OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Review of Administrative Sciences is 2. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
“Helping others as the key to achieving happiness”: The effect of social capital and public service motivation on subjective well-being among Chinese young adults	87
Tab the lab: A typology of public sector innovation labs	66
Empathy, stress, and coproduction: Experience of public professionals in Chinese healthcare	42
The Braibant lecture 2025 – Next generation of administrative reforms: Empowering citizens	28
In their own words: Police officers’ insights on identifying and overcoming contemporary policing challenges	26
Multilevel power structure and local compliance with government transparency mandates: evidence from China's environmental transparency reform	26
Institutional geography: effects of physical distance on agency autonomy	23
Bad government performance and citizens’ perceptions: A quasi-experimental study of local fiscal crisis	19
Does top-down administrative regulation promote urban safety performance? A quasi-natural experiment with evidence of listed special supervision in China	19
A commentary on “Different strokes for different folks? The translation of public values into official meanings”	17
Tax evasion and governance quality: The moderating role of adopting open government	17
The grand challenge of public administration digitalization: The digital identity policy in Italy	12
Administrative delegation revisited: Experimental evidence on the behavioural consequences of public service motivation and risk aversion	12
Interpreting digital governance at the municipal level: Evidence from smart city projects in Belgium	12
Like a bridge over troubled water: Wellbeing and trust in governance during turbulent times	12
Do programme budget mechanisms improve the efficiency of public spending? Elements of theory and empirical data from Cameroon	11
Chronicle of the International Institute of Administrative Sciences	10
Book Review Hellmut Wollmann, Local Government and Governance in Germany: Challenges , Responses and Perspectives. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2024; 169	10
The effect of fiscal expenditure on the economic growth of developing countries in West Africa	9
What the public wants and how it is best served: forensic scientists’ perceptions of the drivers of public value creation	8
Private consulting firms’ intervention in public health policymaking: An exploratory review	8
e-Government development and environmental performance: Unravelling the dual mediation of regulatory enforcement and citizen participation in China	7
Governance and tax revenue: does foreign aid matter?	7
Exploring the negative impacts of artificial intelligence in government: the dark side of intelligent algorithms and cognitive machines	7
Damned if you, damned if you don’t: The politics of pandemic preparation as a grand challenge	7

“You’re gonna need a bigger boat”: Understanding politicization in the populist era	6
Building local public action against a backdrop of ecological emergency: A public management paradigms-based approach	6
A meta-analysis of how the culture and technical development level influence citizens’ adoption of m-government	5
Meta-governance, uncertainty and self-organization in corporatist social service sectors: The case of Hong Kong	5
The civil service careers of university support staff and new public management: A qualitative study from Chile	5
Successful remunicipalization processes in Italian waste management: Triggers, key success factors, and results	5
Local government’s response to dissatisfaction with centralized policies: the “do-it-yourself” approach	5
The value of paired and longitudinal surveys in public administration research	5
The effect of perceived organizational reputation on job satisfaction in US federal agencies: Exploring the mediating role of perceived organizational identity	5
Performance-related pay, fairness perceptions, and effort in public management tasks: a parallel encouragement design	5
Chronicle of the International Institute of Administrative Sciences	5
Administrative reforms in Portugal and Spain: From bureaucracy to digital transition	4
Co-production before, during, and after the first COVID-19 lockdown: The case of developmental services for youth with disabilities	4
Attempts at making public sector accrual accounting and reporting useful and useable: The preparers’ perspective	4
Comply while keeping your autonomy, or the art of managing paradox through dialogue	4
Digitalization of public sector organizations over time: The applicability of quantitative text analysis	4
Lockdown, information quality, and political trust: An empirical study of the Shanghai lockdown under COVID-19	4
Better data for budgetary surveillance: EU law on statistics as key to unlocking the potential of public sector accounting	4
Fighting depopulation in Europe by analyzing the financial risks of local governments	4
Factors influencing political corruption. An empirical research study of regional governments	3
Assessing the role of gender-related aspects in public budgeting debates: A view of the central level in Germany	3
“Money is not an issue!”: Hospital CFOs’ narratives about handling a sudden shift in managerial focus	3
Public trust in the Chinese government and life satisfaction during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Public leaders’ organisational learning in times of recurring crisis and the role of public service motivation: a case study on local governments in Oromia Regional State, Ethiopia	3
Corruption risk analysis in local public procurement: a look at the Àrea Metropolitana de Barcelona	3
Exploring the relationship of administrative burden with doctors’ motivation and patients’ experience of care: Evidence from primary healthcare in Catalonia	3
Multidomain judging and administration of justice: evidence from a major emerging-market jurisdiction	3
What determines public affairs researchers’ motivations for policy impact? Results from an exploratory study	3
Editorial	3
The dark side of innovative work behavior: Turnover intention in public service and the moderating role of hierarchical organizational culture	3
In unsteady waters: How mayors and chief administrative officers make sense of a public service bargain in disequilibrium	3
‘Mind the board!’: Board efficacy, managerial role dilemmas and performance in municipally owned corporations	3
Transparency in the use of assets confiscated from mafia organizations	3
Policy advice utilization in Belgian ministerial cabinets: the contingent importance of internal and external sources of advice	3
Closeness to citizens as a source for political trust? A comparison of opinions on local parliaments and the European Parliament in 12 European regions	3
Bureaucratic policy work and analytical capacities in central administrations in Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain: The results of a comparative survey	3
Governing aid coordination in regional platforms: the G20 Compact with Africa case	3
The control of the policy advice industry: how patrons defer their decision-rights to think tank boards	3
Fiscal transparency and tax morale: is the relationship shaped by perceptions of government performance and corruption?	2
Eradicating extreme poverty in Africa through productive inclusion: A comparative assessment of two social protection programmes in Ghana	2
Rethinking marine plastics pollution: Science diplomacy and multi-level governance	2
Sustainable development goals in public administrations: Enabling conditions in local governments	2
Relocation of public institutions and local public finance: Evidence from South Korea	2
Seen but not partisan: Changing expectations of public servants in Westminster systems	2
Cross-country differences in implicit citizenship and servantship theories: Contrasting evidence from Germany and Taiwan	2
Information on local financial reforms and cognitive processes of citizens	2
Editorial	2
Top executives’ discretion and organizational performance: Analysis of quasi-governmental organizations in Korean government	2
Conceptualizing talent in public sector municipalities	2
A contextual analysis of local governments’ strategies for circular economy policies	2

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