OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Policy and Society 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Governance of Generative AI	211
Ideational robustness in turbulent times	162
The vicious circle of policy advisory systems and knowledge regimes in consolidated authoritarian regimes	99
Inequalities and the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil: analyzing un-coordinated responses in social assistance and education	81
Bridging international political economy and public policy and administration research on central banking	67
Positioning public procurement as a procedural tool for innovation: an empirical study	65
Blockchain tools for socio-economic interactions in local communities	41
Participatory governance in megaprojects: the Lyon–Turin high-speed railway among structure, agency, and democratic participation	39
Discourses of growth in megaproject-based urban development: a comparative study of Poland and Finland	38
Paradigmatic stability, ideational robustness, and policy persistence: exploring the impact of policy ideas on policy-making	34
A matter of culture? Conceptualizing and investigating “Evidence Cultures” within research on evidence-informed policymaking	30
Beyond symbolism: the roles of action planning and case-making in immigrant integration policymaking	30
Policy integration, problem-solving, and the coronavirus disease crisis: lessons for policy design	24
Comparing ministerial evidence cultures: a quantitative analysis	24
Long-term policy impacts of the coronavirus: normalization, adaptation, and acceleration in the post-COVID state	23
Remaking the Sustainable Development Goals: relational Indigenous epistemologies	22
Race, power, and policy: understanding state anti-eviction policies during COVID-19	21
From crisis to reform? Exploring three post-COVID pathways	21
Participatory methodologies and caring about numbers in the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals Agenda	20
COVID-19, crisis responses, and public policies: from the persistence of inequalities to the importance of policy design	20
Analytical capacity as a critical condition for responding to COVID-19 in Brazil	19
Correction to: COVID-19, poverty reduction, and partisanship in Canada and the United States	19
Correction to: Remaking the Sustainable Development Goals: relational Indigenous epistemologies	19
Why and how is the power of Big Tech increasing in the policy process? The case of generative AI	19
Contagious inequality: economic disparities and excess mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic	18

Procedural tools and pension reform in the long run: the case of Sweden	18
Expert legitimacy and competing legitimation in Italian school reforms	17
Cultivating health policy capacity through network governance in New Zealand: learning from divergent stories of policy implementation	17
Statistical capacity development and the production of epistemic infrastructures	17
Activation policy: bruised and battered but still standing	16
Comparisons as a discursive tool: shaping megaproject narratives in the United Kingdom	16
Advancing collaborative social outcomes through place-based solutions—aligning policy and funding systems	16
When bargaining is and is not possible: the politics of bureaucratic expertise in the context of democratic backsliding	15
Expert knowledge for global pandemic policy: a chorus of evidence or a clutter of global commissions?	15
Assessing the crisis management of the COVID-19 pandemic: a study of inquiry commission reports in Norway and Sweden	14
Blame avoidance and credit-claiming dynamics in government policy communications: evidence from leadership tweets in four OECD countries during the 2020–2022 COVID-19 pandemic	13
Meeting expectations? Response of policy innovation labs to sustainable development goals	12
Is there a behavioral revolution in policy design? A new agenda and inventory of the behavioral toolbox	12
Scales of justice. Large dams and water rights in the Tigris–Euphrates basin	11
The development of large public infrastructure projects: integrating policy and project studies models	11
Governance and societal impact of blockchain-based self-sovereign identities	10
The role of policy design in policy continuation and ratcheting-up of policy ambition	10
Whose voice matters in the teaching and learning of IPE? Implications for policy and policy making	10
COVID-19 as a policy window: policy entrepreneurs responding to violence against women	9
Digitalization and beyond: the effects of Covid-19 on post-pandemic educational policy and delivery in Europe	9
Blockchain-based application at a governmental level: disruption or illusion? The case of Estonia	9
The power of procedural policy tools at the local level: Australian local governments contributing to policy change for major projects	9
Employing the policy capacity framework for health system strengthening	9
Rethinking the procedural in policy instrument ‘Compounds’: a renewable energy policy perspective	9
Covid (in)equalities: labor market protection, health, and residential care in Germany, Sweden, and the UK	8
Statistical entrepreneurs: the political work of infrastructuring the SDG indicators	8
Variation in evidence use across policy sectors: the case of Brazil	7
“I do not consent”: political legitimacy, misinformation, and the compliance challenge in Australia’s Covid-19 policy response	7
Governance fix? Power and politics in controversies about governing generative AI	7
Words not deeds: the weak culture of evidence in the Canadian policy style	7
Health reforms and policy capacity: the Canadian experience	7
The rising authority and agency of public–private partnerships in global health governance	7
NGOs and Global Business Regulation of Transnational Alcohol and Ultra-Processed Food Industries	7
Policy knowledge production in de-democratizing contexts	6
How welfare wins: Discursive institutionalism, the politics of the poor, and the expansion of social welfare in India during the early 21st century	6
Collaborative governance in politicized times: the battle over asylum policies in Italian cities	6
From benign to malign: unintended consequences and the growth of Zombie policies	6
When AIs become oracles: generative artificial intelligence, anticipatory urban governance, and the future of cities	6
Securing cross-border collaboration: transgovernmental enforcement networks, organized crime and illicit international political economy	5
The ideational robustness of bureaucracy	5
Producing decent work indicators: contested numbers at the ILO	5
Meeting the challenge of health system transformation in European countries	5
Procedural policy tools in theory and practice	5
Exploring governance tensions of disruptive technologies: the case of care robots in Australia and New Zealand	5
Actors, alterations, and authorities: three observations of global policy and its transnational administration	5
COVID-19 and welfare state support: the case of universal basic income	5
When code isn’t law: rethinking regulation for artificial intelligence	4
When indicators fail: SPAR, the invisible measure of pandemic preparedness	4
Are policy tools and governance modes coupled? Analysing welfare-to-work reform at the frontline	4
The politics of military megaprojects: discursive struggles in Canadian and Australian naval shipbuilding strategies	4

Accountability enablers? The role of transnational activism in the use of the multilateral development bank grievance mechanisms	4
Spreading expertise: think tanks as digital advocators in the social media era	4
COVID-19, poverty reduction, and partisanship in Canada and the United States	4
COVID-19 as a trigger for innovation in policy action for older persons? Evidence from Asia	4
Framing contestation and public influence on policymakers: evidence from US artificial intelligence policy discourse	4
Policy design for biodiversity: How problem conception drift undermines “fit-for-purpose” Peatland conservation	4
Knowing (in) organizations: calculative cultures and paradigmatic learning in the case of the World Bank	4
The use of blockchain by international organizations: effectiveness and legitimacy	4
The education Sustainable Development Goal and the generative power of failing metrics	4