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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
David John Frank & John W. Meyer, The University and the Global Knowledge Society	70
Limits and Paradoxes of Accelerating Research. A Retrospective on the Attempts to Accelerate Medical Research on COVID-19	35
Abstracting It All: The Soviet Institute of Scientific Information (VINITI) and the Promise of Centralisation, 1952–1977	32
A Review of Ian Scoones, Navigating Uncertainty: Radical Rethinking for a Turbulent World	30
Towards the Recognition of Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Researchers	24
Structural Power and Epistemologies in the Scientific Field: Why a Rapid Reconciliation Between Functional and Evolutionary Biology is Unlikely	19
Strategic Bureaucracy: The Convergence of Bureaucratic and Strategic Management Logics in the Organizational Restructuring of Universities	17
Research Assessment Reform as Collective Action Problem: Contested Framings of Research System Transformation	14
Becoming Similar, but Drifting Apart: Partnerships Between Universities and Public Research Organizations	13
Conceptions of Professionalism in U.S. Research Universities: Evidence from the gradSERU Survey	13
The Platformization of Science: Towards a Scientific Digital Platform Taxonomy	12
The Societal Territory of Academic Disciplines: How Disciplines Matter to Society	11
An Uneasy Peace: How STEM Progressive, Traditionalist, and Bridging Faculty Understand Campus Conflicts over Diversity, Anti-Racism, and Free Expression	11
Citation Elites in Polytheistic and Umbrella Disciplines: Patterns of Stratification and Concentration in Danish and British Science	10
A Data-Political Spectacle: How COVID-19 Became A Source of Societal Division in Denmark	10
Becoming an Impact-Driven University: A Socio-Technical Analysis of the Reconfiguration of Relevance During Institutional Transformation	9
Conjuration and Conspiracy. The Controversy over the German Covid Policy as a Mediumistic Trial, or: The Medium is the Mess	9
Evaluation Practices of Doctoral Examination Committees: Boundary-Work Under Pressure	8
More Than Euros: Exploring the Construction of Project Grants as Prizes and Consolations	8
Stress-Inducing and Anxiety-Ridden: A Practice-Based Approach to the Construction of Status-Bestowing Evaluations in Research Funding	8
“Are You a TA Practitioner, Then?” – Identity Constructions in Post-Normal Science	7
A Masked Truth? Public Discussions about Face Masks on a French Health Forum	7
MICHAEL D. SMITH, The Abundant University: Remaking Higher Education for a Digital World	7
Mapping the German Diamond Open Access Journal Landscape	6
Understanding Conceptual Impact of Scientific Knowledge on Policy: The Role of Policymaking Conditions	6

Diving into Relevance: How Deep Sea Researchers Articulate Societal Relevance within their Epistemic Living Spaces	6
“They Don't Understand Us, but We Have to Understand Them”: Interrogating the Making of Interdisciplinary Research in Chilean Climate Science	5
Making Science Relevant: Comparing Two Science Advisory Organizations Beyond the Linear Knowledge Model	5
Between Delivery and Luck: Projectification of Academic Careers and Conflicting Notions of Worth at the Postdoc Level	4
Benchmarking and the Technicization of Academic Discourse: The Case of the EU at-Risk of Poverty or Social Exclusion Composite Indicator	4
Cultural Shifts in High Energy Physics Collaboration from the Cold War to the Present: A Historical and Philosophical Perspective	4
Reproducing Inequality: Collaboration Habitus and its Epistemic Implications in African-European Research Projects on Forests	4
Katherine E. Smith, Justyna Bandola-Gill, Nasar Meer, Ellen Stewart and Richard Watermeyer, The Impact Agenda: Controversies, Consequences and Challenges	4
The Impacts of Incentives for International Publications on Research Cultures in Chinese Humanities and Social Sciences	4
Peter Scott, Retreat or Resolution? Tackling the Crisis of Mass Higher Education	4
Citizen Science in Deliberative Systems: Participation, Epistemic Injustice, and Civic Empowerment	3
‘Lasting Impact on the Studies of Knowledge and Society’: A Review of Nico Stehr, Knowledge Capitalism	3
Boundary Discourse of Crossdisciplinary and Cross-Sector Research: Refiguring the Landscape of Science	3
Stories of Disaster as Sites of Mitigation: Knowledge Production and Affective Engagement in the Narrativization of Nuclear Incidents in Different Media	3
Eric S. Hintz, American Independent Inventors in an Era of Corporate R&D	3
The Changing Interrelationship Between Scientific Knowledge and Economic Power	3
Crafting Cumulative Advantage: A Systemic Approach to the Career Development of Highly Productive Researchers	3
Correction to: Conjuration and Conspiracy. The Controversy Over the German Covid Policy as a Mediumistic Trial, or: The Medium is the Mess	3
Acceptable Use: Morality and Credibility Struggles in Swedish 1960s Alcohol and Illicit Drug (Ab)use Research and Policy	2
Entrepreneurial Orientation and Knowledge Transfer Effectiveness: The Effect of Organizational Commercial Slack	2
Illiberal Reactions to Higher Education	2
What is “Dialogue” in Public Engagement with Science and Technology? Bridging STS and Deliberative Democracy	2
Mapping for Mapping’s Sake? Ecosystems Services Maps and the Modes of (Ir)relevance of Ecological Knowledge for Nature Conservation	2
A Tale of Two Academic Communities: Digital Imaginaries of Automatic Screening Tools in Editorial Practice	2
From Effects of Governance to Causes of Epistemic Change	2
Pushing Boundaries: The European Universities Initiative as a Case of Transnational Institution Building	2
A Sociocultural Perspective on Scholars Developing Research Skills via Research Communities in Vietnam	2
What is the Space for “Place” in Social Studies of Astronomy?	2
Academia in the Grip of the Wolf and Its Utopia	2
Mapping Approaches to ‘Citizen Science’ and ‘Community Science’ and Everything In-between: The Evolution of New Epistemic Territory?	2
Transnational Co-production of Knowledge: The Standardisation of Typhoon Warning Codes in the Far East, 1900–1939	1
Participatory Convergence: Integrating Convergence and Participatory Action Research	1
Steering the Direction of Research through Organizational Identity Formation	1
Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga, What Do Science, Technology and Innovation Mean from Africa?	1
Surviving Science – Coping with Exit-Decisions in Physics and History	1
The Independence of Research—A Review of Disciplinary Perspectives and Outline of Interdisciplinary Prospects	1
Performing Expertise in Building Regulation: ‘Codespeak’ and Fire Safety Experts	1
Public-Private Partnerships and the Landscape of Neglected Tropical Disease Research: The Shifting Logic and Spaces of Knowledge Production	1
Enriching the Existing Knowledge About Co-creation: Identifying Dimensions of Co-creation Using Explicit Theory in Various Research Fields	1
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	1
Accelerated Academia: Time Regimes of a University Merger	1
Out of the Ivory Tower: The Patenting Activity of Canadian University Professors Before the 1980s	1
The Science and Politics of Climate Engineering—Social Science Perspectives	1
The Therapeutic University	1
Ursula van Beek (ed.), Democracy under Pressure. Resilience or Retreat?	1
The Impact of Impact: An Invitation to Philosophise	1
Do Interpersonal Networks Mediate the Relationship Between International Academic Mobility and Entrepreneurial Knowledge?	1
Retraction Stigma and its Communication via Retraction Notices	1