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 2021-08-01 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
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

Mark Solovey and Christian Dayé, eds., Cold War Social Science: Transnational Entanglements	6
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
Big Science, Big Trouble? Understanding Conflict in and Around Big Science Projects and Networks	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