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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	396
From hackers to start-ups: Innovation commons and local entrepreneurial activity	384
Do synthesis programs facilitate interdisciplinary research? Evidence from the NSFC’s Major Research Plan	346
Secondary market listings in equity crowdfunding: The missing link?	213
Institutional quality and success in U.S. equity crowdfunding	212
An identity perspective on the diffusion of user innovations in the household sector	198
The Kaldor–Verdoorn law at the age of robots and AI	187
Shelter in scholarship: Evidence from a global survey of hosts for displaced Ukrainian scientists	170
OrgTech: Evidence of organizational innovations in patent data	167
Linguistic distance to English impedes research performance	155
Technological invention and local labour markets: Evidence from France, Germany and the UK	146
Firm R&D investment and export market exposure	133
Does FDI bring knowledge externalities for host country firms to develop complex technologies? The catalytic role of overseas returnee clustering structures	122
Social movements and institutional entrepreneurship as facilitators of technology transition: The case of free/open-source software	106
Academics engaging in knowledge transfer and co-creation: Push causation and pull effectuation?	104
Characterising innovation policy mixes in innovation systems	103
Editorial Board	98
Copyright levies and cloud storage: Ex-ante policy evaluation with a field experiment	98
Disentangling international research collaboration in the Spanish academic context: Is there a desirable researcher human capital profile?	96
Does local knowledge spillover matter for firm productivity? The role of financial access and corporate governance	96
Hiding practices in employee-user innovation	95
The jurisdiction of the subjective expected utility (SEU) approach to risk-taking in science – A response to Franzoni and Stephan (2023), ‘uncertainty and risk-taking in science’	95
The impacts of U.S. Section 337 investigations on Chinese technology firms	87
Home vs office: Does workspace design influence where academics conduct their research?	83
Do you see what I see? How expertise and a decision-maker role influence the recognition and selection of novel ideas	80

Disclosure rules and declared essential patents	77
Creating a breakthrough invention: NASA’s internal knowledge generation for the Space Shuttle	77
Unbundling the impact of current and future competition on cooperation in coopetition projects for innovation	72
Growing up but staying home: Patient equity investors and firm scale-up	68
Innovation grant (S)hopping: Unpacking SMEs' support choices between multiple potential funding sources	67
Unleashing creative potential: The role of stable institutional ownership in exploratory innovation	66
The bidirectional causality of tie stability and innovation performance	65
Death squad or quality improvement? The impact of introducing post-grant review on U.S. patent legal quality	65
Founder social capital and value appropriation in R&D alliance agreements	64
Wolves at the door to the unknown: Innovation search and hedge fund activism	63
Economic complexity and the green economy	62
Patents, industry control, and the rise of the giant American corporation	62
Are intellectual property rights working for society?	62
Money matters: The role of money as a regional and corporate financial resource for circular economy transition at firm-level	61
Technological capability strength/asymmetry and supply chain process innovation: The contingent roles of institutional environments	60
From mainstream to niche: How value regimes shift in emerging economy upgrading	60
Focusing the ecosystem lens on innovation studies	60
Editorial Board	58
Nest without birds: Inventor mobility and the left-behind patents	57
The Government Patent Register: A new resource for measuring U.S. government-funded patenting	57
Are ideas being fished out?	56
Editorial Board	56
The complex nature of regional knowledge production: Evidence on European regions	56
Membership, governance, and lobbying in standard-setting organizations	55
Gender differences in the determinants of becoming a professor in Germany. An event history analysis of academic psychologists from 1980 to 2019	55
Dynamics of first-time patenting firms	53
How do university-firm interactions affect firm innovation speed? The case of Chinese science-intensive SMEs	53
Investment in intangible assets and economic complexity	53
Appropriability risk and knowledge search on digital platforms	53
Winning the second race of technology standardization: Strategic maneuvers in SEP follow-on innovations	53