OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Innovation-The European Journal of Social Science Research 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
European Wikipedia platforms, sharing economy and national differences in participation: a case study	30
Advanced services as a new frontier for China’s value chain cooperation with European manufacturing	23
Welcome to Planet B: co-designing transdisciplinary research questions to uncover super wicked problems	22
Speaking of a ‘climate crisis’: Fridays for Future's attempts to reframe climate change	15
Up-scaling social innovation in asylum adjudication: the case of the Migrantes project in Sicily	15
Developing normative criteria for meaningful citizen participation and deliberation in environmental policy	14
Education for ever changing times: the on-going quest for the best solutions in a post-modern world	13
Notes on the declining American institutions in university rankings: a trend against the Germany–Britain–America shift?	12
The effect of online creative drama method on primary school students’ levels of happiness and fun in school: Solomon four-group design	12
Administrative traditions and the role of conditionality for governance reforms: evidence from the EU regional innovation policy	11
Looking to the future? Including children, young people and future generations in deliberations on climate action: Ireland's Citizens’Assembly 2016–2018	11
Introducing the adopter perspective in social innovation research	11
Analyzing latent social effects of social initiatives through social return on investment (SROI) analysis in wartime: a critical examination from an applied sociology perspective	11
Stakeholders’ justifications in innovation: the case of cell-based meat	11
A study of spontaneous narrative formation: coronavirus and narratives of doom	10
Honi the Circle-Maker: an ancient narrative for creating temenos in challenging times	10
The role of creativity in new product development process. Insights from the leading bank in Romania	10
“War took my home, but not my future”: adaptation of war-affected Ukrainian students in Australia and Germany	10
Diffusion of innovation, innovation studies, and innovation policies: cross-fertilisation to improve smart specialisation strategies (S3)	9
Social resentment, blame attribution and Euroscepticism: the role of status insecurity, relative deprivation and powerlessness	9
The Early Warning System: people’s indirect empowerment to reduce the democratic deficit	8
Voting or consensus? An empirical study of decision-making in the European standards body ETSI	8
Navigating transatlantic power dynamics in ICT standardization – The case of ETSI	8
The implications of the EU cohesion policy instruments and cross-border cooperation projects on social entrepreneurship in Euroregions	8
Actual trends in critical making and collaborative innovation research	7

Forced migration in wartime: decision-making and trajectory	7
Editorial	6
Design thinking enabling innovation: a literature review	6
On the narrative rationality of a legend that grows: from ‘Da Yu Taming the Flood’ to the ‘Five Events of Da Yu’	6
Activation of unemployed through social procurement: from policy to practice	5
Paradoxes of (Il)liberal democracy: the role of Christian Democracy	5
The potential role of university community engagement in supporting transformative social innovation – experiences from Hungary	5
Public research institutes in Brazil: evidence of research and innovation impact	5
The contribution of cooperation networks to service innovation in micro-enterprises: a management perspective	5
Narratives for personal and collective transformations	5
Impact of authorship on citation rates: a comparative analysis of top 9999 articles in social science	5
The development of a typology and guideline for selecting innovation-encouraging procurement strategies in civil engineering	5
Social innovation as a process: pursuing a pathway to the labour market inclusion of refugee women in Berlin	5
ETSI’s legitimacy is guaranteed by its openness and endorsement of its standards by the market	5
Deliberation in times of crisis – how can citizens’ councils deal with pressing political issues like the Corona pandemic?	5
Commuting and life satisfaction: evidence from Russia	5
Sour grapes:ressentimentas the affective response of grievance politics	4
Learning from public sector innovation pilots: the case of autonomous bus pilots	4
Who stewards whom? A paradox spectrum of human–nature relationships of Estonian dacha gardeners	4
From skilled engineer to a thriving entrepreneur. On the determinants of successful entrepreneurship in technical sectors	4
A relations-based evaluation framework to support collaborative research and innovation (R&I) networks	4
If no vote, at least voice? The potential and limits of deliberative procedures for the creation of a more inclusive democracy	4
Nothing about us without us: innovating grantmaking processes with participatory methodology	4
Correction	4
The driving effect of the Euro on inbound tourism: multiperiod DID method	4
Historical institutionalism: a tool for researching the nonprofit sector in times of pandemic	4
Multinational corporations and sustainable development goals: an interventionist approach toward quality tertiary education in Nigeria’s case study (Etisalat)	4
Global environmental assessments and transformative change: the role of epistemic infrastructures and the inclusion of social sciences	4
How economic perceptions shape the image of the EU? The evidence from 10 EU member states during the four consecutive waves of crises	4
Dermatologist, orthopaedist, and psychiatrist walk into a COVID ward: on the permeability of professional boundaries in a competition-free context	4
Influencing factors of academic staff’ knowledge sharing: a case of government universities in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia	3
Job satisfaction and organizational commitment: comparing Generations X and Y	3
Institutional asymmetries in a low-coordination economy: the smart specialization paradox in Bosnia and Herzegovina	3
Citizens’ assemblies in Brazil: an analysis of the role of mini-publics on building democratic participatory climate public policies	3
Innovation and leadership in computational social science’s prevalent trend: implications to management science, public policy and social development	3
A systematic literature review on collaborative innovation in the public sector	3
Inside the black box: in search of conceptual tools for evaluating and designing social innovative practices	3
Resilience under fire: navigating societal challenges, agency, and innovation in times of war	3
Diaspora, deliberation and democracy: examining externally-sponsored initiatives for the development of local fora in Bosnia and Herzegovina	3
Older adults and use of video games	3
Deliberative democracy in times of crisis: the capability of citizens‘ assemblies to overcome societal polarization	3