OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Research Policy is 53. 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
Editorial Board	290
Human capital in corporate venture capital units and its relation to parent firms' innovative performance	260
Book Review	196
Procrastination or incomplete data? An analysis of USPTO examiner search activity	154
Editorial Board	148
Knowledge diversity and team creativity: How hobbyists beat professional designers in creating novel board games	147
Social movements and entrepreneurial activity: A study of the U.S. solar energy industry	145
For what they are, not for what they bring: The signaling value of gender for financial resource acquisition in academic spin-offs	141
Weeding out or picking winners in open innovation? Factors driving multi-stage crowd selection on LEGO ideas	139
Editorial Board	133
Institutional quality and success in U.S. equity crowdfunding	120
Case study research on innovation systems: Paradox, dialectical analysis and resolution	114
Everyone steps back? The widespread retraction of crowd-funding support for minority creators when migration fear is high	111
Interpretive aspects of claim language and patent scope	110
Can money buy scientific leadership? The impact of excellence programs on German and French universities	105
Editorial Board	105
The Kaldor–Verdoorn law at the age of robots and AI	99
Editorial Board	98
Enabling or accelerating? The timing of innovation and the different roles of venture capitalists	97
What a firm produces matters: Processes of diversification, coherence and performances of Indian manufacturing firms	87
Harnessing Public Research for Innovation in the 21st Century: An International Assessment of Knowledge Transfer Policies, Edited by Anthony Arundel, Suma Athreye and Sacha Wunsch-Vincent. Cambridge U	83
Persistence and learning effects in design innovation: Evidence from panel data	80
Linguistic metrics for patent disclosure: Evidence from university versus corporate patents	79
An identity perspective on the diffusion of user innovations in the household sector	76
Atypical combinations of technologies in regional co-inventor networks	72

Treading new ground in household sector innovation research: Scope, emergence, business implications, and diffusion	71
Invention and the life course: Age differences in patenting	70
Human capital and trademarks: Evidence from higher education expansion in China	69
Competing Standard-Setting Organizations: A Choice Experiment	68
Accommodating coercion: Authors, editors, and citations	67
War and Transition	65
Strategic framing of enabling technologies: Insights from firms digitizing smell and taste	62
Measurement errors and estimation biases with incomplete social networks: replication studies on intra-firm inventor network analysis	62
The impact of public funding on science valorisation: an analysis of the ERC Proof-of-Concept Programme	62
Firm R&D investment and export market exposure	61
We're in this together: Sustainable energy and economic competitiveness in the EU	61
Dynamics of imitation versus innovation in technological leadership change: Latecomers’ catch-up strategies in diverse technological regimes	61
Medical research and health care finance: Evidence from Academic Medical Centers	60
Interfaces, modularity and ecosystem emergence: How DARPA modularized the semiconductor ecosystem	59
When does international knowledge connectivity of global cities attract R&D investments? The role of concentrated ownership through organizational pipelines	59
Spurring subsidy entrepreneurs	58
Linguistic distance to English impedes research performance	58
Technological invention and local labour markets: Evidence from France, Germany and the UK	58
New evidence on international postdocs in the US: Less pay, different experiences	57
From local markets to global legitimacy: A materialization perspective on technological innovation system's dynamics	57
Technological profiles, upgrading and the dynamics of growth: Country-level patterns and trajectories across distinct stages of development	56
Crowdsourcing research questions in science	55
A new dataset to study a century of innovation in Europe and in the US	55
Isomorphic difference: Familiarity and distinctiveness in national research and innovation policies	54
A language-based approach to measuring creative exploration	54
Beyond scientific excellence: International mobility and the entrepreneurial activities of academic scientists	54
Inventor mobility under uncertainty	53
From hackers to start-ups: Innovation commons and local entrepreneurial activity	53