OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Evidence & Policy is 4. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
The Midwifery Unit Self-Assessment (MUSA) Toolkit: embedding stakeholder engagement and co-production of improvement plans in European midwifery units	86
Policy advisory bodies during crises: a scoping review of the COVID-19 literature in Europe	56
Strengthening the role of third sector intermediary bodies in democratic governance: developing strategies with state and non-state actors	49
Codesigning youth diversion programmes with community-led organisations: a case study	22
A comparative analysis of the roles and use of evidence in pharmacy policy in Australia	21
Breaking the Overton Window: on the need for adversarial co-production	19
Engaging refugee women and girls as experts: co-creating evidence on sexual exploitation and abuse in humanitarian crises using creative, participatory methods	16
Pick of the crop: understanding the choice of scientific and experiential evidence in Swiss pesticide discourse	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	15
Towards an agnotology of policy studies: identifying, understanding and addressing knowledge limitations in real world policymaking	14
How perceptions of voter control affect politicians’ evaluations of expertise in the news: a survey experiment on the role of accountability beliefs	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
‘Shooting in the dark’: implications of the research–practice gap for enhancing research use in adult social care	10
Practical points of failure in police-university collaboration: reconceiving knowledge exchange	9
Contextual influences on the role of evidence in e-cigarette recommendations: a multi-method analysis of international and national jurisdictions	9
Improving research impact: lessons from the infrastructure engagement excellence standards	9
Meeting in brackets: how mental health policy travels through meetings	9
Use of research evidence in legislatures: a systematic review	9
A framework to support the design and cultivation of embedded research initiatives	8
The Capabilities in Academic Policy Engagement (CAPE) programme in England: a mixed methods evaluation	8
Issues arising from the study design, conduct, and promotion of clinical trials funded by opioid manufacturers: a review of internal pharmaceutical industry documents	8
A constant learning curve in working towards integrated health policy: twelve years of practical experience at a Dutch municipality	8
A gestalt shift? Reflections from researchers turned elected representatives on the real-world use of evidence in policy making	8
The impact of knowledge brokering on nurses’ empathy with patients receiving cardiac care: an experimental study	7

Connecting knowledge and action in complex health systems: examples from British Columbia, Canada	7
Principles and related strategies for spinal cord injury research partnership approaches: a qualitative study	7
When academic impact is not enough: a concept mapping study characterising excellence in practice-based research	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
Historical knowledge mobilisation in a post-factual era in the United States	6
Mis-implementation of evidence-based behavioural health practices in primary care: lessons from randomised trials in Federally Qualified Health Centers	6
Compatible bedfellows? Engaged scholarship entrepreneurship and policy impact	6
Knowledge Utilisation Analysis: measuring the utilisation of knowledge sources in policy decisions	6
Facilitating knowledge transfer during Australia’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout: an examination of ‘Functional Dialogues’ as an approach to bridge the evidence–policy gap	6
Measuring the health impact of Universal Basic Income as an upstream intervention: holistic trial design that captures stress reduction is essential	6
Obstacles to co-producing evaluation knowledge: power, control and voluntary sector dynamics	6
The production and utility of evidence synthesis during the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada: perspectives of evidence synthesis producers	5
Consent, assent and randomised evaluations	5
Breaking the glass in the ‘Overton Window’: the role of adversarial co-production	5
The policy impact of entrepreneurship research: challenging received wisdom	4
Participatory-deliberative processes in UK policy making related to income insecurity as a determinant of health: a scoping review	4
The influence of public policy and administration expertise on policy: an empirical study	4
What works to promote research-policy engagement?	4