OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Evidence & Policy is 1. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
The Midwifery Unit Self-Assessment (MUSA) Toolkit: embedding stakeholder engagement and co-production of improvement plans in European midwifery units	86
Policy advisory bodies during crises: a scoping review of the COVID-19 literature in Europe	56
Strengthening the role of third sector intermediary bodies in democratic governance: developing strategies with state and non-state actors	49
Codesigning youth diversion programmes with community-led organisations: a case study	22
A comparative analysis of the roles and use of evidence in pharmacy policy in Australia	21
Breaking the Overton Window: on the need for adversarial co-production	19
Pick of the crop: understanding the choice of scientific and experiential evidence in Swiss pesticide discourse	16
Engaging refugee women and girls as experts: co-creating evidence on sexual exploitation and abuse in humanitarian crises using creative, participatory methods	16
The disenchanted fairy godmother: comparing how and why evidence-based management and public service professionals influenced policy performance in public school and active labour market policy in Den	15
Towards an agnotology of policy studies: identifying, understanding and addressing knowledge limitations in real world policymaking	14
Examining research systems and models for local government: a systematic review	11
How perceptions of voter control affect politicians’ evaluations of expertise in the news: a survey experiment on the role of accountability beliefs	11
Understanding brokers, intermediaries, and boundary spanners: a multi-sectoral review of strategies, skills, and outcomes	10
‘Shooting in the dark’: implications of the research–practice gap for enhancing research use in adult social care	10
Meeting in brackets: how mental health policy travels through meetings	9
Use of research evidence in legislatures: a systematic review	9
Practical points of failure in police-university collaboration: reconceiving knowledge exchange	9
Contextual influences on the role of evidence in e-cigarette recommendations: a multi-method analysis of international and national jurisdictions	9
Improving research impact: lessons from the infrastructure engagement excellence standards	9
A constant learning curve in working towards integrated health policy: twelve years of practical experience at a Dutch municipality	8
A gestalt shift? Reflections from researchers turned elected representatives on the real-world use of evidence in policy making	8
A framework to support the design and cultivation of embedded research initiatives	8
The Capabilities in Academic Policy Engagement (CAPE) programme in England: a mixed methods evaluation	8
Issues arising from the study design, conduct, and promotion of clinical trials funded by opioid manufacturers: a review of internal pharmaceutical industry documents	8
When academic impact is not enough: a concept mapping study characterising excellence in practice-based research	7

The impact of knowledge brokering on nurses’ empathy with patients receiving cardiac care: an experimental study	7
Connecting knowledge and action in complex health systems: examples from British Columbia, Canada	7
Principles and related strategies for spinal cord injury research partnership approaches: a qualitative study	7
Compatible bedfellows? Engaged scholarship entrepreneurship and policy impact	6
Knowledge Utilisation Analysis: measuring the utilisation of knowledge sources in policy decisions	6
Facilitating knowledge transfer during Australia’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout: an examination of ‘Functional Dialogues’ as an approach to bridge the evidence–policy gap	6
Measuring the health impact of Universal Basic Income as an upstream intervention: holistic trial design that captures stress reduction is essential	6
Obstacles to co-producing evaluation knowledge: power, control and voluntary sector dynamics	6
Designing the Contemporary Implementation of Traditional knowledge and Evidence (CITE) framework to guide the application of traditional knowledge in contemporary health contexts: a Delphi study	6
Historical knowledge mobilisation in a post-factual era in the United States	6
Mis-implementation of evidence-based behavioural health practices in primary care: lessons from randomised trials in Federally Qualified Health Centers	6
Consent, assent and randomised evaluations	5
Breaking the glass in the ‘Overton Window’: the role of adversarial co-production	5
The production and utility of evidence synthesis during the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada: perspectives of evidence synthesis producers	5
What works to promote research-policy engagement?	4
The policy impact of entrepreneurship research: challenging received wisdom	4
Participatory-deliberative processes in UK policy making related to income insecurity as a determinant of health: a scoping review	4
The influence of public policy and administration expertise on policy: an empirical study	4
Improving the influence of evidence in policy creation: an ethnographic study of the research-to-policy collaborative	3
Improving knowledge mobilisation in healthcare: a qualitative exploration of creative co-design methods	3
Bringing research into policy: understanding context-specific requirements for productive knowledge brokering in legislatures	3
Bringing ‘Yotkom’ to northern Uganda: translating ‘health’ for those who need it most through a synthesis of clinical practice guidelines	3
Exploring the role of evidence-based educational resources and brokering in the wake of political trauma	3
How did UK policymaking in the COVID-19 response use science? Evidence from scientific advisers	3
Research-policy engagement activities and research impact: nursing and health science researcher perspectives	3
Research assessment in a National Health Service organisation: a process for learning and accountability	3
Knowledge brokering inside the policy making process: an analysis of evidence use inside a UK government department	3
From dissemination to engagement: learning over time from a national research intermediary centre (Four Fs)	2
Promoting action on structural drivers of health inequity: principles for policy evaluation	2
Training researchers to engage in policy in the United States: mapping the growth and diversity of programme models	2
A grounded theory on collaborative interactions in a community-university partnership: the case of youth in the public space	2
The epistemology of evidence-based policies and practices: a comment on ‘When is it justified to claim that a practice or policy is evidence-based? Reflections on evidence and preferences’ by Christia	2
‘What I really want is academics who want to partner and who care about the outcome’: findings from a mixed-methods study of evidence use in local government in England	2
Embedding researchers into organisations: a study of the features of embedded research initiatives	2
Building entrepreneurial researcher capacity to increase positive changes in practice	2
Productive interactions in a port city: a proximity approach to coordination in science-policy collaborations	2
Reconciling science and democracy: evidence-based policy as seen from the perspective of a role-based democratic theory	2
Essential skills for using research evidence in public health policy: a systematic review	2
Structuring sustainable knowledge brokering in street-level organisations	1
Knowledge mobilisation in orthopaedic surgery in England: why hierarchies of knowledge bear little relation to the hierarchy of evidence in professionally socialised groups	1
Knowledge Brokerage: The Musical: an analogy for explaining the role of knowledge brokers in a university setting	1
Co-producing evidence-informed criminal legal re-entry policy with the community: an application of policy codesign	1
The role of ‘non-knowledge’ in crisis policymaking: a proposal and agenda for future research	1
Analysts, advocates and applicators: three discourse coalitions of UK evidence and policy	1
He Ture Kia Tika/Let the Law Be Right: informing evidence-based policy through kaupapa Māori and co-production of lived experience	1
Peer reviewing power: a case for a European evidence ombudsman	1
Framing the wider determinants of health and health inequalities: local stakeholder views in England	1
Providing strategic information during a public health emergency: lessons learned during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany	1
Experiences and perceptions of evidence use among senior health service decision makers in Ireland: a qualitative study	1
Knowledge brokering organisations: a new way of governing evidence	1

Empathy is key: addressing obstacles to policy progress of ‘work-focused healthcare’	1
Science communication in Congress: for what use?	1
Evaluating Policy to Research Fellowship programmes	1
Building bridges in place of barriers between school practitioners and researchers: on the role of embedded intermediaries in promoting evidence-based policy	1
Cultivating ‘communities of practice’ to tackle civic policy challenges: insights from local government-academic collaboration in Leeds	1
Readiness of the Australian naturopathic medicine profession for evidence implementation: a cross-sectional study	1
National objectives, local policymaking: public health efforts to translate national legislation into local policy in Scottish alcohol licensing	1
Digital storytelling for policy impact: perspectives from co-producing knowledge for food system governance in South Africa	1
Corrigendum for ‘The influence of public policy and administration expertise on policy: an empirical study’ by Robin Haunschild, Kate Williams and Lutz Bornmann	1
The critical factors in producing high quality and policy-relevant research: insights from international behavioural science units	1
Building consensus in research partnerships: a scoping review of consensus methods	1
Creative processes in co-designing a co-design hub: towards system change in health and social services in collaboration with structurally vulnerable populations	1
Theorising a spectrum of reasons for failure in knowledge brokering: a developmental evaluation	1