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 2021-01-01 to 2025-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Introduction to the Special Issue on energy regionalism	38
Issue Information	35
Tackling climate change on the local level: A growing research agenda	29
Politics of on‐demand food delivery: Policy design and the power of algorithms	20
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Policy implementation through performance measurement: A study of water pollution remediation in China's Huai River Basin	18
Comparing regulatory processes in genome editing and autonomous vehicles: How institutional environments shape sociotechnical imaginaries	16
Winners and losers: Conflict management through strategic policy engagement	16
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Policy or scientific messaging? Strategic framing in a case of subnational climate change conflict	15
Issue Information	14
How does the use of evidence in policy narratives change during crises? A comparative study of New York City's pandemic school shutdowns	13
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The transformative power of technological change for public policy	13
The EU's carbon border adjustment mechanism: Shaped and saved by shifting multi‐level reinforcement?	13
Boom, bust, action! How communities can cope with boom‐bust cycles in unconventional oil and gas development	13
Performance ranking, span of control, and grassroots government responsiveness	12
Chinese cultural biases, value congruence, and support for and compliance with protective policies during the COVID‐19 pandemic	11
Institutional environments and innovation in digital policy	11
The role of policy learning in explaining COVID‐19 policy changes	11
Carbon pricing and decoupling between greenhouse gas emissions and economic growth: A panel study of 29 European countries, 1996–2014	10
What do we know about opportunities and challenges for localities from Cannabis legalization?	10
The politics of animal welfare: A scoping review of farm animal welfare governance	10
Polarization and frames of advocacy coalitions in South Korea's nuclear energy policy	10
What drives local communities to engage in climate change mitigation activities? Examining the rural–urban divide	9

Holding out the promise of Lasswell's dream: Big data analytics in public policy research and teaching	9
How anger and fear influence policy narratives: Advocacy and regulation of oil and gas drilling in Colorado	9
Assessing participatory process‐system linkages in polycentric water governance: Insights from WFD implementation in Germany	9
Measuring climate change adaptation policy output: Toward a two‐dimensional approach	9
How do civil society organizations communicate in an authoritarian setting? A narrative analysis of the Russian waste management debate	8
Advancing theories of public policy for the analysis of environmental challenges across countries	8
Expert opinion and public support of genetically modified food policy: Does deficit model work in China?	8
A Review of an Urban Living Lab Initiative	8
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Power and politics in framing bias in Artificial Intelligence policy	8
Policy capacity and rise of data‐based policy innovation labs	8
Policy instruments attitudes and support for government responses against Covid‐19	7
Issue Information	7
Pay to protect: Examining the factors of the use of market‐based instruments for local water sustainability	7
End of the (Pipe)Line? Understanding how States Manage the Risks of Oil and Gas Wells	7
Narrative dynamics in European Commission AI policy—Sensemaking, agency construction, and anchoring	7
Issue Information	7
Complementarity of additionalities resulting from European Union funds: Perspective of the users of research infrastructures	7
The interface between research funding and environmental policies in an emergent economy using neural topic modeling: Proposals for a research agenda	7
A systematic review of public policy implementation during the Covid‐19 pandemic: Current topics and future directions	7
An item response approach to sea‐level rise policy preferences in a nascent subsystem	6
Issue Information	6
The impact of policy legacies on the implementation of Citizen Income in Italy: A policy feedback perspective	6
Evaluating conflict in collaborative environmental governance: A study of environmental justice councils	6
Government‐led innovation acceleration: Case studies of US federal government innovation and technology acceleration organizations	6
Fact‐value framework for adjudicating public health policy debates	6
Issue Information	5
Hydraulic fracturing, polarization, and environmental policy implementation	5
Policy learning and change during crisis: COVID‐19 policy responses across six states	5
Stories, emotions, and governmental strategies	5
Contagious COVID‐19 policies: Policy diffusion during times of crisis	5
Policy responses and public reactions to risks	5
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“Countries you go, asylum adjudication you find.” Asylum appeals implementation arrangements, actors' discretion, and organizational practices	5
Technology transfer in economic periphery: Emerging patterns and policy challenges	5
Alternative policy narratives of the future of climate change: Analyzing Finland's energy and climate strategy and news reports	5
Wrestling with multiple accountabilities in times of crisis: Findings from the experiences of Chinese local governments in responding to COVID‐19	5
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Perception and performance in environmental policy	5
An Institutional Analysis of TMP Regulation in India	5
Entrepreneurship Policy Agenda in the European Union: A Text Mining Perspective	5
Corrigendum	4
At the controls: Politics and policy entrepreneurs in EU policy to decarbonize maritime transport	4
Measuring policy analytical capacity in renewable energy policy: Germany‐Japan‐US comparison	4
The devil we know and the angel that did not fly: An examination of devil/angel shift in twitter fracking “debates” in NY 2008–2018	4
Policy processes in authoritarian settings	4
Punctuating “Happiness”: Punctuated equilibrium theory and the agenda‐setting of the Gross National Happiness (GNH) policy in Bhutan	4
Gender equality frames do not impact public support for economic relief policy in times of crisis: A survey experiment	4
Natural laboratories in emerging countries and comparative advantages in science: Evidence from Chile	4
A new typology for comparing scientific advisory committees. Evidence from the Italian response to the COVID‐19 pandemic	4

Impact of public information campaign on citizen behaviors: Vignette experimental study on recycling program in South Korea	4
In search of the nexus between housing and pensions within the welfare package: A “regime” approach	4
Erratum	4
Bridging the ideological gap? How fairness perceptions mediate the effect of revenue recycling on public support for carbon taxes in the United States, Canada and Germany	4
Firm‐level aggregate corruption and competition: The role of telecommunications infrastructure	3
Political ideology and nuclear energy: Perception, proximity, and trust	3
Coordinating school improvement: Understanding the impact of state implementation approach on coordination in multilevel governance systems	3
Programmatic action in Chinese health policy—The making and design of “Healthy China 2030”	3
Climate integration into sectoral policies: The case of the Brazilian biofuel policy RenovaBio	3
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Localities and infrastructures in science, technology, and environmental policy making	3
Politics and policy of Artificial Intelligence	3
Understanding Chinese authoritative experts and their roles in China's COVID‐19 policy response process: A combined perspective of institutional and multiple‐streams framework	3
The times make a hero: Street‐level policy entrepreneurship in major crisis responses in China	3
Issue Information	3
Competition and cooperation in artificial intelligence standard setting: Explaining emergent patterns	3
Information asymmetry and vertical collective action dilemma: The case of targeted poverty alleviation in China	3
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Co‐optation in co‐production: Maintaining credibility and legitimacy in transboundary environmental governance in East Asia	3
Framing the climate crisis: Dread and fatalism in media and interest group responses to IPCC reports	3
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Linking absorptive capacity and project performance in environmental uncertainty: A perspective on implementation arrangements	3
Beyond regulatory capture: Policy entrepreneurs' strategies in regulatory policies under authoritarianism	2
Is hierarchy the only answer? The accountability preferences of Chinese public employees in public service delivery	2
Collective learning and COVID‐19 mitigation in Ghana	2
How governance boundaries affect regional collaboration on atmospheric governance—Evidence from China's Yangtze River Delta	2
Administrative burden in digital public service delivery: The social infrastructure of library programs for e‐inclusion	2
Investigating the mechanisms linking revenue recycling to increased political acceptability of carbon pricing	2
Non‐policy making: The case of comprehensive immigration reform, 2005–2006	2
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Reputation management in turmoil—An analysis of the clashing narratives in the introduction of a “salmon tax” in Norway	2
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Narratives, evidence and public policy in crisis situations	2
Powerful stories of local climate action: Comparing the evolution of narratives using the “narrative rate” index	2
Decarbonization and climate change	2
Public preferences for five electricity grid decarbonization policies in California	2
Patterns of Policy Networks at the Local Level in Germany	2
Gender equality in Swedish AI policies. What's the problem represented to be?	2
STIpolicy conventions in Uruguay. An analysis of political party platforms 2004–2019	2
Local power: Understanding the adoption and design of county wind energy regulation	2
The Revised German Raw Materials Strategy in the Light of Global Political and Market Developments	2
Stakeholder theory in the public sector domain: A bibliometric analysis and future research agenda	2
Crises, technology, and policy change	2
The effect of policy narratives on policy elite versus public preferences for hydraulic fracturing regulation	2
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Issue Information	2
Understanding innovation policy governance: A disaggregated approach	2
Innovation or implementation? Local response to low‐carbon policy experimentation in China	2
Blockchain and digital governance: Decentralization of decision making policy	2
Extending environmental justice research to religious minorities	2
Public trust in regulatory agencies and support for policies on agricultural gene drive	2
Trans‐local action and local climate policy. Configurations of success for climate innovations in the European multilevel system	2
Net‐zero carbon declarations by Japanese local governments: What caused the domino‐like diffusion?	2
Issue Information	2
Issue Information	2
United in disagreement: Analyzing policy networks in EU policy making	2