OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Review of Policy Research 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
Introduction to the Special Issue on energy regionalism	47
Issue Information	36
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Tackling climate change on the local level: A growing research agenda	25
Politics of on‐demand food delivery: Policy design and the power of algorithms	24
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Winners and losers: Conflict management through strategic policy engagement	22
Comparing regulatory processes in genome editing and autonomous vehicles: How institutional environments shape sociotechnical imaginaries	21
Policy or scientific messaging? Strategic framing in a case of subnational climate change conflict	20
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Issue Information	18
Boom, bust, action! How communities can cope with boom‐bust cycles in unconventional oil and gas development	18
The transformative power of technological change for public policy	17
How does the use of evidence in policy narratives change during crises? A comparative study of New York City's pandemic school shutdowns	17
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The EU's carbon border adjustment mechanism: Shaped and saved by shifting multi‐level reinforcement?	15
What do we know about opportunities and challenges for localities from Cannabis legalization?	14
Performance ranking, span of control, and grassroots government responsiveness	14
The role of policy learning in explaining COVID‐19 policy changes	14
Measuring climate change adaptation policy output: Toward a two‐dimensional approach	13
Carbon pricing and decoupling between greenhouse gas emissions and economic growth: A panel study of 29 European countries, 1996–2014	13
Institutional environments and innovation in digital policy	13
How anger and fear influence policy narratives: Advocacy and regulation of oil and gas drilling in Colorado	12
What drives local communities to engage in climate change mitigation activities? Examining the rural–urban divide	11
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Policy capacity and rise of data‐based policy innovation labs	10
Expert opinion and public support of genetically modified food policy: Does deficit model work in China?	10
Polarization and frames of advocacy coalitions in South Korea's nuclear energy policy	9
Assessing participatory process‐system linkages in polycentric water governance: Insights from WFD implementation in Germany	9
Can different policy interventions work complementarily?—A survey experiment on policy compliance	9
Power and politics in framing bias in Artificial Intelligence policy	8
The politics of animal welfare: A scoping review of farm animal welfare governance	8
Policy implementation through performance measurement: A study of water pollution remediation in China's Huai River Basin	8
The evolution of mandated coordination in policy implementation: Evidence from China's central government agencies	8
Holding out the promise of Lasswell's dream: Big data analytics in public policy research and teaching	8
Gap reduction and collaborative empowerment: How can farmland protection policies be effectively implemented? Based on the case study of Y County, China	8
Chinese‐style policy transfer: Adaptive niche cultivation in the genesis of China's science funding system	7
Advancing theories of public policy for the analysis of environmental challenges across countries	7
Chinese cultural biases, value congruence, and support for and compliance with protective policies during the COVID‐19 pandemic	7
Issue Information	7
An item response approach to sea‐level rise policy preferences in a nascent subsystem	7
Gender equality frames do not impact public support for economic relief policy in times of crisis: A survey experiment	7
How do civil society organizations communicate in an authoritarian setting? A narrative analysis of the Russian waste management debate	7
Policy instruments attitudes and support for government responses against Covid‐19	6
Perception and performance in environmental policy	6
In search of the nexus between housing and pensions within the welfare package: A “regime” approach	6
Fact‐value framework for adjudicating public health policy debates	6
Complementarity of additionalities resulting from European Union funds: Perspective of the users of research infrastructures	6
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Evaluating conflict in collaborative environmental governance: A study of environmental justice councils	6
Issue Information	6
Hydraulic fracturing, polarization, and environmental policy implementation	5
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Measuring policy analytical capacity in renewable energy policy: Germany‐Japan‐US comparison	5
Technology transfer in economic periphery: Emerging patterns and policy challenges	5
At the controls: Politics and policy entrepreneurs in EU policy to decarbonize maritime transport	5
Policy responses and public reactions to risks	5
Framing the climate crisis: Dread and fatalism in media and interest group responses to IPCC reports	5
Issue Information	5
Stories, emotions, and governmental strategies	5
The interface between research funding and environmental policies in an emergent economy using neural topic modeling: Proposals for a research agenda	5
Wrestling with multiple accountabilities in times of crisis: Findings from the experiences of Chinese local governments in responding to COVID‐19	5
Programmatic action in Chinese health policy—The making and design of “Healthy China 2030”	5
Pay to protect: Examining the factors of the use of market‐based instruments for local water sustainability	5
Alternative policy narratives of the future of climate change: Analyzing Finland's energy and climate strategy and news reports	5
Contagious COVID‐19 policies: Policy diffusion during times of crisis	5
A new typology for comparing scientific advisory committees. Evidence from the Italian response to the COVID‐19 pandemic	4
Policy processes in authoritarian settings	4
Issue Information	4
Impact of public information campaign on citizen behaviors: Vignette experimental study on recycling program in South Korea	4
Narrative dynamics in European Commission AI policy—Sensemaking, agency construction, and anchoring	4
Policy learning and change during crisis: COVID‐19 policy responses across six states	4
“Countries you go, asylum adjudication you find.” Asylum appeals implementation arrangements, actors' discretion, and organizational practices	4
Natural laboratories in emerging countries and comparative advantages in science: Evidence from Chile	4
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	4

Government‐led innovation acceleration: Case studies of US federal government innovation and technology acceleration organizations	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
A Review of an Urban Living Lab Initiative	4