OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Review of Policy Research 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
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Expert opinion and public support of genetically modified food policy: Does deficit model work in China?	45
The role of policy learning in explaining COVID‐19 policy changes	37
Power and politics in framing bias in Artificial Intelligence policy	28
Technology transfer in economic periphery: Emerging patterns and policy challenges	27
Hydraulic fracturing, polarization, and environmental policy implementation	26
Natural laboratories in emerging countries and comparative advantages in science: Evidence from Chile	26
Advancing theories of public policy for the analysis of environmental challenges across countries	26
Measuring policy analytical capacity in renewable energy policy: Germany‐Japan‐US comparison	24
An item response approach to sea‐level rise policy preferences in a nascent subsystem	23
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A new beef: An analysis of discourse coalitions in the nascent cellular agriculture policy subsystem	21
Firm‐level aggregate corruption and competition: The role of telecommunications infrastructure	19
Net‐zero carbon declarations by Japanese local governments: What caused the domino‐like diffusion?	19
Conservation in conflict: Examining rural–urban discourse in wolf reintroduction policy in Colorado	19
Decarbonization and climate change	18
How governance boundaries affect regional collaboration on atmospheric governance—Evidence from China's Yangtze River Delta	18
Collective learning and COVID‐19 mitigation in Ghana	17
Competition and cooperation in artificial intelligence standard setting: Explaining emergent patterns	17
The minimum marriageable age policy process in the United States: An advocacy coalition framework analysis	17
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Unraveling the dynamics of information exchange in governance networks: Opportunity structures in anti‐corruption multi‐stakeholder partnerships	16
The narrative policy framework and institutions	16
Bureaucratic politics, innovation compatibility, and the dynamic diffusion of subnational decentralization reforms in China	15

Is it all about the government's early response? A configurational analysis of 27 cases in governing COVID‐19 in China	13
Policy convergence in authoritarian regimes: A comparative analysis of welfare state trajectories in post‐Soviet countries	12
The persuasive role of the past: Policy feedback and citizens' acceptance of information communication technologies during the COVID‐19 pandemic in China	12
What shapes the formation of interstate benchmarking networks?	12
Knowledge is not power: Learning in polycentric governance systems	11
Building coalitions in a nascent subsystem: Investigating beliefs and policy preferences in Ugandan pesticide policy	11
Matching forerunner cities: Climate policy in Turku, Groningen, Rostock, and Potsdam	11
Support for the environment post‐transition? Material concerns and policy tradeoffs	11
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Make it loud and simple: Coalition politics and problem framing in the French policy process of hydraulic fracturing	10
Uneven local implementation of federal policy after disaster: Policy conflict and goal ambiguity	10
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Policy reinvention in diffusion: Evidence from municipal solid waste classification policy in China	9
What are the roles of regional and local climate governance discourse and actors? Mediated climate change policy networks in Atlantic Canada	8
Electric regionalism: Path dependence, development, and the African power pools	8
Policy capacity and rise of data‐based policy innovation labs	8
Policy or scientific messaging? Strategic framing in a case of subnational climate change conflict	8
Public perception of Ghana's Free Senior High School policy: A north–south comparative analysis	8
Traveling AI‐essentialism and national AI strategies: A comparison between South Korea and France	8
Gap reduction and collaborative empowerment: How can farmland protection policies be effectively implemented? Based on the case study of Y County, China	8
Policy Instruments, Administrative Burdens, and Coproduction Preferences: Experimental Evidence From Household Waste Sorting	8
When cities take control: Explaining the diversity of complex local climate actions	8
Environmental racism and air pollution: Pre and post the COVID‐19 economic shutdown	8
Policy advisory systems and public policy making: Bibliometric analysis, knowledge mapping, operationalization, and future research agenda	8
Can different policy interventions work complementarily?—A survey experiment on policy compliance	8
Holding out the promise of Lasswell's dream: Big data analytics in public policy research and teaching	7
Characterizing allies and opponents in gender policy debates	7
The devil we know and the angel that did not fly: An examination of devil/angel shift in twitter fracking “debates” in NY 2008–2018	7
The politics of animal welfare: A scoping review of farm animal welfare governance	7
Gender equality in Swedish AI policies. What's the problem represented to be?	7
Policy instruments attitudes and support for government responses against Covid‐19	7
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What drives local communities to engage in climate change mitigation activities? Examining the rural–urban divide	7
Climate integration into sectoral policies: The case of the Brazilian biofuel policy RenovaBio	7
Pay to protect: Examining the factors of the use of market‐based instruments for local water sustainability	7
How do civil society organizations communicate in an authoritarian setting? A narrative analysis of the Russian waste management debate	7
Beyond regulatory capture: Policy entrepreneurs' strategies in regulatory policies under authoritarianism	6
Rethinking Climate Change Leadership: An Analysis of the Ambitiousness of State GHG Targets	6
Understanding innovation policy governance: A disaggregated approach	6
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How are emotions and beliefs expressed in legislative testimonies? An advocacy coalition approach	6
Market‐based instruments and research infrastructures	6
Administrative burden in digital public service delivery: The social infrastructure of library programs for e‐inclusion	6
Personal attributes and (mis)perceptions of local environmental risk	6
Presidential stories of fear: Focusing congressional climate change mitigation attention in the United States	6
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Smart home technology: Challenges and opportunities for collaborative governance and policy research	5

Local municipal capacity for climate change action in New York State: Exploring the urban–rural divide	5
Information and expertise in public policy	5
Judicial reasoning, individual cultural types, and support for COVID‐19 vaccine mandates	5
Policy beliefs, policy learning, and risk perception: Exploring the formation of local creative Placemaking‐catalyzed policy network	5
Avoiding the blame game: NGOs and government narrative strategies in landscape fire policy debates in Russia	5
How communities and policy instruments govern sustainability	5
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Toward an effective policy mix for domestic waste management in China: Interdepartmental cooperation as an enabler	5
The United States in Chinese environmental policy narratives: Is there a trump effect?	5
What do we know about opportunities and challenges for localities from Cannabis legalization?	4
Stories, emotions, and governmental strategies	4
The impact of policy legacies on the implementation of Citizen Income in Italy: A policy feedback perspective	4
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Gender equality frames do not impact public support for economic relief policy in times of crisis: A survey experiment	4
Bridging the ideological gap? How fairness perceptions mediate the effect of revenue recycling on public support for carbon taxes in the United States, Canada and Germany	4
Framing the climate crisis: Dread and fatalism in media and interest group responses to IPCC reports	4
Chinese‐style policy transfer: Adaptive niche cultivation in the genesis of China's science funding system	4
Frontiers of policy process research in China	4
Comparing regulatory processes in genome editing and autonomous vehicles: How institutional environments shape sociotechnical imaginaries	4
Chinese cultural biases, value congruence, and support for and compliance with protective policies during the COVID‐19 pandemic	4
Fact‐value framework for adjudicating public health policy debates	4
The advocacy coalition framework in Japan: Contributions to policy process studies and the challenges involved	4
A systematic review of public policy implementation during the Covid‐19 pandemic: Current topics and future directions	3
Deciding who decides: Trust and support for elected official, expert, and citizen decision‐making regarding nuclear waste management	3
Information asymmetry and vertical collective action dilemma: The case of targeted poverty alleviation in China	3
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Linking absorptive capacity and project performance in environmental uncertainty: A perspective on implementation arrangements	3
In search of the nexus between housing and pensions within the welfare package: A “regime” approach	3
Urban sustainability commitment: Actor constellations and motivations	3
Evaluating conflict in collaborative environmental governance: A study of environmental justice councils	3
The gift of mobility: Transfer networks of local decision‐makers and interlocal collaboration	3
Is hierarchy the only answer? The accountability preferences of Chinese public employees in public service delivery	3
Co‐optation in co‐production: Maintaining credibility and legitimacy in transboundary environmental governance in East Asia	3
A new typology for comparing scientific advisory committees. Evidence from the Italian response to the COVID‐19 pandemic	3
The effect of policy narratives on policy elite versus public preferences for hydraulic fracturing regulation	3
STIpolicy conventions in Uruguay. An analysis of political party platforms 2004–2019	3
Coordinating school improvement: Understanding the impact of state implementation approach on coordination in multilevel governance systems	3
COVID‐19 as an opportunity window for policy change; insights from electronic authentication case study in Iran	3
The transformative power of technological change for public policy	2
Winners and losers: Conflict management through strategic policy engagement	2
Introduction to the Special Issue on energy regionalism	2
Institutional shifts and punctuated patterns in digital policy	2
Creatively interpreting policy to move science forward: Implementing participatory technology assessment at NASA	2
Multi‐level governance in higher education quality assurance: Agencification and policy coordination in Spain	2
Abandoned mine land program: Examining public participation in decision‐making	2
Innovating Public Food Procurement: A Case Study of Dordogne's Path to Sustainability	2
Contextual responsiveness in U.S. local government climate policy	2
Cliquepolitik: Multimodal online discourse coalitions on CRISPR‐Cas genome editing technology	2
Assessing participatory process‐system linkages in polycentric water governance: Insights from WFD implementation in Germany	2
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Achieving cross‐sectoral policy integration in multilevel structures—Loosely coupled coordination of “energy transition” in the German “Bundesrat”	2
Uncovering the verticality and temporality of environmental policy mixes: The case of agricultural residue recycling in China	2
Policy process theories in autocracies: Key observations, explanatory power, and research priorities	2
Looking through a policy window with tinted glasses: Setting the agenda for U.S. AI policy	2
Carbon pricing and decoupling between greenhouse gas emissions and economic growth: A panel study of 29 European countries, 1996–2014	2
State infrastructural power in a neopatrimonialist democratization context: Why Tunisian sustainable land management fails	2
Polarization and frames of advocacy coalitions in South Korea's nuclear energy policy	2
Organized elite power and clean energy: A study of negative policy experimentations with renewable portfolio standards	2
Conditions Favoring the Reduction of Pesticides: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis of EU Member States	2
Framing market‐based versus regulatory climate policies: A comparative analysis	2
Citizen policy entrepreneurship in UK local government climate emergency declarations	2
The politics of piloting. The case of minimum income schemes in European cities	2
Politics of on‐demand food delivery: Policy design and the power of algorithms	2