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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The future as developmental construct in the work of Harold Lasswell	60
Policy’s role in democratic conflict management	54
Environmental identity and perceived salience of policy issues in coastal communities: a moderated-mediation analysis	50
Hijacking or helping?—How political actors use the COVID-19 pandemic in the climate discourse to advocate their policy beliefs and preferences	44
The promises and perils of populism for democratic policymaking: the case of Mexico	35
(Un)usual advocacy coalitions in a multi-system setting: the case of hydrogen in Germany	31
Policy integration as a political process	28
Consultancy firms’ roles in policy diffusion: a systematic review from the environmental governance field	25
Peak policy lab or chasing windmills? The overlooked issue of misaligned policy design	23
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	21
Assessing evidence based on scale can be a useful predictor of policy outcomes	21
Beyond evidence-based policymaking? Exploring knowledge formation and source effects in US migration policymaking	20
Understanding EU forest policy governance through a cultural theory lens	18
Against the odds: How policy capacity can compensate for weak instruments in promoting sustainable food	17
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	16
Female members of parliament, right-wing parties, and the inclusiveness of immigration policy: evidence from 26 European countries	16
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	14
A threat-centered theory of policy entrepreneurship	14
Beyond plans, governance structures, and organizational strategies: how emotional mechanisms can make a difference in emergency response processes	14
Nudging citizens co-production: Assessing multiple behavioral strategies	14
How budgets change: punctuations, trends, and super-trends	14
A semi-automated approach to policy-relevant evidence synthesis: combining natural language processing, causal mapping, and graph analytics for public policy	13
Political emotions: a new policy science for tackling the climate crisis	13
From hierarchy to continuum: classifying the technical dimension of policy goals	11

Conceptualizing morality policy: a dyadic morality frame analysis of a gendered legislative debate on abortion	11
Approaches to policy framing: deepening a conversation across perspectives	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?	11
Translocal climate club as a wall of fame? A panel study on the US cities’ membership in the Global Covenant of Mayors, 2014–2024	10
Understanding the role of institutions in the multiple streams approach through the recognition of the diaspora as a development agent in Cameroon	10
Policy learning over the legislative process: insights from a statewide housing policy debate in Colorado	10
Co-design in policymaking: from an emerging to an embedded practice	10
Agenda-setting in nascent policy subsystems: issue and instrument priorities across venues	10
Making the eyes of the state: algorithmic alienation and mundane creativity in Peruvian street-level bureaucrats	10
The policy integration game? Congruence of outputs and implementation in policy integration	9
Policy analytical capacity and "Eastern" styles of policy analysis: evidence from West Java Province, Indonesia	9
How foes become allies: the shifting role of business in climate politics	9
Evidence for policy-makers: A matter of timing and certainty?	9
Explaining differences in research utilization in evidence-based government ministries	8
Rethinking the commissioning of consultants for enhancing government policy capacity	8
The politics of experimental policymaking: the influence of blame avoidance and credit claiming	8
Stability and change in the public’s policy agenda: a punctuated equilibrium approach	7
Theorizing the functions and patterns of agency in the policymaking process	7
Integrating biodiversity: a longitudinal and cross-sectoral analysis of Swiss politics	7
Can policy experiments achieve policy change? The politics of experimentation in Canadian cultural policy	7
(Not) just policy success: Incorporating justice in policy evaluation	6
International actors and national policies: the introduction of the national care system in Uruguay	6
Designing duality: from procedural policy instrument to the statecraft of hybrid sovereignty	6
Institutional complexity traps in policy integration processes: a long-term perspective on Swiss flood risk management	6
The pursuit of welfare efficiency: when institutional structures turn ‘less’ into ‘more’	6
Advancing the multiple streams framework for decision-making: the case of integrating ethics into the Norwegian oil fund strategy	6
A value-centered approach to developing grand strategy for human-wildlife coexistence	6
Transitioning from planning to implementation: comparing collaborative governance and developmental dynamics in 4 watersheds	6
Policy inaction meets policy learning: four moments of non-implementation	6
Evidencing the benefits of cluster policies: towards a generalised framework of effects	6
Policy innovation from local governments in the Global South: the case of Popular Pharmacy in Chile	6
Shattering stereotypes and the critical Lasswell	6
Devil in the details? Policy settings and calibrations of national excellence-centers	5
Participatory decision-making in the policy integration process: indigenous consultation and sustainable development in Mexico	5
Local implementation of U.S. federal immigration programs: context, control, and the problems of intergovernmental implementation	5
Conjectures on a relational turn in policy studies	5
Why perfect policy coherence is unattainable (and may be ill-advised)	5
Exploring the eternal struggle: The Narrative Policy Framework and status quo versus policy change	5
Implementing policy integration: policy regimes for care policy in Chile and Uruguay	5
The many faces of the politics of shame in European policymaking	4
Mobilising international embeddedness to resist radical policy change and dismantling: the case of Brazil under Jair Bolsonaro (2019–2022)	4
Analyzing industrial policy portfolios	4
A diamond in the rough: digging up and polishing Harold D. Lasswell’s decision functions	4
Explaining why public officials perceive interest groups as influential: on the role of policy capacities and policy insiderness	4
The political polarization over abortion: An analysis of advocacy coalition belief systems	4
Managing pandemics as super wicked problems: lessons from, and for, COVID-19 and the climate crisis	4
Following neighbors or regional leaders? Unpacking the effect of geographic proximity in local climate policy diffusion	3
Global policymakers and catastrophic risk	3
Seeking policy solutions in a complex system: experimentalist governance in China’s healthcare reform	3

Towards a theory of policy bubbles	3
Measuring the impact of consultative citizen participation: reviewing the congruency approaches for assessing the uptake of citizen ideas	3
Pioneer advantage or late-mover advantage? An examination of the interplay between policy diffusion sequence and policy outcomes	3
Global perspectives on scientists’ roles in legislative policymaking	3
Investigating policy coherence through policy strategies: a comparative analysis of Nordic gambling policies	3
Navigating the role of emotions in expertise: public framing of expertise in the Czech public controversy on birth care	3