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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Strengthening the role of third sector intermediary bodies in democratic governance: developing strategies with state and non-state actors	139
The Midwifery Unit Self-Assessment (MUSA) Toolkit: embedding stakeholder engagement and co-production of improvement plans in European midwifery units	64
Corrigendum for ‘Leading research–policy engagement: an empirical analysis of the capabilities and characteristics of leaders of evidence intermediary organisations’ by Steve Martin	28
Enabling interactive knowledge mobilisation through the positive deviance (PD) approach for youth inclusion in Norway	24
Policy advisory bodies during crises: a scoping review of the COVID-19 literature in Europe	20
Engaging refugee women and girls as experts: co-creating evidence on sexual exploitation and abuse in humanitarian crises using creative, participatory methods	18
A comparative analysis of the roles and use of evidence in pharmacy policy in Australia	18
Codesigning youth diversion programmes with community-led organisations: a case study	15
Breaking the Overton Window: on the need for adversarial co-production	13
Pick of the crop: understanding the choice of scientific and experiential evidence in Swiss pesticide discourse	13
Supporting policy through research funding: how UK funders can use Areas of Research Interest to bridge evidence gaps	12
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	12
How perceptions of voter control affect politicians’ evaluations of expertise in the news: a survey experiment on the role of accountability beliefs	11
Towards an agnotology of policy studies: identifying, understanding and addressing knowledge limitations in real world policymaking	11
Examining research systems and models for local government: a systematic review	11
Practical points of failure in police-university collaboration: reconceiving knowledge exchange	10
Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR): increasing evidence use and policy impact through an online data dashboard	10
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
Contextual influences on the role of evidence in e-cigarette recommendations: a multi-method analysis of international and national jurisdictions	10
‘Shooting in the dark’: implications of the research–practice gap for enhancing research use in adult social care	10
Meeting in brackets: how mental health policy travels through meetings	9
Improving research impact: lessons from the infrastructure engagement excellence standards	9
Issues arising from the study design, conduct, and promotion of clinical trials funded by opioid manufacturers: a review of internal pharmaceutical industry documents	9
Use of research evidence in legislatures: a systematic review	9

A gestalt shift? Reflections from researchers turned elected representatives on the real-world use of evidence in policy making	8
The Capabilities in Academic Policy Engagement (CAPE) programme in England: a mixed methods evaluation	8
Principles and related strategies for spinal cord injury research partnership approaches: a qualitative study	8
A constant learning curve in working towards integrated health policy: twelve years of practical experience at a Dutch municipality	8
Developing policy capacities for evidence-informed policy making: civil servants’ learning perceptions from collaborative research projects	7
The impact of knowledge brokering on nurses’ empathy with patients receiving cardiac care: an experimental study	7
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	6
When academic impact is not enough: a concept mapping study characterising excellence in practice-based research	6
Measuring the health impact of Universal Basic Income as an upstream intervention: holistic trial design that captures stress reduction is essential	5
Mis-implementation of evidence-based behavioural health practices in primary care: lessons from randomised trials in Federally Qualified Health Centers	5
Historical knowledge mobilisation in a post-factual era in the United States	5
Facilitating knowledge transfer during Australia’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout: an examination of ‘Functional Dialogues’ as an approach to bridge the evidence–policy gap	5
Assessing the effectiveness of citizen participation: the development of an impact scheme	5
Obstacles to co-producing evaluation knowledge: power, control and voluntary sector dynamics	5
Knowledge Utilisation Analysis: measuring the utilisation of knowledge sources in policy decisions	4
Consent, assent and randomised evaluations	4
Compatible bedfellows? Engaged scholarship entrepreneurship and policy impact	4
Breaking the glass in the ‘Overton Window’: the role of adversarial co-production	4
What works to promote research-policy engagement?	3
Participatory-deliberative processes in UK policy making related to income insecurity as a determinant of health: a scoping review	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
How do institutional conditions influence research use by policy makers?	3
The production and utility of evidence synthesis during the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada: perspectives of evidence synthesis producers	3
Knowledge brokering inside the policy making process: an analysis of evidence use inside a UK government department	3
Bringing research into policy: understanding context-specific requirements for productive knowledge brokering in legislatures	3
The effects of youth participatory action research on education policy: a mixed methods study of three dozen high school projects	3
Improving the influence of evidence in policy creation: an ethnographic study of the research-to-policy collaborative	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
From dissemination to engagement: learning over time from a national research intermediary centre (Four Fs)	2
A grounded theory on collaborative interactions in a community-university partnership: the case of youth in the public space	2
How did UK policymaking in the COVID-19 response use science? Evidence from scientific advisers	2
Research assessment in a National Health Service organisation: a process for learning and accountability	2
Productive interactions in a port city: a proximity approach to coordination in science-policy collaborations	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
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
The influence of public policy and administration expertise on policy: an empirical study	2
Improving knowledge mobilisation in healthcare: a qualitative exploration of creative co-design methods	2
Research-policy engagement activities and research impact: nursing and health science researcher perspectives	2
Reconciling science and democracy: evidence-based policy as seen from the perspective of a role-based democratic theory	2
An academic–legislative partnership for evidence-based policy: the California State Policy Evidence Consortium (CalSPEC)	1
He Ture Kia Tika/Let the Law Be Right: informing evidence-based policy through kaupapa Māori and co-production of lived experience	1
Framing the wider determinants of health and health inequalities: local stakeholder views in England	1
The critical factors in producing high quality and policy-relevant research: insights from international behavioural science units	1
Providing strategic information during a public health emergency: lessons learned during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany	1
Training researchers to engage in policy in the United States: mapping the growth and diversity of programme models	1
Experiences and perceptions of evidence use among senior health service decision makers in Ireland: a qualitative study	1
Analysts, advocates and applicators: three discourse coalitions of UK evidence and policy	1
Knowledge Brokerage: The Musical: an analogy for explaining the role of knowledge brokers in a university setting	1

Empathy is key: addressing obstacles to policy progress of ‘work-focused healthcare’	1
Building bridges in place of barriers between school practitioners and researchers: on the role of embedded intermediaries in promoting evidence-based policy	1
Knowledge-to-care: is there a best way of support practitioners to getting evidence into practice? An ongoing debate	1
Leading research–policy engagement: an empirical analysis of the capabilities and characteristics of leaders of evidence intermediary organisations	1
Readiness of the Australian naturopathic medicine profession for evidence implementation: a cross-sectional study	1
Science communication in Congress: for what use?	1
Engaging knowledge users in Canadian knowledge mobilisation research: a scoping review of research in education	1
Building consensus in research partnerships: a scoping review of consensus methods	1
A framework for disability lived expertise	1
Digital storytelling for policy impact: perspectives from co-producing knowledge for food system governance in South Africa	1
Drive for equity: the impact of youth-generated evidence on transportation policy	1
Co-producing evidence in Finnish higher education admissions working groups	1
Theorising a spectrum of reasons for failure in knowledge brokering: a developmental evaluation	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
Entrepreneurial thinking: the politics and practice of policy impact	1
Co-producing evidence-informed criminal legal re-entry policy with the community: an application of policy codesign	1
Structuring sustainable knowledge brokering in street-level organisations	1
Creative processes in co-designing a co-design hub: towards system change in health and social services in collaboration with structurally vulnerable populations	1
National objectives, local policymaking: public health efforts to translate national legislation into local policy in Scottish alcohol licensing	1
Evaluating Policy to Research Fellowship programmes	1
Cultivating ‘communities of practice’ to tackle civic policy challenges: insights from local government-academic collaboration in Leeds	1
Knowledge brokering organisations: a new way of governing evidence	1
Promoting action on structural drivers of health inequity: principles for policy evaluation	1
The role of ‘non-knowledge’ in crisis policymaking: a proposal and agenda for future research	1