OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial	51
French language abstracts	20
Foreword	17
Imprinting and the evolution of evaluation: A descriptive account of social impact evaluation methodological practice	14
Ethical reflexivity: A critical examination of ethics in public health intervention research	12
Outcome-based measurement for developmental services: A human capabilities-oriented framework	11
Organisational factors in evaluation use: results from a survey in five EU countries	11
How to develop a realist programme theory using Margaret Archer’s structure–agency–culture framework: The case of adolescent accountability for sexual and reproductive health in urban resource-constra	10
What can we learn from reviews of realist evaluation studies? Principles for rigorous realist evaluation	10
Realistic evaluation of social inclusion	10
The transformational power of evaluation: Exploring long-term perspectives in evaluations of impacts and outcomes from the standpoint of practitioners	10
Preface to an unpublished manuscript by Thomas Schwandt	10
Mapping complexity in realist evaluation: A transferable programme-level theory of change for cross-agency violence reduction	10
The sceptical turn in evaluation and what to do with it: Keynote presentation delivered by Peter Dahler-Larsen and Estelle Raimondo at the EES conference in Copenhagen, June 10, 2022	9
A graphical method for causal program attribution in theory-based evaluation	9
Can we use deliberation to change evaluation systems? How an advisory group contributed to policy change	8
Toward a citizen science framework for public policy evaluation: Lessons from a field experiment on Freedom of Information laws in Belgium	8
Lessening the unknown: An unintended consequences knowability classification schema for international development projects	7
Text as data for evaluation: Natural language processing and large language models to generate novel insights from unstructured text data	7
What role should we play to be effective evaluators? – practitioner reflections	7
Evaluation blogs, podcasts and webinars in the first half of 2025: Roundup review IV	6
French language abstracts	6
Methodological bricolage, data pattern detection and realist explanation: A portfolio analysis of inclusive business support	6
DOME: A mixed-method evaluation of the impacts of complex programmes against educational poverty	6
Personas for program evaluation: Insights from a gender-focused evaluation in Cambodia	6

Evaluation blogs, podcasts and webinars in 2024: A mid-year review	5
A framework for evaluating women’s leadership programmes	5
How evaluation is understood and practised in the European Parliament	5
A quasi-market for evaluation services: Government–business dynamics in Italy’s EU Cohesion Policy	5
Conducting focus groups in realist evaluation	5
When evaluation meets practice: Field-based tensions in preventing violent extremism program evaluation	5
Unraveling the complexities of learning in community development evaluation	4
Evaluation during war: Current realities and future possibilities of Ukrainian monitoring and evaluation	4
Testing mechanisms using large-N qualitative comparative analysis in realistic evaluations	4
Editorial	4
Theory building from qualitative evaluation	4
Post-truth and pathways for evaluators	4
Evaluation blogs, podcasts, and webinars in 2023: A roundup review	4
Using digital technology to enhance youth participatory evaluation	4
Combining process tracing and synthetic control method: Bridging two ways of making causal inference in evaluation research	4
Editorial	4
The use of mediation analysis in evaluation of complex health interventions	4