OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Research Policy is 49. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
War and Transition	316
An identity perspective on the diffusion of user innovations in the household sector	269
Linguistic distance to English impedes research performance	221
Technological invention and local labour markets: Evidence from France, Germany and the UK	171
Editorial Board	169
Institutional quality and success in U.S. equity crowdfunding	151
Characterising innovation policy mixes in innovation systems	139
Social movements and institutional entrepreneurship as facilitators of technology transition: The case of free/open-source software	135
Measurement errors and estimation biases with incomplete social networks: replication studies on intra-firm inventor network analysis	130
The Kaldor–Verdoorn law at the age of robots and AI	119
Secondary market listings in equity crowdfunding: The missing link?	119
Academics engaging in knowledge transfer and co-creation: Push causation and pull effectuation?	114
From hackers to start-ups: Innovation commons and local entrepreneurial activity	108
Does FDI bring knowledge externalities for host country firms to develop complex technologies? The catalytic role of overseas returnee clustering structures	107
OrgTech: Evidence of organizational innovations in patent data	95
Beyond scientific excellence: International mobility and the entrepreneurial activities of academic scientists	92
Navigating implementation dilemmas in technology-forcing policies: A comparative analysis of accelerated smart meter diffusion in the Netherlands, UK, Norway, and Portugal (2000-2019)	90
Firm R&D investment and export market exposure	86
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’	85
Unleashing creative potential: The role of stable institutional ownership in exploratory innovation	83
How fast is this novel technology going to be a hit? Antecedents predicting follow-on inventions	77
Disentangling international research collaboration in the Spanish academic context: Is there a desirable researcher human capital profile?	75
Patents, industry control, and the rise of the giant American corporation	75
Copyright levies and cloud storage: Ex-ante policy evaluation with a field experiment	73
Storm crowds: Evidence from Zooniverse on crowd contribution design	72

Do you see what I see? How expertise and a decision-maker role influence the recognition and selection of novel ideas	69
Disclosure rules and declared essential patents	67
Entrepreneurship in Cities	67
Hiding practices in employee-user innovation	66
Distilling and renewing science team search through external engagement	65
Transformational complexity, systemic complexity and economic development	65
Wolves at the door to the unknown: Innovation search and hedge fund activism	65
Unbundling the impact of current and future competition on cooperation in coopetition projects for innovation	64
OK computer: Worker perceptions of algorithmic recruitment	64
Founder social capital and value appropriation in R&D alliance agreements	64
Technological capability strength/asymmetry and supply chain process innovation: The contingent roles of institutional environments	63
Money matters: The role of money as a regional and corporate financial resource for circular economy transition at firm-level	63
From mainstream to niche: How value regimes shift in emerging economy upgrading	63
Does local knowledge spillover matter for firm productivity? The role of financial access and corporate governance	62
Are intellectual property rights working for society?	62
Labor market reform and innovation: Evidence from Spain	61
The impacts of U.S. Section 337 investigations on Chinese technology firms	61
Death squad or quality improvement? The impact of introducing post-grant review on U.S. patent legal quality	61
The bidirectional causality of tie stability and innovation performance	60
Focusing the ecosystem lens on innovation studies	60
Economic complexity and the green economy	57
Dynamics of first-time patenting firms	57
The determinants of parallel invention: Measuring the role of information sharing and personal interaction between inventors	52
Investment in intangible assets and economic complexity	51
The Government Patent Register: A new resource for measuring U.S. government-funded patenting	49
Richard R Nelson (1930–2025): Evolutionary economist and innovation scholar	49