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Evidence & Policy favourites of 2021

We wanted to share some of our readers' favourite content you might have missed. Please enjoy free access to some of our most read and highly cited articles, along with some of our editors’ top articles from recent issues.  

All articles below are free to access until 31 December 2021

Most Read of 2020

Making evidence and policy in public health emergencies: lessons from COVID-19 for adaptive evidence-making and intervention [Open Access]
Kari Lancaster, Tim Rhodes, Marsha Rosengarten

Rethinking knowledge translation for public health policy [Open Access]
Patrick Fafard and Steven J Hoffman

Opening up evidence-based policy: exploring citizen and service user expertise [Open Access]
Ellen Stewart et al.

Improving the use of evidence in legislatures: the case of the UK Parliament [Open Access]
David Christian Rose et al.

Evidence-based policy, knowledge from experience and validity [Open Access]
Jennifer Smith-Merry

Ones to Watch

Key issues in co-creation with stakeholders when research problems are complex [Open Access]
Gabriele Bammer

Rethinking knowledge translation for public health policy [Open Access]
Patrick Fafard and Steven J. Hoffman

Highly Cited

Drawing straight lines along blurred boundaries: qualitative research, patient and public involvement in medical research, co-production and co-design [Open Access]
Louise Locock and Annette Boaz

Reflections on the Researcher-in-Residence model co-producing knowledge for action in an Integrated Care Organisation: a mixed methods case study using an impact survey and field notes [Open Access]
Felix Gradinger et al.

Deep experiential knowledge: reflections from mutual aid groups for evidence-based practice
Tehseen Noorani, Magnus Karlsson and Thomasina Borkman

Co-creative approaches to knowledge production: what next for bridging the research to practice gap? [Open Access]
Allison Metz, Annette Boaz and Glenn Robert

Building trust and sharing power for co-creation in Aboriginal health research: a stakeholder interview study [Open Access]
Simone Louise Sherriff, Hilary Miller et al.

Building the concept of research impact literacy
Julie Elizabeth Bayley and David Phipps

A recipe for impact? Exploring knowledge requirements in the UK Parliament and beyond
Marc Geddes, Katharine Dommett and Brenton Prosser

EKLIPSE: engaging knowledge holders and networks for evidence-informed European policy on biodiversity and ecosystem services [Open Access]
Allan Watt, Gill Ainsworth et al. 

What can feminist theory offer policy implementation challenges?
Gemma Carey, Helen Dickinson and Sue Olney

Editors' Choice 

Analysing use of evidence in public policymaking processes: a theory-grounded content analysis methodology
Itzhak Yanovitzky and Matthew Weber

Does risk-based decision-making present an ‘epistemic trap’ for climate change policymaking?
Peter Tangney

Evidence reviews in energy and climate policy
Peter Warren

See also: Volume 15, February, 2019 our free sample issue.

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