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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Policy dismantling and democratic regression in Brazil under Bolsonaro: Coalition politics, ideas, and underlying discourses	38
Leveraging digital technologies to boost productivity in the informal sector in Sub‐Saharan Africa	33
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	29
What do we know about opportunities and challenges for localities from Cannabis legalization?	20
Innovation or implementation? Local response to low‐carbon policy experimentation in China	18
Varieties of health care digitalization: Comparing advocacy coalitions in Austria and Germany	18
Smart home technology: Challenges and opportunities for collaborative governance and policy research	16
Holding out the promise of Lasswell's dream: Big data analytics in public policy research and teaching	16
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	15
Polarization and frames of advocacy coalitions in South Korea's nuclear energy policy	15
Looking through a policy window with tinted glasses: Setting the agenda for U.S. AI policy	14
Narrative dynamics in European Commission AI policy—Sensemaking, agency construction, and anchoring	13
Contagious COVID‐19 policies: Policy diffusion during times of crisis	13
Administrative burden in digital public service delivery: The social infrastructure of library programs for e‐inclusion	13
Policy learning and change during crisis: COVID‐19 policy responses across six states	13
Entrepreneurship Policy Agenda in the European Union: A Text Mining Perspective	12
Policy capacity and rise of data‐based policy innovation labs	11
The long‐term development of crisis management in China—Continuity, institutional punctuations and reforms	11
Comparative Energy Regionalism: North America and the European Energy Community	10
Public preferences for five electricity grid decarbonization policies in California	10
Technology‐Induced Job Loss and the Prioritization of Economic Problems in the Mass Public	10
Natural laboratories in emerging countries and comparative advantages in science: Evidence from Chile	9
Patterns of Policy Networks at the Local Level in Germany	9
Power and politics in framing bias in Artificial Intelligence policy	9
Programmatic action in Chinese health policy—The making and design of “Healthy China 2030”	9

How “institutionalization” can work. Structuring governance for digital transformation in Italy	9
Artificial intelligence technology, public trust, and effective governance	8
Collective learning and COVID‐19 mitigation in Ghana	8
Politics and policy of Artificial Intelligence	8
The State of State Environmental Policy Research: A Thirty‐Year Progress Report	8
Local power: Understanding the adoption and design of county wind energy regulation	8
How do civil society organizations communicate in an authoritarian setting? A narrative analysis of the Russian waste management debate	8
Climate and transportation policy sequencing in California and Quebec	8
Competition and cooperation in artificial intelligence standard setting: Explaining emergent patterns	8
Place‐based Identity and Framing in Local Environmental Politics	7
Political ideology and nuclear energy: Perception, proximity, and trust	7
Chinese cultural biases, value congruence, and support for and compliance with protective policies during the COVID‐19 pandemic	7
Institutional shifts and punctuated patterns in digital policy	7
Achieving cross‐sectoral policy integration in multilevel structures—Loosely coupled coordination of “energy transition” in the German “Bundesrat”	7
Government‐led innovation acceleration: Case studies of US federal government innovation and technology acceleration organizations	7
Boom, bust, action! How communities can cope with boom‐bust cycles in unconventional oil and gas development	7
The advocacy coalition framework in Japan: Contributions to policy process studies and the challenges involved	7
Global indicators and AI policy: Metrics, policy scripts, and narratives	7
What drives local communities to engage in climate change mitigation activities? Examining the rural–urban divide	7
How anger and fear influence policy narratives: Advocacy and regulation of oil and gas drilling in Colorado	7
Multilevel Climate Governance, Anticipatory Adaptation, and the Vulnerability‐Readiness Nexus	6
Winners and losers: Conflict management through strategic policy engagement	6
Traveling AI‐essentialism and national AI strategies: A comparison between South Korea and France	6
How governance boundaries affect regional collaboration on atmospheric governance—Evidence from China's Yangtze River Delta	6
Politics and Corporate‐Sector Environmentally Significant Actions: The Effects of Political Partisanship on U.S. Utilities Energy Efficiency Policies	6
Gender equality in Swedish AI policies. What's the problem represented to be?	6
Who should “do more” about climate change? Cultural theory, polycentricity, and public support for climate change actions across actors and governments	5
The politics of animal welfare: A scoping review of farm animal welfare governance	5
When cities take control: Explaining the diversity of complex local climate actions	5
Issue Framing and U.S. State Energy and Climate Policy Choice	5
Uneven local implementation of federal policy after disaster: Policy conflict and goal ambiguity	5
Renewable Portfolio Standards: Do Voluntary Goals vs. Mandatory Standards Make a Difference?	5
The Revised German Raw Materials Strategy in the Light of Global Political and Market Developments	5
Local municipal capacity for climate change action in New York State: Exploring the urban–rural divide	5
Institutional Collective Action on Drugs: Functional and Vertical Dilemmas of Unused Pharmaceuticals	5
Make it loud and simple: Coalition politics and problem framing in the French policy process of hydraulic fracturing	5
Energy Regionalisms in Theory and Practice	5
Measuring policy analytical capacity in renewable energy policy: Germany‐Japan‐US comparison	5
Organized elite power and clean energy: A study of negative policy experimentations with renewable portfolio standards	5
Credible Empowerment and Deliberative Participation: A Comparative Study of Two Nuclear Energy Policy Deliberation Cases in Korea	5
Personal attributes and (mis)perceptions of local environmental risk	5
Matching forerunner cities: Climate policy in Turku, Groningen, Rostock, and Potsdam	4
Political Ideology, Political Party, and Support for Greater Federal Spending on Environmental Protection in the United States: Evidence from the General Social Surveys, 1993–2018	4
Policy for the public without the public: Net neutrality in Israel	4
Punctuating “Happiness”: Punctuated equilibrium theory and the agenda‐setting of the Gross National Happiness (GNH) policy in Bhutan	4
Regulatory competition, administrative discretion, and environmental policy implementation	4
Politics of problem definition: Comparing public support of climate change mitigation policies using machine learning	4
Uncovering the verticality and temporality of environmental policy mixes: The case of agricultural residue recycling in China	4
Information asymmetry and vertical collective action dilemma: The case of targeted poverty alleviation in China	4
Carbon pricing and decoupling between greenhouse gas emissions and economic growth: A panel study of 29 European countries, 1996–2014	4

Doing more among institutional boundaries: Platform‐enabled government in China	4
Rethinking Climate Change Leadership: An Analysis of the Ambitiousness of State GHG Targets	4
Bureaucratic politics, innovation compatibility, and the dynamic diffusion of subnational decentralization reforms in China	4
Powerful stories of local climate action: Comparing the evolution of narratives using the “narrative rate” index	4
Policy or scientific messaging? Strategic framing in a case of subnational climate change conflict	4
Impact of public information campaign on citizen behaviors: Vignette experimental study on recycling program in South Korea	3
A Review of an Urban Living Lab Initiative	3
Mapping the development of North Korea's domestic nuclear research networks	3
Tackling climate change on the local level: A growing research agenda	3
Cross‐Regional production chains, competitive regionalism, and the deepening of regulatory fault lines in Euro‐Asia	3
How are emotions and beliefs expressed in legislative testimonies? An advocacy coalition approach	3
United in disagreement: Analyzing policy networks in EU policy making	3
End of the (Pipe)Line? Understanding how States Manage the Risks of Oil and Gas Wells	3
Measuring climate change adaptation policy output: Toward a two‐dimensional approach	3
The United States in Chinese environmental policy narratives: Is there a trump effect?	3
Images of controversy: Examining cognition of hydraulic fracturing among policy elites and the general public	3
Is hierarchy the only answer? The accountability preferences of Chinese public employees in public service delivery	3
Extending environmental justice research to religious minorities	3
An item response approach to sea‐level rise policy preferences in a nascent subsystem	3
Framing the climate crisis: Dread and fatalism in media and interest group responses to IPCC reports	3
Policy beliefs, policy learning, and risk perception: Exploring the formation of local creative Placemaking‐catalyzed policy network	3
Policy implementation through performance measurement: A study of water pollution remediation in China's Huai River Basin	3
Contextual responsiveness in U.S. local government climate policy	3
State Capacity and Innovation Policy Performance: A Comparative Study on Two Types of Innovation Projects in China	3
Citizen policy entrepreneurship in UK local government climate emergency declarations	3
Pay to protect: Examining the factors of the use of market‐based instruments for local water sustainability	2
Politics of on‐demand food delivery: Policy design and the power of algorithms	2
Policy reinvention in diffusion: Evidence from municipal solid waste classification policy in China	2
The persuasive role of the past: Policy feedback and citizens' acceptance of information communication technologies during the COVID‐19 pandemic in China	2
Building coalitions in a nascent subsystem: Investigating beliefs and policy preferences in Ugandan pesticide policy	2
Communicating in diverse local cultures: Analyzing Chinese government communication programs around nuclear power projects	2
Recentralization and the long‐lasting effect of campaign‐style enforcement: From the perspective of authority allocation	2
Understanding innovation policy governance: A disaggregated approach	2
COVID‐19 as an opportunity window for policy change; insights from electronic authentication case study in Iran	2
Stakeholder theory in the public sector domain: A bibliometric analysis and future research agenda	2
The times make a hero: Street‐level policy entrepreneurship in major crisis responses in China	2
A new typology for comparing scientific advisory committees. Evidence from the Italian response to the COVID‐19 pandemic	2
Complementarity of additionalities resulting from European Union funds: Perspective of the users of research infrastructures	2
Expert opinion and public support of genetically modified food policy: Does deficit model work in China?	2
Policy advisory systems and public policy making: Bibliometric analysis, knowledge mapping, operationalization, and future research agenda	2
Rethinking de facto autonomy? A multi‐policy area approach and the regulatory policy process	2
Administration, rhetoric, and climate policy in the Obama presidency	2
Presidential stories of fear: Focusing congressional climate change mitigation attention in the United States	2
Creatively interpreting policy to move science forward: Implementing participatory technology assessment at NASA	2
Why did Argentina and Uruguay decide to pursue a carbon tax? Fiscal reforms and explicit carbon prices	2
Keeping policy commitments: An organizational capability approach to local green housing equity	2
Co‐optation in co‐production: Maintaining credibility and legitimacy in transboundary environmental governance in East Asia	2
STIpolicy conventions in Uruguay. An analysis of political party platforms 2004–2019	2
Technology transfer in economic periphery: Emerging patterns and policy challenges	2
Fact‐value framework for adjudicating public health policy debates	2
Who owns the pipes? Utility ownership, infrastructure conditions, and methane emissions in United States natural gas distribution	2
Frontiers of policy process research in China	2
Functioning strategies of the research groups' leaders in the context of funding and policy instabilities^☆	2
Evaluating diffusion in policy designs: A study of net metering policies in the United States	2
Framing market‐based versus regulatory climate policies: A comparative analysis	2
Support for the environment post‐transition? Material concerns and policy tradeoffs	2
Policy process theories in autocracies: Key observations, explanatory power, and research priorities	2
Understanding Chinese authoritative experts and their roles in China's COVID‐19 policy response process: A combined perspective of institutional and multiple‐streams framework	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