OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Review of Administrative Sciences is 1. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

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	75
Tab the lab: A typology of public sector innovation labs	40
Empathy, stress, and coproduction: Experience of public professionals in Chinese healthcare	33
In their own words: Police officers’ insights on identifying and overcoming contemporary policing challenges	33
The Braibant lecture 2025 – Next generation of administrative reforms: Empowering citizens	32
Governance paradigms and public sector innovation: A comparative study	29
Multilevel power structure and local compliance with government transparency mandates: evidence from China's environmental transparency reform	24
Does top-down administrative regulation promote urban safety performance? A quasi-natural experiment with evidence of listed special supervision in China	17
Productive resistance in the frontline implementation of social programs: the Chilean case	16
Institutional geography: effects of physical distance on agency autonomy	13
Tax evasion and governance quality: The moderating role of adopting open government	12
Interpreting digital governance at the municipal level: Evidence from smart city projects in Belgium	10
Like a bridge over troubled water: Wellbeing and trust in governance during turbulent times	10
A commentary on “Different strokes for different folks? The translation of public values into official meanings”	10
Do programme budget mechanisms improve the efficiency of public spending? Elements of theory and empirical data from Cameroon	10
Book Review Hellmut Wollmann, Local Government and Governance in Germany: Challenges , Responses and Perspectives. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2024; 169	9
The effect of fiscal expenditure on the economic growth of developing countries in West Africa	9
The grand challenge of public administration digitalization: The digital identity policy in Italy	8
Meta-analysis in public administration research: An interdisciplinary perspective review in the age of open science	8
Chronicle of the International Institute of Administrative Sciences	8
Implementation of artificial intelligence in public administration: Prospects and challenges of the digital era	7
Private consulting firms’ intervention in public health policymaking: An exploratory review	7
e-Government development and environmental performance: Unravelling the dual mediation of regulatory enforcement and citizen participation in China	7
Beyond dismantling: Institutional hardball tactics and the policy process under democratic backsliding	7
Building local public action against a backdrop of ecological emergency: A public management paradigms-based approach	7

Exploring the negative impacts of artificial intelligence in government: the dark side of intelligent algorithms and cognitive machines	7
The effect of perceived organizational reputation on job satisfaction in US federal agencies: Exploring the mediating role of perceived organizational identity	6
“You’re gonna need a bigger boat”: Understanding politicization in the populist era	6
Meta-governance, uncertainty and self-organization in corporatist social service sectors: The case of Hong Kong	6
Damned if you do, damned if you don’t: The politics of pandemic preparation as a grand challenge	6
Chronicle of the International Institute of Administrative Sciences	6
Performance-related pay, fairness perceptions, and effort in public management tasks: a parallel encouragement design	6
Local government transparency across the election cycle: Do text and numbers tell the same story?	5
Lockdown, information quality, and political trust: An empirical study of the Shanghai lockdown under COVID-19	5
Administrative reforms in Portugal and Spain: From bureaucracy to digital transition	5
Advancing public administration research: integrating digital governance, institutional resilience, and participatory pathways for public value	5
The value of paired and longitudinal surveys in public administration research	5
The civil service careers of university support staff and new public management: A qualitative study from Chile	5
Comply while keeping your autonomy, or the art of managing paradox through dialogue	4
Illiberal bureaucrats? A comparative study of illiberal attitudes among public and private workers in Europe	4
The dark side of innovative work behavior: Turnover intention in public service and the moderating role of hierarchical organizational culture	4
Co-production before, during, and after the first COVID-19 lockdown: The case of developmental services for youth with disabilities	4
Better data for budgetary surveillance: EU law on statistics as key to unlocking the potential of public sector accounting	4
Policy advice utilization in Belgian ministerial cabinets: the contingent importance of internal and external sources of advice	4
Attempts at making public sector accrual accounting and reporting useful and useable: The preparers’ perspective	4
Administrative burden reducing in China: The digital administration reform and government–business interaction	4
Digitalization of public sector organizations over time: The applicability of quantitative text analysis	4
Fighting depopulation in Europe by analyzing the financial risks of local governments	4
In unsteady waters: How mayors and chief administrative officers make sense of a public service bargain in disequilibrium	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
Transparency in the use of assets confiscated from mafia organizations	3
“Money is not an issue!”: Hospital CFOs’ narratives about handling a sudden shift in managerial focus	3
Key sustainable success factors and peculiarities of publicly owned utilities: Multiple case studies in Italy	3
The control of the policy advice industry: how patrons defer their decision-rights to think tank boards	3
The emergence of Green Budgeting in public organizations: The challenges of a new environmental performance control system	3
Governing aid coordination in regional platforms: the G20 Compact with Africa case	3
What determines public affairs researchers’ motivations for policy impact? Results from an exploratory study	3
Assessing the role of gender-related aspects in public budgeting debates: A view of the central level in Germany	3
Public trust in the Chinese government and life satisfaction during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Corruption risk analysis in local public procurement: a look at the Àrea Metropolitana de Barcelona	3
Book Review: Futures for the Public Sector by Bouckaert, G., Hondeghem, A., Steen, T. and Van de Walle, S. BouckaertG.HondeghemA.SteenT.Van de WalleS.(ed	3
Eradicating extreme poverty in Africa through productive inclusion: A comparative assessment of two social protection programmes in Ghana	3
Editorial	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
Exploring the relationship of administrative burden with doctors’ motivation and patients’ experience of care: Evidence from primary healthcare in Catalonia	2
How does strategic foresight enhance policy capacities in the governance of grand challenges?	2
Cross-country differences in implicit citizenship and servantship theories: Contrasting evidence from Germany and Taiwan	2
Seen but not partisan: Changing expectations of public servants in Westminster systems	2
‘Mind the board!’: Board efficacy, managerial role dilemmas and performance in municipally owned corporations	2
Developing and validating a scale to measure perceived trust in public institutions: An approach aligned with Türkiye’s administrative context	2
Factors affecting chief executive officers’ managerial autonomy in municipally owned corporations: a qualitative study	2
Factors influencing political corruption. An empirical research study of regional governments	2
Fiscal transparency and tax morale: is the relationship shaped by perceptions of government performance and corruption?	2
Top executives’ discretion and organizational performance: Analysis of quasi-governmental organizations in Korean government	2

Rethinking marine plastics pollution: Science diplomacy and multi-level governance	1
Introduction to the special issue: Megatrends and grand challenges: The strategic organization of long-term and large-scale policy interventions	1
Editorial	1
Barriers to digital government and the COVID-19 crisis – A comparative study of federal government entities in the United States and Austria	1
Sustainable digitalization of cities? A spatiotemporal perspective on digital humanism	1
The effect of institutional trust on the relationship between social media as an information resource and policy non-compliance: Dutch survey evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic	1
Relocation of public institutions and local public finance: Evidence from South Korea	1
The devil in the details: Equalization in Italian municipal federalism	1
How procurement choices impact local governments’ budgeting capability: The case of children's social care	1
How does performance-based budgeting reform affect the extent of performance information use? An empirical study of Indonesia	1
Institutionalizing cross-sectoral linkages: The ‘Sectoral Corridor’ approach for strengthening social economy ecosystems	1
Administrative philosophies in the discourse and decisions of the New Zealand public service: is post-New Public Management still a myth?	1
A contextual analysis of local governments’ strategies for circular economy policies	1
Misunderstanding and misplaced confidence in a Japanese survey experiment: government financial reporting, content explanation, and participation	1
A slow-burning crisis: Executive relations and the normalisation of distrust in Northern Ireland's ‘cash for ash’ fiasco	1
Information on local financial reforms and cognitive processes of citizens	1
Institutions, policy learning and isomorphism: The case of biocidal regulation in South Korea	1
Sustainable development goals in public administrations: Enabling conditions in local governments	1
Streamlining governance: How the “One Matter Initiative” reduces administrative burden and optimizes the regulatory climate in cities	1