OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Responsible Innovation 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Bridging roles in responsible innovation systems: from transfer to relational knowledge	36
Knowledge needs of research ethics committees for the integration of ethics in research and technology development	35
Controversies and scandals as an RRI teaching and learning tool: beyond inspiring	33
Practices and actions stimulating responsible digitalisation in Värmland	32
Tooling with ethics in technology: a scoping review of responsible research and innovation tools	28
Responsible innovation scholarship: normative, empirical, theoretical, and engaged	27
Ethical, political and epistemic implications of machine learning (mis)information classification: insights from an interdisciplinary collaboration between social and data scientists	25
Towards transformative innovation ecosystems: a systemic approach to responsible innovation	25
The ethical innovator: bridging the gap for integrating ethics into digital innovation practice	22
Considering geographies of interdependence in responsible innovation	20
On intersecting modes of responsibility in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand: a case for reimagining responsible innovation	20
From principles to practice: user inclusion in responsible innovation for digital healthcare	20
Stop re-inventing the wheel: or how ELSA and RRI can align	18
Correction	16
ELSA Labs for responsible AI: a novel approach for addressing ethical, legal, social issues	15
Framings of innovation, responsibility, and responsible innovation in China: insights from a case study undertaken with Chinese businesses	15
Responsibility for managing values. The metaethical dilemma between normative absolutism and relativism	15
Responsible impact and the reinforcement of responsible innovation in the public sector ecosystem: cases of digital health innovation	14
The ‘Metaverse’ and the challenge of responsible standards development	14
The effects of RRI-oriented roadmapping on the digital transformation of regions	14
Dynamic capabilities and digital innovation: pathways to competitive advantage through responsible innovation	14
Engaging publics in science: a practical typology	14
Responsible innovation as practiced by ceramic craftsmen in China	14
Nanoethics for the Plastocene: the value sensitive design of nanofiber materials	13
Living labs as orchestrators in the regional innovation ecosystem: a conceptual framework	12

Dual use concerns of generative AI and large language models	12
Responding to difference in and for RI	12
Towards societal alignment in the governance of human germline genome editing in the Netherlands	11
Facilitating adoption of responsible innovation in business through certification	11
A human capability approach to transformative innovation policy. Theoretical insights and practical implications for directionality	10
Participatory design: lessons and directions for responsible research and innovation	10
‘We have opened a can of worms’: using collaborative ethnography to advance responsible artificial intelligence innovation	9
Governing digital innovations for responsible outcomes – the case of digital healthcare and welfare services	9
Nanoscientists’ perceptions of serving as ethical leaders within their organization: Implications from ethical leadership for responsible innovation	9
From scandal to reform: approaches to research integrity at a turning point	9
The challenges of being an in-house AI ethicist and how to overcome them	9
Opening up, closing down, or leaving ajar? How applications are used in engaging with publics about gene drive	9
The need for more inclusive deliberation on ethics and governance in agricultural and food biotechnology	9
He who gets slapped: how can clowning in film interrogate technoscientific culture and help enact the ideals of responsible innovation?	9
Responsible innovation is not comfortable: a call for grounded, embodied reflexivity when doing RI	9
Critiques from within. A modest proposal for reclaiming critique for responsible innovation	9
Does entrepreneurship belong in the academy? Revisiting the idea of the university	9
The RRI map: making sense of responsible research and innovation in science education	9
If you are for market creation, you should be for market destruction! Ethics and the relations between exnovation and innovation for changing direction	9
Fostering actions for a sustainable future: critical reflections on the ‘ASF hub’ as a case study of experimental and innovative research governance	9
Voice from the Beehive: structuring and recording responsible innovation for novel technologies	8
A directional dilemma in climate innovation	8
Opportunities and challenges of multidisciplinary algorithmic impact assessments	8
How to re-found RRI in a cosmopolitan world? A case study of BGI, the frontier genetic enterprise in China	8
Directing innovation towards just outcomes: the role of principles and politics	8
East in the West: Europeans rethinking RRI with the help of Daoist Philosophy	8
Conceptualizing RRI from a Global South perspective through Indigenous innovation practices in Aotearoa New Zealand’s high-tech science sector	8
Responsible innovation goes south: critique, othering, and a commitment to care	7
The uses of grand challenges in research policy and university management: something for everyone	7
If deliberation is the answer, what is the question? Objectives and evaluation of public participation and engagement in science and technology	7
Responsible business modelling for sustainability transitions: experiences in the German agri-food sector	7
Scandal in scientific reform: the breaking and remaking of science	7
Anticipation and its degrees of critical-reflective radicality: opening up the affordances of engaging with futures to problematize STI	7
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)	6
Frames, interests, and incentives – a typology of institutionalizing RRI in the business sector derived from ten pioneering projects	6
Infrastructuring citizenry in Smart City Vienna: investigating participatory smartification between policy and practice	6
Examining the legitimacy of inclusive innovation processes: perspectives from smallholder farmers in Uasin Gishu, Kenya	6
A conjunctural analysis of the origins of ‘embedded ELSI’ in U.S. genomic medicine	6
Against bureaucrapitalism: a response to Shanley and colleagues	6
Mismatched and misaligned: responsibility narratives in American research labs for synthetic biotechnologies	6
The ‘urgencies’ of implementing an RRI approach in EU-funded law enforcement technology development: between frameworks and practice	6
University responsible research and innovation and society: dialogue or monologue?	5
Mobilizing capital for responsible innovation: the role of social finance in supporting innovative projects	5
Public acceptance in direct potable water reuse: a call for incorporating responsible research and innovation	5
New horizons, old friends: taking an ‘ARIA in six keys’ approach to the future of R(R)I	5
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	5
Governing gene-edited crops: risks, regulations, and responsibilities as perceived by agricultural genomics experts in Canada	5
‘De facto’ responsible innovation in early-stage ventures: the reinforcing role of impact investors	5
Exploring Responsible Research and Innovation in reputable agri-food cooperatives and the link to international orientation. An exploratory empirical case study in Spain	5
Situating the social sciences in responsible innovation in the global south: the case of gene drive mosquitoes	5

Examining funders’ roles in responsible research and innovation of medical neurotechnology	5
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	5
Is ‘digital transition’ a syntax error? Purpose, emergence and directionality in a contemporary governance discourse	5
Putting Embedded Ethics and Social Science into practice: the role of peer-to-peer relationships	5
From a land ‘down under’: the potential role of responsible innovation as practice during the bottom-up development of mission arenas in Australia	4
Toward a code of conduct for technology ethics practitioners	4
Rethinking ‘responsibility’ in precision agriculture innovation: lessons from an interdisciplinary research team	4
Critique in, for, with, and of responsible innovation	4
Trust in autonomous vehicles: insights from a Swedish suburb	4
Scientists need professional development to practice meaningful public engagement	4
Jointly navigating through RRI in practice: lessons from technology design	4
Responsible innovation across societal sectors: a practice perspective on Quadruple Helix collaboration	4
Digital ethics by design – a comprehensive evaluation of the design for values approach in practice	4
Pluralizing RRI pedagogy: ‘cachando’ tactical lessons towards critical resistance for responsible research and innovation learning	4
He Jiankui’s unprecedented offense and worrying comeback: how the CRISPR-babies scandal reshaped the legal governance of scientific research in China	4
Futures labs: a space for pedagogies of responsible innovation	4
It takes two to tango: toward a political concept of responsible innovation	4
Critiquing the direction for innovation: the interplay of why, how, and what	4
Mainstreaming responsible innovation in business: a systematic review of business ethics and innovation management literature	4
Defining success in community-university partnerships: lessons learned from Flint	4