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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Correction to: Dynamics of expectations in the bioeconomy—Hopes, disillusionments, and conflicting futures	58
Policy seduction and governance resistance? Examining public funding agencies and academic institutions on decarbonisation research	52
Is renewable energy more favorable to diversity than conventional energy sources on R&D performance?	37
Researchers’ institutional mobility: bibliometric evidence on academic inbreeding and internationalization	35
Science diplomacy in the European and Latin American and Caribbean research infrastructure collaboration	26
How policies emerge and interact with each other? A bibliometric analysis of policies in China	26
Technological innovation as a cost leadership strategy catalyst: impact on organizational performance in developing countries	25
The spatial mobility network and influencing factors of the higher education population in China	25
Are there political cycles hidden inside collaborative innovation efficiency? An empirical study based on Chinese cities	19
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
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
Walking the talk? Innovation policy approaches to unleash the transformative potentials of the Nordic bioeconomy	17
Coevolution between institutions and scientific organizations: The case of IMPA	17
‘We Need Time…’: An Expert Survey on Societal Acceptance of Urban Drones	17
The globalization of science diplomacy in the early 1970s: a historical exploration	16
Priorities in research portfolios: exploring the need for upstream research in cardiometabolic and mental health	16
Competition, open innovation, and growth challenges in the semiconductor industry: the case of Europe’s clusters	15
Embracing heterogeneity: Why plural understandings strengthen interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity	15
Prioritizing diversity? The allocation of US federal R&D funding	14
University–industry linkages in China from the agency perspective of university engagement: a systematic literature review	14
Returnees and innovation: evidence from Chinese publicly listed firms	14
Public deliberation and the regulation of gene drive in the USA	14
Retraction in the online world—Shall we rethink the policy?	14

The role of intermediaries in nurturing innovation ecosystems: a case study of Singapore’s manufacturing sector	13
The development of attitudes toward science and technology: a longitudinal analysis of Generation X	13
Local political turnover, R&D investment leap and corporate innovation performance: Evidence from China	12
Scientizing the world: on mechanisms and outcomes of the institutionalization of science	12
Peer effects of the young returnee scientists: Evidence from the state key laboratories in China	12
Diversity and directionality: friends or foes in sustainability transitions?	12
Mission incomplete: Layered practices of monitoring and evaluation in Swedish transformative innovation policy	12
Science diplomacy in the Global South—an introduction	11
Normative, empirical, and pragmatic ethical objections to Singapore permitting human genetic enhancement via germline genome editing	11
Diversification, integration, and opening: developments in modelling for policy	11
Balancing interests between freedom and censorship: Organizational strategies for quality assurance in science communication	11
Being internationally mobile while keeping domestic social capital: how postdocs from China manage precarity	11
Policy feedback dynamics in fintech ecosystems: navigating vicious and virtuous cycles in emerging economies	11
Individual attributes and inventors matching: A study using data from the Brazilian co-patents network	11
North–South research funding dynamics of collaborative projects: researchers’ appropriation strategies of agencies’ project frameworks	11
Bridging conflicting frames in policies for digital transformation	10
Perspectives on advancing innovation and human flourishing through a network of AI institutes	10
Capturing the invisible. Sociotechnical imaginaries of energy. The critical overview	10
Operation warp speed: Harbinger of American industrial innovation policies	10
Steering at a distance: research centre funding schemes as instruments for university change	10
Multilevel innovation policy mix in China: do local programmes complement national programmes?	10
Digital governance and AI: boosting OFDI’s impact on regional innovation performance	10
Disciplining interdisciplinarity: Infrastructure, identity, and interdisciplinary practice in nanoELSI research	10
Correction to: Embracing heterogeneity: Why plural understandings strengthen interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity	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
COVID-19 Health Certificates: analysis of policy implementation, framings, and controversies in nine European countries	9
What makes an entrepreneurial university? Institutional moderators of ecosystem impacts in a developing country	9
To govern or be governed: an integrated framework for AI governance in the public sector	9
From experimentation to structural change: fostering institutional entrepreneurship for public engagement in research and innovation	9
The realization of living labs at the post-experiment stage: the role of University in Korea	9
Assessment of success in university–industry cooperation literature: A bibliographic coupling analysis	8
Universities in less developed regions: analyzing their local research impact	8
Pathways to gender equality in academia. National factors shaping women’s early career progression across Europe	8
Institutionalizing public engagement in research and innovation: Toward the construction of institutional entrepreneurial collectives	8
Research excellence and scientific advisory boards	8
Public perception of scientific advisory bodies: the case of France’s Covid-19 Scientific Council	8
A research on the effectiveness of innovation policy for regional innovation under Chinese long-range plan	8
An institutionalist perspective on smart specialization: Towards a political economy of regional innovation policy	8
Sharing research data: researcher behaviour and attitudes	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	7
Mobilizing research for contextualized innovation: scarcity and urgency as drivers during Covid-19 in the South	7
Rejecting acceptance: learning from public dialogue on self-driving vehicles	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
A comparative analysis of innovation policies in Hong Kong and Shenzhen within the Greater Bay Area initiative	7
On the boundary of services and research collaborations in Japanese state-of-the-art academic research infrastructures	7
Local market, central government support, and local governments’ homegrown development strategy in high-tech industries	7
Unboxing knowledge in collaboration between academia and society: A story about conceptions and epistemic uncertainty	7

The legislative effect of ignorance: institutional risk and the regulation of new genomic techniques	7
Making sense of transdisciplinarity: Interpreting science policy in a biotechnology centre	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	6
Evolution of the STIP literature: discovering the growing role of innovation governance concepts	6
Role of professional autonomy and project commitment in the Korean government–funded R&D projects	6
Administrative burden in Australian universities: Insights into dimensions and drivers from a nationwide survey	6
The promise of artificial intelligence in combating public corruption in the emerging economies: A conceptual framework	6
An assessment of EU’s photovoltaic panel waste policies: current framework and strategic vision for 2050	6
Online platforms for research data: A requirements and cost analysis	6
How a timely policy contributes to technological capability building: insights from Iran’s biopharmaceutical sector	6
The role of Universities in Transformative Innovation Policy	6
“It is controlling, but you don’t really care.” Researchers’ perceptions of legitimation of research policy	6
How has mission-oriented innovation policy addressed justice considerations? A systematic review	6
Mission-oriented innovation policy as a hybridisation process: the case of transforming a national fertilising system	6
Enhancing international collaboration in science, technology, and innovation to achieve sustainable development goals	6
Economic incentive instruments and environmental innovation in China: Moderating effect of marketization	6