OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Science and Public Policy is 7. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Correction to: Dynamics of expectations in the bioeconomy—Hopes, disillusionments, and conflicting futures	71
How policies emerge and interact with each other? A bibliometric analysis of policies in China	60
Is renewable energy more favorable to diversity than conventional energy sources on R&D performance?	40
Policy seduction and governance resistance? Examining public funding agencies and academic institutions on decarbonisation research	31
Technological innovation as a cost leadership strategy catalyst: impact on organizational performance in developing countries	27
Perspectives: the challenges of displaced and exiled scientists	27
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	21
Making responsible research and innovation meaningful in citizen science	21
Science diplomacy from a nation-state’s perspective: a general framing and its application to Global South countries	20
Missions as boundary objects for transformative change: understanding coordination across policy, research, and stakeholder communities	19
The spatial mobility network and influencing factors of the higher education population in China	19
Coevolution between institutions and scientific organizations: The case of IMPA	18
The globalization of science diplomacy in the early 1970s: a historical exploration	18
‘We Need Time…’: An Expert Survey on Societal Acceptance of Urban Drones	18
Priorities in research portfolios: exploring the need for upstream research in cardiometabolic and mental health	18
Competition, open innovation, and growth challenges in the semiconductor industry: the case of Europe’s clusters	17
Walking the talk? Innovation policy approaches to unleash the transformative potentials of the Nordic bioeconomy	17
Embracing heterogeneity: Why plural understandings strengthen interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity	17
Retraction in the online world—Shall we rethink the policy?	16
Policy feedback dynamics in fintech ecosystems: navigating vicious and virtuous cycles in emerging economies	16
Public deliberation and the regulation of gene drive in the USA	15
Local political turnover, R&D investment leap and corporate innovation performance: Evidence from China	15
Normative, empirical, and pragmatic ethical objections to Singapore permitting human genetic enhancement via germline genome editing	15
The development of attitudes toward science and technology: a longitudinal analysis of Generation X	15

The role of intermediaries in nurturing innovation ecosystems: a case study of Singapore’s manufacturing sector	15
University–industry linkages in China from the agency perspective of university engagement: a systematic literature review	14
Balancing interests between freedom and censorship: Organizational strategies for quality assurance in science communication	14
Scientizing the world: on mechanisms and outcomes of the institutionalization of science	14
Peer effects of the young returnee scientists: Evidence from the state key laboratories in China	13
Diversity and directionality: friends or foes in sustainability transitions?	13
North–South research funding dynamics of collaborative projects: researchers’ appropriation strategies of agencies’ project frameworks	12
Mission incomplete: Layered practices of monitoring and evaluation in Swedish transformative innovation policy	12
Multilevel innovation policy mix in China: do local programmes complement national programmes?	12
Returnees and innovation: evidence from Chinese publicly listed firms	12
Prioritizing diversity? The allocation of US federal R&D funding	12
Being internationally mobile while keeping domestic social capital: how postdocs from China manage precarity	12
Science diplomacy in the Global South—an introduction	12
Disciplining interdisciplinarity: Infrastructure, identity, and interdisciplinary practice in nanoELSI research	11
Bridging conflicting frames in policies for digital transformation	11
Individual attributes and inventors matching: A study using data from the Brazilian co-patents network	11
Capturing the invisible. Sociotechnical imaginaries of energy. The critical overview	11
Diversification, integration, and opening: developments in modelling for policy	11
Steering at a distance: research centre funding schemes as instruments for university change	11
The realization of living labs at the post-experiment stage: the role of University in Korea	10
Operation warp speed: Harbinger of American industrial innovation policies	10
Making space for CRISPR: scientists’ translation work to make gene editing a legitimate technology	10
Digital governance and AI: boosting OFDI’s impact on regional innovation performance	10
Perspectives on advancing innovation and human flourishing through a network of AI institutes	10
To govern or be governed: an integrated framework for AI governance in the public sector	10
Participatory research in Canada (2013-2018): a cross-sectional survey of academic researchers	10
An institutionalist perspective on smart specialization: Towards a political economy of regional innovation policy	9
Public perception of scientific advisory bodies: the case of France’s Covid-19 Scientific Council	9
The study of policy coordination: an approach to integrate expert assessment with automated content analysis	9
Pathways to gender equality in academia. National factors shaping women’s early career progression across Europe	9
Universities in less developed regions: analyzing their local research impact	9
Institutionalizing public engagement in research and innovation: Toward the construction of institutional entrepreneurial collectives	9
Making sense of transdisciplinarity: Interpreting science policy in a biotechnology centre	9
COVID-19 Health Certificates: analysis of policy implementation, framings, and controversies in nine European countries	9
From experimentation to structural change: fostering institutional entrepreneurship for public engagement in research and innovation	9
Sharing research data: researcher behaviour and attitudes	9
Assessment of success in university–industry cooperation literature: A bibliographic coupling analysis	9
Research excellence and scientific advisory boards	9
Perspectives on the use of ChatGPT in academic publications	9
What makes an entrepreneurial university? Institutional moderators of ecosystem impacts in a developing country	9
Correction to: Embracing heterogeneity: Why plural understandings strengthen interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity	9
A research on the effectiveness of innovation policy for regional innovation under Chinese long-range plan	9
The legislative effect of ignorance: institutional risk and the regulation of new genomic techniques	8
The other side of the boundary: Productive interactions seen from the policy side	8
Just following the money? How research funding shapes the governance of university research	8
Household sector innovation, diffusion failure, and business ownership: evidence from South Africa	8
Unboxing knowledge in collaboration between academia and society: A story about conceptions and epistemic uncertainty	8
The limits of co-production: linking regulatory capacity to co-production of authoritative knowledge for environmental policy	8
Do winners pick government? How scale-up experience shapes entrepreneurs’ assessments of innovation policy mixes	8
Mobilizing research for contextualized innovation: scarcity and urgency as drivers during Covid-19 in the South	8

Online platforms for research data: A requirements and cost analysis	8
How has mission-oriented innovation policy addressed justice considerations? A systematic review	7
Evolution of the STIP literature: discovering the growing role of innovation governance concepts	7
The promise of artificial intelligence in combating public corruption in the emerging economies: A conceptual framework	7
On the boundary of services and research collaborations in Japanese state-of-the-art academic research infrastructures	7
An assessment of EU’s photovoltaic panel waste policies: current framework and strategic vision for 2050	7
Universities of applied sciences’ EU research project participation through the lens of differentiation	7
Mission-oriented innovation policy as a hybridisation process: the case of transforming a national fertilising system	7
“It is controlling, but you don’t really care.” Researchers’ perceptions of legitimation of research policy	7
Local market, central government support, and local governments’ homegrown development strategy in high-tech industries	7
How a timely policy contributes to technological capability building: insights from Iran’s biopharmaceutical sector	7