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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
From active collaborators to source of new regulatory politics: regulatory intermediaries in India	139
Correction to: Remaking the Sustainable Development Goals: relational Indigenous epistemologies	97
Alignment and asymmetry: European and national crisis governance under the Recovery and Resilience Facility	78
Malignity in decentralization of natural resource governance in India	58
Policy termination in state-driven spheres: the role of inter-agency de-alignment	57
Comparisons as a discursive tool: shaping megaproject narratives in the United Kingdom	52
Policy advisory system quality under multilevel governance: the German COVID-19 experience	45
From benign to malign: unintended consequences and the growth of Zombie policies	45
Policy knowledge production in de-democratizing contexts	44
When AIs become oracles: generative artificial intelligence, anticipatory urban governance, and the future of cities	44
Bypassing clientelism through policy design: generating intelligence for effective social policies	31
Heritage governance in Bali and Ifugao ricescapes: exploring the dynamic roles of Indigenous intermediaries in cultural preservation and development	27
When code isn’t law: rethinking regulation for artificial intelligence	26
Outsourcing authority in global policy: legitimating the anti-money laundering regime through professionalization	25
Steering the future: expert knowledge and stakeholder voices in autonomous vehicle policy reports	24
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	22
Responsible governance of generative AI: conceptualizing GenAI as complex adaptive systems	19
The divide in the EU green taxonomy: how conflict impacts the quality of policy advisory systems	19
Dealing with the challenges of legitimacy, values, and politics in policy advice	19
Bridging the “consent gap”: mechanisms of legitimization in a cross-border megaproject	18
From governing during the flood crisis to governing the flood crisis: the case of flood-risk management in Acre (Brazil)	18
Evidence for the future? Strategic foresight as a source of evidence for policymaking	17
How to induce honesty: results from a large-scale experiment	17
The World Health Organization as an engine of ideational robustness	17
Policy sequencing can increase public support for ambitious climate policy	15

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

The role of policy design in policy continuation and ratcheting-up of policy ambition	3
Participatory governance in megaprojects: the Lyon–Turin high-speed railway among structure, agency, and democratic participation	3
The ways that external and internal dynamics influence intermediaries in the climate policy process	3
An instrument constituency of data science—the case of Data for Good initiatives in the UK nonprofit sector	3
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	3