OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Research Evaluation is 4. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Cross-sectional analysis of self-promotional language in texts of grant proposals across gender	92
Toward a modular evaluation approach of real-world laboratories: Findings from a literature review	67
The Corona-Eye: Exploring the risks of COVID-19 on fair assessments of impact for REF2021	25
Exploring research impact models: A systematic scoping review	24
Teachers conceptualizing and developing assessment for skill development: Trialing a maker assessment framework	24
Key factors affecting the promotion of researchers of the Argentine Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET)	22
A Research Pathway Model for evaluating the implementation of practice-based research: The case of self-management health innovations	17
The funding and research trends in library and information science of NSSFC: Comparison of awards and papers	15
Globalization of scientific communication: Evidence from authors in academic journals by country of origin	15
Enriching research quality: A proposition for stakeholder heterogeneity	13
The legal foundation of responsible research assessment: An overview on European Union and Italy	12
Towards a sustainable and responsible model for monitoring open science and research—analysis of the Finnish model for monitoring open science and research	12
University policy engagement bodies in the UK and the variable meanings of and approaches to impact	12
Evaluation of the arts in performance-based research funding systems: An international perspective	12
Determining and weighting effective outputs of humanities research to meet scientific and professional goals: A study of language and literature fields	11
How bibliometric evaluation makes the academia an ‘Iron Cage’: Evidence from Chinese academics	10
Where do field-specific notions of research quality come from?	10
Quality from within: Entry points to research quality in the humanities	10
The practicalities of a partial lottery to allocate research funding	9
Do thematic funding instruments lead researchers in new directions? Strategic funding priorities and topic switching among British grant recipients	9
Targeted, actionable and fair: Reviewer reports as feedback and its effect on ECR career choices	9
Competitive performativity of academic social networks: the subjectivation of competition on ResearchGate	8
The impact of Italian performance-based research funding systems on the intensity of international research collaboration	8
Unpacking the discourse surrounding the impact agenda in the Hong Kong Research Assessment Exercise 2020	7
Public research funding and science-based innovation: An analysis of ERC research grants, publications and patents	7

Expression of concern: Journal citation reports and the definition of a predatory journal: The case of the Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)	7
Using contribution mapping to evaluate the research impact of Universities of Applied Sciences	7
Boundary-work and social closure in academic recruitment: Insights from the transdisciplinary subject area Swedish as a Second Language	7
Peer review in funding-by-lottery: A systematic overview and expansion	7
Correction to: Targeted, actionable and fair: Reviewer reports as feedback and its effect on ECR career choices	7
Documenting development of interdisciplinary collaboration among researchers by visualizing connections	6
The systemic approach as an instrument to evaluate higher education systems: Opportunities and challenges	6
Say my name, say my name: Academic authorship conventions between editorial policies and disciplinary practices	6
Does R&D tax credit impact firm behaviour? Micro evidence for Portugal	5
‘Scaling’ the academia: Perspectives of academics on the impact of their practices	5
Effects of transdisciplinary research on scientific knowledge and reflexivity	5
The footprint of a metrics-based research evaluation system on Spain’s philosophical scholarship: An analysis of researchers’ perceptions	5
Evaluating the Revised National Institutes of Health clinical trial definition impact on recruitment progress	5
Methods for measuring social and conceptual dimensions of convergence science	5
Explaining employment sector choices of doctoral graduates in Germany	5
Gender diversity and publication activity—an analysis of STEM in the UK	5
ASIRPAReal-Time in the making or how to empower researchers to steer research towards desired societal goals	5
Funding lotteries for research grant allocation: An extended taxonomy and evaluation of their fairness	4
Noted, but not decisive. A cross-disciplinary analysis of metrics usage in Polish evaluative cultures	4
What is a high-quality research environment? Evidence from the UK’s research excellence framework	4
Turning academics into researchers: The development of National Researcher Categorization Systems in Latin America	4
How can we make ‘research quality’ a theoretical concept?	4
Improving the efficiency of research proposals evaluation: A two-stage procedure	4
The forced battle between peer-review and scientometric research assessment: Why the CoARA initiative is unsound	4
Dealing with potentials and drawbacks of peer review panels: About the intertwined layers of determinacy and indeterminacy	4