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 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
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
Supporting policy through research funding: how UK funders can use Areas of Research Interest to bridge evidence gaps	12
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
How perceptions of voter control affect politicians’ evaluations of expertise in the news: a survey experiment on the role of accountability beliefs	11
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
Practical points of failure in police-university collaboration: reconceiving knowledge exchange	10
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
Meeting in brackets: how mental health policy travels through meetings	9
Improving research impact: lessons from the infrastructure engagement excellence standards	9

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
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
Developing policy capacities for evidence-informed policy making: civil servants’ learning perceptions from collaborative research projects	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
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
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
Compatible bedfellows? Engaged scholarship entrepreneurship and policy impact	4
Breaking the glass in the ‘Overton Window’: the role of adversarial co-production	4
Knowledge Utilisation Analysis: measuring the utilisation of knowledge sources in policy decisions	4
Consent, assent and randomised evaluations	4