OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Policy Sciences is 7. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Note from the Editor: Lasswell Prize Announcement for Policy Sciences Volume 56 (2023)	57
Institutional coordination arrangements as elements of policy design spaces: insights from climate policy	52
PPP performance evaluation: the social welfare goal, principal–agent theory and political economy	48
Political ideology and vaccination willingness: implications for policy design	38
Seeking policy solutions in a complex system: experimentalist governance in China’s healthcare reform	36
Grandpa Joe’s hunting rifle: morality policy framing in Canadian Parliament	33
Environmental identity and perceived salience of policy issues in coastal communities: a moderated-mediation analysis	24
The future as developmental construct in the work of Harold Lasswell	23
(Un)usual advocacy coalitions in a multi-system setting: the case of hydrogen in Germany	22
The pursuit of welfare efficiency: when institutional structures turn ‘less’ into ‘more’	22
Pioneer advantage or late-mover advantage? An examination of the interplay between policy diffusion sequence and policy outcomes	21
Engines of learning? Policy instruments, cities and climate governance	20
Rethinking disproportionate policy making by introducing proportionate politics	20
Policy’s role in democratic conflict management	19
Measuring the impact of consultative citizen participation: reviewing the congruency approaches for assessing the uptake of citizen ideas	16
Evidencing the benefits of cluster policies: towards a generalised framework of effects	16
Advancing scholarship on policy conflict through perspectives from oil and gas policy actors	14
Low-fidelity policy design, within-design feedback, and the Universal Credit case	13
Policy integration as a political process	13
Navigating the role of emotions in expertise: public framing of expertise in the Czech public controversy on birth care	12
Policy inaction meets policy learning: four moments of non-implementation	12
Public contestation over agricultural pollution: a discourse network analysis on narrative strategies in the policy process	11
A semi-automated approach to policy-relevant evidence synthesis: combining natural language processing, causal mapping, and graph analytics for public policy	11
The promises and perils of populism for democratic policymaking: the case of Mexico	11
Consultancy firms’ roles in policy diffusion: a systematic review from the environmental governance field	10

Mini-publics and policy impact analysis: filtration in the citizens’ assembly on social care	10
Approaches to policy framing: deepening a conversation across perspectives	9
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	9
International actors and national policies: the introduction of the national care system in Uruguay	8
Against the odds: How policy capacity can compensate for weak instruments in promoting sustainable food	8
Climate fatalism, partisan cues, and support for the Inflation Reduction Act	8
Conceptualizing morality policy: a dyadic morality frame analysis of a gendered legislative debate on abortion	8
Climbing the 'ladder of intrusiveness': the Italian government's strategy to push the Covid-19 vaccination coverage further	7
Environmental policy integration in a newly established natural resource-based sector: the role of advocacy coalitions and contrasting conceptions of sustainability	7
Exploring the eternal struggle: The Narrative Policy Framework and status quo versus policy change	7
Assessing evidence based on scale can be a useful predictor of policy outcomes	7
Breaking away from family control? Collaboration among political organisations and social media endorsement among their constituents	7
Media actors as policy entrepreneurs: a case study of “No Jab, No Play” and “No Jab, No Pay” mandatory vaccination policies in Australia	7
Understanding EU forest policy governance through a cultural theory lens	7
Understanding policy transfer through social network analysis: expanding methodologies with an intensive case study approach	7
From hierarchy to continuum: classifying the technical dimension of policy goals	7
Heated policy: policy actors’ emotional storylines and conflict escalation	7
Beyond evidence-based policymaking? Exploring knowledge formation and source effects in US migration policymaking	7