OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Research Evaluation is 3. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Cross-sectional analysis of self-promotional language in texts of grant proposals across gender	33
How bibliometric evaluation makes the academia an ‘Iron Cage’: Evidence from Chinese academics	23
Replicability and the humanities: the problem with universal measures of research quality	22
Do thematic funding instruments lead researchers in new directions? Strategic funding priorities and topic switching among British grant recipients	22
Competitive performativity of academic social networks: the subjectivation of competition on ResearchGate	17
Globalization of scientific communication: Evidence from authors in academic journals by country of origin	17
Towards a sustainable and responsible model for monitoring open science and research—analysis of the Finnish model for monitoring open science and research	17
Simultaneous submissions without simultaneous peer review	15
Enriching research quality: A proposition for stakeholder heterogeneity	15
The footprint of a metrics-based research evaluation system on Spain’s philosophical scholarship: An analysis of researchers’ perceptions	14
How impact-focused funding influences researchers’ knowledge mobilization activities	14
Impact types and approaches in assessing research impact: from a scoping review to a comprehensive framework	14
Correction to: Stated preference methods and STI policy studies: a foreground approach	13
Evaluation of economic incentives for Chinese university patent transfers: Is increasing the inventor share rate more effective?	13
One size fits all? A comparative review of policy-making in the area of research impact evaluation in the UK, Poland and Norway	12
Can talent policy promote green technology innovation?	12
Tilting at twin windmills: On article quotas and journal impact factors	11
When publication metrics become the fetish: The research evaluation systems’ relationship with academic work engagement and burnout	11
Revisiting R&I policy assessment in the EU: a semantic analysis of ERAWATCH and RIO reports	11
Research impact seen from the user side	10
Improving the reporting of research impact assessments: a systematic review of biomedical funder research impact assessments	9
Early career academic's odyssey: A narrative study of her professional identity construction	9
Peer review’s irremediable flaws: Scientists’ perspectives on grant evaluation in Germany	9
Research impact as understood by two funders of agricultural research in South Africa	9
When theory meets practice in transformative innovation policy evaluation: experiences from Sweden	9

Linking science and industry: influence of scientific research on technological innovation through patent citations	9
Measuring research quality in a more inclusive way: Evidence from the UK Research Excellence Framework	8
Transfer versus co-production: Knowledge as ‘MEANS’ to sustainability as an ‘END’	8
Do funding modes matter? A multilevel analysis of funding allocation mechanisms on university research performance	8
Unveiling research productivity barriers via fuzzy AHP: a case of management faculty in India	8
Determining and weighting effective outputs of humanities research to meet scientific and professional goals: A study of language and literature fields	7
Interdisciplinary research and policy impacts: Assessing the significance of knowledge coproduction	7
Quality from within: Entry points to research quality in the humanities	6
Evaluating transformative innovation policy in a formative way: Insights from Vinnova’s food mission experiment	6
A typology of peer-reviewers: role, characteristics, and egoistic and altruistic perspectives	6
Evaluation as a source of unhappiness in academia—unpacking the boundaries of responsible research assessment	6
Improving universities’ activities in academic startup support through public interventions: The effectiveness of the German programme ‘EXIST—leverage of potentials’	6
Unpacking the discourse surrounding the impact agenda in the Hong Kong Research Assessment Exercise 2020	6
Equality and employment aspects of the UK Research Excellence Framework	6
Assessing university policies for enhancing societal impact of academic research: A multicriteria mapping approach	6
Spreading the gospel: Legitimating university rankings as boundary work	5
In the eye of beholder? The notions of quality in the humanities	5
Quis judicabit ipsos judices? A case study on the dynamics of competitive funding panel evaluations	5
How can societally-targeted research funding shape researcher networks and practices?	5
Evaluation of the arts in performance-based research funding systems: An international perspective	5
Data inaccuracy quantification and uncertainty propagation for bibliometric indicators	5
Devices of evaluation: Institutionalization and impact—Introduction to the special issue	5
Research evaluation in Brazil and the Netherlands: a comparative study	5
A participatory approach to tracking system transformation in clusters and innovation ecosystems—Evolving practice in Sweden’s Vinnväxt programme	5
Exploring research quality and journal representation: a comparative study of African Journals Online, Scopus, and Web of Science	5
Evaluating co-creation in social innovation projects: Towards a process orientated framework for EU projects and beyond	5
‘I want to be able to do what I know the tools will allow us to do’: Practicing evaluative bibliometrics through digital infrastructure	5
Evaluating participatory research projects through a harmonized, online, self-reflection, and impact-assessment methodology	5
Repertoires of research value: performing societal impact across countries	5
Prestige of scholarly book publishers—An investigation into criteria, processes, and practices across countries	5
Toward a modular evaluation approach of real-world laboratories: Findings from a literature review	5
Explaining employment sector choices of doctoral graduates in Germany	4
The impact of Italian performance-based research funding systems on the intensity of international research collaboration	4
Dealing with potentials and drawbacks of peer review panels: About the intertwined layers of determinacy and indeterminacy	4
Gender diversity and publication activity—an analysis of STEM in the UK	4
Evaluating the Revised National Institutes of Health clinical trial definition impact on recruitment progress	4
Acknowledged organizations in biomedical and life sciences research: a large-scale analysis of classification, citation, and topic evolution	4
Targeted, actionable and fair: Reviewer reports as feedback and its effect on ECR career choices	4
Affective auditing: The emotional weight of the research excellence framework	4
Effects of transdisciplinary research on scientific knowledge and reflexivity	4
Funding lotteries for research grant allocation: An extended taxonomy and evaluation of their fairness	4
The funding and research trends in library and information science of NSSFC: Comparison of awards and papers	4
Gender gaps in the peer review process. Different sources in the evaluation process for the allocation of grants in Argentina	4
From knowledge to impact: tracing stakeholder engagement pathways within different research areas	4
What is a high-quality research environment? Evidence from the UK’s research excellence framework	4
The impact of researchers’ perceived pressure on their publication strategies	3
Research calls, competition for funding and inefficiency	3
International research collaboration in personalized medicine between Europe and Latin America and the Caribbean	3
Toward a mission-oriented framework for funding public research institutions: a multi-case study approach	3
Can journal reviewers dependably assess rigour, significance, and originality in theoretical papers? Evidence from physics	3

Peer review research assessment: are the reviewers really experts?	3
Societal targeting in researcher funding: An exploratory approach	3
Proving research misconduct	3
Making transdisciplinary funding more effective: lessons from a literature review and focus group interviews	3
Meetings that matter: the dual benefits of panel peer review	3
Gender gaps in the promotion of mid-career university academic staff: a meta-analytic study	3
The nexus between research impact and sustainability assessment: From stakeholders’ perspective	3
Predicting future publishing success among sociologists at time of hire in the US Higher education system	3
A consistent solution to the university diversity	3
From intent to impact—The decline of broader impacts throughout an NSF project life cycle	3