| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Assessment, evaluations, and definitions of research impact: A review | Research Evaluation | 2014 | 353 |
| 2 | Characteristics of highly cited papers | Research Evaluation | 2003 | 352 |
| 3 | The Research Excellence Framework and the 'impact agenda': are we creating a Frankenstein monster? | Research Evaluation | 2011 | 334 |
| 4 | Introducing 'productive interactions' in social impact assessment | Research Evaluation | 2011 | 311 |
| 5 | What do we measure by co-authorships? | Research Evaluation | 2002 | 305 |
| 6 | Evaluation practices and effects of indicator use—a literature review | Research Evaluation | 2016 | 276 |
| 7 | Academic patenting in Europe: new evidence from the KEINS database | Research Evaluation | 2008 | 243 |
| 8 | Interdisciplinary research: meaning, metrics and nurture | Research Evaluation | 2006 | 192 |
| 9 | Evaluating research and innovation policy: a systems world needs systems evaluations | Research Evaluation | 2004 | 185 |
| 10 | Defining and assessing research quality in a transdisciplinary context | Research Evaluation | 2016 | 170 |
| 11 | Flows of knowledge, expertise and influence: a method for assessing policy and practice impacts from social science research | Research Evaluation | 2008 | 159 |
| 12 | Progressing research impact assessment: A ‘contributions’ approach | Research Evaluation | 2015 | 159 |
| 13 | A review of literature on evaluating the scientific, social and political impact of social sciences and humanities research | Research Evaluation | 2018 | 138 |
| 14 | Peer reviews and bibliometric indicators: a comparative study at a Norwegian university | Research Evaluation | 2004 | 137 |
| 15 | Intellectual capital reporting for universities: conceptual background and application for Austrian universities | Research Evaluation | 2004 | 135 |
| 16 | Toward a methodological scheme for capturing societal effects of participatory sustainability research | Research Evaluation | 2014 | 134 |
| 17 | State of the art in assessing research impact: introduction to a special issue | Research Evaluation | 2011 | 129 |
| 18 | Conservatism and risk-taking in peer review: Emerging ERC practices | Research Evaluation | 2012 | 128 |
| 19 | Academic patents as an indicator of useful research? A new approach to measure academic inventiveness | Research Evaluation | 2003 | 122 |
| 20 | Modifying publication practices in response to funding formulas | Research Evaluation | 2003 | 121 |
| 21 | Tracing 'productive interactions' to identify social impacts: an example from the social sciences | Research Evaluation | 2011 | 121 |
| 22 | The policy challenges of peer review: managing bias, conflict of interests and interdisciplinary assessments | Research Evaluation | 2006 | 119 |
| 23 | Accountability in context: effects of research evaluation systems on publication practices, disciplinary norms, and individual working routines in the faculty of Arts at Uppsala University | Research Evaluation | 2015 | 115 |
| 24 | The UK Research Assessment Exercise: the evolution of a national research evaluation system | Research Evaluation | 2007 | 113 |
| 25 | Mapping a research agenda for the science of team science | Research Evaluation | 2011 | 112 |
| 26 | Assessing the impact of transdisciplinary research: The usefulness of relevance, credibility, and legitimacy for understanding the link between process and impact | Research Evaluation | 2018 | 111 |
| 27 | Assessing expert interdisciplinary work at the frontier: an empirical exploration | Research Evaluation | 2006 | 110 |
| 28 | Ambiguity and conflict in the development of 'Third Mission' indicators | Research Evaluation | 2007 | 108 |
| 29 | Patent and publication activities of German professors: an empirical assessment of their co-activity | Research Evaluation | 2007 | 108 |
| 30 | Measuring and assessing researcher mobility from CV analysis: the case of the Ramón y Cajal programme in Spain | Research Evaluation | 2008 | 105 |
| 31 | Interdisciplinary dynamics of modern science: analysis of cross-disciplinary citation flows | Research Evaluation | 2000 | 104 |
| 32 | The impact of foresight on innovation policy-making: recent experiences and future perspectives | Research Evaluation | 2010 | 103 |
| 33 | Service marks as novel innovation indicator | Research Evaluation | 2003 | 101 |
| 34 | How interdisciplinary is a given body of research? | Research Evaluation | 2008 | 100 |
| 35 | The 'Payback Framework' explained | Research Evaluation | 2011 | 100 |
| 36 | Basic research and health: a reassessment of the scientific basis for the support of biomedical science | Research Evaluation | 2003 | 99 |
| 37 | Impacts of performance-based research funding systems: The case of the Norwegian Publication Indicator | Research Evaluation | 2015 | 98 |
| 38 | Knowledge exchange: A comparison of policies, strategies, and funding incentives in English and Scottish higher education | Research Evaluation | 2013 | 93 |
| 39 | Using curriculum vitae to compare some impacts of NSF research grants with research center funding | Research Evaluation | 2002 | 91 |
| 40 | Peer review and the ex ante assessment of societal impacts | Research Evaluation | 2011 | 90 |
| 41 | The representation of the social sciences and humanities in the Web of Science--a comparison of publication patterns and incentive structures in Flanders and Norway (2005-9) | Research Evaluation | 2012 | 89 |
| 42 | ASIRPA: A comprehensive theory-based approach to assessing the societal impacts of a research organization | Research Evaluation | 2015 | 89 |
| 43 | Why do academic scientists engage in interdisciplinary research? | Research Evaluation | 2005 | 87 |
| 44 | Thinking with indicators. Exploring the epistemic impacts of academic performance indicators in the life sciences | Research Evaluation | 2017 | 85 |
| 45 | Understanding societal impact through productive interactions: ICT research as a case | Research Evaluation | 2014 | 84 |
| 46 | Indicators as judgment devices: An empirical study of citizen bibliometrics in research evaluation | Research Evaluation | 2017 | 79 |
| 47 | Curriculum vitae method in science policy and research evaluation: the state-of-the-art | Research Evaluation | 2009 | 78 |
| 48 | Past performance, peer review and project selection: a case study in the social and behavioral sciences | Research Evaluation | 2009 | 77 |
| 49 | Counting quality? The Czech performance-based research funding system | Research Evaluation | 2015 | 77 |
| 50 | Societal impact evaluation: Exploring evaluator perceptions of the characterization of impact under the REF2014: Table 1. | Research Evaluation | 2015 | 77 |
