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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
The Midwifery Unit Self-Assessment (MUSA) Toolkit: embedding stakeholder engagement and co-production of improvement plans in European midwifery units	79
Policy advisory bodies during crises: a scoping review of the COVID-19 literature in Europe	52
Co-designing behavioural public policy: lessons from the field about how to ‘nudge plus’	45
Codesigning youth diversion programmes with community-led organisations: a case study	21
Breaking the Overton Window: on the need for adversarial co-production	18
A comparative analysis of the roles and use of evidence in pharmacy policy in Australia	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	16
Engineering advice in policy making: a new domain of inquiry in evidence and policy	16
Towards an agnotology of policy studies: identifying, understanding and addressing knowledge limitations in real world policymaking	14
Engaging refugee women and girls as experts: co-creating evidence on sexual exploitation and abuse in humanitarian crises using creative, participatory methods	14
How perceptions of voter control affect politicians’ evaluations of expertise in the news: a survey experiment on the role of accountability beliefs	13
‘Shooting in the dark’: implications of the research–practice gap for enhancing research use in adult social care	10
Examining research systems and models for local government: a systematic review	10
Meeting in brackets: how mental health policy travels through meetings	9
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
Understanding brokers, intermediaries, and boundary spanners: a multi-sectoral review of strategies, skills, and outcomes	9
A framework to support the design and cultivation of embedded research initiatives	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
Use of research evidence in legislatures: a systematic review	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
Issues arising from the study design, conduct, and promotion of clinical trials funded by opioid manufacturers: a review of internal pharmaceutical industry documents	8

Policies for evidence: a comparative analysis of Africa’s national evaluation policy landscape	8
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	7
The impact of knowledge brokering on nurses’ empathy with patients receiving cardiac care: an experimental study	7
When academic impact is not enough: a concept mapping study characterising excellence in practice-based research	7
Facilitating knowledge transfer during Australia’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout: an examination of ‘Functional Dialogues’ as an approach to bridge the evidence–policy gap	7
Connecting knowledge and action in complex health systems: examples from British Columbia, Canada	7
Knowledge Utilisation Analysis: measuring the utilisation of knowledge sources in policy decisions	6
Obstacles to co-producing evaluation knowledge: power, control and voluntary sector dynamics	6
Consent, assent and randomised evaluations	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
Measuring the health impact of Universal Basic Income as an upstream intervention: holistic trial design that captures stress reduction is essential	6
What works to promote research-policy engagement?	5
Breaking the glass in the ‘Overton Window’: the role of adversarial co-production	5
The production and utility of evidence synthesis during the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada: perspectives of evidence synthesis producers	5
Creating an action plan to advance knowledge translation in a domestic violence research network: a deliberative dialogue	4
Participatory-deliberative processes in UK policy making related to income insecurity as a determinant of health: a scoping review	4
The policy impact of entrepreneurship research: challenging received wisdom	4
The influence of public policy and administration expertise on policy: an empirical study	4
Bringing research into policy: understanding context-specific requirements for productive knowledge brokering in legislatures	4