OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Review of Policy Research is 2. 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
The role of policy learning in explaining COVID‐19 policy changes	100
Solutionism for the Many, Regulation for the Few: How Online Media Bundles the Policies on the Future of Work in Indonesia	94
Authority Versus Competition: Intergovernmental Interactions and Subnational Policy Adoption in Climate Policy	48
Expert opinion and public support of genetically modified food policy: Does deficit model work in China?	47
Power and politics in framing bias in Artificial Intelligence policy	43
An item response approach to sea‐level rise policy preferences in a nascent subsystem	38
Measuring policy analytical capacity in renewable energy policy: Germany‐Japan‐US comparison	31
Conservation in conflict: Examining rural–urban discourse in wolf reintroduction policy in Colorado	28
Net‐zero carbon declarations by Japanese local governments: What caused the domino‐like diffusion?	28
A new beef: An analysis of discourse coalitions in the nascent cellular agriculture policy subsystem	28
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Apophenia in Policymaking: Exploring the Tendency to See Imaginary Patterns in Modern Governance	25
Covering All the Bases: Domain Expansion and Typologies of Subnational Electric Vehicle Policies in the United States	25
Capacity‐Learning Paradox: How Hong Kong and Singapore's Crisis Responses Shape and Are Shaped by Policy Capacities	25
Revisiting the Core of Policy Feedback Theory: A Systematic Review	25
Competition and cooperation in artificial intelligence standard setting: Explaining emergent patterns	24
Promoting Citizens' Policy Compliance Willingness Through Adjusting the Psychological Distance Toward Policy Tools	24
How governance boundaries affect regional collaboration on atmospheric governance—Evidence from China's Yangtze River Delta	20
The narrative policy framework and institutions	19
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Bureaucratic politics, innovation compatibility, and the dynamic diffusion of subnational decentralization reforms in China	18
Abandoning the Prize: Local Policy Termination of Science and Technology Awards in China	18
Chinese Policy Responses to COVID ‐19, Trust in Government, and Cultural Worldviews	17
Muddle and Match: Narrative Coherence in United States Cybersecurity Policy	16
Unraveling the dynamics of information exchange in governance networks: Opportunity structures in anti‐corruption multi‐stakeholder partnerships	16

The minimum marriageable age policy process in the United States: An advocacy coalition framework analysis	16
How Vaccine Mandates Emerged Without a Mandate: Testing Stream Independence in Vietnam's COVID ‐19 Response	16
NEPA “Modernization”: From the Trump Administration to the Biden Administration	16
Policy convergence in authoritarian regimes: A comparative analysis of welfare state trajectories in post‐Soviet countries	15
Is it all about the government's early response? A configurational analysis of 27 cases in governing COVID‐19 in China	15
Elements of Effective Public Policy: Evidence From Odisha Millets Mission, India	15
What shapes the formation of interstate benchmarking networks?	15
The persuasive role of the past: Policy feedback and citizens' acceptance of information communication technologies during the COVID‐19 pandemic in China	14
Matching forerunner cities: Climate policy in Turku, Groningen, Rostock, and Potsdam	14
Knowledge is not power: Learning in polycentric governance systems	14
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Building coalitions in a nascent subsystem: Investigating beliefs and policy preferences in Ugandan pesticide policy	13
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When cities take control: Explaining the diversity of complex local climate actions	12
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Policy Instruments, Administrative Burdens, and Coproduction Preferences: Experimental Evidence From Household Waste Sorting	12
Environmental racism and air pollution: Pre and post the COVID‐19 economic shutdown	12
Correction to “Adaptability of Governance Structures and Processes for Sustainable Livestock in Jalisco, Mexico”	12
Electric regionalism: Path dependence, development, and the African power pools	12
Traveling AI‐essentialism and national AI strategies: A comparison between South Korea and France	11
Policy reinvention in diffusion: Evidence from municipal solid waste classification policy in China	11
What are the roles of regional and local climate governance discourse and actors? Mediated climate change policy networks in Atlantic Canada	11
Gap reduction and collaborative empowerment: How can farmland protection policies be effectively implemented? Based on the case study of Y County, China	10
Narratives and Framing in Policy Making	10
Policy Design, Diffusion, and Policy Instrument Attitudes	10
Information Processing and Changes to Local Governments' Practices Amid Intensifying Environmental Hazards	10
Policy advisory systems and public policy making: Bibliometric analysis, knowledge mapping, operationalization, and future research agenda	10
Can different policy interventions work complementarily?—A survey experiment on policy compliance	9
Vapid or Vague? Reassessing Media Within the Narrative Policy Framework	9
Public perception of Ghana's Free Senior High School policy: A north–south comparative analysis	9
The politics of animal welfare: A scoping review of farm animal welfare governance	9
What drives local communities to engage in climate change mitigation activities? Examining the rural–urban divide	9
Beyond regulatory capture: Policy entrepreneurs' strategies in regulatory policies under authoritarianism	8
Correction to “Narrative Coalitions and Strategies in the Policy‐Making for Iran's Startup Ecosystem: A Narrative Policy Framework Analysis”	8
Climate integration into sectoral policies: The case of the Brazilian biofuel policy RenovaBio	8
Policy instruments attitudes and support for government responses against Covid‐19	8
Administrative burden in digital public service delivery: The social infrastructure of library programs for e‐inclusion	8
Focusing Events, Agenda Setting, and Narrative Numbing	8
Characterizing allies and opponents in gender policy debates	8
Pay to protect: Examining the factors of the use of market‐based instruments for local water sustainability	8
Survey Experiments in Public Policy: A Systematic Literature Review	8
Gender equality in Swedish AI policies. What's the problem represented to be?	8
Narrative Efficacy: The Empowering Feedback Effects of Policy Storytelling	8
How Is Policy Attention Allocated in Crisis Recovery? A Qualitative Comparative Analysis of 31 Provincial Governments in China	8
Market‐based instruments and research infrastructures	7
Multiple Streams Framework and Performance Agreement Policy Adoption in Ghana	7
Personal attributes and (mis)perceptions of local environmental risk	7
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Policy Compliance Under Disagreement: The Joint Roles of Duty/Deterrence Beliefs, Symbolic Ideology, and Policy Environment	7
Mapping Transnational Policy Interactions: Evidence From Open Government Policy Documents	6
The United States in Chinese environmental policy narratives: Is there a trump effect?	6
Avoiding the blame game: NGOs and government narrative strategies in landscape fire policy debates in Russia	6
How are emotions and beliefs expressed in legislative testimonies? An advocacy coalition approach	6
Compensation, Horizontal Diffusion, and Bottom‐Up Pathways: State Climate Policies in the United States and Australia	6
Presidential stories of fear: Focusing congressional climate change mitigation attention in the United States	6
Toward an effective policy mix for domestic waste management in China: Interdepartmental cooperation as an enabler	6
The Path Is Cleared, but the Journey Is Long: Challenges of Climate Change Policy and Management in Jordan	6
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How communities and policy instruments govern sustainability	6
Shaping the Crisis Management‐Public Administration Nexus: A Systematic Review and Future Research Agenda	6
Policy beliefs, policy learning, and risk perception: Exploring the formation of local creative Placemaking‐catalyzed policy network	6
Frontiers of policy process research in China	6
Accounting for Structural Change in Climate Policy Research: Lessons From Global Commodities Markets	6
Information and expertise in public policy	6
Judicial reasoning, individual cultural types, and support for COVID‐19 vaccine mandates	6
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Chinese cultural biases, value congruence, and support for and compliance with protective policies during the COVID‐19 pandemic	5
Framing the climate crisis: Dread and fatalism in media and interest group responses to IPCC reports	5
Gender equality frames do not impact public support for economic relief policy in times of crisis: A survey experiment	5
Stories, emotions, and governmental strategies	5
A new typology for comparing scientific advisory committees. Evidence from the Italian response to the COVID‐19 pandemic	5
Evaluating conflict in collaborative environmental governance: A study of environmental justice councils	5
Comparing regulatory processes in genome editing and autonomous vehicles: How institutional environments shape sociotechnical imaginaries	5
Chinese‐style policy transfer: Adaptive niche cultivation in the genesis of China's science funding system	5
In search of the nexus between housing and pensions within the welfare package: A “regime” approach	5
A systematic review of public policy implementation during the Covid‐19 pandemic: Current topics and future directions	4
Diagnosing Individual Policy Capacity for Climate Governance: Evidence From National and Subnational Institutions in Pakistan	4
Coordinating school improvement: Understanding the impact of state implementation approach on coordination in multilevel governance systems	4
The impact of policy legacies on the implementation of Citizen Income in Italy: A policy feedback perspective	4
STIpolicy conventions in Uruguay. An analysis of political party platforms 2004–2019	4
Linking absorptive capacity and project performance in environmental uncertainty: A perspective on implementation arrangements	4
A Configurational Approach for Local‐Government Policy Reinvention: A Study on Chinese PPP Policy	4
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Information asymmetry and vertical collective action dilemma: The case of targeted poverty alleviation in China	4
The politics of piloting. The case of minimum income schemes in European cities	3
Urban sustainability commitment: Actor constellations and motivations	3
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Policy process theories in autocracies: Key observations, explanatory power, and research priorities	3
Multi‐level governance in higher education quality assurance: Agencification and policy coordination in Spain	3
What Makes Member States opt for Hybrid Implementation Structures When the Federal Policy Asks for It?	3
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Correction to “Implementing Innovative Climate Change Procedural Instruments to Mitigate Livestock Farming Foodprint in Colorado State”	3
The effect of policy narratives on policy elite versus public preferences for hydraulic fracturing regulation	3
The gift of mobility: Transfer networks of local decision‐makers and interlocal collaboration	3
Innovating Public Food Procurement: A Case Study of Dordogne's Path to Sustainability	3
Creatively interpreting policy to move science forward: Implementing participatory technology assessment at NASA	3
Conditions Favoring the Reduction of Pesticides: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis of EU Member States	3
COVID‐19 as an opportunity window for policy change; insights from electronic authentication case study in Iran	3
Do Culturally Varying Expert Narratives and Social Group Cues on COVID ‐19 Influence Chinese Support for Policy Change?	3
Deciding who decides: Trust and support for elected official, expert, and citizen decision‐making regarding nuclear waste management	3
Citizen policy entrepreneurship in UK local government climate emergency declarations	3
Is hierarchy the only answer? The accountability preferences of Chinese public employees in public service delivery	3
Changing Policy Narratives in Addressing Indonesia's Deforestation	3
Contextual responsiveness in U.S. local government climate policy	3
Politics of on‐demand food delivery: Policy design and the power of algorithms	2
Looking through a policy window with tinted glasses: Setting the agenda for U.S. AI policy	2
State infrastructural power in a neopatrimonialist democratization context: Why Tunisian sustainable land management fails	2
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Understanding the Link Between Policy Design and Distributional Impacts of Local Wind Energy Ordinances	2
Introduction to the Special Issue on energy regionalism	2
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Cross‐Jurisdictional Collaboration, Social–Ecological Fit, and Water Quality Improvement: Evidence From the Yellow River Basin	2
Cliquepolitik: Multimodal online discourse coalitions on CRISPR‐Cas genome editing technology	2
Abandoned mine land program: Examining public participation in decision‐making	2
Institutional shifts and punctuated patterns in digital policy	2
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How anger and fear influence policy narratives: Advocacy and regulation of oil and gas drilling in Colorado	2
Explaining the Variance of City Response to the COVID ‐19 Pandemic in China: A Matter of Leadership?	2
Policy Windows in an Authoritarian System: How Alignment, Leadership Signals, and Disasters Enabled Policy Entrepreneurship in China's Poverty Alleviation	2
Balancing Stability and Flexibility in Climate Crises Governance: Lessons From Brazil's Water Sector	2
Achieving cross‐sectoral policy integration in multilevel structures—Loosely coupled coordination of “energy transition” in the German “Bundesrat”	2
(Re)securitizing Food Policy in Vietnam: The Mekong Delta Plan and the Discourse Metamorphosis	2
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Assessing participatory process‐system linkages in polycentric water governance: Insights from WFD implementation in Germany	2