OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Policy Sciences is 8. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
The future as developmental construct in the work of Harold Lasswell	60
Policy’s role in democratic conflict management	50
Environmental identity and perceived salience of policy issues in coastal communities: a moderated-mediation analysis	36
Hijacking or helping?—How political actors use the COVID-19 pandemic in the climate discourse to advocate their policy beliefs and preferences	35
Policy integration as a political process	30
The promises and perils of populism for democratic policymaking: the case of Mexico	23
Consultancy firms’ roles in policy diffusion: a systematic review from the environmental governance field	21
(Un)usual advocacy coalitions in a multi-system setting: the case of hydrogen in Germany	21
Peak policy lab or chasing windmills? The overlooked issue of misaligned policy design	20
Against the odds: How policy capacity can compensate for weak instruments in promoting sustainable food	18
Assessing evidence based on scale can be a useful predictor of policy outcomes	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
Beyond evidence-based policymaking? Exploring knowledge formation and source effects in US migration policymaking	17
The intersection of digital and social infrastructures in (a)spatial policymaking	16
Female members of parliament, right-wing parties, and the inclusiveness of immigration policy: evidence from 26 European countries	16
Conflicting and complementary policy goals as sectoral integration challenge: an analysis of sectoral interplay in flood risk management	15
A threat-centered theory of policy entrepreneurship	14
Nudging citizens co-production: Assessing multiple behavioral strategies	14
How issue salience and political leadership facilitate policy integration: The adoption of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive in the European Union	14
Tackling the soft non-technical challenges of the adoption of complexity science in policymaking	14
How budgets change: punctuations, trends, and super-trends	12
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	11
A semi-automated approach to policy-relevant evidence synthesis: combining natural language processing, causal mapping, and graph analytics for public policy	11
The European 2030 climate and energy package: do domestic strategy adaptations precede EU policy change?	11

Political emotions: a new policy science for tackling the climate crisis	11
Conceptualizing morality policy: a dyadic morality frame analysis of a gendered legislative debate on abortion	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
Beyond plans, governance structures, and organizational strategies: how emotional mechanisms can make a difference in emergency response processes	11
From hierarchy to continuum: classifying the technical dimension of policy goals	11
Making the eyes of the state: algorithmic alienation and mundane creativity in Peruvian street-level bureaucrats	10
Agenda-setting in nascent policy subsystems: issue and instrument priorities across venues	10
Understanding the role of institutions in the multiple streams approach through the recognition of the diaspora as a development agent in Cameroon	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	10
Approaches to policy framing: deepening a conversation across perspectives	10
Policy learning over the legislative process: insights from a statewide housing policy debate in Colorado	9
Explaining differences in research utilization in evidence-based government ministries	8
Co-design in policymaking: from an emerging to an embedded practice	8
Policy analytical capacity and "Eastern" styles of policy analysis: evidence from West Java Province, Indonesia	8
The policy integration game? Congruence of outputs and implementation in policy integration	8