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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Providing strategic information during a public health emergency: lessons learned during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany	63
The Midwifery Unit Self-Assessment (MUSA) Toolkit: embedding stakeholder engagement and co-production of improvement plans in European midwifery units	43
Training researchers to engage in policy in the United States: mapping the growth and diversity of programme models	31
Co-creation for Transformative Innovation Policy: an implementation case for projects structured as portfolio of knowledge services	15
Survey of academic staff and higher degree research students in a university school of health and rehabilitation sciences about practices, attitudes, knowledge and confidence in knowledge translation	15
Policy advisory bodies during crises: a scoping review of the COVID-19 literature in Europe	14
Mis-implementation of evidence-based behavioural health practices in primary care: lessons from randomised trials in Federally Qualified Health Centers	12
Promoting action on structural drivers of health inequity: principles for policy evaluation	11
A grounded theory on collaborative interactions in a community-university partnership: the case of youth in the public space	11
Embedding researchers into organisations: a study of the features of embedded research initiatives	11
What do advocates want from policy research? Evidence from elite surveys	10
Obstacles to co-producing evaluation knowledge: power, control and voluntary sector dynamics	10
Knowledge Utilisation Analysis: measuring the utilisation of knowledge sources in policy decisions	9
Systematic review finds processes used internationally, to update clinical guidelines, lack consistency and detail	9
Taking a policy process approach to illuminate the political nature of disability policymaking	8
Use of a knowledge exchange event strategy to identify key priorities for implementing deprescribing in primary healthcare in Nova Scotia, Canada	8
Facilitating knowledge transfer during Australia’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout: an examination of ‘Functional Dialogues’ as an approach to bridge the evidence–policy gap	7
Co-designing behavioural public policy: lessons from the field about how to ‘nudge plus’	7
Historical knowledge mobilisation in a post-factual era in the United States	7
Reconciling science and democracy: evidence-based policy as seen from the perspective of a role-based democratic theory	7
The evidence-based policy movement and political idealism	7
Measuring the health impact of Universal Basic Income as an upstream intervention: holistic trial design that captures stress reduction is essential	7
Compatible bedfellows? Engaged scholarship entrepreneurship and policy impact	6
Arts-based co-production in participatory research: harnessing creativity in the tension between process and product	6
Evidence, objectivity and welfare reform: a qualitative study of disability benefit assessments	6

Consent, assent and randomised evaluations	6
Peep show: a framework for watching how evidence is communicated inside policy organisations	6
Engaging knowledge users in Canadian knowledge mobilisation research: a scoping review of research in education	6
A comparative analysis of the roles and use of evidence in pharmacy policy in Australia	6
Engineering advice in policy making: a new domain of inquiry in evidence and policy	6
Academic knowledge brokering in local policy spaces: negotiating and implementing dynamic idea types	5
Breaking the glass in the ‘Overton Window’: the role of adversarial co-production	5
Framing the wider determinants of health and health inequalities: local stakeholder views in England	5
Breaking the Overton Window: on the need for adversarial co-production	4
Understanding the dynamics of research policy fellowships: an evaluative analysis of impacts and ecosystem effects	4
Municipal officials’ perspectives on policymaking for addressing obesity and health equity	4
Codesigning youth diversion programmes with community-led organisations: a case study	4
Engaging refugee women and girls as experts: co-creating evidence on sexual exploitation and abuse in humanitarian crises using creative, participatory methods	4
The organisation of evaluations: the influence of the ministry of finance on evaluation systems	3
Creative and collaborative reflective thinking to support policy deliberation and decision making	3
A new measure to understand the role of science in US Congress: lessons learned from the Legislative Use of Research Survey (LURS)	3
The silver bullet reversed: the impact of evidence on policymaker attention	3
He Ture Kia Tika/Let the Law Be Right: informing evidence-based policy through kaupapa Māori and co-production of lived experience	3
Insights from system leaders about operationalising a knowledge translation department in the Oman Ministry of Health	3
Entrepreneurial thinking: the politics and practice of policy impact	3
Does evaluation quality enhance evaluation use?	3
Understanding brokers, intermediaries, and boundary spanners: a multi-sectoral review of strategies, skills, and outcomes	3
Examining peer learning as a strategy for advancing uptake of evidence-based practices: a scoping review	3
Essential skills for using research evidence in public health policy: a systematic review	3
Disability and family violence prevention: a case study on participation in evidence making	3
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	3
Mock abstracts with mock findings: a device to catalyse production, interpretation and use of knowledge outputs in a university-policy-practice research partnership	3
Creative processes in co-designing a co-design hub: towards system change in health and social services in collaboration with structurally vulnerable populations	3
Improving evidence use: a systematic scoping review of local models of knowledge mobilisation	2
How are evidence and policy conceptualised, and how do they connect? A qualitative systematic review of public policy literature	2
Learning from failures in knowledge exchange and turning them into successes	2
Policy actors’ perceptions of qualitative research in policymaking: the case of higher education rulemaking in the United States	2
Towards an agnotology of policy studies: identifying, understanding and addressing knowledge limitations in real world policymaking	2
Cutting through the noise during crisis by enhancing the relevance of research to policymakers	2
How perceptions of voter control affect politicians’ evaluations of expertise in the news: a survey experiment on the role of accountability beliefs	2
‘We don’t make best use of art in public health’: lessons learned from co-producing a theatre performance to stimulate debate about Universal Credit	2
Evaluating Policy to Research Fellowship programmes	1
Co-production and arts-informed inquiry as creative power for knowledge mobilisation	1
How useful are equality indicators? The expressive function of ‘stat imperfecta’ in disability rights advocacy	1
What works to promote research-policy engagement?	1
Evidence-related framing in the German debate on sugar taxation: a qualitative framing analysis and international comparison	1
Knowledge brokering inside the policy making process: an analysis of evidence use inside a UK government department	1
Epistemological deliberation: the challenges of producing evidence-based guidelines on lifestyle habits	1
The critical factors in producing high quality and policy-relevant research: insights from international behavioural science units	1
Navigating boundaries in coproduced research: a situational analysis of researchers’ experiences within integrated knowledge translation projects	1
When evidence alone is not enough: the problem, policy and politics of water fluoridation in England	1
Ignoring evidence, producing inequities: public policies, disability and the case of Kaiowá and Guarani Indigenous children with disabilities in Brazil	1
Analysts, advocates and applicators: three discourse coalitions of UK evidence and policy	1
EDI in academic–policy engagement: lived experience of university based knowledge brokers and marginalised academics	1
Participatory budgeting for research funding decisions	1

Eliciting public values on health inequalities: missing evidence for policy windows?	1
Co-producing evidence-informed criminal legal re-entry policy with the community: an application of policy codesign	1
Towards (more) evidence-based ethics guidelines: devising the REIGN framework	1
Use of research evidence in legislatures: a systematic review	1
Why is lived experience important for market stewardship? A proposed framework for why and how lived experience should be included in stewarding disability markets	1
‘Shooting in the dark’: implications of the research–practice gap for enhancing research use in adult social care	1
Evidence-based practice and management-by-knowledge of disability care: rigid constraint or fluid support?	1
The production and utility of evidence synthesis during the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada: perspectives of evidence synthesis producers	1
Reviewer Acknowledgements	1
Examining research systems and models for local government: a systematic review	1
Social studies, technology assessment and the pandemic: a comparative analysis of social studies-based policy advice in PTA institutions in France, Germany and the UK during the COVID-19 crisis	1
Contextual influences on the role of evidence in e-cigarette recommendations: a multi-method analysis of international and national jurisdictions	1
The entanglement of employers and political elites in migration policymaking: the case of Brexit and the revival of UK horticulture’s guestworker scheme	1
Building consensus in research partnerships: a scoping review of consensus methods	1
Naturopaths’ behaviours, attitudes and perceptions towards the use of knowledge and information sources	1