OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Policy and Society is 6. 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
Correction to: Remaking the Sustainable Development Goals: relational Indigenous epistemologies	198
Malignity in decentralization of natural resource governance in India	98
Statistical capacity development and the production of epistemic infrastructures	68
Comparisons as a discursive tool: shaping megaproject narratives in the United Kingdom	47
Health reforms and policy capacity: the Canadian experience	46
Producing decent work indicators: contested numbers at the ILO	44
Securing cross-border collaboration: transgovernmental enforcement networks, organized crime and illicit international political economy	41
Policy advisory system quality under multilevel governance: the German COVID-19 experience	37
From benign to malign: unintended consequences and the growth of Zombie policies	34
The use of blockchain by international organizations: effectiveness and legitimacy	32
Policy knowledge production in de-democratizing contexts	29
Digitalization and beyond: the effects of Covid-19 on post-pandemic educational policy and delivery in Europe	29
When AIs become oracles: generative artificial intelligence, anticipatory urban governance, and the future of cities	29
When code isn’t law: rethinking regulation for artificial intelligence	28
Bypassing clientelism through policy design: generating intelligence for effective social policies	28
The alegality of blockchain technology	26
Assessing public support for social policy in times of crisis: evidence from the Child Tax Credit during the COVID-19 era in the United States	26
Steering the future: expert knowledge and stakeholder voices in autonomous vehicle policy reports	25
Responsible governance of generative AI: conceptualizing GenAI as complex adaptive systems	24
Outsourcing authority in global policy: legitimating the anti-money laundering regime through professionalization	24
Re-thinking the coronavirus pandemic as a policy punctuation: COVID-19 as a path-clearing policy accelerator	23
Dealing with the challenges of legitimacy, values, and politics in policy advice	23
Bridging the “consent gap”: mechanisms of legitimization in a cross-border megaproject	21
Health policy and COVID-19: path dependency and trajectory	21
The demand for IPEandpublic policy in the governance of global policy design	20

How to induce honesty: results from a large-scale experiment	18
The policy dilemmas of blockchain	18
The divide in the EU green taxonomy: how conflict impacts the quality of policy advisory systems	18
The World Health Organization as an engine of ideational robustness	17
Policy sequencing can increase public support for ambitious climate policy	17
Bridging international political economy and public policy and administration research on central banking	16
Governing global policy: what IPE can learn from public policy?	16
Comparing ministerial evidence cultures: a quantitative analysis	16
Long-term policy impacts of the coronavirus: normalization, adaptation, and acceleration in the post-COVID state	15
Paradigmatic stability, ideational robustness, and policy persistence: exploring the impact of policy ideas on policy-making	15
Government-affiliated intermediaries in climate policy: managing “productive tensions” between flexibility and control	13
The vicious circle of policy advisory systems and knowledge regimes in consolidated authoritarian regimes	13
A matter of culture? Conceptualizing and investigating “Evidence Cultures” within research on evidence-informed policymaking	13
Correction to: COVID-19, poverty reduction, and partisanship in Canada and the United States	12
Why and how is the power of Big Tech increasing in the policy process? The case of generative AI	12
Scales of justice. Large dams and water rights in the Tigris–Euphrates basin	12
Statistical entrepreneurs: the political work of infrastructuring the SDG indicators	11
“I do not consent”: political legitimacy, misinformation, and the compliance challenge in Australia’s Covid-19 policy response	11
Participatory methodologies and caring about numbers in the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals Agenda	11
Collaborative governance in politicized times: the battle over asylum policies in Italian cities	11
Knowing (in) organizations: calculative cultures and paradigmatic learning in the case of the World Bank	10
Ideational robustness of economic ideas in action: the case of European Union economic governance through a decade of crisis	10
COVID-19 and welfare state support: the case of universal basic income	10
Global public policy in a quantified world: Sustainable Development Goals as epistemic infrastructures	10
Framing contestation and public influence on policymakers: evidence from US artificial intelligence policy discourse	10
European coordinators as senior policy intermediaries in the implementation of the trans-European transport network	10
COVID-19 as a trigger for innovation in policy action for older persons? Evidence from Asia	10
Change is inevitable, quality is optional, and context matters: dynamics influencing the development of an optimal policy advisory system	9
Employing the policy capacity framework for health system strengthening	9
Understanding street-level managers’ compliance: a comparative study of policy implementation in Switzerland, Italy, Germany, and Israel	9
Remaking the Sustainable Development Goals: relational Indigenous epistemologies	9
Expert legitimacy and competing legitimation in Italian school reforms	9
Maintaining trust in a technologized public sector	9
From crisis to reform? Exploring three post-COVID pathways	9
Contagious inequality: economic disparities and excess mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic	9
Spreading expertise: think tanks as digital advocators in the social media era	8
Activation policy: bruised and battered but still standing	8
Actors, alterations, and authorities: three observations of global policy and its transnational administration	8
The return of Keynesianism? Exploring path dependency and ideational change in post-covid fiscal policy	8
Words not deeds: the weak culture of evidence in the Canadian policy style	8
The education Sustainable Development Goal and the generative power of failing metrics	7
Building policy capacity for managing rapid, complex change in China’s health system	7
Deep core advocacy coalitions	7
Advocacy coalitions as political organizations	7
Good models borrow, great models steal: intellectual property rights and generative AI	7
From “new social risks” to “COVID social risks”: the challenges for inclusive society in South Korea, Hong Kong, and Taiwan amid the pandemic	7
Globalisation and public policy: bridging the disciplinary and epistemological boundaries	6
Inequalities and the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil: analyzing un-coordinated responses in social assistance and education	6
The politics of COVID-19 experts: comparing winners and losers in Italy and the UK	6
Malignity in policy sciences: a theory and framework	6

Discourses of growth in megaproject-based urban development: a comparative study of Poland and Finland