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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Responsible innovation scholarship: normative, empirical, theoretical, and engaged	52
Bridging roles in responsible innovation systems: from transfer to relational knowledge	44
Controversies and scandals as an RRI teaching and learning tool: beyond inspiring	41
Practices and actions stimulating responsible digitalisation in Värmland	38
Knowledge needs of research ethics committees for the integration of ethics in research and technology development	32
Ethical, political and epistemic implications of machine learning (mis)information classification: insights from an interdisciplinary collaboration between social and data scientists	30
Towards transformative innovation ecosystems: a systemic approach to responsible innovation	25
The ethical innovator: bridging the gap for integrating ethics into digital innovation practice	24
Tooling with ethics in technology: a scoping review of responsible research and innovation tools	24
On intersecting modes of responsibility in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand: a case for reimagining responsible innovation	23
Beyond critique	23
Considering geographies of interdependence in responsible innovation	22
Responsibility for managing values. The metaethical dilemma between normative absolutism and relativism	20
From principles to practice: user inclusion in responsible innovation for digital healthcare	20
Correction	20
Stop re-inventing the wheel: or how ELSA and RRI can align	20
Framings of innovation, responsibility, and responsible innovation in China: insights from a case study undertaken with Chinese businesses	19
Engaging publics in science: a practical typology	17
Responsible impact and the reinforcement of responsible innovation in the public sector ecosystem: cases of digital health innovation	16
The effects of RRI-oriented roadmapping on the digital transformation of regions	16
Dynamic capabilities and digital innovation: pathways to competitive advantage through responsible innovation	15
Nanoethics for the Plastocene: the value sensitive design of nanofiber materials	15
Living labs as orchestrators in the regional innovation ecosystem: a conceptual framework	15
ELSA Labs for responsible AI: a novel approach for addressing ethical, legal, social issues	15
Responsible innovation as practiced by ceramic craftsmen in China	15

Dual use concerns of generative AI and large language models	14
The ‘Metaverse’ and the challenge of responsible standards development	14
Responding to difference in and for RI	14
A human capability approach to transformative innovation policy. Theoretical insights and practical implications for directionality	12
‘We have opened a can of worms’: using collaborative ethnography to advance responsible artificial intelligence innovation	11
The RRI map: making sense of responsible research and innovation in science education	11
Governing digital innovations for responsible outcomes – the case of digital healthcare and welfare services	11
Critiques from within. A modest proposal for reclaiming critique for responsible innovation	11
Facilitating adoption of responsible innovation in business through certification	11
Towards societal alignment in the governance of human germline genome editing in the Netherlands	11
Does entrepreneurship belong in the academy? Revisiting the idea of the university	11
From scandal to reform: approaches to research integrity at a turning point	10
He who gets slapped: how can clowning in film interrogate technoscientific culture and help enact the ideals of responsible innovation?	10
If you are for market creation, you should be for market destruction! Ethics and the relations between exnovation and innovation for changing direction	10
The need for more inclusive deliberation on ethics and governance in agricultural and food biotechnology	10
Responsible innovation is not comfortable: a call for grounded, embodied reflexivity when doing RI	10
Voice from the Beehive: structuring and recording responsible innovation for novel technologies	10
The challenges of being an in-house AI ethicist and how to overcome them	10
Fostering actions for a sustainable future: critical reflections on the ‘ASF hub’ as a case study of experimental and innovative research governance	10
Reclaiming ‘responsible research and Innovation’ as a generative concept: lessons from China	10
A directional dilemma in climate innovation	9
Opportunities and challenges of multidisciplinary algorithmic impact assessments	9
Responsible innovation goes south: critique, othering, and a commitment to care	9
How to re-found RRI in a cosmopolitan world? A case study of BGI, the frontier genetic enterprise in China	9
Directing innovation towards just outcomes: the role of principles and politics	9
East in the West: Europeans rethinking RRI with the help of Daoist Philosophy	9
Taking care of ageing futures: reflections on a care-full, response-able praxis of co-design with older adults	8
Responsible business modelling for sustainability transitions: experiences in the German agri-food sector	8
Conceptualizing RRI from a Global South perspective through Indigenous innovation practices in Aotearoa New Zealand’s high-tech science sector	8
Anticipation and its degrees of critical-reflective radicality: opening up the affordances of engaging with futures to problematize STI	8
Endogenous innovation and change: community agency in two case studies in Ghana	8
Ethics in the Metaverse: responsible innovation as a pathway for policy and industry	8
Scandal in scientific reform: the breaking and remaking of science	8
Infrastructuring citizenry in Smart City Vienna: investigating participatory smartification between policy and practice	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)	7
Examining the legitimacy of inclusive innovation processes: perspectives from smallholder farmers in Uasin Gishu, Kenya	7
If deliberation is the answer, what is the question? Objectives and evaluation of public participation and engagement in science and technology	7
Frames, interests, and incentives – a typology of institutionalizing RRI in the business sector derived from ten pioneering projects	7
University responsible research and innovation and society: dialogue or monologue?	6
Examining funders’ roles in responsible research and innovation of medical neurotechnology	6
‘De facto’ responsible innovation in early-stage ventures: the reinforcing role of impact investors	6
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	6
The ‘urgencies’ of implementing an RRI approach in EU-funded law enforcement technology development: between frameworks and practice	6
Mobilizing capital for responsible innovation: the role of social finance in supporting innovative projects	6
Exploring Responsible Research and Innovation in reputable agri-food cooperatives and the link to international orientation. An exploratory empirical case study in Spain	6
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	6
Mismatched and misaligned: responsibility narratives in American research labs for synthetic biotechnologies	6
A conjunctural analysis of the origins of ‘embedded ELSI’ in U.S. genomic medicine	6
Governing gene-edited crops: risks, regulations, and responsibilities as perceived by agricultural genomics experts in Canada	6
Public acceptance in direct potable water reuse: a call for incorporating responsible research and innovation	6

Putting Embedded Ethics and Social Science into practice: the role of peer-to-peer relationships	5
Situating the social sciences in responsible innovation in the global south: the case of gene drive mosquitoes	5
Is ‘digital transition’ a syntax error? Purpose, emergence and directionality in a contemporary governance discourse	5
Critique in, for, with, and of responsible innovation	5
Progress by proxy: reflecting on the good life in the Anthropocene	5
Toward a ‘Good’ Anthropocene: navigating the vicious circle of technological progress and unintended consequences	5
Critiquing the direction for innovation: the interplay of why, how, and what	5
It takes two to tango: toward a political concept of responsible innovation	4
Rethinking ‘responsibility’ in precision agriculture innovation: lessons from an interdisciplinary research team	4
Multi-sided platforms as catalysts for responsible innovation in healthcare: Patient Innovation as a case-study	4
Pluralizing RRI pedagogy: ‘cachando’ tactical lessons towards critical resistance for responsible research and innovation learning	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
He Jiankui’s unprecedented offense and worrying comeback: how the CRISPR-babies scandal reshaped the legal governance of scientific research in China	4
Trust in autonomous vehicles: insights from a Swedish suburb	4
Futures labs: a space for pedagogies of responsible innovation	4
Defining success in community-university partnerships: lessons learned from Flint	4
Mainstreaming responsible innovation in business: a systematic review of business ethics and innovation management literature	4
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	4
Don’t kick my ladder: how China transduces de facto RRI in the governance of facial recognition technology	4
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