OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Minerva is 1. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
David John Frank & John W. Meyer, The University and the Global Knowledge Society	79
Research Assessment Reform as Collective Action Problem: Contested Framings of Research System Transformation	38
A Review of Ian Scoones, Navigating Uncertainty: Radical Rethinking for a Turbulent World	33
The Platformization of Science: Towards a Scientific Digital Platform Taxonomy	24
Strategic Bureaucracy: The Convergence of Bureaucratic and Strategic Management Logics in the Organizational Restructuring of Universities	23
Eric S. Hintz, American Independent Inventors in an Era of Corporate R&D	21
Katherine E. Smith, Justyna Bandola-Gill, Nasar Meer, Ellen Stewart and Richard Watermeyer, The Impact Agenda: Controversies, Consequences and Challenges	16
Digital Twins of the Earth Between Vision and Fiction	15
Public-Private Partnerships and the Landscape of Neglected Tropical Disease Research: The Shifting Logic and Spaces of Knowledge Production	15
Acceptable Use: Morality and Credibility Struggles in Swedish 1960s Alcohol and Illicit Drug (Ab)use Research and Policy	15
Retraction Stigma and its Communication via Retraction Notices	14
“A Militia of Anarchists Run by a General”. A Case of Scientific Policy Advice in Austria During the Pandemic	13
The Independence of Research—A Review of Disciplinary Perspectives and Outline of Interdisciplinary Prospects	13
Navigating Societal Impact: Strategic Management in Horizon 2020 SSH Projects	10
The Rise of Global Health Emergency Governance	10
The Feeling Rules of Peer Review: Defining, Displaying, and Managing Emotions in Evaluation for Research Funding	9
Investigating Knowledge Flows in Scientific Communities: The Potential of Bibliometric Methods	9
Making Sense of Science, University, and Industry: Sensemaking Narratives of Finnish and Israeli Scientists	8
New Arguments for a pure lottery in Research Funding: A Sketch for a Future Science Policy Without Time-Consuming Grant Competitions	8
Academic Reform in Fractured Disciplines – On the Interaction of Bologna, New-Public-Management and the Dynamics of Disciplinary Development	7
Could I Write Like Carol Weiss?	7
Mark Solovey and Christian Dayé, eds., Cold War Social Science: Transnational Entanglements	6
Big Science, Big Trouble? Understanding Conflict in and Around Big Science Projects and Networks	6
Social Innovation: A Retrospective Perspective	6
Conception and Interpretation of Interdisciplinarity in Research Practice: Findings from Group Discussions in the Emerging Field of Digital Transformation	6

Who Am I? The Influence of Knowledge Networks on PhD Students’ Formation of a Researcher Role Identity	6
Territorial Inequalities and (de)Concentration of Public Investment in Science: A Study on CONICET (Argentina) and the Tensions Between Academic Excellence and Equity	6
“Are You a TA Practitioner, Then?” – Identity Constructions in Post-Normal Science	5
A Sociocultural Perspective on Scholars Developing Research Skills via Research Communities in Vietnam	4
Diving into Relevance: How Deep Sea Researchers Articulate Societal Relevance within their Epistemic Living Spaces	4
Knowledge Brokering Repertoires: Academic Practices at Science-Policy Interfaces as an Epistemological Bricolage	4
The Politics Behind Overinterpreted and Underexplored Models: A Review of Andrea Saltelli and Monica Di Fiore (eds.), The Politics of Modelling - Numbers between Science and Policy	4
Mapping the German Diamond Open Access Journal Landscape	4
Towards the Recognition of Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Researchers	4
Correction to: Conjuration and Conspiracy. The Controversy Over the German Covid Policy as a Mediumistic Trial, or: The Medium is the Mess	4
Peter Scott, Retreat or Resolution? Tackling the Crisis of Mass Higher Education	4
A Masked Truth? Public Discussions about Face Masks on a French Health Forum	4
Understanding Conceptual Impact of Scientific Knowledge on Policy: The Role of Policymaking Conditions	4
Metascience as a Scientific Social Movement	3
Censorship and Suppression of Covid-19 Heterodoxy: Tactics and Counter-Tactics	3
The Communication Function of Universities: Is There a Place for Science Communication?	3
Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, Split and Splice. A Phenomenology of Experimentation	3
Enhancing China’s Incentive System for Scientific Innovation: A Review and Recommendations	3
Public Value Promises and Outcome Reporting in Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy	3
Modes of Relevance in Research: Towards Understanding the Promises and Possibilities of Doing Relevance	3
“We Share All Data with Each Other”: Data-Sharing in Peer-to-Peer Relationships	3
Environmental Care: How Marine Scientists Relate to Environmental Changes	2
Abstracting It All: The Soviet Institute of Scientific Information (VINITI) and the Promise of Centralisation, 1952–1977	2
Academia in the Grip of the Wolf and Its Utopia	2
Out of the Ivory Tower: The Patenting Activity of Canadian University Professors Before the 1980s	2
Convergence Research as a ‘System-of-Systems’: A Framework and Research Agenda	2
The Persistence of Gender Inequality in e-Science: The Case of eSec	2
Reimagining Health as a ‘Flow on Effect’ of Biomedical Innovation: Research Policy as a Site of State Activism	2
Stress-Inducing and Anxiety-Ridden: A Practice-Based Approach to the Construction of Status-Bestowing Evaluations in Research Funding	2
Between Delivery and Luck: Projectification of Academic Careers and Conflicting Notions of Worth at the Postdoc Level	2
The Framing of Diversity Statements in European Universities: The Role of Imprinting and Institutional Legacy	2
Park Rangers and Science-Public Expertise: Science as Care in Biosecurity for Kauri Trees in Aotearoa/New Zealand	2
Mapping for Mapping’s Sake? Ecosystems Services Maps and the Modes of (Ir)relevance of Ecological Knowledge for Nature Conservation	2
What is the Space for “Place” in Social Studies of Astronomy?	2
Academic Inbreeding: Academic Oligarchy, Effects, and Barriers to Change	2
The Societal Territory of Academic Disciplines: How Disciplines Matter to Society	2
What is “Dialogue” in Public Engagement with Science and Technology? Bridging STS and Deliberative Democracy	2
Vaccine Hesitancy and the Concept of Trust: An Analysis Based on the Israeli COVID-19 Vaccination Campaign	2
Bringing Together Species Observations: A Case Story of Sweden’s Biodiversity Informatics Infrastructures	2
Benchmarking and the Technicization of Academic Discourse: The Case of the EU at-Risk of Poverty or Social Exclusion Composite Indicator	1
In the Name of Diversity: Analyzing the Adoptions of Diversity-Related Offices in U.S. Higher Education, 1968-2020	1
More Than Euros: Exploring the Construction of Project Grants as Prizes and Consolations	1
Reproducing Inequality: Collaboration Habitus and its Epistemic Implications in African-European Research Projects on Forests	1
Citizen Science in Deliberative Systems: Participation, Epistemic Injustice, and Civic Empowerment	1
Ursula van Beek (ed.), Democracy under Pressure. Resilience or Retreat?	1
A Tale of Two Academic Communities: Digital Imaginaries of Automatic Screening Tools in Editorial Practice	1
Stories of Disaster as Sites of Mitigation: Knowledge Production and Affective Engagement in the Narrativization of Nuclear Incidents in Different Media	1
Between Gift-Giving and Accumulation: Peer Review Economies in Psychology	1
Beyond the “STEM Pipeline”: Expertise, Careers, and Lifelong Learning	1
From Problem-Solving to Meaning-Making: Reframing the Societal Relevance of Research	1

The Changing Interrelationship Between Scientific Knowledge and Economic Power	1
Steering the Direction of Research through Organizational Identity Formation	1
Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga, What Do Science, Technology and Innovation Mean from Africa?	1
Cultural Shifts in High Energy Physics Collaboration from the Cold War to the Present: A Historical and Philosophical Perspective	1
Science and Innovation: A Cyclical Approach	1
All that Matters are Forests and Seas? Practising Relevance in Interdisciplinary Environment-Focused Social Science Fields	1
Becoming an Impact-Driven University: A Socio-Technical Analysis of the Reconfiguration of Relevance During Institutional Transformation	1
Towards a “Hinterland” for Doing Relevance. A Typology of Practices and Competencies to Guide the Development of more Relevant Research and Career Paths	1
Do Interpersonal Networks Mediate the Relationship Between International Academic Mobility and Entrepreneurial Knowledge?	1
Accelerated Academia: Time Regimes of a University Merger	1
Enriching the Existing Knowledge About Co-creation: Identifying Dimensions of Co-creation Using Explicit Theory in Various Research Fields	1