OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Evaluation and Program Planning 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Case study in using value stream mapping in online graduate education	55
A study of preservice teachers’ digital competence development: Exploring the role of direct instruction, integrated practice, and modeling	35
Active ingredients in implicit racial bias training: Incorporating participant voice to promote engagement	33
Evaluating the effects of collaborative governance: Case of a digital education project	32
Implementing and evaluating a peer-coached EFL teacher professional development program	32
Challenges for contactless online food delivery services during the COVID-19 pandemic in Taiwan: Moderating effects of perceived government response	29
Editorial Board	22
Program logic of a mental health outreach service for socially anxious youth	20
Organizational change and evidence-based practices in support services for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities	19
Estimation of service length with the machine learning algorithms and neural networks for patients who receiving home health care	18
Editorial Board	17
Editorial Board	17
Evaluating social governance innovation policy in China: A study based on fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis	16
Technical efficiency in Chile’s higher education system: A comparison of rankings and accreditation	16
How the EU Cohesion Policy targeted at R&D and innovation impacts the productivity, employment and exports of SMEs in Estonia	15
Outcome harvesting as a methodology for the retrospective evaluation of small-scale community development interventions	14
Perspectives on quality of life among disability-related organization leaders serving individuals with paralysis	13
Simple but not simplistic: Findings from a theory-driven retrospective evaluation of a small projects program	13
The psychology of evaluation	13
Evaluating and sustaining Coordinated Specialty Care for a recent onset of psychosis in non-academic-affiliated community mental healthcare settings	13
Conceptual structure of balanced scorecard research: A co-word analysis	13
What does it mean for an evaluation to be ‘valid’? A critical synthesis of evaluation literature	12
No one runs alone: Combining community-based program evaluation with photo elicitation interviewing among people experiencing homelessness	12
Making a difference in the real world. User-centred impact evaluation of an eight-country, community-based early childhood programme	12
Developing a sustainability readiness strategy for health systems: Toolkit, interactive tools, and virtual support system	12

If you really love nothing. Evaluating second-order factors in the case of Italian constitutional referendum of 2020	12
Editorial Board	12
An evaluation of the impact of mitigation policies on health and the economy by managing social distancing during outbreaks	12
An analysis of participation factors and effects of the active labour market measure Graduate practice in Slovakia – Counterfactual approach	11
Resolving the practical factors in the healthcare system management by considering a combine approach of AHP and ANP methods	11
An evaluation of undergraduate public administration programs at Turkish Universities: Reviewing the literature and proposing a model of cultural competence development	11
Editorial Board	11
Transitioning to independent living: Experiences of homeless young adults in rapid rehousing	11
How sustainable human resources management helps in the evaluation and planning of employee loyalty and retention: Can social capital make a difference?	11
Initial conditions and functioning over time among community coalitions	11
A bibliometric analysis of quality assurance in higher education institutions: Implications for assessing university's societal impact	10
Are the voices of parents heard? A scoping review of satisfaction in parenting programs	10
Evaluation of investments in the tourism sector with a local focus	10
How to foster employee quality of life: The role of employee performance management and authentic leadership	10
Reimagining the university’s role in the health and well-being of the people it serves	10
Assessing organizational capacity for diffusion: A school-based social network analysis case study	10
Beyond the average effect of the innovation subsidies: Using case selection via matching to break impasse in delivering useful advice to policy makers	10
The effect of medicaid expansion on access to healthcare, health behaviors and health outcomes between expansion and non-expansion states	9
What makes community sports programs successful? A group concept mapping study to identify effective elements	9
Development, acceptability, and perceived effectiveness of a trauma-informed adolescent self-regulation intervention	9
Leveraging secondary data for evaluation: Planning the expansion of the Illinois asthma partnership to reduce pediatric asthma related emergency department visits	9
From pipeline to practice: Utilizing tracking mechanisms for longitudinal evaluation of physician recruitment across the health workforce continuum	9
Scaling up a community-led health promotion initiative: Lessons learned and promising practices from the Healthy Weights for Children Project	9
Creating a parallel process: A new methodological framework for conducting Trauma-Informed Evaluation and Research (TIER) in mental health settings	9
Exploring the value of pro bono evaluation work as a method to build evaluator competencies and strengthen organizational capacity	9
Development and validation of the questionnaire on resuscitation-related knowledge and attitude for adolescents	9
A theory of change evaluation of doctoral admission methods: A case study of a Chinese university	9
Parental decision-making on summer program enrollment: A mixed methods Covid-19 impact study	9
The relationship between buy-in and implementation: Measuring teacher buy-in to a high school reform effort	8
An evaluation of programs to support new investigators at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases: Striking a balance with funding for established investigators	8
A deep dive into the factors affecting household solar photovoltaic adoption: An extended perspective of the value-based adoption model	8
It takes an ecosystem: Socioecological factors influencing equity-oriented evaluation in New England, U.S., 2021	8
From a teacher and school leader perspective: What happened with smoking rules and practices during a three-year smoking preventive intervention? – Findings from the X:IT II study	8
Evaluating the design and implementation of Kazakhstan’s workfare program	8
Implementation and evaluation of tourism industry: Evidentiary case study of night market development in Taiwan	8
Arts-based evaluation of the Communities ChooseWell program	8
Learning from educators: Implementation of a positive behavior support program targeting challenging behavior in children with autism	8
Factors associated with attendance to a participatory gender training programme – A secondary analysis of data from the MAISHA study	8
Development and validation of a measure of organizational capacity for implementing youth development programs	8
A comparison of costs of two forms of educator professional development in Wyoming: Traditional conference vs. project ECHO	8
Using music storytelling communication intervention to promote acceptance of C-sections among families in rural areas	8
Going beyond performance measures in HIV-prevention: A funder-recipient expedition	8
Using a logic model to develop an intervention for improving miscarriage care in the emergency department	7
Digital competence among pre-service teachers: A global perspective on curriculum change as viewed by experts from 33 countries	7
Bigs in Blue: Police officer mentoring for middle-school students—Building trust and understanding through structured programming	7
Performance Evaluation of Construction Sub‐contractors using Ordinal Priority Approach	7
Methods in realist evaluation: A mapping review	7
Challenges for evaluation practices and innovative approaches: Lessons during COVID-19 pandemic	7
Research into microfinance and ICTs: A bibliometric analysis	7
Evaluating a community based mental health programme in West Bengal, India: Description of the methodology and lessons learned	7

A proposed multistage evaluation approach for Higher Education Institutions based on network Data envelopment analysis: A Brazilian experience	7
Sustainable universities: The LGBTQIAP+ inclusive model	7
Network assessment: Design of a framework and indicators for monitoring and self-assessment of a customized gender equality plan in the Mediterranean Engineering Education context	7
Impact of Customised Community Training Program on the Prevention and Control of Dengue Fever: A Study from India	7
Evaluating an innovative integrated training for child and youth services: Lessons learned	7
Does evaluation quality matter? Quantitative analysis of the use of evaluation findings in the field of cohesion policy in Poland	6
Enhancing community participation for environmental health improvement in rural Tanzania: Evidence from Bukombe district	6
Schools within the uMgungundlovu district: Principals’ perspectives on categorization and school functionality	6
Evaluating systemic changes to support clinical and translational health research	6
Effectiveness of portfolio assessment in primary education: A multi-complementary research approach	6
Effectiveness of the KiVa anti-bullying program in the Czech Republic: A cluster randomized control trial	6
Evaluation of public private partnerships in highways	6
Using the science of positive psychology in the formative evaluation of social justice interventions: A case example	6
Book review	6
A dynamic framework for making sense of partnerships between universities and informal education providers	6
The efficacy of a facilitated support group intervention to reduce the psychological distress of individuals experiencing family estrangement	6
Editorial Board	6
Healthy Summer Learners: An explanatory mixed methods study and process evaluation	6
Back to the future: Are we trapped in our past?	6
Teaching competence of TVET teachers in the digital age: Implementation and evaluation of a training program in China	6
The benefit and cost of voluntary work in government: The case of the United States Coast Guard Auxiliary Boat Crew Program	6
Development, implementation and evaluation of an optimized cross-sectoral rehabilitation program after acute hip fracture surgery: A mixed-methods study	6
Evaluation of Education Program Implementation at Pusat Kegiatan Belajar Masyarakat (PKBM), Jambi City	6
School-based psychosocial and educational interventions for children and adolescents after the 1999 Marmara earthquakes in Turkey: A review on lessons learned	6
Editorial Board	5
Comprehensive evaluation of majors offered by universities based on combination weighting	5
Utility of linking survey and registry data to evaluate interventions and policies to address disparities in breast cancer survivorship among young women	5
Using a systems lens in evaluations at the nexus of environment and development	5
From projects to systems: Being explicit about assumptions in systems-level theories of change	5
A study to determine if and how bereavement support programs provided by Irish and Canadian hospices are evaluated	5
Gender biases in the evaluation of knowledge transfer: A meta-evaluative analysis of the Spanish “Knowledge Transfer and Innovation Sexennium”	5
Startup and implementation costs of a colorectal cancer screening tailored navigation research study	5
A problem-bound evaluation approach	5
Effects as a function of implementation fidelity of a transdiagnostic prevention program in young school-aged children	5
Towards an evolutionary approach to learning from assumptions: Lessons from the evaluation of Dancing with Parkinson’s	5
Anticipatory evaluation. How to incorporate an anticipatory technique into a theory-driven evaluation process. Results of application in a case study.	5
Beyond implementation: A collective case study exploring the conceptions and facilitators of sustainability in a quality improvement collaborative	5
Evaluation of a COVID-19 rapid antigen testing program among student athletes in a public high school district	5
A socially responsible financial institution – The bumpy road to improving consumer well-being	5
Implementation process evaluation of an ergonomic train the trainer program: How to learn from mechanisms and the temporal structure of processes?	5
Evaluative criteria in practice: Findings from an analysis of evaluations published in Evaluation and Program Planning	5
Evaluating a social marketing campaign on healthy nutrition and lifestyle among primary-school children: A mixed-method research design	5
Using theory knitting to conceptualize social phenomena in the design and evaluation of dance programs for people living with Parkinson’s disease	5
Building capacity to create community change (BC4): A model to support successful program planning and implementation	5
Identifying relative strength of methadone versus health and social services in comprehensive substance use disorder treatment using a variance decomposition approach	5
Remotely and collaboratively evaluating a campus-based therapy dog program during the COVID-19 pandemic	5