OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Innovation-The European Journal of Social Science Research is 1. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Social innovation & governance: a scoping review	37
The Smart City journey: a systematic review and future research agenda	24
Social entrepreneurship and social innovation: looking inside the box and moving out of it	17
Populism and emotions: Italian political leaders’ communicative strategies to engage Facebook users	16
Improving the academic experience of students with disabilities in higher education: faculty members of Social Sciences and Law speak out	16
The rise of the ‘Netflix tax’ and what it means for sustaining European audiovisual markets	15
Sour grapes:ressentimentas the affective response of grievance politics	14
In search of a consensus definition of innovation: a qualitative synthesis of 208 definitions using grounded theory approach	12
Evaluating inclusion in distance learning: a survey of university staff attitudes, practices and training needs	12
Between state-led and corporation-led co-productions: how has film co-production been exploited by states in Europe	10
Explanatory models of regional innovation performance in Europe: policy implications for regions	10
The role of national affluence, carbon emissions, and democracy in Europeans’ climate perceptions	10
Resilient cross-border regional innovation systems for sustainability? A systematic review of drivers and constraints	10
Social resentment, blame attribution and Euroscepticism: the role of status insecurity, relative deprivation and powerlessness	10
Energy 4 all? Investigating gendered energy justice implications of community-based micro-hydropower cooperatives in Ethiopia	10
How to frame the governance dimension of social innovation: theoretical considerations and empirical evidence	9
From innovations to exnovations. Conflicts, (De-)Politicization processes, and power relations are key in analysing the ecological crisis	9
When emotions run high: affective responses to crises in Europe	9
Social relationships with nature: elements of a framework for socio-ecological structure analysis	8
Inequality and renewable energy consumption in Sub-Saharan Africa: implication for high income countries	8
Comparing public funding approaches to the development and commercialization of care robots in the European Union and Japan	8
The complexity of contemporary innovation policy and its governance in Finland	8
Mediated emotions: shame and pride in Polish right-wing media coverage of the 2019 European Parliament elections	8
Emotions in the European Union's decision-making: the reform of the Dublin System in the context of the refugee crisis	8
The Chilean energy “transition”: between successful policy and the assimilation of a post-political energy condition	8

Looking to the future? Including children, young people and future generations in deliberations on climate action: Ireland's Citizens’Assembly 2016–2018	7
Poorly designed deliberation: explaining thebanlieues’ non-involvement in the Great Debate	7
Transformative change and policy-making: the case of bioeconomy policies in the EU frontrunners and lessons for latecomers	7
Culture and innovation in the international context: a literature overview	7
Controversies in social innovation research	6
Consumption value factors as determinants of use intention and behavior of car-sharing services in the Republic of Korea	6
Social change and innovation for times of crises	6
Digitally-enabled social innovation. Mapping discourses on an emergent social technology	6
The level of the quality of life in the city and its monitoring	6
When citizens met politicians – the process and outcomes of mixed deliberation according to participant status and gender	6
Insecurity narratives and implicit emotional appeals in French competing populisms	6
Public support for deliberative democracy. A specific look at the attitudes of citizens from disadvantaged groups	6
Innovations in innovation policy: reconstructing the emergence, legitimation and dynamics of cluster policies in Germany	5
Cross-border cooperation to strengthen innovation and knowledge transfer: An Iberian case	5
Innovation policy and performance of Polish enterprises: in search for cluster cooperation additionality	5
Leadership and collective entrepreneurship: evidence from the health care sector	5
Is the sharing economy inclusive? The age-related segmentation of Polish inhabitants from the perspective of the sharing economy in tourism	5
The implementation of grassroots product-oriented social innovations by non-governmental organisations: proposal of a measurement tool	4
Korean webtoons and collective innovation: expanding Europe's creative industries through competitive localization	4
National specificity and convergence in the European anti-GM movement: the cases of Austria, Germany, France, Spain and the UK	4
The transformational role of a third actor within the Triple Helix Model – the case of Palestine	4
Historical institutionalism: a tool for researching the nonprofit sector in times of pandemic	4
Sustainable urbanism: riverfront greenway planning from tradition to innovation	4
Portrait of an inclusive lecturer: professional and personal attributes	4
Tracing scientisation in the EU Commission’s expert group system	4
Critical areas for successful adoption of technological innovations in sea shipping – the autonomous ship case study	4
Introducing the adopter perspective in social innovation research	4
Understanding the value of co-creation for social innovation interpretations of social innovation and co-creation in European policy-related documents between 1995 and 2018	4
Using deliberation for partisan purposes: evidence from the Hungarian National Consultation	4
Rethinking unity in diversity: the potential of European identity in rapidly diversifying societies	4
An exploration of potential growth pathways of social innovations in rural Europe	4
The role of proximity in stakeholder networks for Smart Specialisation: a Sparsely Populated Area case study	4
Social innovation and educational innovation: a qualitative review of innovation’s evolution	4
Extending the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology with the problems of digital access to (re)connect the disconnected NEETs	3
Smart Rural: current status of the intelligent, technological, social and sustainable rural development in the European Union	3
Understanding ‘Don't know’ answers to survey questions - an International comparative analysis using interview paradata	3
Who stewards whom? A paradox spectrum of human–nature relationships of Estonian dacha gardeners	3
A new elite? Higher education as seen through the lens of young people working in innovative technologies	3
Building blocks of the reverse innovation process	3
The myth of subsidies in the film industry: a comparative analysis of European and US approaches	3
Job satisfaction and organizational commitment: comparing Generations X and Y	3
Ecosystems of Innovation: Factors of Social Innovation and its Role in Public Policies	3
Sharing political nostalgia in Hungary is yearning for the past successful on social media?	3
Creating social innovation in urban development through collaborative processes	3
Industrial culture as an agent of social innovation: reflections from Velenje, Slovenia	3
Interpreting taskscapes: the rituals of guided Nature-Based (Dis)Integration in Sweden	3
Legal integration and the reconfiguration of identifications: material and symbolic effects of Brexit on British nationals in Berlin	3
Regional effectiveness of innovation: leaders and followers of the EU NUTS 0 and NUTS 2 regions	3
Social innovation for a new energy model, from theory to action: contributions from the social and solidarity economy in the Basque Country	3
Social perception of technological innovations at sports facilities: justification for financing ‘white elephants’ from public sources? The case of Euro 2012 Stadiums in Poland	3

The algebra of the protagonist: sustainability, normativity and storytelling	2
Incorporating pro-family and pro-female components into empirical welfare state classification: some new evidence for European countries	2
The STEEPVL and scenario analyses of the development of the Belt and Road Initiative in Poland	2
New migration policies and innovative practices. Slovenia between bordering and inclusion	2
Narratives of fungal-based materials for a new bioeconomy era	2
On sustainability in regional innovation studies and smart specialisation	2
Smart grids, smart households, smart neighborhoods – contested narratives of prosumage and decentralization in Berlin’s urban Energiewende	2
The sustainable development goals and leadership in public sector: a case study of social innovation in the disability sector of Iran	2
Innovation skills training in a lifelong learning programme for unemployed people, in Catalonia (Spain)	2
Approaches in the concept of convergence. A critical review of the literature	2
Platform companies on the internet as a new organizational form. A sociological perspective	2
Digital and sustainable innovation policies in Europe: comparative lessons	2
Experiential learning: a relational approach to sustaining community-led social innovation	2
Social innovation in high-quality agricultural systems: metrics for assessing processes and outcomes	2
Does innovation support and maturity matter for firms’ performance in a moderately developed regional innovation system in Central Europe?	2
Effectiveness of distance and online education services in the context of the coronavirus pandemic: experience of empirical sociological research in Ukraine	2
Can a rapid mobility transition appear both desirable and achievable? Reflections on the role of competing narratives for socio-technical change and suggestions for a research agenda	1
Measuring the success of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria: findings on the strategic and tactical outcomes of the uses of terrorism	1
Primary education stakeholders’ views on the European Union during the Greek economic crisis	1
Prospects for the return of Spanish scientists in the United Kingdom during the Great Recession	1
Education and social innovation: a framework based on a systematic review	1
Innovative policies for industrial transition in the European Union: mitigating the social impacts?	1
From adjustment to structural changes – innovation activity of enterprises in the time of COVID-19 pandemic	1
Common Patterns in Coping with Under-Representation in Participatory Processes: Evidence from a Mutual Learning Space for Portuguese Local Authorities (LAs)	1
Relationship between interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity: an essentially contested concept perspective	1
The technology, innovation, and income inequality nexus: an investigation on G7 countries	1
Up-scaling social innovation in asylum adjudication: the case of the Migrantes project in Sicily	1
Household energy consumption and its social determinants in Mazandaran	1
EIT Digital: leveraging ecosystems for international entrepreneurial innovation	1
Understanding social innovation in refugee integration: actors, practices, politics in Europe	1
Polarized opinions on Covid-19 and environmental policy measures. The role of social media use and personal concerns in German-speaking countries.	1
Stimuli and barriers to innovation in wildlife policy – long-term institutional analysis of wolf management in Belarus	1
From skilled engineer to a thriving entrepreneur. On the determinants of successful entrepreneurship in technical sectors	1
A relations-based evaluation framework to support collaborative research and innovation (R&I) networks	1
If no vote, at least voice? The potential and limits of deliberative procedures for the creation of a more inclusive democracy	1
Development policies and politics in neoliberal times: policy mixes and transformative public-civil collaboration for sustainable collective wellbeing in Spain’s regions (1980s–2010s)	1
In search of a nomadic pastoralism for the 21st century. A transdisciplinary development of future scenarios to foster a social-ecological transformation in Mongolia	1
Activation of unemployed through social procurement: from policy to practice	1
The development of a typology and guideline for selecting innovation-encouraging procurement strategies in civil engineering	1
Designing and implementing policies for transformative change in Europe: ideas, policy mixes, actors	1
Revealing and resolving bottlenecks by multiple intermediaries in public procurement of innovation	1
Environmental education of the elderly – towards an active, inclusive and trust-based ecosystem	1
The effect of the Russian language immersion on academic achievement of students whose mother tongue is Azerbaijani	1
National innovative capacity and knowledge creation in advanced economies: an empirical investigation	1
Multinational corporations and sustainable development goals: an interventionist approach toward quality tertiary education in Nigeria’s case study (Etisalat)	1
Identity, the politics of policing, and limits to legitimacy in Northern Ireland	1
‘I was not aware that I did not know’: developing a sense of place with place-based education	1