OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Space Policy is 1. 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
Bringing space solution to national needs through selected projects: The case of Greece	25
Project and knowledge management at European public space agencies: The need for a three-dimensional project management office	17
Identifying risks for success in space tourism: A proactive approach for Türkiye	13
The Astropreneurial Co-creation of the New Space Economy	10
Explore to Exploit: A Data-Centred Approach to Space Mining Regulation	9
The White House Executive Order on the Recovery and Use of Space Resources: Pushing the Boundaries of International Space Law?	8
Estimating the United States Space Economy Using Input-Output Frameworks	8
Private Entities in Outer Space Activities: Liability Regime Reconsidered	8
Anti-weaponization of Outer Space for Maintaining Long-term Sustainability of Outer Space Activities	8
Editorial Board	7
Editorial Board	7
Heavenly Mandate: Public Opinion and China's Space Activities	6
Which Jurisdiction for Private In-space Assembled Autonomous Platforms?	6
Editorial Board	6
Editorial Board	6
Brazilian Space Sector: Historical Analysis of the Public Budget	6
Starlink for ASEAN: A Changemaker in the Race Toward Sustainable Development?	6
Policy Considerations for Nascent Space Powers	6
Commercial Lunar Ice Mining: Is There a Role for Royalties?	6
Editorial Board	6
Ensuring PNT resilience in a time of navigation uncertainty	5
Accounting for the impact of space policies: The case of the Italian Space Agency	5
Preliminary investigation and proposal of periodic orbits and their utilization for logistics in the cislunar regime	5
Sights on Mars: Continuity and Change in Support for Space Policy	5
The COST of Joining Legal Forces on a Celestial Body of Law and Beyond: Anticipating Future Clashes between Corpus Juris Spatialis, Lex Mercatoria, Antitrust and Ethics	5

What is an appropriate investment hurdle rate for commercial space resource development projects?	5
India's Space Pursuit and the Changing Matrix of South Asian Security	5
Space Science in China: A Historical Perspective on Chinese Policy 1957–2020 and Policy Implication	5
European Union Space Surveillance & Tracking (EU SST): State of Play and Perspectives	4
What Should We Do with Our Moon?: Ethics and Policy for Establishing International Multiuse Lunar Land Reserves	4
Orbit Bound. Predictors of ‘readiness to space’ and government support	4
Editorial Board	4
The International Lunar Research Station: China's New Era of Space Cooperation and Its New Role in the Space Legal Order	4
Examining the Growth of the Global Space Situational Awareness Sector: A Network Analysis Approach	4
Revisiting the role of space in European Security 20 years after. A practitioner's perspective	4
We Come in Peace? A Rational Approach to METI	3
History, concepts and challenges of proposing an 18th UN Sustainable Development Goal related to Space	3
Decolonized Religions as Social Forces Within Space Settlements	3
China's Space Export Strategy	3
Book review	3
China's branding problem: Image management and the US-China space relationship	3
The W&T Realpolitik Scenario and Contact With Extraterrestrial Intelligence: A Reply to Wright et al.	3
The “due regard” obligation in the deployment and operation of satellite mega-constellations	3
Editorial Board	3
The Growth of China’s Non-governmental Space Sector in the Context of Government Support for Public-Private Partnerships: An Assessment of Major Legal Challenges	3
Editorial Board	3
To Each According to Their Space-Need: Communes in Outer Space	3
SPACECAST 2020 twenty-nine years on: The legacy of a 1994 Air Force white paper seen through contemporary American planetary defense	3
The Importance of ALCE's Role as a Political Actor Rather Than a Coordinator of Regional Space Activities	2
Reprint of Introduction to the special issue on international space politics	2
Toward a Spacefaring Society: Enhancing Undergraduate General Education and Learning Outcomes with Space Policy Course Themes	2
Outer Space, an Area Recognised as Res Communis Omnium: Limits of National Space Mining Law	2
Should We Lie to Extraterrestrials? A Critique of the Voyager Golden Records	2
Moving to Mars: The Feasibility and Desirability of Mars Settlements	2
Bioethical Issues in Human Modification for Protection against the Effects of Space Radiation	2
Editorial Board	2
Toward the stars: Technological, ethical, and sociopolitical dimensions of interstellar exploration	2
Media use and US Attitudes Toward Government and Private Space Exploration	2
Intellectual Property Protection in Outer Space: Conflict in Theory and Application in Practice	2
ASEAN regional cooperation in the space sector: Current status, potential gaps, and future perspectives	2
Everybody's Business to Know About Space: Cross-Disciplinarity and the Challenges of the New Space Age	2
Finding space for the European Space Agency	2
Historical Evolution of the Concept of Space Traffic Management Since 1932: The Need for a Change of Terminology	2
Review and comparison of three emerging regional space agencies: the African Space Agency, the Arab Space Coordination Group, and the Latin American and Caribbean Space Agency	2
Is there a market for micro-launch vehicles?	2
Beyond new space: Changing organizational forms, collaborative innovation and public and semi-public domains	2
The space resources fund: A solution to the space resources benefit sharing dilemma?	1
A discussion on policies and regulations governing the risks associated with radiation exposure for space tourism flight participants	1
Medium-to long-term strategies in the field of space transportation systems formulated by the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency under the Inter-Uni	1
A New Wave of “Space Nationalism” in the United States: Why Are Evangelicals Good With It?	1
Space and cybersecurity: Challenges and opportunities emerging from national strategy narratives	1
Security challenges when space merges with cyberspace	1
Through the Thorns to Where? The Politics of Alternative Appropriations of Soviet Space Culture in Contemporary Russia	1
The transformation of India's space policy: From space for development to the pursuit of security and prestige	1
An Improved Cost Analysis of the Apollo Program	1

Inoculating Enceladus	1
Russia in Outer Space: A Shrinking Space Power in the Era of Global Change	1
Artemis Accords: Are Safety Zones Practical for Long Term Commercial Lunar Resource Utilisation?	1
Space Community as an Enabler of Cosmopolitan Ideas Through Large Technical Systems	1
Power Dynamics in the Age of Space Commercialisation	1
The Worst Case: Planetary Defense against a Doomsday Impactor	1
Centring Environmentalism in Space Governance: Interrogating Dominance and Authority Through a Critical Legal Geography of Outer Space	1
Toward Coherence: A Space Sector Public-Private Partnership Typology	1
An Environmental Impact Assessment Framework for Space Resource Extraction	1
U.S. Strategic Interest in the Moon: An Assessment of Economic, National Security, and Geopolitical Drivers	1
Operation Burnt Frost: A View From Inside	1
SETI From the Perspective of Intercivilizational Politics	1
Cyber-attacks on Space Activities: Revisiting the Responsibility Regime of Article VI of the Outer Space Treaty	1
Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: The Evolution of the Irish Space Sector from an Institutional Perspective	1
Evaluating the Public Value of Improving Early Detection Accuracy of Cumulonimbus Using a Geostationary Satellite in South Korea	1
Strategic Management and Organization in the Space Sector – Introduction to the Special Issue	1