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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
A Review of Ian Scoones, Navigating Uncertainty: Radical Rethinking for a Turbulent World	87
Research Assessment Reform as Collective Action Problem: Contested Framings of Research System Transformation	43
Strategic Bureaucracy: The Convergence of Bureaucratic and Strategic Management Logics in the Organizational Restructuring of Universities	37
The Platformization of Science: Towards a Scientific Digital Platform Taxonomy	27
Katherine E. Smith, Justyna Bandola-Gill, Nasar Meer, Ellen Stewart and Richard Watermeyer, The Impact Agenda: Controversies, Consequences and Challenges	24
Eric S. Hintz, American Independent Inventors in an Era of Corporate R&D	24
Professionalizing the Professional Bureaucracy: On Training and Expertise for Leadership Positions in Universities	21
Digital Twins of the Earth Between Vision and Fiction	16
Acceptable Use: Morality and Credibility Struggles in Swedish 1960s Alcohol and Illicit Drug (Ab)use Research and Policy	16
The Independence of Research—A Review of Disciplinary Perspectives and Outline of Interdisciplinary Prospects	16
Public-Private Partnerships and the Landscape of Neglected Tropical Disease Research: The Shifting Logic and Spaces of Knowledge Production	15
Retraction Stigma and its Communication via Retraction Notices	13
“A Militia of Anarchists Run by a General”. A Case of Scientific Policy Advice in Austria During the Pandemic	11
The Rise of Global Health Emergency Governance	10
Dynamics of International Research Collaboration in Higher Education in the Global Majority Systems: Evidence from Three Contexts	10
Navigating Societal Impact: Strategic Management in Horizon 2020 SSH Projects	9
The Feeling Rules of Peer Review: Defining, Displaying, and Managing Emotions in Evaluation for Research Funding	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
Could I Write Like Carol Weiss?	8
Investigating Knowledge Flows in Scientific Communities: The Potential of Bibliometric Methods	8
Territorial Inequalities and (de)Concentration of Public Investment in Science: A Study on CONICET (Argentina) and the Tensions Between Academic Excellence and Equity	7
Social Innovation: A Retrospective Perspective	7
Conception and Interpretation of Interdisciplinarity in Research Practice: Findings from Group Discussions in the Emerging Field of Digital Transformation	7
Who Am I? The Influence of Knowledge Networks on PhD Students’ Formation of a Researcher Role Identity	7

Academic Reform in Fractured Disciplines – On the Interaction of Bologna, New-Public-Management and the Dynamics of Disciplinary Development	7
Mark Solovey and Christian Dayé, eds., Cold War Social Science: Transnational Entanglements	7
A Masked Truth? Public Discussions about Face Masks on a French Health Forum	6
Big Science, Big Trouble? Understanding Conflict in and Around Big Science Projects and Networks	6
Diving into Relevance: How Deep Sea Researchers Articulate Societal Relevance within their Epistemic Living Spaces	6
Peter Scott, Retreat or Resolution? Tackling the Crisis of Mass Higher Education	5
Mapping the German Diamond Open Access Journal Landscape	5
Towards the Recognition of Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Researchers	5
“Are You a TA Practitioner, Then?” – Identity Constructions in Post-Normal Science	5
Understanding Conceptual Impact of Scientific Knowledge on Policy: The Role of Policymaking Conditions	5
Knowledge Brokering Repertoires: Academic Practices at Science-Policy Interfaces as an Epistemological Bricolage	4
Correction to: Conjuration and Conspiracy. The Controversy Over the German Covid Policy as a Mediumistic Trial, or: The Medium is the Mess	4
A Sociocultural Perspective on Scholars Developing Research Skills via Research Communities in Vietnam	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
The Societal Territory of Academic Disciplines: How Disciplines Matter to Society	3
Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, Split and Splice. A Phenomenology of Experimentation	3
Metascience as a Scientific Social Movement	3
Environmental Care: How Marine Scientists Relate to Environmental Changes	3
Internationalizing Doctoral Education: Examining the Relationship Between International Engagement Opportunities and Research Production	3
Abstracting It All: The Soviet Institute of Scientific Information (VINITI) and the Promise of Centralisation, 1952–1977	3
Reimagining Health as a ‘Flow on Effect’ of Biomedical Innovation: Research Policy as a Site of State Activism	3
Good Science from Below: Of Early-Stage Researchers’ Registers of Valuing, Response-Abilities, and Care for Good Research	3
“We Share All Data with Each Other”: Data-Sharing in Peer-to-Peer Relationships	3
Making Expert Bodies: A Sociological Analysis of the Formation of Regulatory Agencies in U.S. Politics	3
Academic Inbreeding: Academic Oligarchy, Effects, and Barriers to Change	3
Stress-Inducing and Anxiety-Ridden: A Practice-Based Approach to the Construction of Status-Bestowing Evaluations in Research Funding	3
Censorship and Suppression of Covid-19 Heterodoxy: Tactics and Counter-Tactics	3
Enhancing China’s Incentive System for Scientific Innovation: A Review and Recommendations	3
Modes of Relevance in Research: Towards Understanding the Promises and Possibilities of Doing Relevance	3
The Communication Function of Universities: Is There a Place for Science Communication?	3
Vaccine Hesitancy and the Concept of Trust: An Analysis Based on the Israeli COVID-19 Vaccination Campaign	2
Mapping for Mapping’s Sake? Ecosystems Services Maps and the Modes of (Ir)relevance of Ecological Knowledge for Nature Conservation	2
The Framing of Diversity Statements in European Universities: The Role of Imprinting and Institutional Legacy	2
Bringing Together Species Observations: A Case Story of Sweden’s Biodiversity Informatics Infrastructures	2
Science and Innovation: A Cyclical Approach	2
What is “Dialogue” in Public Engagement with Science and Technology? Bridging STS and Deliberative Democracy	2
Between Delivery and Luck: Projectification of Academic Careers and Conflicting Notions of Worth at the Postdoc Level	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
In the Name of Diversity: Analyzing the Adoptions of Diversity-Related Offices in U.S. Higher Education, 1968-2020	2
What is the Space for “Place” in Social Studies of Astronomy?	2
Out of the Ivory Tower: The Patenting Activity of Canadian University Professors Before the 1980s	2
Park Rangers and Science-Public Expertise: Science as Care in Biosecurity for Kauri Trees in Aotearoa/New Zealand	2
Between Gift-Giving and Accumulation: Peer Review Economies in Psychology	2
All that Matters are Forests and Seas? Practising Relevance in Interdisciplinary Environment-Focused Social Science Fields	2
Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga, What Do Science, Technology and Innovation Mean from Africa?	1
Stories of Disaster as Sites of Mitigation: Knowledge Production and Affective Engagement in the Narrativization of Nuclear Incidents in Different Media	1
From Problem-Solving to Meaning-Making: Reframing the Societal Relevance of Research	1
Reproducing Inequality: Collaboration Habitus and its Epistemic Implications in African-European Research Projects on Forests	1
Cultural Shifts in High Energy Physics Collaboration from the Cold War to the Present: A Historical and Philosophical Perspective	1

Surviving Science – Coping with Exit-Decisions in Physics and History	1
Steering the Direction of Research through Organizational Identity Formation	1
Enriching the Existing Knowledge About Co-creation: Identifying Dimensions of Co-creation Using Explicit Theory in Various Research Fields	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
Scientists as Experts in Public Debates Characterised by Scientific Uncertainty: The Swedish COVID-19 Debate	1
Benchmarking and the Technicization of Academic Discourse: The Case of the EU at-Risk of Poverty or Social Exclusion Composite Indicator	1
Becoming an Impact-Driven University: A Socio-Technical Analysis of the Reconfiguration of Relevance During Institutional Transformation	1
Citizen Science in Deliberative Systems: Participation, Epistemic Injustice, and Civic Empowerment	1
China’s Research Evaluation Reform: What are the Consequences for Global Science?	1
Ursula van Beek (ed.), Democracy under Pressure. Resilience or Retreat?	1
Engagement in the Journal Peer Reviewing Process Among STEM Doctoral Students in China	1
More Than Euros: Exploring the Construction of Project Grants as Prizes and Consolations	1
The Changing Interrelationship Between Scientific Knowledge and Economic Power	1
A Tale of Two Academic Communities: Digital Imaginaries of Automatic Screening Tools in Editorial Practice	1
Accelerated Academia: Time Regimes of a University Merger	1