OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Policy and Society is 10. 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 2022-07-01 to 2026-07-01.)

Article	Citations
From active collaborators to source of new regulatory politics: regulatory intermediaries in India	123
Correction to: Remaking the Sustainable Development Goals: relational Indigenous epistemologies	91
Comparisons as a discursive tool: shaping megaproject narratives in the United Kingdom	77
Alignment and asymmetry: European and national crisis governance under the Recovery and Resilience Facility	56
Malignity in decentralization of natural resource governance in India	52
Policy termination in state-driven spheres: the role of inter-agency de-alignment	52
Statistical capacity development and the production of epistemic infrastructures	42
From benign to malign: unintended consequences and the growth of Zombie policies	40
Policy knowledge production in de-democratizing contexts	39
Policy advisory system quality under multilevel governance: the German COVID-19 experience	39
When AIs become oracles: generative artificial intelligence, anticipatory urban governance, and the future of cities	31
Bypassing clientelism through policy design: generating intelligence for effective social policies	27
Heritage governance in Bali and Ifugao ricescapes: exploring the dynamic roles of Indigenous intermediaries in cultural preservation and development	25
When code isn’t law: rethinking regulation for artificial intelligence	24
Outsourcing authority in global policy: legitimating the anti-money laundering regime through professionalization	23
Steering the future: expert knowledge and stakeholder voices in autonomous vehicle policy reports	20
Responsible governance of generative AI: conceptualizing GenAI as complex adaptive systems	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	19
Dealing with the challenges of legitimacy, values, and politics in policy advice	19
The divide in the EU green taxonomy: how conflict impacts the quality of policy advisory systems	18
The World Health Organization as an engine of ideational robustness	18
Bridging the “consent gap”: mechanisms of legitimization in a cross-border megaproject	17
From governing during the flood crisis to governing the flood crisis: the case of flood-risk management in Acre (Brazil)	17
How to induce honesty: results from a large-scale experiment	17
Policy sequencing can increase public support for ambitious climate policy	16

Evidence for the future? Strategic foresight as a source of evidence for policymaking	16
Comparing ministerial evidence cultures: a quantitative analysis	15
Government-affiliated intermediaries in climate policy: managing “productive tensions” between flexibility and control	14
A matter of culture? Conceptualizing and investigating “Evidence Cultures” within research on evidence-informed policymaking	14
Paradigmatic stability, ideational robustness, and policy persistence: exploring the impact of policy ideas on policy-making	13
The vicious circle of policy advisory systems and knowledge regimes in consolidated authoritarian regimes	13
Scales of justice. Large dams and water rights in the Tigris–Euphrates basin	12
“I do not consent”: political legitimacy, misinformation, and the compliance challenge in Australia’s Covid-19 policy response	12
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
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
Framing contestation and public influence on policymakers: evidence from US artificial intelligence policy discourse	10
Unfair behavioral public policies	10
Towards an inclusive approach to forest conservation and land use policy in Thailand	10