| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Dilemmas in a general theory of planning | Policy Sciences | 1973 | 10,934 |
| 2 | An advocacy coalition framework of policy change and the role of policy-oriented learning therein | Policy Sciences | 1988 | 2,514 |
| 3 | How safe is safe enough? A psychometric study of attitudes towards technological risks and benefits | Policy Sciences | 1978 | 2,056 |
| 4 | Overcoming the tragedy of super wicked problems: constraining our future selves to ameliorate global climate change | Policy Sciences | 2012 | 1,157 |
| 5 | The lessons of learning: Reconciling theories of policy learning and policy change | Policy Sciences | 1992 | 909 |
| 6 | What about the politics? Sustainable development, transition management, and long term energy transitions | Policy Sciences | 2009 | 811 |
| 7 | Policy without polity? Policy analysis and the institutional void | Policy Sciences | 2003 | 610 |
| 8 | Analyzing decentralized resource regimes from a polycentric perspective | Policy Sciences | 2008 | 551 |
| 9 | If planning is everything, maybe it's nothing | Policy Sciences | 1973 | 465 |
| 10 | (null) | Policy Sciences | 2002 | 450 |
| 11 | Governance modes, policy regimes and operational plans: A multi-level nested model of policy instrument choice and policy design | Policy Sciences | 2009 | 414 |
| 12 | Public participation in decision making: A three-step procedure | Policy Sciences | 1993 | 395 |
| 13 | Citizen participation and the democratization of policy expertise: From theoretical inquiry to practical cases | Policy Sciences | 1993 | 379 |
| 14 | COVID-19 and the policy sciences: initial reactions and perspectives | Policy Sciences | 2020 | 376 |
| 15 | Designing long-term policy: rethinking transition management | Policy Sciences | 2009 | 364 |
| 16 | Defining risk | Policy Sciences | 1984 | 345 |
| 17 | The role of governments in corporate social responsibility: characterising public policies on CSR in Europe | Policy Sciences | 2010 | 342 |
| 18 | Implementing transition management as policy reforms: a case study of the Dutch energy sector | Policy Sciences | 2009 | 332 |
| 19 | The dynamics of financial globalization: Technology, market structure, and policy response | Policy Sciences | 1994 | 298 |
| 20 | Toward a processual understanding of policy integration | Policy Sciences | 2016 | 270 |
| 21 | Policy and power: A conceptual framework between the ‘old’ and ‘new’ policy idioms | Policy Sciences | 2004 | 264 |
| 22 | From the ‘old’ to the ‘new’ policy design: design thinking beyond markets and collaborative governance | Policy Sciences | 2014 | 237 |
| 23 | The challenges of interdisciplinarity | Policy Sciences | 1999 | 233 |
| 24 | Adaptive management and adaptive governance in the everglades ecosystem | Policy Sciences | 2007 | 230 |
| 25 | The emerging conception of the policy sciences | Policy Sciences | 1970 | 225 |
| 26 | Analysing decentralised natural resource governance: proposition for a “politicised” institutional analysis and development framework | Policy Sciences | 2010 | 221 |
| 27 | Between knowledge and politics: Three faces of policy analysis | Policy Sciences | 1986 | 216 |
| 28 | The powers of problem definition: The case of government paperwork | Policy Sciences | 1989 | 213 |
| 29 | (null) | Policy Sciences | 2002 | 213 |
| 30 | Environmental performance and policy regimes: Explaining variations in 18 OECD-countries | Policy Sciences | 1998 | 211 |
| 31 | Policy making and collective action: Defining coalitions within the advocacy coalition framework | Policy Sciences | 1995 | 210 |
| 32 | The politics of decarbonization and the catalytic impact of subnational climate experiments | Policy Sciences | 2018 | 207 |
| 33 | Social movements and regulatory agencies: Toward a more adequate?and less pessimistic?Theory of ?clientele capture? | Policy Sciences | 1975 | 195 |
| 34 | Designing policies that intentionally stick: policy feedback in a changing climate | Policy Sciences | 2014 | 182 |
| 35 | Policy termination as a political process | Policy Sciences | 1976 | 178 |
| 36 | Understanding and influencing the policy process | Policy Sciences | 2012 | 174 |
| 37 | Policy design without democracy? Making democratic sense of transition management | Policy Sciences | 2009 | 167 |
| 38 | Policy analysis as a hermeneutic activity | Policy Sciences | 1982 | 166 |
| 39 | Agenda dynamics and the multi-level governance of intractable policy controversies: the case of migrant integration policies in the Netherlands | Policy Sciences | 2013 | 166 |
| 40 | De-agrarianization, re-agrarianization and local economic development: Re-orientating livelihoods in African artisanal mining communities | Policy Sciences | 2010 | 165 |
| 41 | Inter- and Transdisciplinary University: A systems approach to education and innovation | Policy Sciences | 1970 | 163 |
| 42 | Who teaches and who learns? Policy learning through the C40 cities climate network | Policy Sciences | 2012 | 163 |
| 43 | Beyond acceptable risk: On the social acceptability of technologies | Policy Sciences | 1982 | 153 |
| 44 | Diversity and constructive conflict in stakeholder dialogue: considerations for design and methods | Policy Sciences | 2012 | 151 |
| 45 | The rise of public sector innovation labs: experiments in design thinking for policy | Policy Sciences | 2018 | 151 |
| 46 | The communication of policy meanings: Implementation as interpretation and text | Policy Sciences | 1993 | 149 |
| 47 | The use and non-use of policy appraisal tools in public policy making: an analysis of three European countries and the European Union | Policy Sciences | 2008 | 148 |
| 48 | Greener and cleaner? The signaling accuracy of U.S. voluntary environmental programs | Policy Sciences | 2005 | 147 |
| 49 | One size does not fit all: Matching breadth of stakeholder participation to watershed group accomplishments | Policy Sciences | 2004 | 143 |
| 50 | (null) | Policy Sciences | 2002 | 142 |
