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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
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Expert opinion and public support of genetically modified food policy: Does deficit model work in China?	45
The role of policy learning in explaining COVID‐19 policy changes	37
Power and politics in framing bias in Artificial Intelligence policy	28
Technology transfer in economic periphery: Emerging patterns and policy challenges	27
Advancing theories of public policy for the analysis of environmental challenges across countries	26
Hydraulic fracturing, polarization, and environmental policy implementation	26
Natural laboratories in emerging countries and comparative advantages in science: Evidence from Chile	26
Measuring policy analytical capacity in renewable energy policy: Germany‐Japan‐US comparison	24
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An item response approach to sea‐level rise policy preferences in a nascent subsystem	23
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A new beef: An analysis of discourse coalitions in the nascent cellular agriculture policy subsystem	21
Firm‐level aggregate corruption and competition: The role of telecommunications infrastructure	19
Net‐zero carbon declarations by Japanese local governments: What caused the domino‐like diffusion?	19
Conservation in conflict: Examining rural–urban discourse in wolf reintroduction policy in Colorado	19
Decarbonization and climate change	18
How governance boundaries affect regional collaboration on atmospheric governance—Evidence from China's Yangtze River Delta	18
Collective learning and COVID‐19 mitigation in Ghana	17
Competition and cooperation in artificial intelligence standard setting: Explaining emergent patterns	17
The minimum marriageable age policy process in the United States: An advocacy coalition framework analysis	17
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Unraveling the dynamics of information exchange in governance networks: Opportunity structures in anti‐corruption multi‐stakeholder partnerships	16
The narrative policy framework and institutions	16
Bureaucratic politics, innovation compatibility, and the dynamic diffusion of subnational decentralization reforms in China	15

Is it all about the government's early response? A configurational analysis of 27 cases in governing COVID‐19 in China	13
Policy convergence in authoritarian regimes: A comparative analysis of welfare state trajectories in post‐Soviet countries	12
The persuasive role of the past: Policy feedback and citizens' acceptance of information communication technologies during the COVID‐19 pandemic in China	12
What shapes the formation of interstate benchmarking networks?	12
Knowledge is not power: Learning in polycentric governance systems	11
Building coalitions in a nascent subsystem: Investigating beliefs and policy preferences in Ugandan pesticide policy	11
Matching forerunner cities: Climate policy in Turku, Groningen, Rostock, and Potsdam	11
Support for the environment post‐transition? Material concerns and policy tradeoffs	11
Issue Information	10
Make it loud and simple: Coalition politics and problem framing in the French policy process of hydraulic fracturing	10
Uneven local implementation of federal policy after disaster: Policy conflict and goal ambiguity	10
Policy reinvention in diffusion: Evidence from municipal solid waste classification policy in China	9
Issue Information	9
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Issue Information	9
Can different policy interventions work complementarily?—A survey experiment on policy compliance	8
What are the roles of regional and local climate governance discourse and actors? Mediated climate change policy networks in Atlantic Canada	8
Electric regionalism: Path dependence, development, and the African power pools	8
Policy capacity and rise of data‐based policy innovation labs	8
Policy or scientific messaging? Strategic framing in a case of subnational climate change conflict	8
Public perception of Ghana's Free Senior High School policy: A north–south comparative analysis	8
Traveling AI‐essentialism and national AI strategies: A comparison between South Korea and France	8
Gap reduction and collaborative empowerment: How can farmland protection policies be effectively implemented? Based on the case study of Y County, China	8
Policy Instruments, Administrative Burdens, and Coproduction Preferences: Experimental Evidence From Household Waste Sorting	8
When cities take control: Explaining the diversity of complex local climate actions	8
Environmental racism and air pollution: Pre and post the COVID‐19 economic shutdown	8
Policy advisory systems and public policy making: Bibliometric analysis, knowledge mapping, operationalization, and future research agenda	8
Holding out the promise of Lasswell's dream: Big data analytics in public policy research and teaching	7
Characterizing allies and opponents in gender policy debates	7
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	7
The politics of animal welfare: A scoping review of farm animal welfare governance	7
Gender equality in Swedish AI policies. What's the problem represented to be?	7
Policy instruments attitudes and support for government responses against Covid‐19	7
Issue Information	7
What drives local communities to engage in climate change mitigation activities? Examining the rural–urban divide	7
Climate integration into sectoral policies: The case of the Brazilian biofuel policy RenovaBio	7
Pay to protect: Examining the factors of the use of market‐based instruments for local water sustainability	7
How do civil society organizations communicate in an authoritarian setting? A narrative analysis of the Russian waste management debate	7
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Beyond regulatory capture: Policy entrepreneurs' strategies in regulatory policies under authoritarianism	6
Rethinking Climate Change Leadership: An Analysis of the Ambitiousness of State GHG Targets	6
Understanding innovation policy governance: A disaggregated approach	6
Issue Information	6
How are emotions and beliefs expressed in legislative testimonies? An advocacy coalition approach	6
Market‐based instruments and research infrastructures	6
Administrative burden in digital public service delivery: The social infrastructure of library programs for e‐inclusion	6
Personal attributes and (mis)perceptions of local environmental risk	6
Presidential stories of fear: Focusing congressional climate change mitigation attention in the United States	6
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