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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Policy’s role in democratic conflict management	54
The future as developmental construct in the work of Harold Lasswell	53
Environmental identity and perceived salience of policy issues in coastal communities: a moderated-mediation analysis	44
Public contestation over agricultural pollution: a discourse network analysis on narrative strategies in the policy process	39
The promises and perils of populism for democratic policymaking: the case of Mexico	36
Policy integration as a political process	26
(Un)usual advocacy coalitions in a multi-system setting: the case of hydrogen in Germany	25
Assessing evidence based on scale can be a useful predictor of policy outcomes	23
Against the odds: How policy capacity can compensate for weak instruments in promoting sustainable food	22
Consultancy firms’ roles in policy diffusion: a systematic review from the environmental governance field	22
Beyond evidence-based policymaking? Exploring knowledge formation and source effects in US migration policymaking	20
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	16
Female members of parliament, right-wing parties, and the inclusiveness of immigration policy: evidence from 26 European countries	16
The intersection of digital and social infrastructures in (a)spatial policymaking	16
Conflicting and complementary policy goals as sectoral integration challenge: an analysis of sectoral interplay in flood risk management	15
Nudging citizens co-production: Assessing multiple behavioral strategies	15
A threat-centered theory of policy entrepreneurship	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
How budgets change: punctuations, trends, and super-trends	13
Beyond plans, governance structures, and organizational strategies: how emotional mechanisms can make a difference in emergency response processes	12
The importance of policy design fit for effectiveness: a qualitative comparative analysis of policy integration in regional transport planning	11
A semi-automated approach to policy-relevant evidence synthesis: combining natural language processing, causal mapping, and graph analytics for public policy	11
Approaches to policy framing: deepening a conversation across perspectives	10
Media actors as policy entrepreneurs: a case study of “No Jab, No Play” and “No Jab, No Pay” mandatory vaccination policies in Australia	10

From hierarchy to continuum: classifying the technical dimension of policy goals	10
Conceptualizing morality policy: a dyadic morality frame analysis of a gendered legislative debate on abortion	10
Inaction, under-reaction action and incapacity: communication breakdown in Italy’s vaccination governance	10
The policy integration game? Congruence of outputs and implementation in policy integration	9
Agenda-setting in nascent policy subsystems: issue and instrument priorities across venues	9
Understanding the role of institutions in the multiple streams approach through the recognition of the diaspora as a development agent in Cameroon	9
Co-design in policymaking: from an emerging to an embedded practice	9
Making the eyes of the state: algorithmic alienation and mundane creativity in Peruvian street-level bureaucrats	9
The European 2030 climate and energy package: do domestic strategy adaptations precede EU policy change?	9
Evidence for policy-makers: A matter of timing and certainty?	8
Integrating biodiversity: a longitudinal and cross-sectoral analysis of Swiss politics	8
The politics of experimental policymaking: the influence of blame avoidance and credit claiming	8
Policy analytical capacity and "Eastern" styles of policy analysis: evidence from West Java Province, Indonesia	8
Theorizing the functions and patterns of agency in the policymaking process	7
Rethinking the commissioning of consultants for enhancing government policy capacity	7
Institutional complexity traps in policy integration processes: a long-term perspective on Swiss flood risk management	7
Shattering stereotypes and the critical Lasswell	7
Explaining differences in research utilization in evidence-based government ministries	7
Can policy experiments achieve policy change? The politics of experimentation in Canadian cultural policy	7
How foes become allies: the shifting role of business in climate politics	7
Stability and change in the public’s policy agenda: a punctuated equilibrium approach	7
Advancing the multiple streams framework for decision-making: the case of integrating ethics into the Norwegian oil fund strategy	6
Evidencing the benefits of cluster policies: towards a generalised framework of effects	6
Power struggles in policy feedback processes: incremental steps towards a circular economy within Dutch wastewater policy	6
The pursuit of welfare efficiency: when institutional structures turn ‘less’ into ‘more’	6
International actors and national policies: the introduction of the national care system in Uruguay	5
Conjectures on a relational turn in policy studies	5
Devil in the details? Policy settings and calibrations of national excellence-centers	5
Policy inaction meets policy learning: four moments of non-implementation	5
Exploring the eternal struggle: The Narrative Policy Framework and status quo versus policy change	5
Local implementation of U.S. federal immigration programs: context, control, and the problems of intergovernmental implementation	4
Implementing policy integration: policy regimes for care policy in Chile and Uruguay	4
A diamond in the rough: digging up and polishing Harold D. Lasswell’s decision functions	4
Policy experimentation and policy learning in Canadian cultural policy	4
Managing pandemics as super wicked problems: lessons from, and for, COVID-19 and the climate crisis	4
Do governments delay the implementation of parliamentary requests? Examining time variation in implementing legislative requests in Switzerland	4
The many faces of the politics of shame in European policymaking	4
Analyzing industrial policy portfolios	4
Participatory decision-making in the policy integration process: indigenous consultation and sustainable development in Mexico	4
Mobilising international embeddedness to resist radical policy change and dismantling: the case of Brazil under Jair Bolsonaro (2019–2022)	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
Advice that resonates: explaining the variability in consultants’ policy influence	3
Explaining why public officials perceive interest groups as influential: on the role of policy capacities and policy insiderness	3
Following neighbors or regional leaders? Unpacking the effect of geographic proximity in local climate policy diffusion	3
Engines of learning? Policy instruments, cities and climate governance	3
Space for stories: legislative narratives and the establishment of the US Space Force	3
Towards a theory of policy bubbles	3
Global policymakers and catastrophic risk	3

Seeking policy solutions in a complex system: experimentalist governance in China’s healthcare reform	3
Pioneer advantage or late-mover advantage? An examination of the interplay between policy diffusion sequence and policy outcomes	3
Measuring the impact of consultative citizen participation: reviewing the congruency approaches for assessing the uptake of citizen ideas	3
Vaccine alliance building blocks: a conjoint experiment on popular support for international COVID-19 cooperation formats	3