OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Evidence & Policy is 3. 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.)

Article	Citations
The Midwifery Unit Self-Assessment (MUSA) Toolkit: embedding stakeholder engagement and co-production of improvement plans in European midwifery units	67
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 Europe	43
Codesigning youth diversion programmes with community-led organisations: a case study	18
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	17
A comparative analysis of the roles and use of evidence in pharmacy policy in Australia	16
Engineering advice in policy making: a new domain of inquiry in evidence and policy	15
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
Engaging refugee women and girls as experts: co-creating evidence on sexual exploitation and abuse in humanitarian crises using creative, participatory methods	12
Examining research systems and models for local government: a systematic review	11
‘Shooting in the dark’: implications of the research–practice gap for enhancing research use in adult social care	11
How useful are equality indicators? The expressive function of ‘stat imperfecta’ in disability rights advocacy	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
Understanding brokers, intermediaries, and boundary spanners: a multi-sectoral review of strategies, skills, and outcomes	9
Improving research impact: lessons from the infrastructure engagement excellence standards	8
Meeting in brackets: how mental health policy travels through meetings	8
Issues arising from the study design, conduct, and promotion of clinical trials funded by opioid manufacturers: a review of internal pharmaceutical industry documents	7
Policies for evidence: a comparative analysis of Africa’s national evaluation policy landscape	7
Practical points of failure in police-university collaboration: reconceiving knowledge exchange	7
Drawing hidden figures of disability: youth and adults with disabilities in Canada	7
Use of research evidence in legislatures: a systematic review	7
A framework to support the design and cultivation of embedded research initiatives	7
A gestalt shift? Reflections from researchers turned elected representatives on the real-world use of evidence in policy making	6

Connecting knowledge and action in complex health systems: examples from British Columbia, Canada	6
The impact of knowledge brokering on nurses’ empathy with patients receiving cardiac care: an experimental study	6
Using evidence in shaping disability policy in Romania: the case of sheltered workshops	6
A constant learning curve in working towards integrated health policy: twelve years of practical experience at a Dutch municipality	6
When academic impact is not enough: a concept mapping study characterising excellence in practice-based research	6
Principles and related strategies for spinal cord injury research partnership approaches: a qualitative study	6
The Capabilities in Academic Policy Engagement (CAPE) programme in England: a mixed methods evaluation	6
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
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	5
Mis-implementation of evidence-based behavioural health practices in primary care: lessons from randomised trials in Federally Qualified Health Centers	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
Historical knowledge mobilisation in a post-factual era in the United States	4
Breaking the glass in the ‘Overton Window’: the role of adversarial co-production	4
Compatible bedfellows? Engaged scholarship entrepreneurship and policy impact	4
Consent, assent and randomised evaluations	4
Measuring the health impact of Universal Basic Income as an upstream intervention: holistic trial design that captures stress reduction is essential	4
Evidence, objectivity and welfare reform: a qualitative study of disability benefit assessments	4
What works to promote research-policy engagement?	3
Knowledge brokering inside the policy making process: an analysis of evidence use inside a UK government department	3
The influence of public policy and administration expertise on policy: an empirical study	3
Improving knowledge mobilisation in healthcare: a qualitative exploration of creative co-design methods	3
The policy impact of entrepreneurship research: challenging received wisdom	3
Creating an action plan to advance knowledge translation in a domestic violence research network: a deliberative dialogue	3
Improving the influence of evidence in policy creation: an ethnographic study of the research-to-policy collaborative	3
Bringing research into policy: understanding context-specific requirements for productive knowledge brokering in legislatures	3
The production and utility of evidence synthesis during the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada: perspectives of evidence synthesis producers	3
How did UK policymaking in the COVID-19 response use science? Evidence from scientific advisers	3
Participatory-deliberative processes in UK policy making related to income insecurity as a determinant of health: a scoping review	3
Research assessment in a National Health Service organisation: a process for learning and accountability	3