OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Science and Public Policy is 6. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Correction to: Dynamics of expectations in the bioeconomy—Hopes, disillusionments, and conflicting futures	81
How policies emerge and interact with each other? A bibliometric analysis of policies in China	48
Is renewable energy more favorable to diversity than conventional energy sources on R&D performance?	33
Policy seduction and governance resistance? Examining public funding agencies and academic institutions on decarbonisation research	31
Intangible assets investment and firm innovation performance: evidence from Europe	27
Are there political cycles hidden inside collaborative innovation efficiency? An empirical study based on Chinese cities	26
Missions as boundary objects for transformative change: understanding coordination across policy, research, and stakeholder communities	22
Perspectives: the challenges of displaced and exiled scientists	20
Technological innovation as a cost leadership strategy catalyst: impact on organizational performance in developing countries	20
The spatial mobility network and influencing factors of the higher education population in China	20
Science diplomacy in the European and Latin American and Caribbean research infrastructure collaboration	20
Making responsible research and innovation meaningful in citizen science	19
Science diplomacy from a nation-state’s perspective: a general framing and its application to Global South countries	19
Priorities in research portfolios: exploring the need for upstream research in cardiometabolic and mental health	18
Coevolution between institutions and scientific organizations: The case of IMPA	18
‘We Need Time…’: An Expert Survey on Societal Acceptance of Urban Drones	18
Embracing heterogeneity: Why plural understandings strengthen interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity	17
Shaping food innovation ecosystems: roles and activities of a focal actor	17
Exploring scientific advice for local politics in Germany: the critical role of quasi-scientific actors	17
The globalization of science diplomacy in the early 1970s: a historical exploration	16
Local political turnover, R&D investment leap and corporate innovation performance: Evidence from China	15
Competition, open innovation, and growth challenges in the semiconductor industry: the case of Europe’s clusters	15
Public deliberation and the regulation of gene drive in the USA	15
Scientizing the world: on mechanisms and outcomes of the institutionalization of science	15
The development of attitudes toward science and technology: a longitudinal analysis of Generation X	15

Science diplomacy in the Global South—an introduction	13
The role of intermediaries in nurturing innovation ecosystems: a case study of Singapore’s manufacturing sector	12
Peer effects of the young returnee scientists: Evidence from the state key laboratories in China	12
Policy feedback dynamics in fintech ecosystems: navigating vicious and virtuous cycles in emerging economies	12
Returnees and innovation: evidence from Chinese publicly listed firms	12
Mission incomplete: Layered practices of monitoring and evaluation in Swedish transformative innovation policy	12
Normative, empirical, and pragmatic ethical objections to Singapore permitting human genetic enhancement via germline genome editing	12
Prioritizing diversity? The allocation of US federal R&D funding	12
Diversity and directionality: friends or foes in sustainability transitions?	11
University–industry linkages in China from the agency perspective of university engagement: a systematic literature review	11
North–South research funding dynamics of collaborative projects: researchers’ appropriation strategies of agencies’ project frameworks	11
Being internationally mobile while keeping domestic social capital: how postdocs from China manage precarity	11
Pacing space: futuring practices and temporal ownership in the European space sector	11
Balancing interests between freedom and censorship: Organizational strategies for quality assurance in science communication	11
Multilevel innovation policy mix in China: do local programmes complement national programmes?	11
Diversification, integration, and opening: developments in modelling for policy	11
Digital governance and AI: boosting OFDI’s impact on regional innovation performance	10
Steering at a distance: research centre funding schemes as instruments for university change	10
Making space for CRISPR: scientists’ translation work to make gene editing a legitimate technology	10
To govern or be governed: an integrated framework for AI governance in the public sector	10
The study of policy coordination: an approach to integrate expert assessment with automated content analysis	10
Disciplining interdisciplinarity: Infrastructure, identity, and interdisciplinary practice in nanoELSI research	10
Effect of university technology transfer office on patents’ market value: evidence from patent transactions	10
R&D effort and knowledge sourcing: the search for better profitability and higher growth	10
Operation warp speed: Harbinger of American industrial innovation policies	10
Participatory research in Canada (2013-2018): a cross-sectional survey of academic researchers	10
Bridging conflicting frames in policies for digital transformation	10
The realization of living labs at the post-experiment stage: the role of University in Korea	10
Perspectives on advancing innovation and human flourishing through a network of AI institutes	10
COVID-19 Health Certificates: analysis of policy implementation, framings, and controversies in nine European countries	10
Grasping the impalpable: critical appraisal of the role of public policy for intangibles	9
Pathways to gender equality in academia. National factors shaping women’s early career progression across Europe	9
What makes an entrepreneurial university? Institutional moderators of ecosystem impacts in a developing country	9
Sharing research data: researcher behaviour and attitudes	9
Environmental information disclosure policy and green total factor productivity: evidence from firm level	9
From experimentation to structural change: fostering institutional entrepreneurship for public engagement in research and innovation	9
Correction to: Embracing heterogeneity: Why plural understandings strengthen interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity	9
Universities in less developed regions: analyzing their local research impact	8
Assessment of success in university–industry cooperation literature: A bibliographic coupling analysis	8
An institutionalist perspective on smart specialization: Towards a political economy of regional innovation policy	8
Perspectives on the use of ChatGPT in academic publications	8
A research on the effectiveness of innovation policy for regional innovation under Chinese long-range plan	8
Institutionalizing public engagement in research and innovation: Toward the construction of institutional entrepreneurial collectives	8
Research excellence and scientific advisory boards	8
Do winners pick government? How scale-up experience shapes entrepreneurs’ assessments of innovation policy mixes	7
Developing a policy innovation system (PIS) approach in the case of biodiversity offsetting in Finland	7
Typology of university behaviour in innovation ecosystems: from institutional maturity to mission diversity	7
The other side of the boundary: Productive interactions seen from the policy side	7
Local market, central government support, and local governments’ homegrown development strategy in high-tech industries	7
Public perception of scientific advisory bodies: the case of France’s Covid-19 Scientific Council	7

“New spectrum of intangible assets”	7
Mobilizing research for contextualized innovation: scarcity and urgency as drivers during Covid-19 in the South	7
Unboxing knowledge in collaboration between academia and society: A story about conceptions and epistemic uncertainty	7
The limits of co-production: linking regulatory capacity to co-production of authoritative knowledge for environmental policy	7
An assessment of EU’s photovoltaic panel waste policies: current framework and strategic vision for 2050	7
Household sector innovation, diffusion failure, and business ownership: evidence from South Africa	7
Making sense of transdisciplinarity: Interpreting science policy in a biotechnology centre	7
The legislative effect of ignorance: institutional risk and the regulation of new genomic techniques	7
Just following the money? How research funding shapes the governance of university research	7
Online platforms for research data: A requirements and cost analysis	7
“It is controlling, but you don’t really care.” Researchers’ perceptions of legitimation of research policy	7
On the boundary of services and research collaborations in Japanese state-of-the-art academic research infrastructures	6
The promise of artificial intelligence in combating public corruption in the emerging economies: A conceptual framework	6
Evolution of the STIP literature: discovering the growing role of innovation governance concepts	6
Universities of applied sciences’ EU research project participation through the lens of differentiation	6
How has mission-oriented innovation policy addressed justice considerations? A systematic review	6
Intangible inputs, trade-in-knowledge, and manufacturing innovation in global value chains	6
Mission-oriented innovation policy as a hybridisation process: the case of transforming a national fertilising system	6