OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Policy and Society is 5. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Correction to: Remaking the Sustainable Development Goals: relational Indigenous epistemologies	174
Statistical capacity development and the production of epistemic infrastructures	87
Comparisons as a discursive tool: shaping megaproject narratives in the United Kingdom	78
Policy knowledge production in de-democratizing contexts	66
The use of blockchain by international organizations: effectiveness and legitimacy	44
From benign to malign: unintended consequences and the growth of Zombie policies	42
Digitalization and beyond: the effects of Covid-19 on post-pandemic educational policy and delivery in Europe	41
Health reforms and policy capacity: the Canadian experience	38
Policy advisory system quality under multilevel governance: the German COVID-19 experience	33
Securing cross-border collaboration: transgovernmental enforcement networks, organized crime and illicit international political economy	30
Producing decent work indicators: contested numbers at the ILO	29
When AIs become oracles: generative artificial intelligence, anticipatory urban governance, and the future of cities	28
Are policy tools and governance modes coupled? Analysing welfare-to-work reform at the frontline	26
When code isn’t law: rethinking regulation for artificial intelligence	25
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	24
Steering the future: expert knowledge and stakeholder voices in autonomous vehicle policy reports	23
Responsible governance of generative AI: conceptualizing GenAI as complex adaptive systems	23
Dealing with the challenges of legitimacy, values, and politics in policy advice	23
Agenda-setting instruments: means and strategies for the management of policy demands	22
Outsourcing authority in global policy: legitimating the anti-money laundering regime through professionalization	22
Re-thinking the coronavirus pandemic as a policy punctuation: COVID-19 as a path-clearing policy accelerator	21
The demand for IPEandpublic policy in the governance of global policy design	21
The alegality of blockchain technology	21
The World Health Organization as an engine of ideational robustness	20
Bridging the “consent gap”: mechanisms of legitimization in a cross-border megaproject	20

The divide in the EU green taxonomy: how conflict impacts the quality of policy advisory systems	19
How to induce honesty: results from a large-scale experiment	19
Health policy and COVID-19: path dependency and trajectory	18
Governing global policy: what IPE can learn from public policy?	18
Policy sequencing can increase public support for ambitious climate policy	17
The policy dilemmas of blockchain	17
A matter of culture? Conceptualizing and investigating “Evidence Cultures” within research on evidence-informed policymaking	16
Paradigmatic stability, ideational robustness, and policy persistence: exploring the impact of policy ideas on policy-making	16
Bridging international political economy and public policy and administration research on central banking	15
Comparing ministerial evidence cultures: a quantitative analysis	14
Long-term policy impacts of the coronavirus: normalization, adaptation, and acceleration in the post-COVID state	12
The vicious circle of policy advisory systems and knowledge regimes in consolidated authoritarian regimes	12
Correction to: COVID-19, poverty reduction, and partisanship in Canada and the United States	11
Scales of justice. Large dams and water rights in the Tigris–Euphrates basin	11
Positioning public procurement as a procedural tool for innovation: an empirical study	11
Why and how is the power of Big Tech increasing in the policy process? The case of generative AI	10
Collaborative governance in politicized times: the battle over asylum policies in Italian cities	10
“I do not consent”: political legitimacy, misinformation, and the compliance challenge in Australia’s Covid-19 policy response	10
Participatory methodologies and caring about numbers in the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals Agenda	10
Statistical entrepreneurs: the political work of infrastructuring the SDG indicators	10
European coordinators as senior policy intermediaries in the implementation of the trans-European transport network	9
COVID-19 as a trigger for innovation in policy action for older persons? Evidence from Asia	9
Ideational robustness of economic ideas in action: the case of European Union economic governance through a decade of crisis	9
Knowing (in) organizations: calculative cultures and paradigmatic learning in the case of the World Bank	9
Global public policy in a quantified world: Sustainable Development Goals as epistemic infrastructures	9
Framing contestation and public influence on policymakers: evidence from US artificial intelligence policy discourse	9
COVID-19 and welfare state support: the case of universal basic income	9
Maintaining trust in a technologized public sector	8
Activation policy: bruised and battered but still standing	8
Understanding street-level managers’ compliance: a comparative study of policy implementation in Switzerland, Italy, Germany, and Israel	8
From crisis to reform? Exploring three post-COVID pathways	8
Remaking the Sustainable Development Goals: relational Indigenous epistemologies	8
Words not deeds: the weak culture of evidence in the Canadian policy style	7
Employing the policy capacity framework for health system strengthening	7
The power of procedural policy tools at the local level: Australian local governments contributing to policy change for major projects	7
Contagious inequality: economic disparities and excess mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic	7
Actors, alterations, and authorities: three observations of global policy and its transnational administration	7
Expert legitimacy and competing legitimation in Italian school reforms	7
Deep core advocacy coalitions	6
Spreading expertise: think tanks as digital advocators in the social media era	6
The politics of COVID-19 experts: comparing winners and losers in Italy and the UK	6
The return of Keynesianism? Exploring path dependency and ideational change in post-covid fiscal policy	6
Building policy capacity for managing rapid, complex change in China’s health system	6
Advocacy coalitions as political organizations	6
The education Sustainable Development Goal and the generative power of failing metrics	6
Good models borrow, great models steal: intellectual property rights and generative AI	6
From “new social risks” to “COVID social risks”: the challenges for inclusive society in South Korea, Hong Kong, and Taiwan amid the pandemic	6
Metagovernance of migration policy in the Asia Pacific region: an analysis of policy tools	5
Ideational robustness in turbulent times	5
Inequalities and the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil: analyzing un-coordinated responses in social assistance and education	5

Participatory governance in megaprojects: the Lyon–Turin high-speed railway among structure, agency, and democratic participation	5
Discourses of growth in megaproject-based urban development: a comparative study of Poland and Finland	5
Globalisation and public policy: bridging the disciplinary and epistemological boundaries	5