OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Evidence & Policy 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Making evidence and policy in public health emergencies: lessons from COVID-19 for adaptive evidence-making and intervention	66
To what extent does evidence support decision making during infectious disease outbreaks? A scoping literature review	38
Effective strategies that enhance the social impact of social sciences and humanities research	35
Defining brokers, intermediaries, and boundary spanners: a systematic review	23
What works to promote research-policy engagement?	20
What is co-production? Conceptualising and understanding co-production of knowledge and policy across different theoretical perspectives	20
The debate over rational decision making in evidence-based medicine: implications for evidence-informed policy	13
Embedding researchers into organisations: a study of the features of embedded research initiatives	13
Improving the use of evidence in legislatures: the case of the UK Parliament	13
The legitimacy of experts in policy: navigating technocratic and political accountability in the case of global poverty governance	12
The new evidence-based policy: public participation between ‘hard evidence’ and democracy in practice	10
Story, dialogue and caring about what matters to people: progress towards evidence-enriched policy and practice	10
Making authentic: exploring boundary objects and bricolage in knowledge mobilisation through National Health Service-university partnerships	9
Collective knowledge brokering: the model and impact of an embedded team	9
Evidence-based policy, knowledge from experience and validity	9
Knowledge, evidence, expertise? The epistemics of experience in contemporary healthcare	9
Why is lived experience important for market stewardship? A proposed framework for why and how lived experience should be included in stewarding disability markets	9
Exploring the value and role of creative practices in research co-production	8
Opportunities for youth participatory action research to inform school district decisions	8
A sociological treatment exploring the medical model in relation to the neurodiversity movement with reference to policy and practice	8
Creative processes in co-designing a co-design hub: towards system change in health and social services in collaboration with structurally vulnerable populations	7
Explaining variation in evidence-based policy making in the American states	7
Measuring the health impact of Universal Basic Income as an upstream intervention: holistic trial design that captures stress reduction is essential	7
A comparative ethnographic study of collective knowledge brokering across the syntactic, semantic and pragmatic knowledge boundaries in applied health research	7
Enabling knowledge brokerage intermediaries to be evidence-informed	6

Evidence to support delivery of effective health services: a responsive programme of rapid evidence synthesis	6
Fragile alliances: culture, funding and sustainability in police–academic partnerships	6
Using collaborative conceptual modelling as a tool for transdisciplinarity	6
The many faces of disability in evidence for policy and practice: embracing complexity	6
Improving knowledge mobilisation in healthcare: a qualitative exploration of creative co-design methods	6
Knowledge mobilisation in public service reform: integrating empirical, technical and practical wisdom	6
Risk, uncertainty and medical practice: changes in the medical professions following disaster	5
Understanding brokers, intermediaries, and boundary spanners: a multi-sectoral review of strategies, skills, and outcomes	5
Sharing confidential health data for research purposes in the UK: where are ‘publics’ in the public interest?	5
Knowledge mobilisation in orthopaedic surgery in England: why hierarchies of knowledge bear little relation to the hierarchy of evidence in professionally socialised groups	5
Understanding evidence use from a programmatic perspective: conceptual development and empirical insights from national malaria control programmes	5
Networks and evidence-based advocacy: influencing a policy subsystem	5
Opening up evidence-based policy: exploring citizen and service user expertise	5
Policies for evidence: a comparative analysis of Africa’s national evaluation policy landscape	5
Eliciting public values on health inequalities: missing evidence for policy windows?	5
Creative and collaborative reflective thinking to support policy deliberation and decision making	5
Co-designing behavioural public policy: lessons from the field about how to ‘nudge plus’	5
Evidence, objectivity and welfare reform: a qualitative study of disability benefit assessments	4
Principles and related strategies for spinal cord injury research partnership approaches: a qualitative study	4
‘Maybe we can turn the tide’: an explanatory mixed-methods study to understand how knowledge brokers mobilise health evidence in low- and middle-income countries	4
Policy actors’ perceptions of qualitative research in policymaking: the case of higher education rulemaking in the United States	4
The boundaries of Behavioural Insights: observations from two ethnographic studies	4
Exploring a non-universal understanding of waged work and its consequences: sketching out employment activation for people with an intellectual disability	4
When evidence alone is not enough: the problem, policy and politics of water fluoridation in England	4
Evidence-based practice and management-by-knowledge of disability care: rigid constraint or fluid support?	4
Arts-based co-production in participatory research: harnessing creativity in the tension between process and product	4
National objectives, local policymaking: public health efforts to translate national legislation into local policy in Scottish alcohol licensing	4
A framework to support the design and cultivation of embedded research initiatives	4
Cutting through the noise during crisis by enhancing the relevance of research to policymakers	4
Co-production and arts-informed inquiry as creative power for knowledge mobilisation	4