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

Article	Citations
David John Frank & John W. Meyer, The University and the Global Knowledge Society	84
Strategic Bureaucracy: The Convergence of Bureaucratic and Strategic Management Logics in the Organizational Restructuring of Universities	42
Research Assessment Reform as Collective Action Problem: Contested Framings of Research System Transformation	36
A Review of Ian Scoones, Navigating Uncertainty: Radical Rethinking for a Turbulent World	25
The Platformization of Science: Towards a Scientific Digital Platform Taxonomy	24
Eric S. Hintz, American Independent Inventors in an Era of Corporate R&D	23
Katherine E. Smith, Justyna Bandola-Gill, Nasar Meer, Ellen Stewart and Richard Watermeyer, The Impact Agenda: Controversies, Consequences and Challenges	19
Professionalizing the Professional Bureaucracy: On Training and Expertise for Leadership Positions in Universities	16
Acceptable Use: Morality and Credibility Struggles in Swedish 1960s Alcohol and Illicit Drug (Ab)use Research and Policy	16
Retraction Stigma and its Communication via Retraction Notices	15
Digital Twins of the Earth Between Vision and Fiction	15
The Independence of Research—A Review of Disciplinary Perspectives and Outline of Interdisciplinary Prospects	13
Public-Private Partnerships and the Landscape of Neglected Tropical Disease Research: The Shifting Logic and Spaces of Knowledge Production	11
“A Militia of Anarchists Run by a General”. A Case of Scientific Policy Advice in Austria During the Pandemic	10
Navigating Societal Impact: Strategic Management in Horizon 2020 SSH Projects	9
Dynamics of International Research Collaboration in Higher Education in the Global Majority Systems: Evidence from Three Contexts	9
The Rise of Global Health Emergency Governance	9
Investigating Knowledge Flows in Scientific Communities: The Potential of Bibliometric Methods	8
New Arguments for a pure lottery in Research Funding: A Sketch for a Future Science Policy Without Time-Consuming Grant Competitions	7
Could I Write Like Carol Weiss?	7
The Feeling Rules of Peer Review: Defining, Displaying, and Managing Emotions in Evaluation for Research Funding	7
Making Sense of Science, University, and Industry: Sensemaking Narratives of Finnish and Israeli Scientists	7
Mark Solovey and Christian Dayé, eds., Cold War Social Science: Transnational Entanglements	6
Conception and Interpretation of Interdisciplinarity in Research Practice: Findings from Group Discussions in the Emerging Field of Digital Transformation	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

Academic Reform in Fractured Disciplines – On the Interaction of Bologna, New-Public-Management and the Dynamics of Disciplinary Development	6
Big Science, Big Trouble? Understanding Conflict in and Around Big Science Projects and Networks	5
A Masked Truth? Public Discussions about Face Masks on a French Health Forum	5
Social Innovation: A Retrospective Perspective	5
Understanding Conceptual Impact of Scientific Knowledge on Policy: The Role of Policymaking Conditions	5
Towards the Recognition of Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Researchers	5
Who Am I? The Influence of Knowledge Networks on PhD Students’ Formation of a Researcher Role Identity	5
Diving into Relevance: How Deep Sea Researchers Articulate Societal Relevance within their Epistemic Living Spaces	5
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
“Are You a TA Practitioner, Then?” – Identity Constructions in Post-Normal Science	4
Mapping the German Diamond Open Access Journal Landscape	4
Peter Scott, Retreat or Resolution? Tackling the Crisis of Mass Higher Education	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
Censorship and Suppression of Covid-19 Heterodoxy: Tactics and Counter-Tactics	3
“We Share All Data with Each Other”: Data-Sharing in Peer-to-Peer Relationships	3
The Communication Function of Universities: Is There a Place for Science Communication?	3
Enhancing China’s Incentive System for Scientific Innovation: A Review and Recommendations	3
Good Science from Below: Of Early-Stage Researchers’ Registers of Valuing, Response-Abilities, and Care for Good Research	3
Metascience as a Scientific Social Movement	3
Knowledge Brokering Repertoires: Academic Practices at Science-Policy Interfaces as an Epistemological Bricolage	3
Reimagining Health as a ‘Flow on Effect’ of Biomedical Innovation: Research Policy as a Site of State Activism	3
Modes of Relevance in Research: Towards Understanding the Promises and Possibilities of Doing Relevance	3
Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, Split and Splice. A Phenomenology of Experimentation	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
What is the Space for “Place” in Social Studies of Astronomy?	2
Convergence Research as a ‘System-of-Systems’: A Framework and Research Agenda	2
Bringing Together Species Observations: A Case Story of Sweden’s Biodiversity Informatics Infrastructures	2
Out of the Ivory Tower: The Patenting Activity of Canadian University Professors Before the 1980s	2
Making Expert Bodies: A Sociological Analysis of the Formation of Regulatory Agencies in U.S. Politics	2
The Societal Territory of Academic Disciplines: How Disciplines Matter to Society	2
Between Delivery and Luck: Projectification of Academic Careers and Conflicting Notions of Worth at the Postdoc Level	2
Vaccine Hesitancy and the Concept of Trust: An Analysis Based on the Israeli COVID-19 Vaccination Campaign	2
The Persistence of Gender Inequality in e-Science: The Case of eSec	2
Mapping for Mapping’s Sake? Ecosystems Services Maps and the Modes of (Ir)relevance of Ecological Knowledge for Nature Conservation	2
Abstracting It All: The Soviet Institute of Scientific Information (VINITI) and the Promise of Centralisation, 1952–1977	2
What is “Dialogue” in Public Engagement with Science and Technology? Bridging STS and Deliberative Democracy	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
Science and Innovation: A Cyclical Approach	2
Academic Inbreeding: Academic Oligarchy, Effects, and Barriers to Change	2
Stress-Inducing and Anxiety-Ridden: A Practice-Based Approach to the Construction of Status-Bestowing Evaluations in Research Funding	2
In the Name of Diversity: Analyzing the Adoptions of Diversity-Related Offices in U.S. Higher Education, 1968-2020	1
From Problem-Solving to Meaning-Making: Reframing the Societal Relevance of Research	1
Benchmarking and the Technicization of Academic Discourse: The Case of the EU at-Risk of Poverty or Social Exclusion Composite Indicator	1
Citizen Science in Deliberative Systems: Participation, Epistemic Injustice, and Civic Empowerment	1
Steering the Direction of Research through Organizational Identity Formation	1
Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga, What Do Science, Technology and Innovation Mean from Africa?	1
Ursula van Beek (ed.), Democracy under Pressure. Resilience or Retreat?	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
Becoming an Impact-Driven University: A Socio-Technical Analysis of the Reconfiguration of Relevance During Institutional Transformation	1
Stories of Disaster as Sites of Mitigation: Knowledge Production and Affective Engagement in the Narrativization of Nuclear Incidents in Different Media	1
Accelerated Academia: Time Regimes of a University Merger	1
Do Interpersonal Networks Mediate the Relationship Between International Academic Mobility and Entrepreneurial Knowledge?	1
A Tale of Two Academic Communities: Digital Imaginaries of Automatic Screening Tools in Editorial Practice	1
The Changing Interrelationship Between Scientific Knowledge and Economic Power	1
Between Gift-Giving and Accumulation: Peer Review Economies in Psychology	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
All that Matters are Forests and Seas? Practising Relevance in Interdisciplinary Environment-Focused Social Science Fields	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
Enriching the Existing Knowledge About Co-creation: Identifying Dimensions of Co-creation Using Explicit Theory in Various Research Fields	1