OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Minerva is 2. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
A Review of Ian Scoones, Navigating Uncertainty: Radical Rethinking for a Turbulent World	49
Strategic Bureaucracy: The Convergence of Bureaucratic and Strategic Management Logics in the Organizational Restructuring of Universities	37
Research Assessment Reform as Collective Action Problem: Contested Framings of Research System Transformation	34
Canada’s Leap Forward in Research Security	28
The Platformization of Science: Towards a Scientific Digital Platform Taxonomy	28
Eric S. Hintz, American Independent Inventors in an Era of Corporate R&D	22
Professionalizing the Professional Bureaucracy: On Training and Expertise for Leadership Positions in Universities	18
Writing in the Sciences: Scientists, Scientific Writers, and the Division of Writing Labour	17
The University: Exalted Institution and Ruined Organization	17
Academic Freedom of Expression: Threats and Measures in Scandinavia	16
Digital Twins of the Earth Between Vision and Fiction	15
Entrepreneurialism Meets Sustainability: Exploring Tensions in the Transition to Sustainable Entrepreneurial Universities	14
Institutional Translations of Science Policy: How Global Collaboration Agendas are Practiced in a Leading Chinese University	13
Public-Private Partnerships and the Landscape of Neglected Tropical Disease Research: The Shifting Logic and Spaces of Knowledge Production	13
Wissenschaftsreflexion: What is it? What is the need for it? Contemporary challenges for studies in science	12
From Student to Scholar: Peer Evaluation in the Berlin Philological Seminar	12
The Rise of Global Health Emergency Governance	12
Academia’s Expansion—On the Incorporation, Intrusion, and Bridging of Social Fields	12
“A Militia of Anarchists Run by a General”. A Case of Scientific Policy Advice in Austria During the Pandemic	11
What Knowledge Informs Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Policies? Perspectives from Canadian Colleges	11
Science, Foreign Policy, and Corporate Global China: Industry-Science Collaborations in Switzerland	11
Navigating Societal Impact: Strategic Management in Horizon 2020 SSH Projects	11
Investigating Knowledge Flows in Scientific Communities: The Potential of Bibliometric Methods	10
The Feeling Rules of Peer Review: Defining, Displaying, and Managing Emotions in Evaluation for Research Funding	9
How can Universities Become Transformative Change Agents? Sustainability Strategizing in European Technological Universities	9

Dynamics of International Research Collaboration in Higher Education in the Global Majority Systems: Evidence from Three Contexts	9
Mark Solovey and Christian Dayé, eds., Cold War Social Science: Transnational Entanglements	8
Could I Write Like Carol Weiss?	8
Cutting Across Disciplines: Co-Production and the Rise of a Computational Culture	8
Making Sense of Science, University, and Industry: Sensemaking Narratives of Finnish and Israeli Scientists	7
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
Big Science, Big Trouble? Understanding Conflict in and Around Big Science Projects and Networks	7
The Library and the Database: Contrasting Expectations in Two Imaginaries for the Research Literature	6
Who Am I? The Influence of Knowledge Networks on PhD Students’ Formation of a Researcher Role Identity	6
New Arguments for a pure lottery in Research Funding: A Sketch for a Future Science Policy Without Time-Consuming Grant Competitions	6
“Are You a TA Practitioner, Then?” – Identity Constructions in Post-Normal Science	6
Conception and Interpretation of Interdisciplinarity in Research Practice: Findings from Group Discussions in the Emerging Field of Digital Transformation	6
Mapping the German Diamond Open Access Journal Landscape	5
Peter Scott, Retreat or Resolution? Tackling the Crisis of Mass Higher Education	5
Towards the Recognition of Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Researchers	5
A Masked Truth? Public Discussions about Face Masks on a French Health Forum	5
Book Review of Science and Inequality: A Political Sociology by Scott Frickel and Kelly Moore	5
Correction to: Conjuration and Conspiracy. The Controversy Over the German Covid Policy as a Mediumistic Trial, or: The Medium is the Mess	5
Diving into Relevance: How Deep Sea Researchers Articulate Societal Relevance within their Epistemic Living Spaces	5
Between “Cancel Culture” and Campus Culture: Debate and Dissent in the Discursive Space of the University	5
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	5
Imagining Technology-Mediated Social Change? A Critique of the Theory of Sociotechnical Imaginaries	4
What Makes Knowledge Relevant? A Practice-Theoretical Perspective	4
Metascience as a Scientific Social Movement	4
Modes of Relevance in Research: Towards Understanding the Promises and Possibilities of Doing Relevance	4
Interdisciplinarity as Fusion: Korean National Nanotechnology Initiative and Changes in Physics in South Korea	4
Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, Split and Splice. A Phenomenology of Experimentation	4
Governing Science through Evaluation: A Global Heuristic of Research Evaluation Regimes	4
Making Expert Bodies: A Sociological Analysis of the Formation of Regulatory Agencies in U.S. Politics	4
Knowledge Brokering Repertoires: Academic Practices at Science-Policy Interfaces as an Epistemological Bricolage	4
Good Science from Below: Of Early-Stage Researchers’ Registers of Valuing, Response-Abilities, and Care for Good Research	4
Censorship and Suppression of Covid-19 Heterodoxy: Tactics and Counter-Tactics	4
The Past and Present of Peer Review in the Humanities: An Introduction	4
Academic Inbreeding: Academic Oligarchy, Effects, and Barriers to Change	3
The Peer Review Transition: Editorial Responses to the Formalization of Quality Cultures in Humanities Journals	3
Between Delivery and Luck: Projectification of Academic Careers and Conflicting Notions of Worth at the Postdoc Level	3
Formalizing Informal Communication: An Archaeology of the Early Pre-Web Preprint Infrastructure at CERN	3
Enhancing China’s Incentive System for Scientific Innovation: A Review and Recommendations	3
“We Share All Data with Each Other”: Data-Sharing in Peer-to-Peer Relationships	3
Educational Entrepreneurship and Digital Strategies: Constructing Organizational Actorhood in Swiss Universities	3
Abstracting It All: The Soviet Institute of Scientific Information (VINITI) and the Promise of Centralisation, 1952–1977	3
What is “Dialogue” in Public Engagement with Science and Technology? Bridging STS and Deliberative Democracy	3
Internationalizing Doctoral Education: Examining the Relationship Between International Engagement Opportunities and Research Production	3
The Communication Function of Universities: Is There a Place for Science Communication?	3
Shared Visions: Evaluating Potential in Unsettled Fields	3
Mapping for Mapping’s Sake? Ecosystems Services Maps and the Modes of (Ir)relevance of Ecological Knowledge for Nature Conservation	3
What is the Space for “Place” in Social Studies of Astronomy?	3
Environmental Care: How Marine Scientists Relate to Environmental Changes	3
Between Gift-Giving and Accumulation: Peer Review Economies in Psychology	2

Convergence Research as a ‘System-of-Systems’: A Framework and Research Agenda	2
All that Matters are Forests and Seas? Practising Relevance in Interdisciplinary Environment-Focused Social Science Fields	2
Scientists as Experts in Public Debates Characterised by Scientific Uncertainty: The Swedish COVID-19 Debate	2
Park Rangers and Science-Public Expertise: Science as Care in Biosecurity for Kauri Trees in Aotearoa/New Zealand	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
Engagement in the Journal Peer Reviewing Process Among STEM Doctoral Students in China	2
More Than Euros: Exploring the Construction of Project Grants as Prizes and Consolations	2
Science and Innovation: A Cyclical Approach	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
Towards a “Hinterland” for Doing Relevance. A Typology of Practices and Competencies to Guide the Development of more Relevant Research and Career Paths	2
In the Name of Diversity: Analyzing the Adoptions of Diversity-Related Offices in U.S. Higher Education, 1968-2020	2
From Problem-Solving to Meaning-Making: Reframing the Societal Relevance of Research	2