OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Research Policy is 51. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Technological invention and local labour markets: Evidence from France, Germany and the UK	293
Firm R&D investment and export market exposure	290
Does FDI bring knowledge externalities for host country firms to develop complex technologies? The catalytic role of overseas returnee clustering structures	235
Measurement errors and estimation biases with incomplete social networks: replication studies on intra-firm inventor network analysis	194
Social movements and institutional entrepreneurship as facilitators of technology transition: The case of free/open-source software	177
The Kaldor–Verdoorn law at the age of robots and AI	159
Editorial Board	158
OrgTech: Evidence of organizational innovations in patent data	153
An identity perspective on the diffusion of user innovations in the household sector	142
Institutional quality and success in U.S. equity crowdfunding	140
Characterising innovation policy mixes in innovation systems	138
War and Transition	125
Beyond scientific excellence: International mobility and the entrepreneurial activities of academic scientists	118
Linguistic distance to English impedes research performance	113
Academics engaging in knowledge transfer and co-creation: Push causation and pull effectuation?	104
From hackers to start-ups: Innovation commons and local entrepreneurial activity	96
Secondary market listings in equity crowdfunding: The missing link?	93
The impacts of U.S. Section 337 investigations on Chinese technology firms	86
Editorial Board	85
Do you see what I see? How expertise and a decision-maker role influence the recognition and selection of novel ideas	84
Copyright levies and cloud storage: Ex-ante policy evaluation with a field experiment	83
From mainstream to niche: How value regimes shift in emerging economy upgrading	82
Disentangling international research collaboration in the Spanish academic context: Is there a desirable researcher human capital profile?	82
Founder social capital and value appropriation in R&D alliance agreements	81
Hiding practices in employee-user innovation	79

Disclosure rules and declared essential patents	79
Patents, industry control, and the rise of the giant American corporation	78
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’	78
Unbundling the impact of current and future competition on cooperation in coopetition projects for innovation	76
Are intellectual property rights working for society?	76
The bidirectional causality of tie stability and innovation performance	74
Home vs office: Does workspace design influence where academics conduct their research?	73
Money matters: The role of money as a regional and corporate financial resource for circular economy transition at firm-level	72
Death squad or quality improvement? The impact of introducing post-grant review on U.S. patent legal quality	72
Storm crowds: Evidence from Zooniverse on crowd contribution design	72
Technological capability strength/asymmetry and supply chain process innovation: The contingent roles of institutional environments	72
Unleashing creative potential: The role of stable institutional ownership in exploratory innovation	71
How fast is this novel technology going to be a hit? Antecedents predicting follow-on inventions	66
OK computer: Worker perceptions of algorithmic recruitment	65
Focusing the ecosystem lens on innovation studies	64
Does local knowledge spillover matter for firm productivity? The role of financial access and corporate governance	61
Wolves at the door to the unknown: Innovation search and hedge fund activism	59
Economic complexity and the green economy	58
Dynamics of first-time patenting firms	57
Richard R Nelson (1930–2025): Evolutionary economist and innovation scholar	56
Editorial Board	55
Winning the second race of technology standardization: Strategic maneuvers in SEP follow-on innovations	55
The Government Patent Register: A new resource for measuring U.S. government-funded patenting	54
The determinants of parallel invention: Measuring the role of information sharing and personal interaction between inventors	53
How do policy instruments generate new ones? Analysing policy instruments feedback and interaction in educational research in England, 1986-2014	53
Innovation effects of academic executives: Evidence from China	53
Are ideas being fished out?	51