OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Review of Policy Research is 7. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
The role of policy learning in explaining COVID‐19 policy changes	100
Solutionism for the Many, Regulation for the Few: How Online Media Bundles the Policies on the Future of Work in Indonesia	94
Authority Versus Competition: Intergovernmental Interactions and Subnational Policy Adoption in Climate Policy	48
Expert opinion and public support of genetically modified food policy: Does deficit model work in China?	47
Power and politics in framing bias in Artificial Intelligence policy	43
An item response approach to sea‐level rise policy preferences in a nascent subsystem	38
Measuring policy analytical capacity in renewable energy policy: Germany‐Japan‐US comparison	31
Conservation in conflict: Examining rural–urban discourse in wolf reintroduction policy in Colorado	28
Net‐zero carbon declarations by Japanese local governments: What caused the domino‐like diffusion?	28
A new beef: An analysis of discourse coalitions in the nascent cellular agriculture policy subsystem	28
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Apophenia in Policymaking: Exploring the Tendency to See Imaginary Patterns in Modern Governance	25
Covering All the Bases: Domain Expansion and Typologies of Subnational Electric Vehicle Policies in the United States	25
Capacity‐Learning Paradox: How Hong Kong and Singapore's Crisis Responses Shape and Are Shaped by Policy Capacities	25
Revisiting the Core of Policy Feedback Theory: A Systematic Review	25
Competition and cooperation in artificial intelligence standard setting: Explaining emergent patterns	24
Promoting Citizens' Policy Compliance Willingness Through Adjusting the Psychological Distance Toward Policy Tools	24
How governance boundaries affect regional collaboration on atmospheric governance—Evidence from China's Yangtze River Delta	20
The narrative policy framework and institutions	19
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Abandoning the Prize: Local Policy Termination of Science and Technology Awards in China	18
Bureaucratic politics, innovation compatibility, and the dynamic diffusion of subnational decentralization reforms in China	18
Chinese Policy Responses to COVID ‐19, Trust in Government, and Cultural Worldviews	17
How Vaccine Mandates Emerged Without a Mandate: Testing Stream Independence in Vietnam's COVID ‐19 Response	16
NEPA “Modernization”: From the Trump Administration to the Biden Administration	16

Muddle and Match: Narrative Coherence in United States Cybersecurity Policy	16
Unraveling the dynamics of information exchange in governance networks: Opportunity structures in anti‐corruption multi‐stakeholder partnerships	16
The minimum marriageable age policy process in the United States: An advocacy coalition framework analysis	16
What shapes the formation of interstate benchmarking networks?	15
Policy convergence in authoritarian regimes: A comparative analysis of welfare state trajectories in post‐Soviet countries	15
Is it all about the government's early response? A configurational analysis of 27 cases in governing COVID‐19 in China	15
Elements of Effective Public Policy: Evidence From Odisha Millets Mission, India	15
The persuasive role of the past: Policy feedback and citizens' acceptance of information communication technologies during the COVID‐19 pandemic in China	14
Matching forerunner cities: Climate policy in Turku, Groningen, Rostock, and Potsdam	14
Knowledge is not power: Learning in polycentric governance systems	14
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Building coalitions in a nascent subsystem: Investigating beliefs and policy preferences in Ugandan pesticide policy	13
Issue Information	13
When cities take control: Explaining the diversity of complex local climate actions	12
Issue Information	12
Policy Instruments, Administrative Burdens, and Coproduction Preferences: Experimental Evidence From Household Waste Sorting	12
Environmental racism and air pollution: Pre and post the COVID‐19 economic shutdown	12
Correction to “Adaptability of Governance Structures and Processes for Sustainable Livestock in Jalisco, Mexico”	12
Electric regionalism: Path dependence, development, and the African power pools	12
Traveling AI‐essentialism and national AI strategies: A comparison between South Korea and France	11
Policy reinvention in diffusion: Evidence from municipal solid waste classification policy in China	11
What are the roles of regional and local climate governance discourse and actors? Mediated climate change policy networks in Atlantic Canada	11
Gap reduction and collaborative empowerment: How can farmland protection policies be effectively implemented? Based on the case study of Y County, China	10
Narratives and Framing in Policy Making	10
Policy Design, Diffusion, and Policy Instrument Attitudes	10
Information Processing and Changes to Local Governments' Practices Amid Intensifying Environmental Hazards	10
Policy advisory systems and public policy making: Bibliometric analysis, knowledge mapping, operationalization, and future research agenda	10
The politics of animal welfare: A scoping review of farm animal welfare governance	9
What drives local communities to engage in climate change mitigation activities? Examining the rural–urban divide	9
Can different policy interventions work complementarily?—A survey experiment on policy compliance	9
Vapid or Vague? Reassessing Media Within the Narrative Policy Framework	9
Public perception of Ghana's Free Senior High School policy: A north–south comparative analysis	9
Narrative Efficacy: The Empowering Feedback Effects of Policy Storytelling	8
How Is Policy Attention Allocated in Crisis Recovery? A Qualitative Comparative Analysis of 31 Provincial Governments in China	8
Beyond regulatory capture: Policy entrepreneurs' strategies in regulatory policies under authoritarianism	8
Correction to “Narrative Coalitions and Strategies in the Policy‐Making for Iran's Startup Ecosystem: A Narrative Policy Framework Analysis”	8
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
Administrative burden in digital public service delivery: The social infrastructure of library programs for e‐inclusion	8
Focusing Events, Agenda Setting, and Narrative Numbing	8
Characterizing allies and opponents in gender policy debates	8
Pay to protect: Examining the factors of the use of market‐based instruments for local water sustainability	8
Survey Experiments in Public Policy: A Systematic Literature Review	8
Gender equality in Swedish AI policies. What's the problem represented to be?	8
Market‐based instruments and research infrastructures	7
Multiple Streams Framework and Performance Agreement Policy Adoption in Ghana	7
Personal attributes and (mis)perceptions of local environmental risk	7
Issue Information	7
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Policy Compliance Under Disagreement: The Joint Roles of Duty/Deterrence Beliefs, Symbolic Ideology, and Policy Environment