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title: "Research ideas tagged policy"
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# Research ideas tagged “policy”

4 research idea notes tagged “policy”.

- [Vaccine allocation for the next pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/vaccine-allocation-for-the-next-pandemic.md) (2026-10-23, seed): Vaccine distribution, allocation, uptake and hesitancy appear on 55 recent papers, and 18 of them, mostly in operations research, carry a supply-chain or allocation keyword. The COVID-19 roll-out produced data on who got vaccinated when, and at what cost. What did the allocation models get right, and what would they change for next time? Tags: operations research, healthcare, policy.
- [Policing by camera and algorithm](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/policing-technology.md) (2026-10-23, seed): Policing, law enforcement and crime appear on 63 recent papers, with 18 in the last quarter against about 15 per quarter before, but only 12 carry a technology, surveillance, camera or algorithm keyword, and "predictive policing" on 3. Cameras, licence plate readers and risk scores are spreading fast. Do they cut crime, and at what cost to whom? Tags: economics, policy, technology.
- [Open data mandates and what gets shared](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/open-data-mandates.md) (2026-10-23, seed): Open data, data sharing and open science appear on 121 recent papers, with 36 in the last quarter against about 26 per quarter before, spread across every tracked field. Funders and journals now require data and code, and open government data portals have multiplied. Does the shared data get reused, and do mandates change what researchers study? Tags: science, data, policy.
- [What the aid cuts will show](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/foreign-aid-cuts.md) (2026-10-23, seed): Foreign aid, humanitarian aid and aid effectiveness appear on 69 recent papers, mostly in the economics journals, with no rise despite the largest aid cuts in decades in 2025. The cuts are a natural experiment that the earlier aid-effectiveness debate never had. Which programmes' loss shows up first in health, schooling and conflict? Tags: economics, development, policy.

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Research ideas tagged “policy”. Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 23, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/tags/policy

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@misc{scholar4ai-ideas-tags-policy,
  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {Research ideas tagged “policy”},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/tags/policy}},
  urldate = {2026-10-23},
  note = {Journal Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
}
```

License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).