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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
The capability approach and a critique of the design of digital spaces	84
How Heads of Departments Find It Meaningful to Engage with Gender Balance Policies	43
Policy seduction and governance resistance? Examining public funding agencies and academic institutions on decarbonisation research	40
Correction to: Dynamics of expectations in the bioeconomy—Hopes, disillusionments, and conflicting futures	38
Knowledge Transfers from Federally Funded Research and Development Centers	37
Knowledge transfer profiles of public research organisations: the role of fields of knowledge specialisation	37
Multilevel innovation policy mix: impact of regional, national, and European R&D grants	34
Subsidy policies of a fresh supply chain considering the inputs of blockchain traceability service system	29
Overcoming vested interests against innovation through political entrepreneurship: A comparative study of Korean mobility cases	26
An assessment of the US Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program: A study of project failure	23
Is renewable energy more favorable to diversity than conventional energy sources on R&D performance?	21
Opening up science for a sustainable world: An expansive normative structure of open science in the digital era	20
Environmental policy and R&D productivity: A case study from the Korean Emissions Trading Scheme	18
A four-asset technology-based growth policy	18
Making sense of knowledge-brokering organisations: boundary organisations or policy entrepreneurs?	17
Are we nearly there yet? New technology adoption and labor demand in Peru	17
Exploring indicators for monitoring sociotechnical system transitions through portfolio networks	16
What makes an entrepreneurial university? Institutional moderators of ecosystem impacts in a developing country	16
Boundary speak in sustainability studies: Computational reading of a transversal field	15
Factors enabling social impact: The importance of institutional entrepreneurship in social science research	14
The design of transformative research and innovation policy instruments for grand challenges: The policy-nesting perspective	14
The Post-Normal Challenges of COVID-19: Constructing Effective and Legitimate Responses	14
The Innovation Superclusters Initiative in Canada: A new policy strategy?	14
How policies emerge and interact with each other? A bibliometric analysis of policies in China	14
Boundary work in the regional innovation policy mix: SME digital technology diffusion policies in Wales	14

Gerontocracy, labor market bottlenecks, and generational crises in modern science	13
Online panel work through a gender lens: implications of digital peer review meetings	13
Researchers engaging with society: who does what?	13
Coloniality in science diplomacy—evidence from the Atlantic Ocean	13
Do scientific research funds support emerging topic research in Chinese humanities and social sciences?	12
Designing an instrument for scaling public sector innovations	12
Effectiveness of targeted public university funding on universities’ start-up support: evidence from ‘EXIST—Potentials’	12
From experimentation to structural change: fostering institutional entrepreneurship for public engagement in research and innovation	12
Exploring the interplay between social distancing, innovation adoption, and privacy concerns amid the COVID-19 crisis	12
From global climate goals to local practice—mission-oriented policy enactment in three Swedish regions	11
Mission cocreation or domination? Explorative and exploitative forces in shaping the Dutch circular agriculture mission	11
Unpackaging universities’ local economic impact through a systematic literature review: between fragmentation and unclear boundaries	11
Whose knowledge counts? Power dynamics in the co-production of knowledge and innovation in agri-food systems	11
Taking the pulse of science diplomacy and developing practices of valuation	10
Negotiating space for knowledge co-production	10
What counts: Making sense of metrics of research value	10
Ideology, knowledge, and the assessment of science policy agencies	10
Correction to: Working with curiosity: Knowledge transfer practitioners’ ambivalence at CERN	9
Buyer’s market-oriented culture, strategic procurement capability, and customer performance in the public procurement of innovations	9
Researchers’ institutional mobility: bibliometric evidence on academic inbreeding and internationalization	9
A novel approach to study institutional bundles driving AI-based MedTech innovations for cancer in India	9
The study of policy coordination: an approach to integrate expert assessment with automated content analysis	9
Government subsidies, private R&D, and global value chains position: the moderating role of task complexity	9
Policy entrepreneurs, entrepreneurial strategies, and institutional contexts in Interreg Europe	9
The evolution of Industry 4.0 capacities across regions in EU research programmes	9
The Impact of I-Corps on Accelerating Venture Discontinuation in a Southeastern US University	8
The spatial distribution of public support for AI research	8
Key drivers of innovation trajectories and catch-up in latecomer firms: absorptive capacity and opportunity capture	8
Cyborg ethics and regulation: ethical issues of human enhancement	8
The experimentation–accountability trade-off in innovation and industrial policy: are learning networks the solution?	8
Correction to: Co-creating end-user roles. Understanding the new variety of user involvement in public sector innovation	8
Evaluating blockchain technology and related policies in China and the USA	8
The Balanced State of Application-oriented Public Research and Technology Organisations	8
Digital economy, international openness, and innovation capability: empirical evidence from Urban China	8
Correction to: Making sense of knowledge-brokering organisations: boundary organisations or policy entrepreneurs?	8
Addressing digital diversity: Care matters in vulnerable digital relations in a Swedish library context	8
Universities in less developed regions: analyzing their local research impact	8
Environmental scanning perspective: The moderating effects of organizational risk and government subsidy in innovation search process	8
Correction to: Embracing heterogeneity: Why plural understandings strengthen interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity	8
Switching between worlds apart: Negotiating European space sector cultures through innovation	7
Technological structure network analysis to explore the hotspots of academic patents in international technology transfer	7
Are there political cycles hidden inside collaborative innovation efficiency? An empirical study based on Chinese cities	7
Research funding randomly allocated? A survey of scientists’ views on peer review and lottery	7
Does the inclusion of non-academic reviewers make any difference for grant impact panels?	7
Deconstructing impact: A framework for impact evaluation in grant applications	7
The Study of Network Effects on Research Impact in Africa	7
Partial lottery can make grant allocation more fair, more efficient, and more diverse	7
Frictions in the bioeconomy? A case study of policy translations and innovation practices	7
Promoting the ICT Industry for the future with fears from the past	7
Democratic and expert legitimacy: Science, politics and the public during the COVID-19 pandemic	7

Evolution of the emergency drug innovation network and policy implications: Evidence from COVID-19 drug patents	7
A computational approach to study the gap and barriers between science and policy	6
What is behind multiple institutional affiliations in academia?	6
Policy-making and evaluation of gender equality programmes: Context, power, and resistance in the transformation process	6
Brazilian Air Force acquisition policies: observing absorptive capacity and contingent factors in aeronautical beneficiary companies	6
A typology of urban knowledge sharing: from a systematic literature review to an integrated model	6
Assessment of success in university–industry cooperation literature: A bibliographic coupling analysis	6
The impacts of Centers for AIDS Research program and its enlargement on HIV/AIDS research collaboration	6
Does offensive patent insurance promote corporate innovation? Evidence from a quasi-experiment	6
Listing quality: Chinese journal lists in incoherent valuation regimes	6
Researcher roles in collaborative governance interventions	6
Cooperative innovation and crises: Foreign subsidiaries, state-owned enterprises, and domestic private firms	6
A new facet of cumulative advantage in higher education finance	6
A research on the effectiveness of innovation policy for regional innovation under Chinese long-range plan	6
Institutionalizing public engagement in research and innovation: Toward the construction of institutional entrepreneurial collectives	6
Institutional logics in the open science practices of university–industry research collaboration	6
The early emergence of ombuds systems in Japanese science universities	6