OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Research Policy is 53. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	420
From hackers to start-ups: Innovation commons and local entrepreneurial activity	394
Do synthesis programs facilitate interdisciplinary research? Evidence from the NSFC’s Major Research Plan	350
Institutional quality and success in U.S. equity crowdfunding	219
An identity perspective on the diffusion of user innovations in the household sector	213
Shelter in scholarship: Evidence from a global survey of hosts for displaced Ukrainian scientists	202
OrgTech: Evidence of organizational innovations in patent data	191
Linguistic distance to English impedes research performance	174
Secondary market listings in equity crowdfunding: The missing link?	173
Does FDI bring knowledge externalities for host country firms to develop complex technologies? The catalytic role of overseas returnee clustering structures	166
The Kaldor–Verdoorn law at the age of robots and AI	149
Academics engaging in knowledge transfer and co-creation: Push causation and pull effectuation?	143
Technological invention and local labour markets: Evidence from France, Germany and the UK	122
Firm R&D investment and export market exposure	116
Specialisation and the career outcomes of inventors	105
Characterising innovation policy mixes in innovation systems	104
Copyright levies and cloud storage: Ex-ante policy evaluation with a field experiment	99
Editorial Board	99
Social movements and institutional entrepreneurship as facilitators of technology transition: The case of free/open-source software	99
Disruptive sustainability through digital innovations: Overcoming information asymmetries to benefit small-scale producers	98
Did the defend trade secrets act spur the reliance on trade secrets?	98
The jurisdiction of the subjective expected utility (SEU) approach to risk-taking in science – A response to Franzoni and Stephan (2023), ‘uncertainty and risk-taking in science’	90
Hiding practices in employee-user innovation	85
Home vs office: Does workspace design influence where academics conduct their research?	81
Do you see what I see? How expertise and a decision-maker role influence the recognition and selection of novel ideas	78

From mainstream to niche: How value regimes shift in emerging economy upgrading	77
Unbundling the impact of current and future competition on cooperation in coopetition projects for innovation	73
Patents, industry control, and the rise of the giant American corporation	70
Disentangling international research collaboration in the Spanish academic context: Is there a desirable researcher human capital profile?	68
Creating a breakthrough invention: NASA’s internal knowledge generation for the Space Shuttle	68
Does local knowledge spillover matter for firm productivity? The role of financial access and corporate governance	67
Technological capability strength/asymmetry and supply chain process innovation: The contingent roles of institutional environments	67
Money matters: The role of money as a regional and corporate financial resource for circular economy transition at firm-level	66
Unleashing creative potential: The role of stable institutional ownership in exploratory innovation	66
Innovation grant (S)hopping: Unpacking SMEs' support choices between multiple potential funding sources	65
Death squad or quality improvement? The impact of introducing post-grant review on U.S. patent legal quality	64
Wolves at the door to the unknown: Innovation search and hedge fund activism	63
Growing up but staying home: Patient equity investors and firm scale-up	63
The bidirectional causality of tie stability and innovation performance	62
Economic complexity and the green economy	62
The impacts of U.S. Section 337 investigations on Chinese technology firms	62
Are intellectual property rights working for society?	61
Disclosure rules and declared essential patents	61
The Government Patent Register: A new resource for measuring U.S. government-funded patenting	59
Winning the second race of technology standardization: Strategic maneuvers in SEP follow-on innovations	59
Focusing the ecosystem lens on innovation studies	59
Are ideas being fished out?	58
Editorial Board	57
Editorial Board	56
How do university-firm interactions affect firm innovation speed? The case of Chinese science-intensive SMEs	55
Richard R Nelson (1930–2025): Evolutionary economist and innovation scholar	55
Innovation effects of academic executives: Evidence from China	55
The determinants of parallel invention: Measuring the role of information sharing and personal interaction between inventors	55
Appropriability risk and knowledge search on digital platforms	53
Transformation of Global Science core–periphery structure towards a multi-polar horizon: The Rise of China and the Global South from 1980–2020	53
Gender differences in the determinants of becoming a professor in Germany. An event history analysis of academic psychologists from 1980 to 2019	53
Investment in intangible assets and economic complexity	53