OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Policy Sciences 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Note from the Editor: Lasswell Prize Announcement for Policy Sciences Volume 56 (2023)	57
Institutional coordination arrangements as elements of policy design spaces: insights from climate policy	52
PPP performance evaluation: the social welfare goal, principal–agent theory and political economy	48
Political ideology and vaccination willingness: implications for policy design	38
Seeking policy solutions in a complex system: experimentalist governance in China’s healthcare reform	36
Grandpa Joe’s hunting rifle: morality policy framing in Canadian Parliament	33
Environmental identity and perceived salience of policy issues in coastal communities: a moderated-mediation analysis	24
The future as developmental construct in the work of Harold Lasswell	23
The pursuit of welfare efficiency: when institutional structures turn ‘less’ into ‘more’	22
(Un)usual advocacy coalitions in a multi-system setting: the case of hydrogen in Germany	22
Pioneer advantage or late-mover advantage? An examination of the interplay between policy diffusion sequence and policy outcomes	21
Rethinking disproportionate policy making by introducing proportionate politics	20
Engines of learning? Policy instruments, cities and climate governance	20
Policy’s role in democratic conflict management	19
Measuring the impact of consultative citizen participation: reviewing the congruency approaches for assessing the uptake of citizen ideas	16
Evidencing the benefits of cluster policies: towards a generalised framework of effects	16
Advancing scholarship on policy conflict through perspectives from oil and gas policy actors	14
Low-fidelity policy design, within-design feedback, and the Universal Credit case	13
Policy integration as a political process	13
Navigating the role of emotions in expertise: public framing of expertise in the Czech public controversy on birth care	12
Policy inaction meets policy learning: four moments of non-implementation	12
A semi-automated approach to policy-relevant evidence synthesis: combining natural language processing, causal mapping, and graph analytics for public policy	11
The promises and perils of populism for democratic policymaking: the case of Mexico	11
Public contestation over agricultural pollution: a discourse network analysis on narrative strategies in the policy process	11
Consultancy firms’ roles in policy diffusion: a systematic review from the environmental governance field	10

Mini-publics and policy impact analysis: filtration in the citizens’ assembly on social care	10
The legacy of Harold D. Lasswell’s commitment to the policy sciences of democracy: observations on Douglas Torgerson’s the policy sciences of Harold Lasswell	9
Approaches to policy framing: deepening a conversation across perspectives	9
Against the odds: How policy capacity can compensate for weak instruments in promoting sustainable food	8
Climate fatalism, partisan cues, and support for the Inflation Reduction Act	8
Conceptualizing morality policy: a dyadic morality frame analysis of a gendered legislative debate on abortion	8
International actors and national policies: the introduction of the national care system in Uruguay	8
Breaking away from family control? Collaboration among political organisations and social media endorsement among their constituents	7
Media actors as policy entrepreneurs: a case study of “No Jab, No Play” and “No Jab, No Pay” mandatory vaccination policies in Australia	7
Understanding EU forest policy governance through a cultural theory lens	7
Understanding policy transfer through social network analysis: expanding methodologies with an intensive case study approach	7
From hierarchy to continuum: classifying the technical dimension of policy goals	7
Heated policy: policy actors’ emotional storylines and conflict escalation	7
Beyond evidence-based policymaking? Exploring knowledge formation and source effects in US migration policymaking	7
Climbing the 'ladder of intrusiveness': the Italian government's strategy to push the Covid-19 vaccination coverage further	7
Environmental policy integration in a newly established natural resource-based sector: the role of advocacy coalitions and contrasting conceptions of sustainability	7
Exploring the eternal struggle: The Narrative Policy Framework and status quo versus policy change	7
Assessing evidence based on scale can be a useful predictor of policy outcomes	7
From institutional tipping points to affective and direct tips: mythical institutions, policy ineffectiveness, and nonlinear political dynamics in East Germany, 1989–1990	6
Chameleonic knowledge: a study of ex ante analysis in large infrastructure policy processes	6
Advice that resonates: explaining the variability in consultants’ policy influence	6
Devil in the details? Policy settings and calibrations of national excellence-centers	6
Space for stories: legislative narratives and the establishment of the US Space Force	6
Empirical research on policy integration: a review and new directions	5
The European 2030 climate and energy package: do domestic strategy adaptations precede EU policy change?	5
Inaction, under-reaction action and incapacity: communication breakdown in Italy’s vaccination governance	5
Mapping the use of knowledge in policymaking: barriers and facilitators from a subjectivist perspective (1990–2020)	5
William Newlin Dunn (1939–2022) “The truest measure of an academic pillar”	5
Barriers to the digital transformation of infrastructure sectors	5
Female members of parliament, right-wing parties, and the inclusiveness of immigration policy: evidence from 26 European countries	4
Agenda-setting in nascent policy subsystems: issue and instrument priorities across venues	4
Harold Lasswell as distinct from his work: the method of immanent critique and its implications	4
Do think tanks generate media attention on issues they care about? Mediating internal expertise and prevailing governmental agendas	4
Operationalizing Lasswell’s call for clarification of value goals: an equity-based approach to normative public policy analysis	4
“Please Wait, Your Policy is Important to Us” issue prioritization, the ACF, and Canada’s failed attempts at cannabis decriminalization, 2003–2005	4
Enlightenment, politicisation or mere window dressing? Europeanisation and the use of evidence for policy making in Bulgaria	3
Understanding the role of institutions in the multiple streams approach through the recognition of the diaspora as a development agent in Cameroon	3
Participatory decision-making in the policy integration process: indigenous consultation and sustainable development in Mexico	3
A friction perspective for negotiating renewable energy targets: the Israeli case	3
Local implementation of U.S. federal immigration programs: context, control, and the problems of intergovernmental implementation	3
Dealing with cross-sectoral policy problems: An advocacy coalition approach to climate and water policy integration in Northeast Brazil	3
The role of actors' issue and sector specialization for policy integration in the parliamentary arena: an analysis of Swiss biodiversity policy using text as data	3
Co-design in policymaking: from an emerging to an embedded practice	3
Implementing policy integration: policy regimes for care policy in Chile and Uruguay	3
Mapping design activities and methods of public sector innovation units through the policy cycle model	3
Conflicting and complementary policy goals as sectoral integration challenge: an analysis of sectoral interplay in flood risk management	3
The policy integration game? Congruence of outputs and implementation in policy integration	2
Mobilising international embeddedness to resist radical policy change and dismantling: the case of Brazil under Jair Bolsonaro (2019–2022)	2
Rethinking the commissioning of consultants for enhancing government policy capacity	2
Nudging citizens co-production: Assessing multiple behavioral strategies	2

How foes become allies: the shifting role of business in climate politics	2
The intersection of digital and social infrastructures in (a)spatial policymaking	2
Making the eyes of the state: algorithmic alienation and mundane creativity in Peruvian street-level bureaucrats	2
What matters to citizens in crisis recovery? Being listened to, action, and confidence in government	2
Count on trust: the indirect effect of trust in government on policy compliance with health behavior instructions	2
Privatization of Canadian housing assistance: how bureaucrats on a budget added market-based progams to the toolbox	2
The politics of experimental policymaking: the influence of blame avoidance and credit claiming	2
Wildfire risk and insurance: research directions for policy scientists	2
Managing pandemics as super wicked problems: lessons from, and for, COVID-19 and the climate crisis	2
How do courts contribute to policy integration? A comparative study of policy integration processes in Colombia, Ecuador, and Guatemala	2
Evidence for policy-makers: A matter of timing and certainty?	2
Policy analytical capacity and "Eastern" styles of policy analysis: evidence from West Java Province, Indonesia	2
A diamond in the rough: digging up and polishing Harold D. Lasswell’s decision functions	2
Policy feedback and institutional context in energy transitions	2
Explaining differences in research utilization in evidence-based government ministries	2