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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Correction to: Dynamics of expectations in the bioeconomy—Hopes, disillusionments, and conflicting futures	90
Overcoming vested interests against innovation through political entrepreneurship: A comparative study of Korean mobility cases	53
The Post-Normal Challenges of COVID-19: Constructing Effective and Legitimate Responses	47
Policy seduction and governance resistance? Examining public funding agencies and academic institutions on decarbonisation research	44
Researchers’ institutional mobility: bibliometric evidence on academic inbreeding and internationalization	43
Is renewable energy more favorable to diversity than conventional energy sources on R&D performance?	41
How policies emerge and interact with each other? A bibliometric analysis of policies in China	35
The spatial mobility network and influencing factors of the higher education population in China	34
Science diplomacy in the European and Latin American and Caribbean research infrastructure collaboration	30
Making responsible research and innovation meaningful in citizen science	28
Does the inclusion of non-academic reviewers make any difference for grant impact panels?	24
Science diplomacy from a nation-state’s perspective: a general framing and its application to Global South countries	23
Perspectives: the challenges of displaced and exiled scientists	23
Missions as boundary objects for transformative change: understanding coordination across policy, research, and stakeholder communities	19
Does It Pay to Do Novel Science? The Selectivity Patterns in Science Funding	18
Are there political cycles hidden inside collaborative innovation efficiency? An empirical study based on Chinese cities	18
Academic human capital in universities: definition and proposal of a measurement scale	17
Coevolution between institutions and scientific organizations: The case of IMPA	17
Priorities in research portfolios: exploring the need for upstream research in cardiometabolic and mental health	17
Embracing heterogeneity: Why plural understandings strengthen interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity	16
‘We Need Time…’: An Expert Survey on Societal Acceptance of Urban Drones	16
Competition, open innovation, and growth challenges in the semiconductor industry: the case of Europe’s clusters	15
Walking the talk? Innovation policy approaches to unleash the transformative potentials of the Nordic bioeconomy	15
The globalization of science diplomacy in the early 1970s: a historical exploration	15
Local political turnover, R&D investment leap and corporate innovation performance: Evidence from China	15

Scientizing the world: on mechanisms and outcomes of the institutionalization of science	14
Public deliberation and the regulation of gene drive in the USA	14
The development of attitudes toward science and technology: a longitudinal analysis of Generation X	14
Prioritizing diversity? The allocation of US federal R&D funding	13
University–industry linkages in China from the agency perspective of university engagement: a systematic literature review	13
Returnees and innovation: evidence from Chinese publicly listed firms	13
Science diplomacy in the Global South—an introduction	13
The past futures of techno-scientific promises	12
Mission incomplete: Layered practices of monitoring and evaluation in Swedish transformative innovation policy	12
Retraction in the online world—Shall we rethink the policy?	12
Balancing interests between freedom and censorship: Organizational strategies for quality assurance in science communication	12
The promises and premises of mission-oriented innovation policy—A reflection and ways forward	12
The role of intermediaries in nurturing innovation ecosystems: a case study of Singapore’s manufacturing sector	12
Diversity and directionality: friends or foes in sustainability transitions?	12
Being internationally mobile while keeping domestic social capital: how postdocs from China manage precarity	11
Individual attributes and inventors matching: A study using data from the Brazilian co-patents network	11
Diversification, integration, and opening: developments in modelling for policy	11
A Hierarchy of Interests: Discursive Practices on the Value of Particle and High-Energy Physics	11
North–South research funding dynamics of collaborative projects: researchers’ appropriation strategies of agencies’ project frameworks	11
Peer effects of the young returnee scientists: Evidence from the state key laboratories in China	11
Multilevel innovation policy mix in China: do local programmes complement national programmes?	10
Boosting innovation in small- and medium-sized enterprises through tax incentives: lessons from the UK	10
Operation warp speed: Harbinger of American industrial innovation policies	10
Democracy, Complexity, and Science: Exploring Structural Sources of National Scientific Performance	10
Capturing the invisible. Sociotechnical imaginaries of energy. The critical overview	10
Disciplining interdisciplinarity: Infrastructure, identity, and interdisciplinary practice in nanoELSI research	9
Steering at a distance: research centre funding schemes as instruments for university change	9
Perspectives on advancing innovation and human flourishing through a network of AI institutes	9
From experimentation to structural change: fostering institutional entrepreneurship for public engagement in research and innovation	9
What makes an entrepreneurial university? Institutional moderators of ecosystem impacts in a developing country	9
Bridging conflicting frames in policies for digital transformation	9
To govern or be governed: an integrated framework for AI governance in the public sector	9
Boundary speak in sustainability studies: Computational reading of a transversal field	9
Universities in less developed regions: analyzing their local research impact	9
Making space for CRISPR: scientists’ translation work to make gene editing a legitimate technology	9
Digital governance and AI: boosting OFDI’s impact on regional innovation performance	9
The study of policy coordination: an approach to integrate expert assessment with automated content analysis	9
Correction to: Embracing heterogeneity: Why plural understandings strengthen interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity	9
An institutionalist perspective on smart specialization: Towards a political economy of regional innovation policy	8
Research excellence and scientific advisory boards	8
Perspectives on the use of ChatGPT in academic publications	8
Public perception of scientific advisory bodies: the case of France’s Covid-19 Scientific Council	8
Assessment of success in university–industry cooperation literature: A bibliographic coupling analysis	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
The legislative effect of ignorance: institutional risk and the regulation of new genomic techniques	7
Rejecting acceptance: learning from public dialogue on self-driving vehicles	7
The other side of the boundary: Productive interactions seen from the policy side	7
The limits of co-production: linking regulatory capacity to co-production of authoritative knowledge for environmental policy	7
Online platforms for research data: A requirements and cost analysis	7

Universities of applied sciences’ EU research project participation through the lens of differentiation	7
Household sector innovation, diffusion failure, and business ownership: evidence from South Africa	7
Mobilizing research for contextualized innovation: scarcity and urgency as drivers during Covid-19 in the South	7
A comparative analysis of innovation policies in Hong Kong and Shenzhen within the Greater Bay Area initiative	7
Do winners pick government? How scale-up experience shapes entrepreneurs’ assessments of innovation policy mixes	7
“It is controlling, but you don’t really care.” Researchers’ perceptions of legitimation of research policy	7
The promise of artificial intelligence in combating public corruption in the emerging economies: A conceptual framework	7
Unboxing knowledge in collaboration between academia and society: A story about conceptions and epistemic uncertainty	7
Making sense of transdisciplinarity: Interpreting science policy in a biotechnology centre	7
On the boundary of services and research collaborations in Japanese state-of-the-art academic research infrastructures	7
Evolution of the STIP literature: discovering the growing role of innovation governance concepts	7
Local market, central government support, and local governments’ homegrown development strategy in high-tech industries	7
An assessment of EU’s photovoltaic panel waste policies: current framework and strategic vision for 2050	7
Mission-oriented innovation policy as a hybridisation process: the case of transforming a national fertilising system	6
The role of Universities in Transformative Innovation Policy	6
Deciphering the accelerated expansion of China’s NEV sector post-2020: a cross-system analysis using multi-level perspective	6
Economic incentive instruments and environmental innovation in China: Moderating effect of marketization	6
Role of professional autonomy and project commitment in the Korean government–funded R&D projects	6
Enhancing international collaboration in science, technology, and innovation to achieve sustainable development goals	6
China’s distinctive civil–military integration policy and firm innovation	6
How a timely policy contributes to technological capability building: insights from Iran’s biopharmaceutical sector	6
How has mission-oriented innovation policy addressed justice considerations? A systematic review	6
Science diplomacy from the Global South: the case of intergovernmental science organizations	6
Decoupling in science and education: A collateral damage beyond deteriorating US–China relations	6