OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Review of Policy Research is 7. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
The role of policy learning in explaining COVID‐19 policy changes	89
Power and politics in framing bias in Artificial Intelligence policy	87
Expert opinion and public support of genetically modified food policy: Does deficit model work in China?	43
Solutionism for the Many, Regulation for the Few: How Online Media Bundles the Policies on the Future of Work in Indonesia	43
Authority Versus Competition: Intergovernmental Interactions and Subnational Policy Adoption in Climate Policy	41
An item response approach to sea‐level rise policy preferences in a nascent subsystem	35
Measuring policy analytical capacity in renewable energy policy: Germany‐Japan‐US comparison	27
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Hydraulic fracturing, polarization, and environmental policy implementation	26
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A new beef: An analysis of discourse coalitions in the nascent cellular agriculture policy subsystem	24
Covering All the Bases: Domain Expansion and Typologies of Subnational Electric Vehicle Policies in the United States	23
Capacity‐Learning Paradox: How Hong Kong and Singapore's Crisis Responses Shape and Are Shaped by Policy Capacities	23
Apophenia in Policymaking: Exploring the Tendency to See Imaginary Patterns in Modern Governance	22
Competition and cooperation in artificial intelligence standard setting: Explaining emergent patterns	22
Revisiting the Core of Policy Feedback Theory: A Systematic Review	22
Conservation in conflict: Examining rural–urban discourse in wolf reintroduction policy in Colorado	20
Net‐zero carbon declarations by Japanese local governments: What caused the domino‐like diffusion?	20
How governance boundaries affect regional collaboration on atmospheric governance—Evidence from China's Yangtze River Delta	18
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Bureaucratic politics, innovation compatibility, and the dynamic diffusion of subnational decentralization reforms in China	16
Chinese Policy Responses to COVID ‐19, Trust in Government, and Cultural Worldviews	16
Unraveling the dynamics of information exchange in governance networks: Opportunity structures in anti‐corruption multi‐stakeholder partnerships	16
How Vaccine Mandates Emerged Without a Mandate: Testing Stream Independence in Vietnam's COVID ‐19 Response	16
The minimum marriageable age policy process in the United States: An advocacy coalition framework analysis	16

Matching forerunner cities: Climate policy in Turku, Groningen, Rostock, and Potsdam	15
What shapes the formation of interstate benchmarking networks?	15
Abandoning the Prize: Local Policy Termination of Science and Technology Awards in China	15
Muddle and Match: Narrative Coherence in United States Cybersecurity Policy	15
The narrative policy framework and institutions	15
Policy convergence in authoritarian regimes: A comparative analysis of welfare state trajectories in post‐Soviet countries	15
The persuasive role of the past: Policy feedback and citizens' acceptance of information communication technologies during the COVID‐19 pandemic in China	14
Building coalitions in a nascent subsystem: Investigating beliefs and policy preferences in Ugandan pesticide policy	14
Is it all about the government's early response? A configurational analysis of 27 cases in governing COVID‐19 in China	14
Knowledge is not power: Learning in polycentric governance systems	14
Support for the environment post‐transition? Material concerns and policy tradeoffs	13
Elements of Effective Public Policy: Evidence From Odisha Millets Mission, India	13
NEPA “Modernization”: From the Trump Administration to the Biden Administration	13
Issue Information	12
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When cities take control: Explaining the diversity of complex local climate actions	12
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Environmental racism and air pollution: Pre and post the COVID‐19 economic shutdown	12
Policy reinvention in diffusion: Evidence from municipal solid waste classification policy in China	11
Electric regionalism: Path dependence, development, and the African power pools	11
What are the roles of regional and local climate governance discourse and actors? Mediated climate change policy networks in Atlantic Canada	11
Correction to “Adaptability of Governance Structures and Processes for Sustainable Livestock in Jalisco, Mexico”	10
Narratives and Framing in Policy Making	10
Policy Instruments, Administrative Burdens, and Coproduction Preferences: Experimental Evidence From Household Waste Sorting	10
Policy advisory systems and public policy making: Bibliometric analysis, knowledge mapping, operationalization, and future research agenda	10
Traveling AI‐essentialism and national AI strategies: A comparison between South Korea and France	9
Policy capacity and rise of data‐based policy innovation labs	9
Policy Design, Diffusion, and Policy Instrument Attitudes	9
Gap reduction and collaborative empowerment: How can farmland protection policies be effectively implemented? Based on the case study of Y County, China	9
Can different policy interventions work complementarily?—A survey experiment on policy compliance	9
Public perception of Ghana's Free Senior High School policy: A north–south comparative analysis	9
Information Processing and Changes to Local Governments' Practices Amid Intensifying Environmental Hazards	8
Pay to protect: Examining the factors of the use of market‐based instruments for local water sustainability	8
Climate integration into sectoral policies: The case of the Brazilian biofuel policy RenovaBio	8
The politics of animal welfare: A scoping review of farm animal welfare governance	8
What drives local communities to engage in climate change mitigation activities? Examining the rural–urban divide	8
How Is Policy Attention Allocated in Crisis Recovery? A Qualitative Comparative Analysis of 31 Provincial Governments in China	8
Policy instruments attitudes and support for government responses against Covid‐19	8
How do civil society organizations communicate in an authoritarian setting? A narrative analysis of the Russian waste management debate	8
Issue Information	8
Vapid or Vague? Reassessing Media Within the Narrative Policy Framework	8
Administrative burden in digital public service delivery: The social infrastructure of library programs for e‐inclusion	7
Beyond regulatory capture: Policy entrepreneurs' strategies in regulatory policies under authoritarianism	7
Narrative Efficacy: The Empowering Feedback Effects of Policy Storytelling	7
Issue Information	7
Correction to “Narrative Coalitions and Strategies in the Policy‐Making for Iran's Startup Ecosystem: A Narrative Policy Framework Analysis”	7
Focusing Events, Agenda Setting, and Narrative Numbing	7
Gender equality in Swedish AI policies. What's the problem represented to be?	7
Personal attributes and (mis)perceptions of local environmental risk	7
Survey Experiments in Public Policy: A Systematic Literature Review	7

Characterizing allies and opponents in gender policy debates	7
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