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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Correction to: Dynamics of expectations in the bioeconomy—Hopes, disillusionments, and conflicting futures	56
Policy seduction and governance resistance? Examining public funding agencies and academic institutions on decarbonisation research	51
How policies emerge and interact with each other? A bibliometric analysis of policies in China	36
Researchers’ institutional mobility: bibliometric evidence on academic inbreeding and internationalization	30
Is renewable energy more favorable to diversity than conventional energy sources on R&D performance?	25
Science diplomacy in the European and Latin American and Caribbean research infrastructure collaboration	25
Are there political cycles hidden inside collaborative innovation efficiency? An empirical study based on Chinese cities	24
Science diplomacy from a nation-state’s perspective: a general framing and its application to Global South countries	21
Making responsible research and innovation meaningful in citizen science	19
Missions as boundary objects for transformative change: understanding coordination across policy, research, and stakeholder communities	18
Perspectives: the challenges of displaced and exiled scientists	18
Coevolution between institutions and scientific organizations: The case of IMPA	17
The spatial mobility network and influencing factors of the higher education population in China	17
Priorities in research portfolios: exploring the need for upstream research in cardiometabolic and mental health	17
Academic human capital in universities: definition and proposal of a measurement scale	17
‘We Need Time…’: An Expert Survey on Societal Acceptance of Urban Drones	16
Walking the talk? Innovation policy approaches to unleash the transformative potentials of the Nordic bioeconomy	16
Embracing heterogeneity: Why plural understandings strengthen interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity	16
The globalization of science diplomacy in the early 1970s: a historical exploration	16
Competition, open innovation, and growth challenges in the semiconductor industry: the case of Europe’s clusters	15
Returnees and innovation: evidence from Chinese publicly listed firms	14
Public deliberation and the regulation of gene drive in the USA	14
University–industry linkages in China from the agency perspective of university engagement: a systematic literature review	14
Prioritizing diversity? The allocation of US federal R&D funding	14
Retraction in the online world—Shall we rethink the policy?	13

The development of attitudes toward science and technology: a longitudinal analysis of Generation X	13
Science diplomacy in the Global South—an introduction	13
Peer effects of the young returnee scientists: Evidence from the state key laboratories in China	12
The past futures of techno-scientific promises	12
Mission incomplete: Layered practices of monitoring and evaluation in Swedish transformative innovation policy	12
Balancing interests between freedom and censorship: Organizational strategies for quality assurance in science communication	12
The role of intermediaries in nurturing innovation ecosystems: a case study of Singapore’s manufacturing sector	11
Being internationally mobile while keeping domestic social capital: how postdocs from China manage precarity	11
Scientizing the world: on mechanisms and outcomes of the institutionalization of science	11
Local political turnover, R&D investment leap and corporate innovation performance: Evidence from China	11
Capturing the invisible. Sociotechnical imaginaries of energy. The critical overview	11
Policy feedback dynamics in fintech ecosystems: navigating vicious and virtuous cycles in emerging economies	11
Diversification, integration, and opening: developments in modelling for policy	11
Individual attributes and inventors matching: A study using data from the Brazilian co-patents network	11
Diversity and directionality: friends or foes in sustainability transitions?	11
Disciplining interdisciplinarity: Infrastructure, identity, and interdisciplinary practice in nanoELSI research	10
To govern or be governed: an integrated framework for AI governance in the public sector	10
North–South research funding dynamics of collaborative projects: researchers’ appropriation strategies of agencies’ project frameworks	10
Operation warp speed: Harbinger of American industrial innovation policies	10
Bridging conflicting frames in policies for digital transformation	10
Multilevel innovation policy mix in China: do local programmes complement national programmes?	10
Steering at a distance: research centre funding schemes as instruments for university change	10
Institutionalizing public engagement in research and innovation: Toward the construction of institutional entrepreneurial collectives	9
Correction to: Embracing heterogeneity: Why plural understandings strengthen interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity	9
What makes an entrepreneurial university? Institutional moderators of ecosystem impacts in a developing country	9
Perspectives on advancing innovation and human flourishing through a network of AI institutes	9
Assessment of success in university–industry cooperation literature: A bibliographic coupling analysis	9
From experimentation to structural change: fostering institutional entrepreneurship for public engagement in research and innovation	9
Digital governance and AI: boosting OFDI’s impact on regional innovation performance	9
A research on the effectiveness of innovation policy for regional innovation under Chinese long-range plan	9
The study of policy coordination: an approach to integrate expert assessment with automated content analysis	9
Making space for CRISPR: scientists’ translation work to make gene editing a legitimate technology	9
Universities in less developed regions: analyzing their local research impact	8
Research excellence and scientific advisory boards	8
A comparative analysis of innovation policies in Hong Kong and Shenzhen within the Greater Bay Area initiative	8
An institutionalist perspective on smart specialization: Towards a political economy of regional innovation policy	8
Public perception of scientific advisory bodies: the case of France’s Covid-19 Scientific Council	8
Making sense of transdisciplinarity: Interpreting science policy in a biotechnology centre	8
Perspectives on the use of ChatGPT in academic publications	8
Do winners pick government? How scale-up experience shapes entrepreneurs’ assessments of innovation policy mixes	8
Unboxing knowledge in collaboration between academia and society: A story about conceptions and epistemic uncertainty	8
Local market, central government support, and local governments’ homegrown development strategy in high-tech industries	7
Household sector innovation, diffusion failure, and business ownership: evidence from South Africa	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
Online platforms for research data: A requirements and cost analysis	7
The legislative effect of ignorance: institutional risk and the regulation of new genomic techniques	7
The other side of the boundary: Productive interactions seen from the policy side	7
“It is controlling, but you don’t really care.” Researchers’ perceptions of legitimation of research policy	7
The limits of co-production: linking regulatory capacity to co-production of authoritative knowledge for environmental policy	7

Rejecting acceptance: learning from public dialogue on self-driving vehicles	7
Mobilizing research for contextualized innovation: scarcity and urgency as drivers during Covid-19 in the South	7
Universities of applied sciences’ EU research project participation through the lens of differentiation	7
The role of Universities in Transformative Innovation Policy	6
A bibliometric study on the R&D funding and academic research performance in Shenzhen	6
China’s distinctive civil–military integration policy and firm innovation	6
An assessment of EU’s photovoltaic panel waste policies: current framework and strategic vision for 2050	6
Role of professional autonomy and project commitment in the Korean government–funded R&D projects	6
Economic incentive instruments and environmental innovation in China: Moderating effect of marketization	6
Local R&D support as a driver of network diversification: A cross-regional comparison in Japan	6
Science diplomacy from the Global South: the case of intergovernmental science organizations	6
Enhancing international collaboration in science, technology, and innovation to achieve sustainable development goals	6
How has mission-oriented innovation policy addressed justice considerations? A systematic review	6
The promise of artificial intelligence in combating public corruption in the emerging economies: A conceptual framework	6
Deciphering the accelerated expansion of China’s NEV sector post-2020: a cross-system analysis using multi-level perspective	6
Distrust in grant peer review—reasons and remedies	6
Mission-oriented innovation policy as a hybridisation process: the case of transforming a national fertilising system	6
How a timely policy contributes to technological capability building: insights from Iran’s biopharmaceutical sector	6