OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Minerva is 4. 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
Conceptions of Professionalism in U.S. Research Universities: Evidence from the gradSERU Survey	13
Becoming Similar, but Drifting Apart: Partnerships Between Universities and Public Research Organizations	13
The Platformization of Science: Towards a Scientific Digital Platform Taxonomy	12
An Uneasy Peace: How STEM Progressive, Traditionalist, and Bridging Faculty Understand Campus Conflicts over Diversity, Anti-Racism, and Free Expression	11
The Societal Territory of Academic Disciplines: How Disciplines Matter to Society	11
A Data-Political Spectacle: How COVID-19 Became A Source of Societal Division in Denmark	10
Citation Elites in Polytheistic and Umbrella Disciplines: Patterns of Stratification and Concentration in Danish and British Science	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
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
Evaluation Practices of Doctoral Examination Committees: Boundary-Work Under Pressure	8
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
“Are You a TA Practitioner, Then?” – Identity Constructions in Post-Normal Science	7
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

Mapping the German Diamond Open Access Journal Landscape	6
Making Science Relevant: Comparing Two Science Advisory Organizations Beyond the Linear Knowledge Model	5
“They Don't Understand Us, but We Have to Understand Them”: Interrogating the Making of Interdisciplinary Research in Chilean Climate Science	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