OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Evaluation 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Post-truth and pathways for evaluators	31
Editorial	29
Don’t you forget about me: Independence of evaluations from the perspective of US evaluation clients—An exploratory study	24
Preventing children’s death by heatstroke: How alternative accident theories affect policy design and evaluation	22
French language abstracts	13
Imprinting and the evolution of evaluation: A descriptive account of social impact evaluation methodological practice	12
Editorial	11
Adapting ripple effects mapping for evaluating public health initiatives in complex systems: Reflections and recommendations from seven case studies	11
Evaluation during war: Current realities and future possibilities of Ukrainian monitoring and evaluation	9
News from the community	8
French language abstracts	8
Eliciting stories of gender-transformative change: Investigating the effectiveness of question prompt formulations in qualitative gender assessments	7
Reflections on good practice in evaluating Violence Reduction Units: Experiences from across England and Wales	6
How can multi-criteria analysis support deliberative spatial planning? A critical review of methods and participatory frameworks	6
Combining process tracing and synthetic control method: Bridging two ways of making causal inference in evaluation research	6
Categories of context in realist evaluation	5
Evaluating site selection at design in food systems interventions: A formative geospatial approach	5
A critical realist approach to systems thinking in evaluation	5
Editorial	5
Working with interviews in Process Tracing evaluation methods	5
The curious case of the realist trial: Methodological oxymoron or unicorn?	5
French language abstracts	5
Editorial	4
What should evaluation learn from COP 26? Views of evaluation practitioners	4
Comprehensive evaluation framework building for integrated development program	4

Using systematic reviews to inform environmental policy-making	4
Applying a realist evaluation to an intervention in children’s social care: A worked example from the Safeguarding Family Group Conference study	3
Systems thinking concepts within a collaborative program evaluation methodology: The Hermes Program Evaluation	3
A theory-based approach to designing interventions for Planetary Health	3
The transformational power of evaluation: Exploring long-term perspectives in evaluations of impacts and outcomes from the standpoint of practitioners	3
Editorial	3
Using environmental evaluation systems and their contribution to sustainable development	3
Improving a framework for evaluating participatory science	3
Development of a ‘real-world’ logic model through testing the feasibility of a complex healthcare intervention: the challenge of reconciling scalability and context-sensitivity	3
Program, complexity, and system when evaluating sustainable development	2
Monitoring and evaluation for thinking and working politically	2
Feasibility and desirability of a realist CMOC database: Lessons learned	2
French language abstracts	2
The unused potential of process tracing as evaluation approach: The case of cluster policy evaluation	2
Rethinking rigour to embrace complexity in peacebuilding evaluation	2
French language abstracts	2
Editorial	2
Digital-era evaluation: Automating and reconfiguring evaluation in the social service sector	2
Editorial	2
Grounding evaluation capacity development in systems theory	2
Choosing a qualitative comparative analysis solution in multi-method impact evaluation	2
Realistic evaluation of social inclusion	2
Causal mapping for evaluators	2