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

Article	Citations
The role of policy learning in explaining COVID‐19 policy changes	70
Authority Versus Competition: Intergovernmental Interactions and Subnational Policy Adoption in Climate Policy	57
Expert opinion and public support of genetically modified food policy: Does deficit model work in China?	38
Power and politics in framing bias in Artificial Intelligence policy	36
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Hydraulic fracturing, polarization, and environmental policy implementation	31
An item response approach to sea‐level rise policy preferences in a nascent subsystem	28
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Measuring policy analytical capacity in renewable energy policy: Germany‐Japan‐US comparison	25
Capacity‐Learning Paradox: How Hong Kong and Singapore's Crisis Responses Shape and Are Shaped by Policy Capacities	24
Covering All the Bases: Domain Expansion and Typologies of Subnational Electric Vehicle Policies in the United States	23
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How governance boundaries affect regional collaboration on atmospheric governance—Evidence from China's Yangtze River Delta	21
Competition and cooperation in artificial intelligence standard setting: Explaining emergent patterns	21
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
A new beef: An analysis of discourse coalitions in the nascent cellular agriculture policy subsystem	20
Unraveling the dynamics of information exchange in governance networks: Opportunity structures in anti‐corruption multi‐stakeholder partnerships	19
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The minimum marriageable age policy process in the United States: An advocacy coalition framework analysis	17
Bureaucratic politics, innovation compatibility, and the dynamic diffusion of subnational decentralization reforms in China	17
The narrative policy framework and institutions	16
Make it loud and simple: Coalition politics and problem framing in the French policy process of hydraulic fracturing	15
Collective learning and COVID‐19 mitigation in Ghana	15
Elements of Effective Public Policy: Evidence From Odisha Millets Mission, India	14

Support for the environment post‐transition? Material concerns and policy tradeoffs	13
Is it all about the government's early response? A configurational analysis of 27 cases in governing COVID‐19 in China	13
What shapes the formation of interstate benchmarking networks?	13
NEPA “Modernization”: From the Trump Administration to the Biden Administration	13
Policy convergence in authoritarian regimes: A comparative analysis of welfare state trajectories in post‐Soviet countries	13
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Building coalitions in a nascent subsystem: Investigating beliefs and policy preferences in Ugandan pesticide policy	12
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Uneven local implementation of federal policy after disaster: Policy conflict and goal ambiguity	12
Knowledge is not power: Learning in polycentric governance systems	12
What are the roles of regional and local climate governance discourse and actors? Mediated climate change policy networks in Atlantic Canada	12
The persuasive role of the past: Policy feedback and citizens' acceptance of information communication technologies during the COVID‐19 pandemic in China	12
Matching forerunner cities: Climate policy in Turku, Groningen, Rostock, and Potsdam	12
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Narratives and Framing in Policy Making	11
Environmental racism and air pollution: Pre and post the COVID‐19 economic shutdown	11
Policy Instruments, Administrative Burdens, and Coproduction Preferences: Experimental Evidence From Household Waste Sorting	11
When cities take control: Explaining the diversity of complex local climate actions	10
Traveling AI‐essentialism and national AI strategies: A comparison between South Korea and France	10
Electric regionalism: Path dependence, development, and the African power pools	10
Policy advisory systems and public policy making: Bibliometric analysis, knowledge mapping, operationalization, and future research agenda	10
Policy reinvention in diffusion: Evidence from municipal solid waste classification policy in China	9
How do civil society organizations communicate in an authoritarian setting? A narrative analysis of the Russian waste management debate	9
Public perception of Ghana's Free Senior High School policy: A north–south comparative analysis	9
Can different policy interventions work complementarily?—A survey experiment on policy compliance	9
Gap reduction and collaborative empowerment: How can farmland protection policies be effectively implemented? Based on the case study of Y County, China	9
What drives local communities to engage in climate change mitigation activities? Examining the rural–urban divide	9
Policy Design, Diffusion, and Policy Instrument Attitudes	9
Policy capacity and rise of data‐based policy innovation labs	9
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
Pay to protect: Examining the factors of the use of market‐based instruments for local water sustainability	8
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Beyond regulatory capture: Policy entrepreneurs' strategies in regulatory policies under authoritarianism	8
How Is Policy Attention Allocated in Crisis Recovery? A Qualitative Comparative Analysis of 31 Provincial Governments in China	8
The politics of animal welfare: A scoping review of farm animal welfare governance	8
Multiple Streams Framework and Performance Agreement Policy Adoption in Ghana	7
Administrative burden in digital public service delivery: The social infrastructure of library programs for e‐inclusion	7
Correction to “Narrative Coalitions and Strategies in the Policy‐Making for Iran's Startup Ecosystem: A Narrative Policy Framework Analysis”	7
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Focusing Events, Agenda Setting, and Narrative Numbing	7
Narrative Efficacy: The Empowering Feedback Effects of Policy Storytelling	7
Gender equality in Swedish AI policies. What's the problem represented to be?	7
Market‐based instruments and research infrastructures	7
Survey Experiments in Public Policy: A Systematic Literature Review	7
Characterizing allies and opponents in gender policy debates	7
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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
Information and expertise in public policy	6

How are emotions and beliefs expressed in legislative testimonies? An advocacy coalition approach	6
Presidential stories of fear: Focusing congressional climate change mitigation attention in the United States	6
Smart home technology: Challenges and opportunities for collaborative governance and policy research	6
Compensation, Horizontal Diffusion, and Bottom‐Up Pathways: State Climate Policies in the United States and Australia	6
Personal attributes and (mis)perceptions of local environmental risk	6
How communities and policy instruments govern sustainability	6
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A Configurational Approach for Local‐Government Policy Reinvention: A Study on Chinese PPP Policy	5
Chinese‐style policy transfer: Adaptive niche cultivation in the genesis of China's science funding system	5
Chinese cultural biases, value congruence, and support for and compliance with protective policies during the COVID‐19 pandemic	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
Accounting for Structural Change in Climate Policy Research: Lessons From Global Commodities Markets	5
Stories, emotions, and governmental strategies	5
Gender equality frames do not impact public support for economic relief policy in times of crisis: A survey experiment	5
Avoiding the blame game: NGOs and government narrative strategies in landscape fire policy debates in Russia	5
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Policy beliefs, policy learning, and risk perception: Exploring the formation of local creative Placemaking‐catalyzed policy network	5
Fact‐value framework for adjudicating public health policy debates	5
A new typology for comparing scientific advisory committees. Evidence from the Italian response to the COVID‐19 pandemic	5
The United States in Chinese environmental policy narratives: Is there a trump effect?	5
Local municipal capacity for climate change action in New York State: Exploring the urban–rural divide	5
Comparing regulatory processes in genome editing and autonomous vehicles: How institutional environments shape sociotechnical imaginaries	5
Framing the climate crisis: Dread and fatalism in media and interest group responses to IPCC reports	4
Co‐optation in co‐production: Maintaining credibility and legitimacy in transboundary environmental governance in East Asia	4
The impact of policy legacies on the implementation of Citizen Income in Italy: A policy feedback perspective	4
The effect of policy narratives on policy elite versus public preferences for hydraulic fracturing regulation	4
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A systematic review of public policy implementation during the Covid‐19 pandemic: Current topics and future directions	4
In search of the nexus between housing and pensions within the welfare package: A “regime” approach	4
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Urban sustainability commitment: Actor constellations and motivations	4
Coordinating school improvement: Understanding the impact of state implementation approach on coordination in multilevel governance systems	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
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
Deciding who decides: Trust and support for elected official, expert, and citizen decision‐making regarding nuclear waste management	4
Information asymmetry and vertical collective action dilemma: The case of targeted poverty alleviation in China	4
Creatively interpreting policy to move science forward: Implementing participatory technology assessment at NASA	3
Achieving cross‐sectoral policy integration in multilevel structures—Loosely coupled coordination of “energy transition” in the German “Bundesrat”	3
Cliquepolitik: Multimodal online discourse coalitions on CRISPR‐Cas genome editing technology	3
COVID‐19 as an opportunity window for policy change; insights from electronic authentication case study in Iran	3
Innovating Public Food Procurement: A Case Study of Dordogne's Path to Sustainability	3
Uncovering the verticality and temporality of environmental policy mixes: The case of agricultural residue recycling in China	3
Contextual responsiveness in U.S. local government climate policy	3
Conditions Favoring the Reduction of Pesticides: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis of EU Member States	3
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Policy process theories in autocracies: Key observations, explanatory power, and research priorities	3
Is hierarchy the only answer? The accountability preferences of Chinese public employees in public service delivery	3
Multi‐level governance in higher education quality assurance: Agencification and policy coordination in Spain	3
Framing market‐based versus regulatory climate policies: A comparative analysis	3
Citizen policy entrepreneurship in UK local government climate emergency declarations	3
The politics of piloting. The case of minimum income schemes in European cities	3
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Abandoned mine land program: Examining public participation in decision‐making	2
Introduction to the Special Issue on energy regionalism	2
Polarization and frames of advocacy coalitions in South Korea's nuclear energy policy	2
Assessing participatory process‐system linkages in polycentric water governance: Insights from WFD implementation in Germany	2
How anger and fear influence policy narratives: Advocacy and regulation of oil and gas drilling in Colorado	2
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State infrastructural power in a neopatrimonialist democratization context: Why Tunisian sustainable land management fails	2
Institutional shifts and punctuated patterns in digital policy	2
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Explaining the Variance of City Response to the COVID ‐19 Pandemic in China: A Matter of Leadership?	2
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Looking through a policy window with tinted glasses: Setting the agenda for U.S. AI policy	2
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Politics of on‐demand food delivery: Policy design and the power of algorithms	2
Policy implementation through performance measurement: A study of water pollution remediation in China's Huai River Basin	2
(Re)securitizing Food Policy in Vietnam: The Mekong Delta Plan and the Discourse Metamorphosis	2
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