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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
What is co-production? Conceptualising and understanding co-production of knowledge and policy across different theoretical perspectives	42
Effective strategies that enhance the social impact of social sciences and humanities research	41
Defining brokers, intermediaries, and boundary spanners: a systematic review	31
What works to promote research-policy engagement?	29
The legitimacy of experts in policy: navigating technocratic and political accountability in the case of global poverty governance	15
Improving the use of evidence in legislatures: the case of the UK Parliament	14
Embedding researchers into organisations: a study of the features of embedded research initiatives	14
The debate over rational decision making in evidence-based medicine: implications for evidence-informed policy	13
Co-designing behavioural public policy: lessons from the field about how to ‘nudge plus’	12
How are evidence and policy conceptualised, and how do they connect? A qualitative systematic review of public policy literature	11
Why is lived experience important for market stewardship? A proposed framework for why and how lived experience should be included in stewarding disability markets	11
Exploring the value and role of creative practices in research co-production	11
Understanding brokers, intermediaries, and boundary spanners: a multi-sectoral review of strategies, skills, and outcomes	10
A sociological treatment exploring the medical model in relation to the neurodiversity movement with reference to policy and practice	10
Story, dialogue and caring about what matters to people: progress towards evidence-enriched policy and practice	10
Knowledge mobilisation in public service reform: integrating empirical, technical and practical wisdom	9
Measuring the health impact of Universal Basic Income as an upstream intervention: holistic trial design that captures stress reduction is essential	9
Policy actors’ perceptions of qualitative research in policymaking: the case of higher education rulemaking in the United States	9
Making authentic: exploring boundary objects and bricolage in knowledge mobilisation through National Health Service-university partnerships	9
Creative processes in co-designing a co-design hub: towards system change in health and social services in collaboration with structurally vulnerable populations	9
Arts-based co-production in participatory research: harnessing creativity in the tension between process and product	8
Improving knowledge mobilisation in healthcare: a qualitative exploration of creative co-design methods	7
Creative and collaborative reflective thinking to support policy deliberation and decision making	7
Explaining variation in evidence-based policy making in the American states	7
Enabling knowledge brokerage intermediaries to be evidence-informed	7

Cutting through the noise during crisis by enhancing the relevance of research to policymakers	7
A comparative ethnographic study of collective knowledge brokering across the syntactic, semantic and pragmatic knowledge boundaries in applied health research	7
Understanding evidence use from a programmatic perspective: conceptual development and empirical insights from national malaria control programmes	7
The boundaries of Behavioural Insights: observations from two ethnographic studies	7
Using collaborative conceptual modelling as a tool for transdisciplinarity	7
National objectives, local policymaking: public health efforts to translate national legislation into local policy in Scottish alcohol licensing	6
The many faces of disability in evidence for policy and practice: embracing complexity	6
Co-production and arts-informed inquiry as creative power for knowledge mobilisation	6
Knowledge brokering organisations: a new way of governing evidence	6
Co-producing evidence-informed criminal legal re-entry policy with the community: an application of policy codesign	6
Evidence-based practice and management-by-knowledge of disability care: rigid constraint or fluid support?	6
Evidence to support delivery of effective health services: a responsive programme of rapid evidence synthesis	6
Eliciting public values on health inequalities: missing evidence for policy windows?	6
Fragile alliances: culture, funding and sustainability in police–academic partnerships	6
Policies for evidence: a comparative analysis of Africa’s national evaluation policy landscape	5
Principles and related strategies for spinal cord injury research partnership approaches: a qualitative study	5
Networks and evidence-based advocacy: influencing a policy subsystem	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
Disability and family violence prevention: a case study on participation in evidence making	5
Exploring a non-universal understanding of waged work and its consequences: sketching out employment activation for people with an intellectual disability	4
When evidence alone is not enough: the problem, policy and politics of water fluoridation in England	4
Evidence, objectivity and welfare reform: a qualitative study of disability benefit assessments	4
Ethical moments and institutional expertise in UK Government COVID-19 pandemic policy responses: where, when and how is ethical advice sought?	4
The role of ‘non-knowledge’ in crisis policymaking: a proposal and agenda for future research	4
Does evaluation quality enhance evaluation use?	4
A framework to support the design and cultivation of embedded research initiatives	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
Mobilising knowledge in public health: reflections on ten years of collaborative working in Fuse, the Centre for Translational Research in Public Health	4
eHealth technologies and the know-do gap: exploring the role of knowledge mobilisation	3
Knowledge Utilisation Analysis: measuring the utilisation of knowledge sources in policy decisions	3
‘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	3
Digital storytelling for policy impact: perspectives from co-producing knowledge for food system governance in South Africa	3
How did UK policymaking in the COVID-19 response use science? Evidence from scientific advisers	3
The entanglement of employers and political elites in migration policymaking: the case of Brexit and the revival of UK horticulture’s guestworker scheme	3
Essential skills for using research evidence in public health policy: a systematic review	3
When is it justified to claim that a practice or policy is evidence-based? Reflections on evidence and preferences	3
Understanding knowledge brokerage and its transformative potential: a Bourdieusian perspective	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
The evidence-based policy movement and political idealism	3
The creative co-design of low back pain education resources	3
The policy impact of entrepreneurship research: challenging received wisdom	3
Use of research evidence in legislatures: a systematic review	3
Why do social scientists organise knowledge exchange events? A qualitative interview study	2
Building consensus in research partnerships: a scoping review of consensus methods	2
Historical knowledge mobilisation in a post-factual era in the United States	2
Using knowledge brokering to produce community-generated evidence	2
Making use of evidence in commissioning practice: insights into the understanding of a telecare study’s findings	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
He Ture Kia Tika/Let the Law Be Right: informing evidence-based policy through kaupapa Māori and co-production of lived experience	2
Use of a knowledge exchange event strategy to identify key priorities for implementing deprescribing in primary healthcare in Nova Scotia, Canada	2
What do advocates want from policy research? Evidence from elite surveys	2
Examining research systems and models for local government: a systematic review	1
Entrepreneurial thinking: the politics and practice of policy impact	1
How useful are equality indicators? The expressive function of ‘stat imperfecta’ in disability rights advocacy	1
The Midwifery Unit Self-Assessment (MUSA) Toolkit: embedding stakeholder engagement and co-production of improvement plans in European midwifery units	1
Co-creation for Transformative Innovation Policy: an implementation case for projects structured as portfolio of knowledge services	1
Using evidence in shaping disability policy in Romania: the case of sheltered workshops	1
Improving the influence of evidence in policy creation: an ethnographic study of the research-to-policy collaborative	1
The critical factors in producing high quality and policy-relevant research: insights from international behavioural science units	1
Public-academic partnerships to foster use of research evidence in improving youth outcomes: findings from document analysis	1
Participatory budgeting for research funding decisions	1
Towards an agnotology of policy studies: identifying, understanding and addressing knowledge limitations in real world policymaking	1
Improving evidence use: a systematic scoping review of local models of knowledge mobilisation	1
Consent, assent and randomised evaluations	1
Analysts, advocates and applicators: three discourse coalitions of UK evidence and policy	1
New evidence and policy research, well-established themes	1
Impact and paybacks of biomedical research findings in Malaysia 2005–2015	1
Instruments for assessing organisational capacity for use of evidence in health sector policy making: a systematic scoping review	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
The evidence base for the assessment of endocrine-disrupting chemicals: a comment on the EU criteria for pesticides and biocides	1
Quality use of research evidence: practitioner perspectives	1
‘Shooting in the dark’: implications of the research–practice gap for enhancing research use in adult social care	1
Examining peer learning as a strategy for advancing uptake of evidence-based practices: a scoping review	1
Learning from failures in knowledge exchange and turning them into successes	1
Peep show: a framework for watching how evidence is communicated inside policy organisations	1
Reconciling science and democracy: evidence-based policy as seen from the perspective of a role-based democratic theory	1
Using Forum Theatre to mobilise knowledge and improve NHS care: the Enhancing Post-injury Psychological Intervention and Care (EPPIC) study	1
Comparing evidence on the effectiveness of reading resources from expert ratings, practitioner judgements, and research repositories	1
Issues arising from the study design, conduct, and promotion of clinical trials funded by opioid manufacturers: a review of internal pharmaceutical industry documents	1
Drawing hidden figures of disability: youth and adults with disabilities in Canada	1
Epistemological deliberation: the challenges of producing evidence-based guidelines on lifestyle habits	1