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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
The role of policy learning in explaining COVID‐19 policy changes	89
Power and politics in framing bias in Artificial Intelligence policy	87
Solutionism for the Many, Regulation for the Few: How Online Media Bundles the Policies on the Future of Work in Indonesia	43
Expert opinion and public support of genetically modified food policy: Does deficit model work in China?	43
Authority Versus Competition: Intergovernmental Interactions and Subnational Policy Adoption in Climate Policy	41
An item response approach to sea‐level rise policy preferences in a nascent subsystem	35
Measuring policy analytical capacity in renewable energy policy: Germany‐Japan‐US comparison	27
Hydraulic fracturing, polarization, and environmental policy implementation	26
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A new beef: An analysis of discourse coalitions in the nascent cellular agriculture policy subsystem	24
Covering All the Bases: Domain Expansion and Typologies of Subnational Electric Vehicle Policies in the United States	23
Capacity‐Learning Paradox: How Hong Kong and Singapore's Crisis Responses Shape and Are Shaped by Policy Capacities	23
Competition and cooperation in artificial intelligence standard setting: Explaining emergent patterns	22
Revisiting the Core of Policy Feedback Theory: A Systematic Review	22
Apophenia in Policymaking: Exploring the Tendency to See Imaginary Patterns in Modern Governance	22
Net‐zero carbon declarations by Japanese local governments: What caused the domino‐like diffusion?	20
Conservation in conflict: Examining rural–urban discourse in wolf reintroduction policy in Colorado	20
How governance boundaries affect regional collaboration on atmospheric governance—Evidence from China's Yangtze River Delta	18
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How Vaccine Mandates Emerged Without a Mandate: Testing Stream Independence in Vietnam's COVID ‐19 Response	16
The minimum marriageable age policy process in the United States: An advocacy coalition framework analysis	16
Bureaucratic politics, innovation compatibility, and the dynamic diffusion of subnational decentralization reforms in China	16
Chinese Policy Responses to COVID ‐19, Trust in Government, and Cultural Worldviews	16
Unraveling the dynamics of information exchange in governance networks: Opportunity structures in anti‐corruption multi‐stakeholder partnerships	16

The narrative policy framework and institutions	15
Policy convergence in authoritarian regimes: A comparative analysis of welfare state trajectories in post‐Soviet countries	15
Matching forerunner cities: Climate policy in Turku, Groningen, Rostock, and Potsdam	15
What shapes the formation of interstate benchmarking networks?	15
Abandoning the Prize: Local Policy Termination of Science and Technology Awards in China	15
Muddle and Match: Narrative Coherence in United States Cybersecurity Policy	15
Knowledge is not power: Learning in polycentric governance systems	14
The persuasive role of the past: Policy feedback and citizens' acceptance of information communication technologies during the COVID‐19 pandemic in China	14
Building coalitions in a nascent subsystem: Investigating beliefs and policy preferences in Ugandan pesticide policy	14
Is it all about the government's early response? A configurational analysis of 27 cases in governing COVID‐19 in China	14
Elements of Effective Public Policy: Evidence From Odisha Millets Mission, India	13
NEPA “Modernization”: From the Trump Administration to the Biden Administration	13
Support for the environment post‐transition? Material concerns and policy tradeoffs	13
When cities take control: Explaining the diversity of complex local climate actions	12
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Environmental racism and air pollution: Pre and post the COVID‐19 economic shutdown	12
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Electric regionalism: Path dependence, development, and the African power pools	11
What are the roles of regional and local climate governance discourse and actors? Mediated climate change policy networks in Atlantic Canada	11
Policy reinvention in diffusion: Evidence from municipal solid waste classification policy in China	11
Narratives and Framing in Policy Making	10
Policy Instruments, Administrative Burdens, and Coproduction Preferences: Experimental Evidence From Household Waste Sorting	10
Policy advisory systems and public policy making: Bibliometric analysis, knowledge mapping, operationalization, and future research agenda	10
Correction to “Adaptability of Governance Structures and Processes for Sustainable Livestock in Jalisco, Mexico”	10
Gap reduction and collaborative empowerment: How can farmland protection policies be effectively implemented? Based on the case study of Y County, China	9
Can different policy interventions work complementarily?—A survey experiment on policy compliance	9
Public perception of Ghana's Free Senior High School policy: A north–south comparative analysis	9
Traveling AI‐essentialism and national AI strategies: A comparison between South Korea and France	9
Policy capacity and rise of data‐based policy innovation labs	9
Policy Design, Diffusion, and Policy Instrument Attitudes	9
How do civil society organizations communicate in an authoritarian setting? A narrative analysis of the Russian waste management debate	8
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Vapid or Vague? Reassessing Media Within the Narrative Policy Framework	8
Information Processing and Changes to Local Governments' Practices Amid Intensifying Environmental Hazards	8
Pay to protect: Examining the factors of the use of market‐based instruments for local water sustainability	8
Climate integration into sectoral policies: The case of the Brazilian biofuel policy RenovaBio	8
The politics of animal welfare: A scoping review of farm animal welfare governance	8
What drives local communities to engage in climate change mitigation activities? Examining the rural–urban divide	8
How Is Policy Attention Allocated in Crisis Recovery? A Qualitative Comparative Analysis of 31 Provincial Governments in China	8
Policy instruments attitudes and support for government responses against Covid‐19	8
Correction to “Narrative Coalitions and Strategies in the Policy‐Making for Iran's Startup Ecosystem: A Narrative Policy Framework Analysis”	7
Focusing Events, Agenda Setting, and Narrative Numbing	7
Gender equality in Swedish AI policies. What's the problem represented to be?	7
Personal attributes and (mis)perceptions of local environmental risk	7
Survey Experiments in Public Policy: A Systematic Literature Review	7
Characterizing allies and opponents in gender policy debates	7
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Administrative burden in digital public service delivery: The social infrastructure of library programs for e‐inclusion	7
Beyond regulatory capture: Policy entrepreneurs' strategies in regulatory policies under authoritarianism	7

Narrative Efficacy: The Empowering Feedback Effects of Policy Storytelling	7
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How communities and policy instruments govern sustainability	6
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Multiple Streams Framework and Performance Agreement Policy Adoption in Ghana	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
Information and expertise in public policy	6
Market‐based instruments and research infrastructures	6
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Presidential stories of fear: Focusing congressional climate change mitigation attention in the United States	6
Shaping the Crisis Management‐Public Administration Nexus: A Systematic Review and Future Research Agenda	6
Judicial reasoning, individual cultural types, and support for COVID‐19 vaccine mandates	6
Policy Compliance Under Disagreement: The Joint Roles of Duty/Deterrence Beliefs, Symbolic Ideology, and Policy Environment	6
Avoiding the blame game: NGOs and government narrative strategies in landscape fire policy debates in Russia	5
Frontiers of policy process research in China	5
Toward an effective policy mix for domestic waste management in China: Interdepartmental cooperation as an enabler	5
Chinese cultural biases, value congruence, and support for and compliance with protective policies during the COVID‐19 pandemic	5
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Policy beliefs, policy learning, and risk perception: Exploring the formation of local creative Placemaking‐catalyzed policy network	5
Mapping Transnational Policy Interactions: Evidence From Open Government Policy Documents	5
Accounting for Structural Change in Climate Policy Research: Lessons From Global Commodities Markets	5
Stories, emotions, and governmental strategies	5
The United States in Chinese environmental policy narratives: Is there a trump effect?	5
The Path Is Cleared, but the Journey Is Long: Challenges of Climate Change Policy and Management in Jordan	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
The impact of policy legacies on the implementation of Citizen Income in Italy: A policy feedback perspective	4
In search of the nexus between housing and pensions within the welfare package: A “regime” approach	4
Framing the climate crisis: Dread and fatalism in media and interest group responses to IPCC reports	4
A Configurational Approach for Local‐Government Policy Reinvention: A Study on Chinese PPP Policy	4
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Fact‐value framework for adjudicating public health policy debates	4
A new typology for comparing scientific advisory committees. Evidence from the Italian response to the COVID‐19 pandemic	4
STIpolicy conventions in Uruguay. An analysis of political party platforms 2004–2019	4
The gift of mobility: Transfer networks of local decision‐makers and interlocal collaboration	4
Evaluating conflict in collaborative environmental governance: A study of environmental justice councils	4
A systematic review of public policy implementation during the Covid‐19 pandemic: Current topics and future directions	4
Gender equality frames do not impact public support for economic relief policy in times of crisis: A survey experiment	4
Coordinating school improvement: Understanding the impact of state implementation approach on coordination in multilevel governance systems	3
Deciding who decides: Trust and support for elected official, expert, and citizen decision‐making regarding nuclear waste management	3
Linking absorptive capacity and project performance in environmental uncertainty: A perspective on implementation arrangements	3
Is hierarchy the only answer? The accountability preferences of Chinese public employees in public service delivery	3
Urban sustainability commitment: Actor constellations and motivations	3
The effect of policy narratives on policy elite versus public preferences for hydraulic fracturing regulation	3
Citizen policy entrepreneurship in UK local government climate emergency declarations	3
Diagnosing Individual Policy Capacity for Climate Governance: Evidence From National and Subnational Institutions in Pakistan	3
Information asymmetry and vertical collective action dilemma: The case of targeted poverty alleviation in China	3
Co‐optation in co‐production: Maintaining credibility and legitimacy in transboundary environmental governance in East Asia	3
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Abandoned mine land program: Examining public participation in decision‐making	2
Looking through a policy window with tinted glasses: Setting the agenda for U.S. AI policy	2
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Framing market‐based versus regulatory climate policies: A comparative analysis	2
Contextual responsiveness in U.S. local government climate policy	2
COVID‐19 as an opportunity window for policy change; insights from electronic authentication case study in Iran	2
Policy process theories in autocracies: Key observations, explanatory power, and research priorities	2
Cliquepolitik: Multimodal online discourse coalitions on CRISPR‐Cas genome editing technology	2
Institutional shifts and punctuated patterns in digital policy	2
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What Makes Member States opt for Hybrid Implementation Structures When the Federal Policy Asks for It?	2
Creatively interpreting policy to move science forward: Implementing participatory technology assessment at NASA	2
Multi‐level governance in higher education quality assurance: Agencification and policy coordination in Spain	2
Innovating Public Food Procurement: A Case Study of Dordogne's Path to Sustainability	2
Changing Policy Narratives in Addressing Indonesia's Deforestation	2
State infrastructural power in a neopatrimonialist democratization context: Why Tunisian sustainable land management fails	2
Balancing Stability and Flexibility in Climate Crises Governance: Lessons From Brazil's Water Sector	2
(Re)securitizing Food Policy in Vietnam: The Mekong Delta Plan and the Discourse Metamorphosis	2
Conditions Favoring the Reduction of Pesticides: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis of EU Member States	2
The politics of piloting. The case of minimum income schemes in European cities	2
Achieving cross‐sectoral policy integration in multilevel structures—Loosely coupled coordination of “energy transition” in the German “Bundesrat”	2