OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Review of Policy Research is 6. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
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The role of policy learning in explaining COVID‐19 policy changes	48
Authority Versus Competition: Intergovernmental Interactions and Subnational Policy Adoption in Climate Policy	36
Expert opinion and public support of genetically modified food policy: Does deficit model work in China?	34
Power and politics in framing bias in Artificial Intelligence policy	33
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Hydraulic fracturing, polarization, and environmental policy implementation	31
Advancing theories of public policy for the analysis of environmental challenges across countries	24
Measuring policy analytical capacity in renewable energy policy: Germany‐Japan‐US comparison	24
An item response approach to sea‐level rise policy preferences in a nascent subsystem	24
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Capacity‐Learning Paradox: How Hong Kong and Singapore's Crisis Responses Shape and Are Shaped by Policy Capacities	22
A new beef: An analysis of discourse coalitions in the nascent cellular agriculture policy subsystem	21
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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	20
Covering All the Bases: Domain Expansion and Typologies of Subnational Electric Vehicle Policies in the United States	20
Net‐zero carbon declarations by Japanese local governments: What caused the domino‐like diffusion?	18
Competition and cooperation in artificial intelligence standard setting: Explaining emergent patterns	18
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Bureaucratic politics, innovation compatibility, and the dynamic diffusion of subnational decentralization reforms in China	16
Collective learning and COVID‐19 mitigation in Ghana	15
The minimum marriageable age policy process in the United States: An advocacy coalition framework analysis	15
Unraveling the dynamics of information exchange in governance networks: Opportunity structures in anti‐corruption multi‐stakeholder partnerships	15
The narrative policy framework and institutions	13

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