OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Research Evaluation is 5. 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
Enriching research quality: A proposition for stakeholder heterogeneity	32
Globalization of scientific communication: Evidence from authors in academic journals by country of origin	27
Do thematic funding instruments lead researchers in new directions? Strategic funding priorities and topic switching among British grant recipients	26
A Research Pathway Model for evaluating the implementation of practice-based research: The case of self-management health innovations	26
Towards a sustainable and responsible model for monitoring open science and research—analysis of the Finnish model for monitoring open science and research	17
Cross-sectional analysis of self-promotional language in texts of grant proposals across gender	17
How bibliometric evaluation makes the academia an ‘Iron Cage’: Evidence from Chinese academics	16
Competitive performativity of academic social networks: the subjectivation of competition on ResearchGate	14
Simultaneous submissions without simultaneous peer review	13
Evaluation of economic incentives for Chinese university patent transfers: Is increasing the inventor share rate more effective?	13
The footprint of a metrics-based research evaluation system on Spain’s philosophical scholarship: An analysis of researchers’ perceptions	13
Correction to: Stated preference methods and STI policy studies: a foreground approach	13
How impact-focused funding influences researchers’ knowledge mobilization activities	13
Can talent policy promote green technology innovation?	12
One size fits all? A comparative review of policy-making in the area of research impact evaluation in the UK, Poland and Norway	12
Research impact seen from the user side	12
When publication metrics become the fetish: The research evaluation systems’ relationship with academic work engagement and burnout	11
Tilting at twin windmills: On article quotas and journal impact factors	11
Revisiting R&I policy assessment in the EU: a semantic analysis of ERAWATCH and RIO reports	11
Research impact as understood by two funders of agricultural research in South Africa	10
Peer review’s irremediable flaws: Scientists’ perspectives on grant evaluation in Germany	9
Early career academic's odyssey: A narrative study of her professional identity construction	9
Linking science and industry: influence of scientific research on technological innovation through patent citations	9
Self-evaluating participatory research projects: A content validation of the InSPIRES online impact evaluation tool	9
When theory meets practice in transformative innovation policy evaluation: experiences from Sweden	8

Do funding modes matter? A multilevel analysis of funding allocation mechanisms on university research performance	8
Measuring research quality in a more inclusive way: Evidence from the UK Research Excellence Framework	8
Interdisciplinary research and policy impacts: Assessing the significance of knowledge coproduction	8
Transfer versus co-production: Knowledge as ‘MEANS’ to sustainability as an ‘END’	7
Being a female academic under neoliberal evaluation: A systematic review	7
Quality from within: Entry points to research quality in the humanities	7
Unveiling research productivity barriers via fuzzy AHP: a case of management faculty in India	7
Exploring research impact models: A systematic scoping review	7
Teachers conceptualizing and developing assessment for skill development: Trialing a maker assessment framework	7
Improving the reporting of research impact assessments: a systematic review of biomedical funder research impact assessments	7
Determining and weighting effective outputs of humanities research to meet scientific and professional goals: A study of language and literature fields	7
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
Unpacking the discourse surrounding the impact agenda in the Hong Kong Research Assessment Exercise 2020	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
‘I want to be able to do what I know the tools will allow us to do’: Practicing evaluative bibliometrics through digital infrastructure	5
In the eye of beholder? The notions of quality in the humanities	5
Spreading the gospel: Legitimating university rankings as boundary work	5
Evaluating co-creation in social innovation projects: Towards a process orientated framework for EU projects and beyond	5
Data inaccuracy quantification and uncertainty propagation for bibliometric indicators	5
Beyond bean counting: Is the policy effective for the innovation efficiency of wind power industry in China?	5
Devices of evaluation: Institutionalization and impact—Introduction to the special issue	5