OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Evidence & Policy is 3. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
The Midwifery Unit Self-Assessment (MUSA) Toolkit: embedding stakeholder engagement and co-production of improvement plans in European midwifery units	70
Policy advisory bodies during crises: a scoping review of the COVID-19 literature in Europe	51
Co-designing behavioural public policy: lessons from the field about how to ‘nudge plus’	44
Codesigning youth diversion programmes with community-led organisations: a case study	19
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	17
A comparative analysis of the roles and use of evidence in pharmacy policy in Australia	17
Breaking the Overton Window: on the need for adversarial co-production	16
Engineering advice in policy making: a new domain of inquiry in evidence and policy	14
Engaging refugee women and girls as experts: co-creating evidence on sexual exploitation and abuse in humanitarian crises using creative, participatory methods	12
Towards an agnotology of policy studies: identifying, understanding and addressing knowledge limitations in real world policymaking	12
‘Shooting in the dark’: implications of the research–practice gap for enhancing research use in adult social care	11
How perceptions of voter control affect politicians’ evaluations of expertise in the news: a survey experiment on the role of accountability beliefs	10
Contextual influences on the role of evidence in e-cigarette recommendations: a multi-method analysis of international and national jurisdictions	9
Examining research systems and models for local government: a systematic review	9
Understanding brokers, intermediaries, and boundary spanners: a multi-sectoral review of strategies, skills, and outcomes	9
Practical points of failure in police-university collaboration: reconceiving knowledge exchange	8
Meeting in brackets: how mental health policy travels through meetings	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
Improving research impact: lessons from the infrastructure engagement excellence standards	8
Use of research evidence in legislatures: a systematic review	8
Policies for evidence: a comparative analysis of Africa’s national evaluation policy landscape	7
Principles and related strategies for spinal cord injury research partnership approaches: a qualitative study	7
A framework to support the design and cultivation of embedded research initiatives	7
Connecting knowledge and action in complex health systems: examples from British Columbia, Canada	6
When academic impact is not enough: a concept mapping study characterising excellence in practice-based research	6

A gestalt shift? Reflections from researchers turned elected representatives on the real-world use of evidence in policy making	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
A constant learning curve in working towards integrated health policy: twelve years of practical experience at a Dutch municipality	6
The impact of knowledge brokering on nurses’ empathy with patients receiving cardiac care: an experimental study	6
Knowledge Utilisation Analysis: measuring the utilisation of knowledge sources in policy decisions	6
The Capabilities in Academic Policy Engagement (CAPE) programme in England: a mixed methods evaluation	6
Obstacles to co-producing evaluation knowledge: power, control and voluntary sector dynamics	5
Facilitating knowledge transfer during Australia’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout: an examination of ‘Functional Dialogues’ as an approach to bridge the evidence–policy gap	5
Measuring the health impact of Universal Basic Income as an upstream intervention: holistic trial design that captures stress reduction is essential	5
Mis-implementation of evidence-based behavioural health practices in primary care: lessons from randomised trials in Federally Qualified Health Centers	5
Historical knowledge mobilisation in a post-factual era in the United States	4
Consent, assent and randomised evaluations	4
Compatible bedfellows? Engaged scholarship entrepreneurship and policy impact	4
What works to promote research-policy engagement?	4
Breaking the glass in the ‘Overton Window’: the role of adversarial co-production	4
The production and utility of evidence synthesis during the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada: perspectives of evidence synthesis producers	4
The influence of public policy and administration expertise on policy: an empirical study	3
Bringing research into policy: understanding context-specific requirements for productive knowledge brokering in legislatures	3
Improving knowledge mobilisation in healthcare: a qualitative exploration of creative co-design methods	3
Research-policy engagement activities and research impact: nursing and health science researcher perspectives	3
The policy impact of entrepreneurship research: challenging received wisdom	3
Creating an action plan to advance knowledge translation in a domestic violence research network: a deliberative dialogue	3
Knowledge brokering inside the policy making process: an analysis of evidence use inside a UK government department	3
Bringing ‘Yotkom’ to northern Uganda: translating ‘health’ for those who need it most through a synthesis of clinical practice guidelines	3
Building entrepreneurial researcher capacity to increase positive changes in practice	3
How did UK policymaking in the COVID-19 response use science? Evidence from scientific advisers	3
Participatory-deliberative processes in UK policy making related to income insecurity as a determinant of health: a scoping review	3
Improving the influence of evidence in policy creation: an ethnographic study of the research-to-policy collaborative	3
Exploring the role of evidence-based educational resources and brokering in the wake of political trauma	3
Research assessment in a National Health Service organisation: a process for learning and accountability	3