OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Policy Studies is 5. 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
Do intergovernmental interactions increase government spending?	49
Instrumental councillors? On the strategic interests that drive local councillors’ legitimacy perceptions of citizen participation	36
Editorial board	31
Using TRI data to expand understanding of minority faith and environmental justice	26
The oil price volatility and arms import relationship: the role of security imperatives and budget pressures	22
The role of academics as refugee policy advocates: lessons from Australia	21
Policy interventions for the future of work: do Australians want government compensation, guidance, or investment to manage technological change?	21
Do happy individuals support government environmental spending? Evidence from the general social survey	20
Conceptualizing decent work: an explorative study of decent work in England’s Midlands region	20
Policy styles and India’s national action plan on climate change (NAPCC)	19
Assessing the economic impact of innovative cities	18
Policy diffusion at the agenda-setting stage: lessons from South Korea’s adoption of long-term care insurance	18
Public reaction to public-private partnerships (PPPs): citizen assessments of four different types of PPPs and policy support	18
The arrival of Ukrainian refugees as an opportunity to advance migrant integration policy	17
“The religions are engaging: tick, well done”: the invisibilization and instrumentalization of Muslim climate intermediaries	16
Does participatory governance help address long-term environmental problems? Conceptualization and evidence from 23 democracies	16
Bans, sanctions, and dog-whistles: a review of anti-critical race theory initiatives adopted in the United States since 2020	15
Digital political campaigning: contemporary challenges and regulation	14
Making elections more transparent? Lessons from the implementation of digital imprints at the 2024 UK General Election	14
Towards the creation of an independent fiscal council for growth sustainability and development in oil-exporting small-open economy	14
Blood is thicker than water: local favouritism and inter-local collaborative governance	13
Institutional diversity and the immigrant wage gap? A comparison between the German and British experience with statutory minimum wages	12
The historical evolution of the minimum wage policy in Mexico: from local to federal determination	12
Policy transfer and policy experimentation in China: the case of state-sponsored student loans	11
A socio-legal critique of the commercialization of digital health in Sub-Saharan Africa	11

Experts’ active representation in the UN treaty bodies: the role of members’ tenure	11
Correction	9
Editorial board	9
Presidents and intermediaries: insights from clean energy policy processes in Mexico	9
Impacts of the Russia-Ukraine war on energy prices: evidence from OECD countries	9
Nervi rei publicae: local governments as economic populists?	8
National leadership and economic growth: the case of India’s 2014 transition	8
Assessing policy transfer from the United States to the British National Health Service	8
Can we represent future generations in myopic democracies? – Analyzing the design, feasibility and viability of institutional guardians of future generations	7
Policy staff and the evolving nature of policy analytical capacity in Australia, Britain, Canada, and New Zealand	7
Merit and impartiality in public administration: the effect of democratic backsliding through participation and contestation	7
Tax policy shifts in aging societies: assessing the impact of tax mix changes on income inequality in OECD countries	7
The role of hyperactive Twitter accounts in the diffusion of political information	7
Unraveling the politics-science nexus: diverse strategies in US states’ termination of mask policies	7
Administrative resilience and democratic backsliding in crisis governance: comparative lessons from Wuhan and Shanghai during COVID-19	7
Willing to be transparent? Assessing political parties’ commitment towards regulating party aid in South Africa	7
Building party resilience: improving party aid in an age of democratic decline	7
Strategic narratives of Russia’s war in Ukraine: perspectives from China	7
Punctuated equilibrium and the dynamics of political participation: the case of letter writing	7
Can financial transparency help parties institutionalize and save democracy?	6
The war in Ukraine and environmental security in Central European ministerial discourse	6
A qualitative comparison of data infrastructures for COVID-19 health-related data: lessons for the European Health Data Space	6
COVID-19 counterfactual evidence. Estimating the effects of school closures	6
Instruments of lesson-drawing: comparing the knowledge brokerage of the OECD and the World Bank	6
Show me what you’ve got: a survey experiment of aid allocation dynamics under transparency and austerity mandates	6
Citizen preferences for decisional power levels and participatory instruments in local government	6
Policy analysis without written policy: using practice-based methods to understand work with people labelled at risk of sexually harming	6
Gender-inequitable discrimination? A survey experiment on the gendered implications of unauthorized immigrant narratives	6
Policy transfer during the COVID era	6
Stock market reaction to the French snap legislative election	5
Grassroots fiscal centralization: subnational delegation of revenue authority in Argentina	5
An (almost) laissez faire party system: how Kyrgyz parties failed and what could be done about it	5
Women in government: the limits and challenges of a representative bureaucracy for Afghanistan (2001–2021)	5
Reimagining public water: an intergenerational exploration of paradigms for future system design	5
An ecosystem approach to governing commercial actors in healthcare AI	5
Demanding non-programmatic distribution: evidence from local governments in Chile	5
Designing intermediary-involved regulatory system: organizational capacities and institutional conditions for NGO regulatory intermediation	5
Economic complexity and employment in emerging countries: a comparative analysis	5
Polarization, and party politics in post-revolutionary and post-war Armenia	5
Geopolitical risks and inflation: insights across time horizons	5
Policy experts and bureaucrats in the policy process: the nexus between universities’ expertise and policy advisory systems in Africa	5
Conflict disruptions of epistemic communities: initial lessons from the impact of the Russian invasion of Ukraine	5