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 2022-04-01 to 2026-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Advanced services as a new frontier for China’s value chain cooperation with European manufacturing	17
European Wikipedia platforms, sharing economy and national differences in participation: a case study	17
Welcome to Planet B: co-designing transdisciplinary research questions to uncover super wicked problems	17
Speaking of a ‘climate crisis’: Fridays for Future's attempts to reframe climate change	14
Up-scaling social innovation in asylum adjudication: the case of the Migrantes project in Sicily	14
Leveraging artificial intelligence to detect and prevent corporate fraud in Chinese enterprises	12
Developing normative criteria for meaningful citizen participation and deliberation in environmental policy	12
Notes on the declining American institutions in university rankings: a trend against the Germany–Britain–America shift?	10
Rowing against decline: regional innovation systems and marginality in the era of digital transition	10
The role of affect balance and external boredom in the relationship between loneliness and problematic smartphone use	10
Taking a historical perspective: students’ understanding of the Turkish Alphabet Reform (November 1928)	10
New Europeans on the cultural cleavage: has Macron created a new transnational party family?	9
Be lucky!? – the interrelations of luck, success, and dependency relationships in the context of a disadvantaged community	9
Education for ever changing times: the on-going quest for the best solutions in a post-modern world	9
Administrative traditions and the role of conditionality for governance reforms: evidence from the EU regional innovation policy	9
The effect of online creative drama method on primary school students’ levels of happiness and fun in school: Solomon four-group design	9
Embeddedness of innovation processes: collaborations, institutions, creativity and constructed meanings	9
Analyzing latent social effects of social initiatives through social return on investment (SROI) analysis in wartime: a critical examination from an applied sociology perspective	9
Honi the Circle-Maker: an ancient narrative for creating temenos in challenging times	8
Conceptualising euro-optimism via frames analysis: case study of Slovenia	7
Diffusion of innovation, innovation studies, and innovation policies: cross-fertilisation to improve smart specialisation strategies (S3)	7
The role of creativity in new product development process. Insights from the leading bank in Romania	7
“War took my home, but not my future”: adaptation of war-affected Ukrainian students in Australia and Germany	7
Stakeholders’ justifications in innovation: the case of cell-based meat	7
A study of spontaneous narrative formation: coronavirus and narratives of doom	7

EU Policies and prospects for achieving ‘Chip autonomy’ amid global localization trend in chip supply chain	6
The implications of the EU cohesion policy instruments and cross-border cooperation projects on social entrepreneurship in Euroregions	6
Editorial	6
Actual trends in critical making and collaborative innovation research	6
Navigating transatlantic power dynamics in ICT standardization – The case of ETSI	6
Voting or consensus? An empirical study of decision-making in the European standards body ETSI	6
On the narrative rationality of a legend that grows: from ‘Da Yu Taming the Flood’ to the ‘Five Events of Da Yu’	6
Forced migration in wartime: decision-making and trajectory	6
The Early Warning System: people’s indirect empowerment to reduce the democratic deficit	6
The development of a typology and guideline for selecting innovation-encouraging procurement strategies in civil engineering	6
Public research institutes in Brazil: evidence of research and innovation impact	5
The potential role of university community engagement in supporting transformative social innovation – experiences from Hungary	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
Altruistic, ego-centred or both? A value-based typology of supporters of a pro-European movement	5
Impact of authorship on citation rates: a comparative analysis of top 9999 articles in social science	5
Social innovation under institutional voids: micro–macro dynamics in Lithuania	5
Social innovation as a process: pursuing a pathway to the labour market inclusion of refugee women in Berlin	5
From global production networks to global knowledge networks a case study on Ford-Otosan automotive company in Türkiye	5
Design thinking enabling innovation: a literature review	5
Innovation biography and network analysis as instruments for evaluating inclusion policy the case of Single Contact Points for Employers	5
Learning from public sector innovation pilots: the case of autonomous bus pilots	4
Forms of agency in strategies of relocalization by translocal networks of community-led initiatives in Europe	4
ETSI’s legitimacy is guaranteed by its openness and endorsement of its standards by the market	4
Macron’s European project: two faces of Europeanism	4
The driving effect of the Euro on inbound tourism: multiperiod DID method	4
Why context matters: understanding transdisciplinary research through the lens of nine context factors	4
Searching for epistemological passe-partout: naming and defining the current technological revolution	4
Relationship between patenting and economic development – message implied by the Czechoslovakian experience from 1918 to 1991	4
Historical institutionalism: a tool for researching the nonprofit sector in times of pandemic	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
The contribution of cooperation networks to service innovation in micro-enterprises: a management perspective	4
Multinational corporations and sustainable development goals: an interventionist approach toward quality tertiary education in Nigeria’s case study (Etisalat)	4
Activation of unemployed through social procurement: from policy to practice	4
Narratives for personal and collective transformations	4
Dermatologist, orthopaedist, and psychiatrist walk into a COVID ward: on the permeability of professional boundaries in a competition-free context	4
A relations-based evaluation framework to support collaborative research and innovation (R&I) networks	4
Job satisfaction and organizational commitment: comparing Generations X and Y	3
From China to fostering rooting innovation in Nanyang : three generations of Malaysian Chinese family businesses in food manufacturing	3
Who stewards whom? A paradox spectrum of human–nature relationships of Estonian dacha gardeners	3
Innovation and leadership in computational social science’s prevalent trend: implications to management science, public policy and social development	3
Inside the black box: in search of conceptual tools for evaluating and designing social innovative practices	3
Institutional asymmetries in a low-coordination economy: the smart specialization paradox in Bosnia and Herzegovina	3
A systematic literature review on collaborative innovation in the public sector	3
Resilience under fire: navigating societal challenges, agency, and innovation in times of war	3
Older adults and use of video games	3
Human survivability studies: concept, methodology, case studies, and prospects	3
Why do social innovations not scale out? A case study of social innovations implemented by rural NGOs from post-socialist Poland	3
Healthcare innovation and leadership in non-profit organisations: past, present and future trends	3
Global environmental assessments and transformative change: the role of epistemic infrastructures and the inclusion of social sciences	3

Correction	3
Influencing factors of academic staff’ knowledge sharing: a case of government universities in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia	3