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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Interconnected bureaucracies? Comparing online and offline networks during global climate negotiations	65
Tab the lab: A typology of public sector innovation labs	43
Towards flexible evaluation schemes in areas with lacking information: a case of waste governance in Mexico	35
Multilevel power structure and local compliance with government transparency mandates: evidence from China's environmental transparency reform	29
Digitization and urban governance: The city as a reflection of its data infrastructure	29
Social value in public enterprises from the perspective of Creating Shared Value (CSV): The case of the Korea Expressway Corporation	25
Bad government performance and citizens’ perceptions: A quasi-experimental study of local fiscal crisis	20
In their own words: Police officers’ insights on identifying and overcoming contemporary policing challenges	20
Tax evasion and governance quality: The moderating role of adopting open government	19
Understanding the impact of mandatory accrual accounting on management practices: interpretation of Japanese local governments’ behavior	16
Does top-down administrative regulation promote urban safety performance? A quasi-natural experiment with evidence of listed special supervision in China	15
Institutional geography: effects of physical distance on agency autonomy	13
A commentary on “Different strokes for different folks? The translation of public values into official meanings”	12
A stakeholder perspective on public sector innovation: Linking the target groups of innovations to the inclusion of stakeholder ideas	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	11
Like a bridge over troubled water: Wellbeing and trust in governance during turbulent times	11
Chronicle of the International Institute of Administrative Sciences	11
Private consulting firms’ intervention in public health policymaking: An exploratory review	10
Do programme budget mechanisms improve the efficiency of public spending? Elements of theory and empirical data from Cameroon	10
What the public wants and how it is best served: forensic scientists’ perceptions of the drivers of public value creation	10
Governance and tax revenue: does foreign aid matter?	9
Exploring the negative impacts of artificial intelligence in government: the dark side of intelligent algorithms and cognitive machines	9
A meta-analysis of how the culture and technical development level influence citizens’ adoption of m-government	9
“You’re gonna need a bigger boat”: Understanding politicization in the populist era	9

Meta-governance, uncertainty and self-organization in corporatist social service sectors: The case of Hong Kong	8
The effect of pay for performance on work attitudes in the private, public, and nonprofit sectors: A panel study from South Korea	8
Performance-related pay, fairness perceptions, and effort in public management tasks: a parallel encouragement design	8
The civil service careers of university support staff and new public management: A qualitative study from Chile	8
Successful remunicipalization processes in Italian waste management: Triggers, key success factors, and results	8
Smart criminal justice: Phenomena and normative requirements	8
Chronicle of the International Institute of Administrative Sciences	8
Innovative work behaviors and networking across government	7
Local government’s response to dissatisfaction with centralized policies: the “do-it-yourself” approach	7
The paradox of citizen grievances in China: an institutional logics perspective	7
Lessons from public administration for global governance: Conclusions of the special issue on “International Bureaucracy and the United Nations System.”	7
Administrative reforms in Portugal and Spain: From bureaucracy to digital transition	7
Introducing a digital tool for sustainability impact assessments within the German Federal Government: A neo-institutional perspective	6
Strategizing for grand challenges: economic development and governance traditions in Malaysian local government	6
Better data for budgetary surveillance: EU law on statistics as key to unlocking the potential of public sector accounting	6
Co-production before, during, and after the first COVID-19 lockdown: The case of developmental services for youth with disabilities	6
The effects of performance evaluation on punishment in organisations	5
Comply while keeping your autonomy, or the art of managing paradox through dialogue	5
Lockdown, information quality, and political trust: An empirical study of the Shanghai lockdown under COVID-19	5
Administrative convergence in the United Nations system? Patterns of administrative reform in four United Nations organizations over time	5
Policy advice utilization in Belgian ministerial cabinets: the contingent importance of internal and external sources of advice	4
Digitalization of public sector organizations over time: The applicability of quantitative text analysis	4
Do transparency mechanisms reduce government corruption? A meta-analysis	4
The unsustainable political economy of investor–state dispute settlement mechanisms¹	4
Multidomain judging and administration of justice: evidence from a major emerging-market jurisdiction	4
The dark side of innovative work behavior: Turnover intention in public service and the moderating role of hierarchical organizational culture	4
Fighting depopulation in Europe by analyzing the financial risks of local governments	4
The top-heavy shape of authoritarian bureaucracy: evidence from Russia and China	3
What determines public affairs researchers’ motivations for policy impact? Results from an exploratory study	3
Public trust in the Chinese government and life satisfaction during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic	3
The control of the policy advice industry: how patrons defer their decision-rights to think tank boards	3
Factors influencing political corruption. An empirical research study of regional governments	3
‘Mind the board!’: Board efficacy, managerial role dilemmas and performance in municipally owned corporations	3
Budget oversight in territorial autonomies: A comparative analysis of Hong Kong and Macao	3
Structures and functions of complex evaluation systems: comparison of six Central and Eastern European countries	3
Bureaucratic policy work and analytical capacities in central administrations in Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain: The results of a comparative survey	3
In unsteady waters: How mayors and chief administrative officers make sense of a public service bargain in disequilibrium	3
Eradicating extreme poverty in Africa through productive inclusion: A comparative assessment of two social protection programmes in Ghana	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
Assessing the role of gender-related aspects in public budgeting debates: A view of the central level in Germany	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
Governing aid coordination in regional platforms: the G20 Compact with Africa case	3
Exploring the relationship of administrative burden with doctors’ motivation and patients’ experience of care: Evidence from primary healthcare in Catalonia	3
Changes in public service motivation: Can public administration education help cultivate it?	2
Seen but not partisan: Changing expectations of public servants in Westminster systems	2
Rethinking marine plastics pollution: Science diplomacy and multi-level governance	2
Editorial	2
Corruption risk analysis in local public procurement: a look at the Àrea Metropolitana de Barcelona	2
Gender budgeting in public financial management: a literature review and research agenda	2

Conceptualizing talent in public sector municipalities	2
Information on local financial reforms and cognitive processes of citizens	2
Relocation of public institutions and local public finance: Evidence from South Korea	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
Public service-oriented work motives across Europe: A cross-country, multi-level investigation	2
Sustainable development goals in public administrations: Enabling conditions in local governments	2
The relevance of budget transparency for development	2
Relational dimensions, motivation and knowledge-sharing in healthcare: a perspective from relational models theory	2