OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Evidence & Policy is 1. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Making evidence and policy in public health emergencies: lessons from COVID-19 for adaptive evidence-making and intervention	65
To what extent does evidence support decision making during infectious disease outbreaks? A scoping literature review	36
Effective strategies that enhance the social impact of social sciences and humanities research	35
What works to promote research-policy engagement?	20
Defining brokers, intermediaries, and boundary spanners: a systematic review	20
What is co-production? Conceptualising and understanding co-production of knowledge and policy across different theoretical perspectives	16
The debate over rational decision making in evidence-based medicine: implications for evidence-informed policy	13
Improving the use of evidence in legislatures: the case of the UK Parliament	13
Embedding researchers into organisations: a study of the features of embedded research initiatives	12
The legitimacy of experts in policy: navigating technocratic and political accountability in the case of global poverty governance	12
Story, dialogue and caring about what matters to people: progress towards evidence-enriched policy and practice	10
Making authentic: exploring boundary objects and bricolage in knowledge mobilisation through National Health Service-university partnerships	9
The new evidence-based policy: public participation between ‘hard evidence’ and democracy in practice	9
Evidence-based policy, knowledge from experience and validity	9
Knowledge, evidence, expertise? The epistemics of experience in contemporary healthcare	9
Why is lived experience important for market stewardship? A proposed framework for why and how lived experience should be included in stewarding disability markets	9
Collective knowledge brokering: the model and impact of an embedded team	8
Opportunities for youth participatory action research to inform school district decisions	8
A sociological treatment exploring the medical model in relation to the neurodiversity movement with reference to policy and practice	8
Exploring the value and role of creative practices in research co-production	7
Measuring the health impact of Universal Basic Income as an upstream intervention: holistic trial design that captures stress reduction is essential	7
A comparative ethnographic study of collective knowledge brokering across the syntactic, semantic and pragmatic knowledge boundaries in applied health research	6
The many faces of disability in evidence for policy and practice: embracing complexity	6
Enabling knowledge brokerage intermediaries to be evidence-informed	6
Using collaborative conceptual modelling as a tool for transdisciplinarity	6

Evidence to support delivery of effective health services: a responsive programme of rapid evidence synthesis	6
Explaining variation in evidence-based policy making in the American states	6
Improving knowledge mobilisation in healthcare: a qualitative exploration of creative co-design methods	6
Fragile alliances: culture, funding and sustainability in police–academic partnerships	6
Understanding evidence use from a programmatic perspective: conceptual development and empirical insights from national malaria control programmes	5
Eliciting public values on health inequalities: missing evidence for policy windows?	5
Networks and evidence-based advocacy: influencing a policy subsystem	5
Co-designing behavioural public policy: lessons from the field about how to ‘nudge plus’	5
Knowledge mobilisation in orthopaedic surgery in England: why hierarchies of knowledge bear little relation to the hierarchy of evidence in professionally socialised groups	5
Risk, uncertainty and medical practice: changes in the medical professions following disaster	5
Creative processes in co-designing a co-design hub: towards system change in health and social services in collaboration with structurally vulnerable populations	5
Sharing confidential health data for research purposes in the UK: where are ‘publics’ in the public interest?	5
Policies for evidence: a comparative analysis of Africa’s national evaluation policy landscape	5
Knowledge mobilisation in public service reform: integrating empirical, technical and practical wisdom	5
Understanding brokers, intermediaries, and boundary spanners: a multi-sectoral review of strategies, skills, and outcomes	5
Opening up evidence-based policy: exploring citizen and service user expertise	5
Exploring a non-universal understanding of waged work and its consequences: sketching out employment activation for people with an intellectual disability	4
The boundaries of Behavioural Insights: observations from two ethnographic studies	4
National objectives, local policymaking: public health efforts to translate national legislation into local policy in Scottish alcohol licensing	4
A framework to support the design and cultivation of embedded research initiatives	4
Co-production and arts-informed inquiry as creative power for knowledge mobilisation	4
Principles and related strategies for spinal cord injury research partnership approaches: a qualitative study	4
‘Maybe we can turn the tide’: an explanatory mixed-methods study to understand how knowledge brokers mobilise health evidence in low- and middle-income countries	4
Evidence, objectivity and welfare reform: a qualitative study of disability benefit assessments	4
Improving the enabling environment for evidence-informed policymaking: an example from Indonesia	3
How are evidence and policy conceptualised, and how do they connect? A qualitative systematic review of public policy literature	3
eHealth technologies and the know-do gap: exploring the role of knowledge mobilisation	3
Arts-based co-production in participatory research: harnessing creativity in the tension between process and product	3
The evidence-based policy movement and political idealism	3
Evidence-based cervical screening: experts’ normative views of evidence and the role of the ‘evidence-based brand’	3
When evidence alone is not enough: the problem, policy and politics of water fluoridation in England	3
Policy actors’ perceptions of qualitative research in policymaking: the case of higher education rulemaking in the United States	3
Creative and collaborative reflective thinking to support policy deliberation and decision making	3
Knowledge brokering organisations: a new way of governing evidence	3
Improving research impact: lessons from the infrastructure engagement excellence standards	3
Mock abstracts with mock findings: a device to catalyse production, interpretation and use of knowledge outputs in a university-policy-practice research partnership	3
Disability and family violence prevention: a case study on participation in evidence making	3
Walking the (argumentative) talk using citizen science: involving young people in a critical policy analysis of vaccination policy in Austria	3
What is research? Educators’ conceptions and alignment with United States federal policies	2
Essential skills for using research evidence in public health policy: a systematic review	2
What do advocates want from policy research? Evidence from elite surveys	2
Ethical moments and institutional expertise in UK Government COVID-19 pandemic policy responses: where, when and how is ethical advice sought?	2
Using knowledge brokering to produce community-generated evidence	2
The creative co-design of low back pain education resources	2
Co-producing evidence-informed criminal legal re-entry policy with the community: an application of policy codesign	2
How did UK policymaking in the COVID-19 response use science? Evidence from scientific advisers	2
Evidence-based practice and management-by-knowledge of disability care: rigid constraint or fluid support?	2
Cutting through the noise during crisis by enhancing the relevance of research to policymakers	2
Engineering advice in policy making: a new domain of inquiry in evidence and policy	2
Promoting action on structural drivers of health inequity: principles for policy evaluation	2

Does risk-based decision-making present an ‘epistemic trap’ for climate change policymaking?	2
Understanding knowledge brokerage and its transformative potential: a Bourdieusian perspective	2
Making use of evidence in commissioning practice: insights into the understanding of a telecare study’s findings	2
The role of ‘non-knowledge’ in crisis policymaking: a proposal and agenda for future research	2
Use of research evidence in legislatures: a systematic review	2
The entanglement of employers and political elites in migration policymaking: the case of Brexit and the revival of UK horticulture’s guestworker scheme	2
Does evaluation quality enhance evaluation use?	2
Use of a knowledge exchange event strategy to identify key priorities for implementing deprescribing in primary healthcare in Nova Scotia, Canada	2
Implementation of shared decision-making in healthcare policy and practice: a complex adaptive systems perspective	2
Digital storytelling for policy impact: perspectives from co-producing knowledge for food system governance in South Africa	2
Why do social scientists organise knowledge exchange events? A qualitative interview study	2
The carer-related knowledge exchange network (CAREN): enhancing the relationship between research and evidence and policy and practice	2
He Ture Kia Tika/Let the Law Be Right: informing evidence-based policy through kaupapa Māori and co-production of lived experience	2
Examining peer learning as a strategy for advancing uptake of evidence-based practices: a scoping review	1
Ignoring evidence, producing inequities: public policies, disability and the case of Kaiowá and Guarani Indigenous children with disabilities in Brazil	1
Consent, assent and randomised evaluations	1
New evidence and policy research, well-established themes	1
Co-creation for Transformative Innovation Policy: an implementation case for projects structured as portfolio of knowledge services	1
Comparing evidence on the effectiveness of reading resources from expert ratings, practitioner judgements, and research repositories	1
Improving the influence of evidence in policy creation: an ethnographic study of the research-to-policy collaborative	1
Drawing hidden figures of disability: youth and adults with disabilities in Canada	1
The policy impact of entrepreneurship research: challenging received wisdom	1
Analysts, advocates and applicators: three discourse coalitions of UK evidence and policy	1
Building consensus in research partnerships: a scoping review of consensus methods	1
Peep show: a framework for watching how evidence is communicated inside policy organisations	1
Mobilising knowledge in public health: reflections on ten years of collaborative working in Fuse, the Centre for Translational Research in Public Health	1
Taking a policy process approach to illuminate the political nature of disability policymaking	1
Impact and paybacks of biomedical research findings in Malaysia 2005–2015	1
Using evidence in shaping disability policy in Romania: the case of sheltered workshops	1
Local politicians in action? The relationship between perceived prerequisites and actions of political committees responsible for social services in supporting the implementation of evidence-based pra	1
Epistemological deliberation: the challenges of producing evidence-based guidelines on lifestyle habits	1
Participatory budgeting for research funding decisions	1
Improving evidence use: a systematic scoping review of local models of knowledge mobilisation	1
Towards an agnotology of policy studies: identifying, understanding and addressing knowledge limitations in real world policymaking	1
Engaging refugee women and girls as experts: co-creating evidence on sexual exploitation and abuse in humanitarian crises using creative, participatory methods	1
Historical knowledge mobilisation in a post-factual era in the United States	1
The Midwifery Unit Self-Assessment (MUSA) Toolkit: embedding stakeholder engagement and co-production of improvement plans in European midwifery units	1
Using Forum Theatre to mobilise knowledge and improve NHS care: the Enhancing Post-injury Psychological Intervention and Care (EPPIC) study	1
Instruments for assessing organisational capacity for use of evidence in health sector policy making: a systematic scoping review	1
Public-academic partnerships to foster use of research evidence in improving youth outcomes: findings from document analysis	1
‘Intervening early’: agendas and rationalisations for children’s developmental health	1
How useful are equality indicators? The expressive function of ‘stat imperfecta’ in disability rights advocacy	1