OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Policy Sciences is 3. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Policy’s role in democratic conflict management	57
The future as developmental construct in the work of Harold Lasswell	49
Environmental identity and perceived salience of policy issues in coastal communities: a moderated-mediation analysis	48
Policy integration as a political process	43
Public contestation over agricultural pollution: a discourse network analysis on narrative strategies in the policy process	34
(Un)usual advocacy coalitions in a multi-system setting: the case of hydrogen in Germany	28
The promises and perils of populism for democratic policymaking: the case of Mexico	27
Assessing evidence based on scale can be a useful predictor of policy outcomes	24
Consultancy firms’ roles in policy diffusion: a systematic review from the environmental governance field	24
Against the odds: How policy capacity can compensate for weak instruments in promoting sustainable food	20
Beyond evidence-based policymaking? Exploring knowledge formation and source effects in US migration policymaking	19
Peak policy lab or chasing windmills? The overlooked issue of misaligned policy design	18
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	18
Understanding EU forest policy governance through a cultural theory lens	17
Conflicting and complementary policy goals as sectoral integration challenge: an analysis of sectoral interplay in flood risk management	15
Female members of parliament, right-wing parties, and the inclusiveness of immigration policy: evidence from 26 European countries	14
The intersection of digital and social infrastructures in (a)spatial policymaking	13
Keep me posted, but don’t stress me out: how the positive effect of social networking services on civil servants’ information use and political capacities can be attenuated by social media stress	13
Nudging citizens co-production: Assessing multiple behavioral strategies	13
How budgets change: punctuations, trends, and super-trends	13
A threat-centered theory of policy entrepreneurship	13
Beyond plans, governance structures, and organizational strategies: how emotional mechanisms can make a difference in emergency response processes	12
Political emotions: a new policy science for tackling the climate crisis	12
Conceptualizing morality policy: a dyadic morality frame analysis of a gendered legislative debate on abortion	11
A semi-automated approach to policy-relevant evidence synthesis: combining natural language processing, causal mapping, and graph analytics for public policy	11

Media actors as policy entrepreneurs: a case study of “No Jab, No Play” and “No Jab, No Pay” mandatory vaccination policies in Australia	11
The European 2030 climate and energy package: do domestic strategy adaptations precede EU policy change?	10
Understanding the role of institutions in the multiple streams approach through the recognition of the diaspora as a development agent in Cameroon	10
Approaches to policy framing: deepening a conversation across perspectives	10
Making the eyes of the state: algorithmic alienation and mundane creativity in Peruvian street-level bureaucrats	10
From hierarchy to continuum: classifying the technical dimension of policy goals	10
Translocal climate club as a wall of fame? A panel study on the US cities’ membership in the Global Covenant of Mayors, 2014–2024	9
Agenda-setting in nascent policy subsystems: issue and instrument priorities across venues	9
Co-design in policymaking: from an emerging to an embedded practice	9
The policy integration game? Congruence of outputs and implementation in policy integration	9
Integrating biodiversity: a longitudinal and cross-sectoral analysis of Swiss politics	8
Evidence for policy-makers: A matter of timing and certainty?	8
How foes become allies: the shifting role of business in climate politics	8
Rethinking the commissioning of consultants for enhancing government policy capacity	8
Institutional complexity traps in policy integration processes: a long-term perspective on Swiss flood risk management	7
The politics of experimental policymaking: the influence of blame avoidance and credit claiming	7
Explaining differences in research utilization in evidence-based government ministries	7
Stability and change in the public’s policy agenda: a punctuated equilibrium approach	7
Policy analytical capacity and "Eastern" styles of policy analysis: evidence from West Java Province, Indonesia	7
Can policy experiments achieve policy change? The politics of experimentation in Canadian cultural policy	6
Theorizing the functions and patterns of agency in the policymaking process	6
Policy inaction meets policy learning: four moments of non-implementation	6
Shattering stereotypes and the critical Lasswell	6
Advancing the multiple streams framework for decision-making: the case of integrating ethics into the Norwegian oil fund strategy	6
Policy innovation from local governments in the Global South: the case of Popular Pharmacy in Chile	6
Transitioning from planning to implementation: comparing collaborative governance and developmental dynamics in 4 watersheds	6
The pursuit of welfare efficiency: when institutional structures turn ‘less’ into ‘more’	6
Devil in the details? Policy settings and calibrations of national excellence-centers	5
International actors and national policies: the introduction of the national care system in Uruguay	5
Evidencing the benefits of cluster policies: towards a generalised framework of effects	5
Implementing policy integration: policy regimes for care policy in Chile and Uruguay	4
Why perfect policy coherence is unattainable (and may be ill-advised)	4
The many faces of the politics of shame in European policymaking	4
Explaining why public officials perceive interest groups as influential: on the role of policy capacities and policy insiderness	4
Exploring the eternal struggle: The Narrative Policy Framework and status quo versus policy change	4
Managing pandemics as super wicked problems: lessons from, and for, COVID-19 and the climate crisis	4
Conjectures on a relational turn in policy studies	4
Analyzing industrial policy portfolios	4
Mobilising international embeddedness to resist radical policy change and dismantling: the case of Brazil under Jair Bolsonaro (2019–2022)	4
Local implementation of U.S. federal immigration programs: context, control, and the problems of intergovernmental implementation	4
Participatory decision-making in the policy integration process: indigenous consultation and sustainable development in Mexico	4
A diamond in the rough: digging up and polishing Harold D. Lasswell’s decision functions	4
The political polarization over abortion: An analysis of advocacy coalition belief systems	4
Global perspectives on scientists’ roles in legislative policymaking	3
Navigating the role of emotions in expertise: public framing of expertise in the Czech public controversy on birth care	3
Seeking policy solutions in a complex system: experimentalist governance in China’s healthcare reform	3
Climbing the 'ladder of intrusiveness': the Italian government's strategy to push the Covid-19 vaccination coverage further	3
Following neighbors or regional leaders? Unpacking the effect of geographic proximity in local climate policy diffusion	3
Towards a theory of policy bubbles	3
Pioneer advantage or late-mover advantage? An examination of the interplay between policy diffusion sequence and policy outcomes	3

Advice that resonates: explaining the variability in consultants’ policy influence	3
Investigating policy coherence through policy strategies: a comparative analysis of Nordic gambling policies	3
Global policymakers and catastrophic risk	3
Measuring the impact of consultative citizen participation: reviewing the congruency approaches for assessing the uptake of citizen ideas	3
Space for stories: legislative narratives and the establishment of the US Space Force	3