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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Globalization of scientific communication: Evidence from authors in academic journals by country of origin	36
How bibliometric evaluation makes the academia an ‘Iron Cage’: Evidence from Chinese academics	32
Towards a sustainable and responsible model for monitoring open science and research—analysis of the Finnish model for monitoring open science and research	21
Competitive performativity of academic social networks: the subjectivation of competition on ResearchGate	21
Do thematic funding instruments lead researchers in new directions? Strategic funding priorities and topic switching among British grant recipients	19
Cross-sectional analysis of self-promotional language in texts of grant proposals across gender	17
Enriching research quality: A proposition for stakeholder heterogeneity	17
A Research Pathway Model for evaluating the implementation of practice-based research: The case of self-management health innovations	16
Simultaneous submissions without simultaneous peer review	15
Can talent policy promote green technology innovation?	14
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
One size fits all? A comparative review of policy-making in the area of research impact evaluation in the UK, Poland and Norway	14
Research impact seen from the user side	13
Correction to: Stated preference methods and STI policy studies: a foreground approach	13
Tilting at twin windmills: On article quotas and journal impact factors	13
When publication metrics become the fetish: The research evaluation systems’ relationship with academic work engagement and burnout	13
Evaluation of economic incentives for Chinese university patent transfers: Is increasing the inventor share rate more effective?	13
Peer review’s irremediable flaws: Scientists’ perspectives on grant evaluation in Germany	12
Revisiting R&I policy assessment in the EU: a semantic analysis of ERAWATCH and RIO reports	12
Research impact as understood by two funders of agricultural research in South Africa	12
Early career academic's odyssey: A narrative study of her professional identity construction	10
Linking science and industry: influence of scientific research on technological innovation through patent citations	10
When theory meets practice in transformative innovation policy evaluation: experiences from Sweden	9
Unveiling research productivity barriers via fuzzy AHP: a case of management faculty in India	9

Improving the reporting of research impact assessments: a systematic review of biomedical funder research impact assessments	9
Interdisciplinary research and policy impacts: Assessing the significance of knowledge coproduction	9
Do funding modes matter? A multilevel analysis of funding allocation mechanisms on university research performance	8
Determining and weighting effective outputs of humanities research to meet scientific and professional goals: A study of language and literature fields	8
Transfer versus co-production: Knowledge as ‘MEANS’ to sustainability as an ‘END’	8
Measuring research quality in a more inclusive way: Evidence from the UK Research Excellence Framework	8
A typology of peer-reviewers: role, characteristics, and egoistic and altruistic perspectives	7
Unpacking the discourse surrounding the impact agenda in the Hong Kong Research Assessment Exercise 2020	7
Evaluation as a source of unhappiness in academia—unpacking the boundaries of responsible research assessment	7
Equality and employment aspects of the UK Research Excellence Framework	7
Quality from within: Entry points to research quality in the humanities	7
Data inaccuracy quantification and uncertainty propagation for bibliometric indicators	6
Evaluating transformative innovation policy in a formative way: Insights from Vinnova’s food mission experiment	6
Improving universities’ activities in academic startup support through public interventions: The effectiveness of the German programme ‘EXIST—leverage of potentials’	6
Assessing university policies for enhancing societal impact of academic research: A multicriteria mapping approach	6
Evaluating co-creation in social innovation projects: Towards a process orientated framework for EU projects and beyond	5
Evaluating participatory research projects through a harmonized, online, self-reflection, and impact-assessment methodology	5
Spreading the gospel: Legitimating university rankings as boundary work	5
A participatory approach to tracking system transformation in clusters and innovation ecosystems—Evolving practice in Sweden’s Vinnväxt programme	5
Research evaluation in Brazil and the Netherlands: a comparative study	5
Devices of evaluation: Institutionalization and impact—Introduction to the special issue	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
Repertoires of research value: performing societal impact across countries	5
In the eye of beholder? The notions of quality in the humanities	5
Beyond bean counting: Is the policy effective for the innovation efficiency of wind power industry in China?	5
Quis judicabit ipsos judices? A case study on the dynamics of competitive funding panel evaluations	5
Using the catastrophe theory to discover transformative research topics	4
Targeted, actionable and fair: Reviewer reports as feedback and its effect on ECR career choices	4
From knowledge to impact: tracing stakeholder engagement pathways within different research areas	4
Effects of transdisciplinary research on scientific knowledge and reflexivity	4
Explaining employment sector choices of doctoral graduates in Germany	4
Evaluation of the arts in performance-based research funding systems: An international perspective	4
Prestige of scholarly book publishers—An investigation into criteria, processes, and practices across countries	4
The impact of Italian performance-based research funding systems on the intensity of international research collaboration	4
Evaluating the Revised National Institutes of Health clinical trial definition impact on recruitment progress	4
Gender diversity and publication activity—an analysis of STEM in the UK	4
Dealing with potentials and drawbacks of peer review panels: About the intertwined layers of determinacy and indeterminacy	4
Documenting development of interdisciplinary collaboration among researchers by visualizing connections	4
How can societally-targeted research funding shape researcher networks and practices?	4
Exploring research quality and journal representation: a comparative study of African Journals Online, Scopus, and Web of Science	4
Toward a modular evaluation approach of real-world laboratories: Findings from a literature review	4
The funding and research trends in library and information science of NSSFC: Comparison of awards and papers	4
What is a high-quality research environment? Evidence from the UK’s research excellence framework	4
Funding lotteries for research grant allocation: An extended taxonomy and evaluation of their fairness	4
Affective auditing: The emotional weight of the research excellence framework	4
Research calls, competition for funding and inefficiency	3
Toward a mission-oriented framework for funding public research institutions: a multi-case study approach	3
From intent to impact—The decline of broader impacts throughout an NSF project life cycle	3
Measuring societal impact of research—Developing and validating an impact instrument for occupational health and safety	3
Do peers share the same criteria for assessing grant applications?	3

Gender gaps in the promotion of mid-career university academic staff: a meta-analytic study	3
Proving research misconduct	3
Making transdisciplinary funding more effective: lessons from a literature review and focus group interviews	3
International research collaboration in personalized medicine between Europe and Latin America and the Caribbean	3
A consistent solution to the university diversity	3
The nexus between research impact and sustainability assessment: From stakeholders’ perspective	3
The impact of researchers’ perceived pressure on their publication strategies	3
Peer review research assessment: are the reviewers really experts?	3
Can journal reviewers dependably assess rigour, significance, and originality in theoretical papers? Evidence from physics	3
Predicting future publishing success among sociologists at time of hire in the US Higher education system	3
Fraud, specialization, and efficiency in peer review	3
Societal targeting in researcher funding: An exploratory approach	3