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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
An identity perspective on the diffusion of user innovations in the household sector	313
Measurement errors and estimation biases with incomplete social networks: replication studies on intra-firm inventor network analysis	305
Social movements and institutional entrepreneurship as facilitators of technology transition: The case of free/open-source software	272
The Kaldor–Verdoorn law at the age of robots and AI	176
OrgTech: Evidence of organizational innovations in patent data	170
Linguistic distance to English impedes research performance	162
War and Transition	154
Beyond scientific excellence: International mobility and the entrepreneurial activities of academic scientists	149
Editorial Board	149
Institutional quality and success in U.S. equity crowdfunding	138
Does FDI bring knowledge externalities for host country firms to develop complex technologies? The catalytic role of overseas returnee clustering structures	138
Characterising innovation policy mixes in innovation systems	114
Academics engaging in knowledge transfer and co-creation: Push causation and pull effectuation?	113
Firm R&D investment and export market exposure	107
From hackers to start-ups: Innovation commons and local entrepreneurial activity	99
Technological invention and local labour markets: Evidence from France, Germany and the UK	90
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
Secondary market listings in equity crowdfunding: The missing link?	88
Copyright levies and cloud storage: Ex-ante policy evaluation with a field experiment	87
Editorial Board	87
Disentangling international research collaboration in the Spanish academic context: Is there a desirable researcher human capital profile?	85
From mainstream to niche: How value regimes shift in emerging economy upgrading	84
The impacts of U.S. Section 337 investigations on Chinese technology firms	83
Wolves at the door to the unknown: Innovation search and hedge fund activism	82
How fast is this novel technology going to be a hit? Antecedents predicting follow-on inventions	81

Unleashing creative potential: The role of stable institutional ownership in exploratory innovation	78
Founder social capital and value appropriation in R&D alliance agreements	78
Home vs office: Does workspace design influence where academics conduct their research?	78
Creating a breakthrough invention: NASA’s internal knowledge generation for the Space Shuttle	77
Patents, industry control, and the rise of the giant American corporation	77
Unbundling the impact of current and future competition on cooperation in coopetition projects for innovation	77
Death squad or quality improvement? The impact of introducing post-grant review on U.S. patent legal quality	76
Hiding practices in employee-user innovation	74
Storm crowds: Evidence from Zooniverse on crowd contribution design	70
Do you see what I see? How expertise and a decision-maker role influence the recognition and selection of novel ideas	70
OK computer: Worker perceptions of algorithmic recruitment	70
Are intellectual property rights working for society?	69
Does local knowledge spillover matter for firm productivity? The role of financial access and corporate governance	69
Focusing the ecosystem lens on innovation studies	65
Technological capability strength/asymmetry and supply chain process innovation: The contingent roles of institutional environments	64
The bidirectional causality of tie stability and innovation performance	61
Money matters: The role of money as a regional and corporate financial resource for circular economy transition at firm-level	59
Economic complexity and the green economy	58
Disclosure rules and declared essential patents	58
Nest without birds: Inventor mobility and the left-behind patents	57
The complex nature of regional knowledge production: Evidence on European regions	57
Are ideas being fished out?	54
Membership, governance, and lobbying in standard-setting organizations	53
Editorial Board	52
The determinants of parallel invention: Measuring the role of information sharing and personal interaction between inventors	52
Gender differences in the determinants of becoming a professor in Germany. An event history analysis of academic psychologists from 1980 to 2019	52