OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Research Policy is 52. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
OrgTech: Evidence of organizational innovations in patent data	348
War and Transition	284
An identity perspective on the diffusion of user innovations in the household sector	273
Linguistic distance to English impedes research performance	223
Technological invention and local labour markets: Evidence from France, Germany and the UK	188
Beyond scientific excellence: International mobility and the entrepreneurial activities of academic scientists	170
Characterising innovation policy mixes in innovation systems	154
Editorial Board	154
Social movements and institutional entrepreneurship as facilitators of technology transition: The case of free/open-source software	148
Does FDI bring knowledge externalities for host country firms to develop complex technologies? The catalytic role of overseas returnee clustering structures	134
The Kaldor–Verdoorn law at the age of robots and AI	133
Institutional quality and success in U.S. equity crowdfunding	131
From hackers to start-ups: Innovation commons and local entrepreneurial activity	114
Measurement errors and estimation biases with incomplete social networks: replication studies on intra-firm inventor network analysis	113
Firm R&D investment and export market exposure	107
Academics engaging in knowledge transfer and co-creation: Push causation and pull effectuation?	100
Navigating implementation dilemmas in technology-forcing policies: A comparative analysis of accelerated smart meter diffusion in the Netherlands, UK, Norway, and Portugal (2000-2019)	93
Secondary market listings in equity crowdfunding: The missing link?	91
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’	88
Unleashing creative potential: The role of stable institutional ownership in exploratory innovation	87
Patents, industry control, and the rise of the giant American corporation	81
Disentangling international research collaboration in the Spanish academic context: Is there a desirable researcher human capital profile?	80
Storm crowds: Evidence from Zooniverse on crowd contribution design	80
The impacts of U.S. Section 337 investigations on Chinese technology firms	78
Copyright levies and cloud storage: Ex-ante policy evaluation with a field experiment	78

Founder social capital and value appropriation in R&D alliance agreements	77
Unbundling the impact of current and future competition on cooperation in coopetition projects for innovation	77
How fast is this novel technology going to be a hit? Antecedents predicting follow-on inventions	77
Entrepreneurship in Cities	75
Transformational complexity, systemic complexity and economic development	75
Hiding practices in employee-user innovation	74
Do you see what I see? How expertise and a decision-maker role influence the recognition and selection of novel ideas	73
Disclosure rules and declared essential patents	73
Wolves at the door to the unknown: Innovation search and hedge fund activism	72
Home vs office: Does workspace design influence where academics conduct their research?	71
Economic complexity and the green economy	71
From mainstream to niche: How value regimes shift in emerging economy upgrading	70
OK computer: Worker perceptions of algorithmic recruitment	70
Death squad or quality improvement? The impact of introducing post-grant review on U.S. patent legal quality	70
Money matters: The role of money as a regional and corporate financial resource for circular economy transition at firm-level	69
Are intellectual property rights working for society?	67
Focusing the ecosystem lens on innovation studies	64
The bidirectional causality of tie stability and innovation performance	64
Does local knowledge spillover matter for firm productivity? The role of financial access and corporate governance	59
Technological capability strength/asymmetry and supply chain process innovation: The contingent roles of institutional environments	59
Dynamics of first-time patenting firms	58
The Government Patent Register: A new resource for measuring U.S. government-funded patenting	57
The determinants of parallel invention: Measuring the role of information sharing and personal interaction between inventors	57
Richard R Nelson (1930–2025): Evolutionary economist and innovation scholar	55
Editorial Board	55
Investment in intangible assets and economic complexity	53
How do policy instruments generate new ones? Analysing policy instruments feedback and interaction in educational research in England, 1986-2014	53