OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Policy Sciences is 9. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The future as developmental construct in the work of Harold Lasswell	77
Policy’s role in democratic conflict management	46
Environmental identity and perceived salience of policy issues in coastal communities: a moderated-mediation analysis	44
Hijacking or helping?—How political actors use the COVID-19 pandemic in the climate discourse to advocate their policy beliefs and preferences	32
Policy integration as a political process	28
The promises and perils of populism for democratic policymaking: the case of Mexico	26
(Un)usual advocacy coalitions in a multi-system setting: the case of hydrogen in Germany	24
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	23
Assessing evidence based on scale can be a useful predictor of policy outcomes	22
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	20
Accountability for policy decisions: addressing gaps in theory and practice	20
Peak policy lab or chasing windmills? The overlooked issue of misaligned policy design	19
Consultancy firms’ roles in policy diffusion: a systematic review from the environmental governance field	19
Understanding EU forest policy governance through a cultural theory lens	18
Conflicting and complementary policy goals as sectoral integration challenge: an analysis of sectoral interplay in flood risk management	18
Female members of parliament, right-wing parties, and the inclusiveness of immigration policy: evidence from 26 European countries	18
The intersection of digital and social infrastructures in (a)spatial policymaking	17
How issue salience and political leadership facilitate policy integration: The adoption of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive in the European Union	17
Nudging citizens co-production: Assessing multiple behavioral strategies	15
Tackling the soft non-technical challenges of the adoption of complexity science in policymaking	15
Global, selective, or both? The case for differentiated cooperation in AI governance	14
How budgets change: punctuations, trends, and super-trends	14
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
Beyond plans, governance structures, and organizational strategies: how emotional mechanisms can make a difference in emergency response processes	13

Political emotions: a new policy science for tackling the climate crisis	13
Media actors as policy entrepreneurs: a case study of “No Jab, No Play” and “No Jab, No Pay” mandatory vaccination policies in Australia	12
A semi-automated approach to policy-relevant evidence synthesis: combining natural language processing, causal mapping, and graph analytics for public policy	12
Patterns of evidence use in Nigerian policymaking: insights from latent class analysis	12
From hierarchy to continuum: classifying the technical dimension of policy goals	12
Understanding the role of institutions in the multiple streams approach through the recognition of the diaspora as a development agent in Cameroon	11
Approaches to policy framing: deepening a conversation across perspectives	11
Making the eyes of the state: algorithmic alienation and mundane creativity in Peruvian street-level bureaucrats	11
The policy integration game? Congruence of outputs and implementation in policy integration	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
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
Policy analytical capacity and "Eastern" styles of policy analysis: evidence from West Java Province, Indonesia	9
An advocacy coalition framework analysis of local government autonomy in Nigeria	9
Policy learning over the legislative process: insights from a statewide housing policy debate in Colorado	9