Evidence & Policy

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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
The Midwifery Unit Self-Assessment (MUSA) Toolkit: embedding stakeholder engagement and co-production of improvement plans in European midwifery units67
Co-designing behavioural public policy: lessons from the field about how to ‘nudge plus’46
Policy advisory bodies during crises: a scoping review of the COVID-19 literature in Europe43
Codesigning youth diversion programmes with community-led organisations: a case study18
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 Den17
A comparative analysis of the roles and use of evidence in pharmacy policy in Australia16
Engineering advice in policy making: a new domain of inquiry in evidence and policy15
Engaging refugee women and girls as experts: co-creating evidence on sexual exploitation and abuse in humanitarian crises using creative, participatory methods12
Towards an agnotology of policy studies: identifying, understanding and addressing knowledge limitations in real world policymaking12
Breaking the Overton Window: on the need for adversarial co-production12
‘Shooting in the dark’: implications of the research–practice gap for enhancing research use in adult social care11
Examining research systems and models for local government: a systematic review11
How perceptions of voter control affect politicians’ evaluations of expertise in the news: a survey experiment on the role of accountability beliefs10
How useful are equality indicators? The expressive function of ‘stat imperfecta’ in disability rights advocacy10
Contextual influences on the role of evidence in e-cigarette recommendations: a multi-method analysis of international and national jurisdictions9
Understanding brokers, intermediaries, and boundary spanners: a multi-sectoral review of strategies, skills, and outcomes9
Meeting in brackets: how mental health policy travels through meetings8
Improving research impact: lessons from the infrastructure engagement excellence standards8
Use of research evidence in legislatures: a systematic review7
A framework to support the design and cultivation of embedded research initiatives7
Issues arising from the study design, conduct, and promotion of clinical trials funded by opioid manufacturers: a review of internal pharmaceutical industry documents7
Policies for evidence: a comparative analysis of Africa’s national evaluation policy landscape7
Practical points of failure in police-university collaboration: reconceiving knowledge exchange7
Drawing hidden figures of disability: youth and adults with disabilities in Canada7
A gestalt shift? Reflections from researchers turned elected representatives on the real-world use of evidence in policy making6
Connecting knowledge and action in complex health systems: examples from British Columbia, Canada6
The impact of knowledge brokering on nurses’ empathy with patients receiving cardiac care: an experimental study6
Using evidence in shaping disability policy in Romania: the case of sheltered workshops6
A constant learning curve in working towards integrated health policy: twelve years of practical experience at a Dutch municipality6
When academic impact is not enough: a concept mapping study characterising excellence in practice-based research6
Principles and related strategies for spinal cord injury research partnership approaches: a qualitative study6
The Capabilities in Academic Policy Engagement (CAPE) programme in England: a mixed methods evaluation6
Designing the Contemporary Implementation of Traditional knowledge and Evidence (CITE) framework to guide the application of traditional knowledge in contemporary health contexts: a Delphi study6
Obstacles to co-producing evaluation knowledge: power, control and voluntary sector dynamics5
Knowledge Utilisation Analysis: measuring the utilisation of knowledge sources in policy decisions5
Mis-implementation of evidence-based behavioural health practices in primary care: lessons from randomised trials in Federally Qualified Health Centers5
Facilitating knowledge transfer during Australia’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout: an examination of ‘Functional Dialogues’ as an approach to bridge the evidence–policy gap5
Measuring the health impact of Universal Basic Income as an upstream intervention: holistic trial design that captures stress reduction is essential4
Evidence, objectivity and welfare reform: a qualitative study of disability benefit assessments4
Historical knowledge mobilisation in a post-factual era in the United States4
Breaking the glass in the ‘Overton Window’: the role of adversarial co-production4
Compatible bedfellows? Engaged scholarship entrepreneurship and policy impact4
Consent, assent and randomised evaluations4
The production and utility of evidence synthesis during the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada: perspectives of evidence synthesis producers3
How did UK policymaking in the COVID-19 response use science? Evidence from scientific advisers3
Participatory-deliberative processes in UK policy making related to income insecurity as a determinant of health: a scoping review3
Research assessment in a National Health Service organisation: a process for learning and accountability3
What works to promote research-policy engagement?3
Knowledge brokering inside the policy making process: an analysis of evidence use inside a UK government department3
The influence of public policy and administration expertise on policy: an empirical study3
Improving knowledge mobilisation in healthcare: a qualitative exploration of creative co-design methods3
The policy impact of entrepreneurship research: challenging received wisdom3
Creating an action plan to advance knowledge translation in a domestic violence research network: a deliberative dialogue3
Improving the influence of evidence in policy creation: an ethnographic study of the research-to-policy collaborative3
Bringing research into policy: understanding context-specific requirements for productive knowledge brokering in legislatures3
Research-policy engagement activities and research impact: nursing and health science researcher perspectives2
From dissemination to engagement: learning over time from a national research intermediary centre (Four Fs)2
Promoting action on structural drivers of health inequity: principles for policy evaluation2
Bringing ‘Yotkom’ to northern Uganda: translating ‘health’ for those who need it most through a synthesis of clinical practice guidelines2
Building entrepreneurial researcher capacity to increase positive changes in practice2
Productive interactions in a port city: a proximity approach to coordination in science-policy collaborations2
‘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 England2
Exploring the role of evidence-based educational resources and brokering in the wake of political trauma2
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 Christia2
A grounded theory on collaborative interactions in a community-university partnership: the case of youth in the public space2
Essential skills for using research evidence in public health policy: a systematic review1
Training researchers to engage in policy in the United States: mapping the growth and diversity of programme models1
Understanding evidence use from a programmatic perspective: conceptual development and empirical insights from national malaria control programmes1
Engaging knowledge users in Canadian knowledge mobilisation research: a scoping review of research in education1
Taking a policy process approach to illuminate the political nature of disability policymaking1
Science communication in Congress: for what use?1
A sociological treatment exploring the medical model in relation to the neurodiversity movement with reference to policy and practice1
Empathy is key: addressing obstacles to policy progress of ‘work-focused healthcare’1
Knowledge Brokerage: The Musical: an analogy for explaining the role of knowledge brokers in a university setting1
He Ture Kia Tika/Let the Law Be Right: informing evidence-based policy through kaupapa Māori and co-production of lived experience1
Cultivating ‘communities of practice’ to tackle civic policy challenges: insights from local government-academic collaboration in Leeds1
Embedding researchers into organisations: a study of the features of embedded research initiatives1
Building bridges in place of barriers between school practitioners and researchers: on the role of embedded intermediaries in promoting evidence-based policy1
Experiences and perceptions of evidence use among senior health service decision makers in Ireland: a qualitative study1
Framing the wider determinants of health and health inequalities: local stakeholder views in England1
Peer reviewing power: a case for a European evidence ombudsman1
The role of ‘non-knowledge’ in crisis policymaking: a proposal and agenda for future research1
Providing strategic information during a public health emergency: lessons learned during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany1
The critical factors in producing high quality and policy-relevant research: insights from international behavioural science units1
Theorising a spectrum of reasons for failure in knowledge brokering: a developmental evaluation1
Evaluating Policy to Research Fellowship programmes1
Analysts, advocates and applicators: three discourse coalitions of UK evidence and policy1
Reconciling science and democracy: evidence-based policy as seen from the perspective of a role-based democratic theory1
Creative processes in co-designing a co-design hub: towards system change in health and social services in collaboration with structurally vulnerable populations1
Knowledge mobilisation in orthopaedic surgery in England: why hierarchies of knowledge bear little relation to the hierarchy of evidence in professionally socialised groups1
The evidence-based policy movement and political idealism1
National objectives, local policymaking: public health efforts to translate national legislation into local policy in Scottish alcohol licensing1
Co-producing evidence-informed criminal legal re-entry policy with the community: an application of policy codesign1
Knowledge brokering organisations: a new way of governing evidence1
Building consensus in research partnerships: a scoping review of consensus methods1
Digital storytelling for policy impact: perspectives from co-producing knowledge for food system governance in South Africa1
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