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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Enabling interactive knowledge mobilisation through the positive deviance (PD) approach for youth inclusion in Norway	166
The Midwifery Unit Self-Assessment (MUSA) Toolkit: embedding stakeholder engagement and co-production of improvement plans in European midwifery units	76
Corrigendum for ‘Leading research–policy engagement: an empirical analysis of the capabilities and characteristics of leaders of evidence intermediary organisations’ by Steve Martin	31
Strengthening the role of third sector intermediary bodies in democratic governance: developing strategies with state and non-state actors	23
Codesigning youth diversion programmes with community-led organisations: a case study	16
Policy advisory bodies during crises: a scoping review of the COVID-19 literature in Europe	16
The disenchanted fairy godmother: comparing how and why evidence-based management and public service professionals influenced policy performance in public school and active labour market policy in Den	13
Supporting policy through research funding: how UK funders can use Areas of Research Interest to bridge evidence gaps	13
Pick of the crop: understanding the choice of scientific and experiential evidence in Swiss pesticide discourse	13
A comparative analysis of the roles and use of evidence in pharmacy policy in Australia	13
Towards an agnotology of policy studies: identifying, understanding and addressing knowledge limitations in real world policymaking	12
Breaking the Overton Window: on the need for adversarial co-production	12
‘Shooting in the dark’: implications of the research–practice gap for enhancing research use in adult social care	11
Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR): increasing evidence use and policy impact through an online data dashboard	11
Examining research systems and models for local government: a systematic review	11
Understanding brokers, intermediaries, and boundary spanners: a multi-sectoral review of strategies, skills, and outcomes	10
Bridging science and policy in the Global South: the Colombo Framework for Institutionalizing Science Advice	10
How perceptions of voter control affect politicians’ evaluations of expertise in the news: a survey experiment on the role of accountability beliefs	10
Contextual influences on the role of evidence in e-cigarette recommendations: a multi-method analysis of international and national jurisdictions	9
Issues arising from the study design, conduct, and promotion of clinical trials funded by opioid manufacturers: a review of internal pharmaceutical industry documents	8
Practical points of failure in police-university collaboration: reconceiving knowledge exchange	8
Use of research evidence in legislatures: a systematic review	8
Using community values and evidence to respond to homelessness together: a case for methodological flexibility	7
Meeting in brackets: how mental health policy travels through meetings	7
A constant learning curve in working towards integrated health policy: twelve years of practical experience at a Dutch municipality	7

Improving research impact: lessons from the infrastructure engagement excellence standards	7
The impact of knowledge brokering on nurses’ empathy with patients receiving cardiac care: an experimental study	6
Principles and related strategies for spinal cord injury research partnership approaches: a qualitative study	6
A gestalt shift? Reflections from researchers turned elected representatives on the real-world use of evidence in policy making	6
The Capabilities in Academic Policy Engagement (CAPE) programme in England: a mixed methods evaluation	6
Developing policy capacities for evidence-informed policy making: civil servants’ learning perceptions from collaborative research projects	5
Designing the Contemporary Implementation of Traditional knowledge and Evidence (CITE) framework to guide the application of traditional knowledge in contemporary health contexts: a Delphi study	5
When academic impact is not enough: a concept mapping study characterising excellence in practice-based research	5
Mis-implementation of evidence-based behavioural health practices in primary care: lessons from randomised trials in Federally Qualified Health Centers	4
Facilitating knowledge transfer during Australia’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout: an examination of ‘Functional Dialogues’ as an approach to bridge the evidence–policy gap	4
Obstacles to co-producing evaluation knowledge: power, control and voluntary sector dynamics	4
Assessing the effectiveness of citizen participation: the development of an impact scheme	3
The production and utility of evidence synthesis during the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada: perspectives of evidence synthesis producers	3
What works to promote research-policy engagement?	3
Measuring the health impact of Universal Basic Income as an upstream intervention: holistic trial design that captures stress reduction is essential	3
Consent, assent and randomised evaluations	3
How youth reference groups can contribute to amplify research findings to public discussions and potentially improve policy making	3
The policy impact of entrepreneurship research: challenging received wisdom	3
Compatible bedfellows? Engaged scholarship entrepreneurship and policy impact	3
Knowledge Utilisation Analysis: measuring the utilisation of knowledge sources in policy decisions	3
Breaking the glass in the ‘Overton Window’: the role of adversarial co-production	3
Behavioural science policy advice-making during COVID-19: lessons from the Netherlands, Ireland, the United Kingdom and Finland	3
The effects of youth participatory action research on education policy: a mixed methods study of three dozen high school projects	3
Historical knowledge mobilisation in a post-factual era in the United States	3
Bringing research into policy: understanding context-specific requirements for productive knowledge brokering in legislatures	2
How do institutional conditions influence research use by policy makers?	2
Bringing ‘Yotkom’ to northern Uganda: translating ‘health’ for those who need it most through a synthesis of clinical practice guidelines	2
Exploring the role of evidence-based educational resources and brokering in the wake of political trauma	2
Research-policy engagement activities and research impact: nursing and health science researcher perspectives	2
What (and whose) evidence counts? Interrogating shifting conceptualisations of ‘evidence-based’ education in public discourse in Australia	2
Participatory-deliberative processes in UK policy making related to income insecurity as a determinant of health: a scoping review	2
The influence of public policy and administration expertise on policy: an empirical study	2
Improving the influence of evidence in policy creation: an ethnographic study of the research-to-policy collaborative	2
The epistemology of evidence-based policies and practices: a comment on ‘When is it justified to claim that a practice or policy is evidence-based? Reflections on evidence and preferences’ by Christia	2
From dissemination to engagement: learning over time from a national research intermediary centre (Four Fs)	2
Research assessment in a National Health Service organisation: a process for learning and accountability	2
Knowledge brokering inside the policy making process: an analysis of evidence use inside a UK government department	2
How did UK policymaking in the COVID-19 response use science? Evidence from scientific advisers	2
‘What I really want is academics who want to partner and who care about the outcome’: findings from a mixed-methods study of evidence use in local government in England	2
Productive interactions in a port city: a proximity approach to coordination in science-policy collaborations	2
Reconciling science and democracy: evidence-based policy as seen from the perspective of a role-based democratic theory	2
Readiness of the Australian naturopathic medicine profession for evidence implementation: a cross-sectional study	1
Engaging knowledge users in Canadian knowledge mobilisation research: a scoping review of research in education	1
Experiences and perceptions of evidence use among senior health service decision makers in Ireland: a qualitative study	1
Theorising a spectrum of reasons for failure in knowledge brokering: a developmental evaluation	1
Empathy is key: addressing obstacles to policy progress of ‘work-focused healthcare’	1
Mobilising knowledge for the design of crisis preparedness measures in street-level organisations	1
Credible intermediaries: rhetorical strategies for an ethos of interactional expertise	1
A grounded theory on collaborative interactions in a community-university partnership: the case of youth in the public space	1
Analysts, advocates and applicators: three discourse coalitions of UK evidence and policy	1

The critical factors in producing high quality and policy-relevant research: insights from international behavioural science units	1
Drive for equity: the impact of youth-generated evidence on transportation policy	1
An academic–legislative partnership for evidence-based policy: the California State Policy Evidence Consortium (CalSPEC)	1
Entrepreneurial thinking: the politics and practice of policy impact	1
Structuring sustainable knowledge brokering in street-level organisations	1
Knowledge brokering organisations: a new way of governing evidence	1
Re-imagining policy futures: youth-led research and pathways to change – an introduction	1
Cultivating ‘communities of practice’ to tackle civic policy challenges: insights from local government-academic collaboration in Leeds	1
Co-producing evidence in Finnish higher education admissions working groups	1
Science communication in Congress: for what use?	1
Building consensus in research partnerships: a scoping review of consensus methods	1
Leading research–policy engagement: an empirical analysis of the capabilities and characteristics of leaders of evidence intermediary organisations	1
Preventing workplace aggression through a multi-actor perspective: bridging the gap between evidence and public policies	1
Building bridges in place of barriers between school practitioners and researchers: on the role of embedded intermediaries in promoting evidence-based policy	1
Framing the wider determinants of health and health inequalities: local stakeholder views in England	1
Providing strategic information during a public health emergency: lessons learned during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany	1
A framework for disability lived expertise	1
National objectives, local policymaking: public health efforts to translate national legislation into local policy in Scottish alcohol licensing	1
What might constitute research misuse in knowledge brokering and how might Ofsted’s 2021 mathematics ‘research review’ be considered as an example?	1
Corrigendum for ‘The influence of public policy and administration expertise on policy: an empirical study’ by Robin Haunschild, Kate Williams and Lutz Bornmann	1
The role of ‘non-knowledge’ in crisis policymaking: a proposal and agenda for future research	1
Training researchers to engage in policy in the United States: mapping the growth and diversity of programme models	1
Evaluating Policy to Research Fellowship programmes	1
Promoting action on structural drivers of health inequity: principles for policy evaluation	1
Knowledge Brokerage: The Musical: an analogy for explaining the role of knowledge brokers in a university setting	1
Knowledge-to-care: is there a best way of support practitioners to getting evidence into practice? An ongoing debate	1