered but still standing	6
Change is inevitable, quality is optional, and context matters: dynamics influencing the development of an optimal policy advisory system	6
Employing the policy capacity framework for health system strengthening	6
Do research characteristics matter? Policymakers’ interest in evidence and expectations about policy improvement	6
Expert legitimacy and competing legitimation in Italian school reforms	6
Remaking the Sustainable Development Goals: relational Indigenous epistemologies	6
Good models borrow, great models steal: intellectual property rights and generative AI	5
How blame-avoidance and credit-claiming attempts affect policy change in times of crisis	5
What happens after policies end? Effects of policy termination and dismantling on target populations, organizations, policy mixes, and political behavior	5
Words not deeds: the weak culture of evidence in the Canadian policy style	5
Actors, alterations, and authorities: three observations of global policy and its transnational administration	5
Deep core advocacy coalitions	4
Malignity in policy sciences: a theory and framework	4
Wrong now, right then: policy salience in the termination of the South Korean Shutdown Act	4
The politics of public policy termination in Ghana: Is it a case of whoever pays the piper calls the tune?	4
Welfare chauvinism in divided societies: the role of national identity in social policy preferences	4
The politics of COVID-19 experts: comparing winners and losers in Italy and the UK	4
Spreading expertise: think tanks as digital advocators in the social media era	4
Advocacy coalitions as political organizations	4
Managing national expert and advisory committees in the Chinese policy advisory system	4
Intermediation in policy and politics: rethinking the architecture and process of governance	4
Discourses of growth in megaproject-based urban development: a comparative study of Poland and Finland	3
Ideational robustness in turbulent times	3
The rise of Big Tech as super policy entrepreneurs	3
Navigating evidence, legitimacy, and delivery: a three-dimensional framework for behavioral policy design	3
The ways that external and internal dynamics influence intermediaries in the climate policy process	3
Governing Crisis	3

Participatory governance in megaprojects: the Lyon–Turin high-speed railway among structure, agency, and democratic participation