OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Responsible Innovation is 2. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Tooling with ethics in technology: a scoping review of responsible research and innovation tools	31
Practices and actions stimulating responsible digitalisation in Värmland	31
Towards transformative innovation ecosystems: a systemic approach to responsible innovation	30
Controversies and scandals as an RRI teaching and learning tool: beyond inspiring	25
Ethical, political and epistemic implications of machine learning (mis)information classification: insights from an interdisciplinary collaboration between social and data scientists	24
Knowledge needs of research ethics committees for the integration of ethics in research and technology development	22
Responsible innovation scholarship: normative, empirical, theoretical, and engaged	20
Bridging roles in responsible innovation systems: from transfer to relational knowledge	20
The ethical innovator: bridging the gap for integrating ethics into digital innovation practice	19
What’s wrong with global challenges?	19
On intersecting modes of responsibility in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand: a case for reimagining responsible innovation	17
Stop re-inventing the wheel: or how ELSA and RRI can align	17
Considering geographies of interdependence in responsible innovation	15
The effects of RRI-oriented roadmapping on the digital transformation of regions	15
Responsibility for managing values. The metaethical dilemma between normative absolutism and relativism	14
Correction	13
Engaging publics in science: a practical typology	12
Responsible impact and the reinforcement of responsible innovation in the public sector ecosystem: cases of digital health innovation	12
Dynamic capabilities and digital innovation: pathways to competitive advantage through responsible innovation	12
Framings of innovation, responsibility, and responsible innovation in China: insights from a case study undertaken with Chinese businesses	11
The ‘Metaverse’ and the challenge of responsible standards development	11
Nanoethics for the Plastocene: the value sensitive design of nanofiber materials	10
A comparative, sociotechnical design perspective on Responsible Innovation: multidisciplinary research and education on digitized energy and Automated Vehicles	10
Responding to difference in and for RI	10
Dual use concerns of generative AI and large language models	10

Living labs as orchestrators in the regional innovation ecosystem: a conceptual framework	10
Facilitating adoption of responsible innovation in business through certification	9
A human capability approach to transformative innovation policy. Theoretical insights and practical implications for directionality	9
‘We have opened a can of worms’: using collaborative ethnography to advance responsible artificial intelligence innovation	8
Opening up, closing down, or leaving ajar? How applications are used in engaging with publics about gene drive	8
Participatory design: lessons and directions for responsible research and innovation	8
The RRI map: making sense of responsible research and innovation in science education	8
The challenges of being an in-house AI ethicist and how to overcome them	8
Critiques from within. A modest proposal for reclaiming critique for responsible innovation	8
The need for more inclusive deliberation on ethics and governance in agricultural and food biotechnology	8
Co-creation in support of responsible research and innovation: an analysis of three stakeholder workshops on nanotechnology for health	8
Does entrepreneurship belong in the academy? Revisiting the idea of the university	8
If you are for market creation, you should be for market destruction! Ethics and the relations between exnovation and innovation for changing direction	8
Directing innovation towards just outcomes: the role of principles and politics	7
Nanoscientists’ perceptions of serving as ethical leaders within their organization: Implications from ethical leadership for responsible innovation	7
Responsible innovation is not comfortable: a call for grounded, embodied reflexivity when doing RI	7
He who gets slapped: how can clowning in film interrogate technoscientific culture and help enact the ideals of responsible innovation?	7
East in the West: Europeans rethinking RRI with the help of Daoist Philosophy	7
How to re-found RRI in a cosmopolitan world? A case study of BGI, the frontier genetic enterprise in China	7
From scandal to reform: approaches to research integrity at a turning point	7
Conceptualizing RRI from a Global South perspective through Indigenous innovation practices in Aotearoa New Zealand’s high-tech science sector	7
Voice from the Beehive: structuring and recording responsible innovation for novel technologies	7
Fostering actions for a sustainable future: critical reflections on the ‘ASF hub’ as a case study of experimental and innovative research governance	7
The uses of grand challenges in research policy and university management: something for everyone	6
Anticipation and its degrees of critical-reflective radicality: opening up the affordances of engaging with futures to problematize STI	6
Responsible innovation goes south: critique, othering, and a commitment to care	6
A directional dilemma in climate innovation	6
Infrastructuring citizenry in Smart City Vienna: investigating participatory smartification between policy and practice	5
If deliberation is the answer, what is the question? Objectives and evaluation of public participation and engagement in science and technology	5
Examining the legitimacy of inclusive innovation processes: perspectives from smallholder farmers in Uasin Gishu, Kenya	5
Scandal in scientific reform: the breaking and remaking of science	5
Against bureaucrapitalism: a response to Shanley and colleagues	5
Responsible business modelling for sustainability transitions: experiences in the German agri-food sector	5
Mobilizing capital for responsible innovation: the role of social finance in supporting innovative projects	4
Co-creation of social innovations for healthy ageing in rural Europe – a process evaluation of a volunteer-led guided conversation toolkit using Normalisation Process Theory (NPT)	4
Governing gene-edited crops: risks, regulations, and responsibilities as perceived by agricultural genomics experts in Canada	4
Examining funders’ roles in responsible research and innovation of medical neurotechnology	4
Frames, interests, and incentives – a typology of institutionalizing RRI in the business sector derived from ten pioneering projects	4
University responsible research and innovation and society: dialogue or monologue?	4
A model of social responsibility for start-ups: developing a cross-fertilisation of responsible innovation, the lean start-up approach, and the quadruple helix approach	4
The ‘urgencies’ of implementing an RRI approach in EU-funded law enforcement technology development: between frameworks and practice	4
Mismatched and misaligned: responsibility narratives in American research labs for synthetic biotechnologies	4
A conjunctural analysis of the origins of ‘embedded ELSI’ in U.S. genomic medicine	4
Putting Embedded Ethics and Social Science into practice: the role of peer-to-peer relationships	3
Exploring Responsible Research and Innovation in reputable agri-food cooperatives and the link to international orientation. An exploratory empirical case study in Spain	3
Trust in autonomous vehicles: insights from a Swedish suburb	3
Situating the social sciences in responsible innovation in the global south: the case of gene drive mosquitoes	3
From a land ‘down under’: the potential role of responsible innovation as practice during the bottom-up development of mission arenas in Australia	3
Toward a code of conduct for technology ethics practitioners	3
Defining success in community-university partnerships: lessons learned from Flint	3

Critique in, for, with, and of responsible innovation	3
A systemic perspective on bridging the principles-to-practice gap in creating ethical artificial intelligence solutions – a critique of dominant narratives and proposal for a collaborative way forwar	3
Public acceptance in direct potable water reuse: a call for incorporating responsible research and innovation	3
He Jiankui’s unprecedented offense and worrying comeback: how the CRISPR-babies scandal reshaped the legal governance of scientific research in China	3
Scientists need professional development to practice meaningful public engagement	3
Futures labs: a space for pedagogies of responsible innovation	3
Rethinking ‘responsibility’ in precision agriculture innovation: lessons from an interdisciplinary research team	3
New horizons, old friends: taking an ‘ARIA in six keys’ approach to the future of R(R)I	3
Is ‘digital transition’ a syntax error? Purpose, emergence and directionality in a contemporary governance discourse	3
Pluralizing RRI pedagogy: ‘cachando’ tactical lessons towards critical resistance for responsible research and innovation learning	3
It takes two to tango: toward a political concept of responsible innovation	3
Norwegian supply chain collaboration when it is urgent to reduce food waste: the relation between efforts for good outcomes and engaging in RRI process dimensions	3
Responsible innovation across societal sectors: a practice perspective on Quadruple Helix collaboration	3
Responsible innovation in venture creation and firm development: the case of digital innovation in healthcare and welfare services	2
Experimentation, learning, and dialogue: an RRI-inspired approach to dual-use of concern	2
Self-similarity and synthetic biology: a possible fractal anticipation	2
Trust, trustworthiness, and relationships: ontological reflections on public trust in science	2
Revisiting responsible innovation in the knowledge production of Islamic banking and finance	2
Responsible innovation at work: gamification, public engagement, and privacy by design	2
Ethics consultation for integrating ethics in technology readiness levels (TRL)	2
Thou Shalt Not! – How the institutional afterlife of research misconduct scandals shapes research integrity training	2
Technology assessment and the governance of automated vehicles: a Collingridge-dilemma or a lack in normative orientation?	2
Power to the Public: The Promise of Public Interest Technology	2
Putting visions in their place: responsible research and innovation for energy system decarbonization	2
Jointly navigating through RRI in practice: lessons from technology design	2
Looking beyond the ‘horizon’ of RRI: moving from discomforts to commitments as early career researchers	2
Renewable energy Living Labs through the lenses of responsible innovation: building an inclusive, reflexive, and sustainable energy transition	2
Responsible innovation in the age of science conspiracism	2
Humanizing RRI in mega engineering projects: insights from the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge project	2
Older people’s participation in responsible research and innovation. A qualitative study on motivation	2
Fostering responsible innovation with critical design methods	2
Toward institutionalization of responsible innovation in the contemporary research university: insights from case studies of Arizona State University	2
Implementing responsible innovation: the role of the meso-level(s) between project and organisation	2