OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Innovation-The European Journal of Social Science Research is 2. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Advanced services as a new frontier for China’s value chain cooperation with European manufacturing	24
Welcome to Planet B: co-designing transdisciplinary research questions to uncover super wicked problems	19
Developing normative criteria for meaningful citizen participation and deliberation in environmental policy	15
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
Rowing against decline: regional innovation systems and marginality in the era of digital transition	13
The effect of online creative drama method on primary school students’ levels of happiness and fun in school: Solomon four-group design	13
European Wikipedia platforms, sharing economy and national differences in participation: a case study	13
Education for ever changing times: the on-going quest for the best solutions in a post-modern world	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
Notes on the declining American institutions in university rankings: a trend against the Germany–Britain–America shift?	11
Honi the Circle-Maker: an ancient narrative for creating temenos in challenging times	10
Stakeholders’ justifications in innovation: the case of cell-based meat	10
Administrative traditions and the role of conditionality for governance reforms: evidence from the EU regional innovation policy	10
Diffusion of innovation, innovation studies, and innovation policies: cross-fertilisation to improve smart specialisation strategies (S3)	7
A study of spontaneous narrative formation: coronavirus and narratives of doom	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
Actual trends in critical making and collaborative innovation research	6
Voting or consensus? An empirical study of decision-making in the European standards body ETSI	6
Forced migration in wartime: decision-making and trajectory	6
Navigating transatlantic power dynamics in ICT standardization – The case of ETSI	6
The implications of the EU cohesion policy instruments and cross-border cooperation projects on social entrepreneurship in Euroregions	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	5

Deliberation in times of crisis – how can citizens’ councils deal with pressing political issues like the Corona pandemic?	5
Editorial	5
Impact of authorship on citation rates: a comparative analysis of top 9999 articles in social science	5
The potential role of university community engagement in supporting transformative social innovation – experiences from Hungary	5
Design thinking enabling innovation: a literature review	5
On the narrative rationality of a legend that grows: from ‘Da Yu Taming the Flood’ to the ‘Five Events of Da Yu’	5
Public research institutes in Brazil: evidence of research and innovation impact	5
Learning from public sector innovation pilots: the case of autonomous bus pilots	4
Altruistic, ego-centred or both? A value-based typology of supporters of a pro-European movement	4
Paradoxes of (Il)liberal democracy: the role of Christian Democracy	4
Activation of unemployed through social procurement: from policy to practice	4
A relations-based evaluation framework to support collaborative research and innovation (R&I) networks	4
Narratives for personal and collective transformations	4
The contribution of cooperation networks to service innovation in micro-enterprises: a management perspective	4
Social innovation as a process: pursuing a pathway to the labour market inclusion of refugee women in Berlin	4
ETSI’s legitimacy is guaranteed by its openness and endorsement of its standards by the market	4
Historical institutionalism: a tool for researching the nonprofit sector in times of pandemic	4
Sour grapes:ressentimentas the affective response of grievance politics	4
Commuting and life satisfaction: evidence from Russia	4
Why context matters: understanding transdisciplinary research through the lens of nine context factors	4
If no vote, at least voice? The potential and limits of deliberative procedures for the creation of a more inclusive democracy	4
Multinational corporations and sustainable development goals: an interventionist approach toward quality tertiary education in Nigeria’s case study (Etisalat)	4
Correction	3
How economic perceptions shape the image of the EU? The evidence from 10 EU member states during the four consecutive waves of crises	3
From skilled engineer to a thriving entrepreneur. On the determinants of successful entrepreneurship in technical sectors	3
The driving effect of the Euro on inbound tourism: multiperiod DID method	3
Who stewards whom? A paradox spectrum of human–nature relationships of Estonian dacha gardeners	3
Nothing about us without us: innovating grantmaking processes with participatory methodology	3
Dermatologist, orthopaedist, and psychiatrist walk into a COVID ward: on the permeability of professional boundaries in a competition-free context	3
Resilience under fire: navigating societal challenges, agency, and innovation in times of war	3
Can we do inclusive politics in urgent times?	2
Effect of war and displacement on psychological distress: a study of Ukrainian Citizens	2
Research bricolage on far-right metapolitics: superordinate intersectionality perspectives on digital identities	2
From China to fostering rooting innovation in Nanyang : three generations of Malaysian Chinese family businesses in food manufacturing	2
Older adults and use of video games	2
Job satisfaction and organizational commitment: comparing Generations X and Y	2
Global environmental assessments and transformative change: the role of epistemic infrastructures and the inclusion of social sciences	2
Adaptation models of Ukrainian refugees in Germany	2
Healthcare innovation and leadership in non-profit organisations: past, present and future trends	2
Innovation policy and deep transitions: instruments, institutions and implementation in complex contexts	2
When citizens met politicians – the process and outcomes of mixed deliberation according to participant status and gender	2
Citizens’ assemblies in Brazil: an analysis of the role of mini-publics on building democratic participatory climate public policies	2
Innovation and leadership in computational social science’s prevalent trend: implications to management science, public policy and social development	2
Institutional asymmetries in a low-coordination economy: the smart specialization paradox in Bosnia and Herzegovina	2
Deliberative democracy in times of crisis: the capability of citizens‘ assemblies to overcome societal polarization	2
Grounding innovation: towards an integrated concept	2
The STEEPVL and scenario analyses of the development of the Belt and Road Initiative in Poland	2
The conceptual framework of shock innovation in education: non-diffusive spread of innovations triggered with the pandemic	2
First field in the Croatian coat of arms: (re)constructing the contested symbol in online news	2
Inside the black box: in search of conceptual tools for evaluating and designing social innovative practices	2

Influencing factors of academic staff’ knowledge sharing: a case of government universities in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia	2
Diaspora, deliberation and democracy: examining externally-sponsored initiatives for the development of local fora in Bosnia and Herzegovina	2
A systematic literature review on collaborative innovation in the public sector	2