OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Review of Administrative Sciences is 7. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Tracing divergence in crisis governance: responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in France, Germany and Sweden compared	80
The journey of participatory budgeting: a systematic literature review and future research directions	45
Two routes to precarious success: Australia, New Zealand, COVID-19 and the politics of crisis governance	39
Opportunity management of the COVID-19 pandemic: testing the crisis from a global perspective	35
Understanding the evolution of open government data research: towards open data sustainability and smartness	31
High-stakes crisis management in the Low Countries: Comparing government responses to COVID-19	27
Gender budgeting in public financial management: a literature review and research agenda	24
A comparative study of COVID-19 responses in South Korea and Japan: political nexus triad and policy responses	24
Public governance, agility and pandemics: a case study of the UK response to COVID-19	23
Sustainable development goals in public administrations: Enabling conditions in local governments	23
Government technological capacity and public–private partnerships regarding digital service delivery: evidence from Chinese cities	22
Urban platforms as a mode of governance	21
Governing healthcare in India: a policy capacity perspective	20
Do transparency mechanisms reduce government corruption? A meta-analysis	18
Understanding drivers of illiberal entrenchment at critical junctures: institutional responses to COVID-19 in Hungary and Poland	18
A cascade of exclusion: administrative burdens and access to citizenship in the case of Argentina’s National Identity Document	17
The politics of crisis management by regional and international organizations in fighting against a global pandemic: the member states at a crossroads	17
Seeking opportunities from crisis? China’s governance responses to the COVID-19 pandemic	17
Country, sector and method effects in studying remunicipalization: a meta-analysis	17
Intergovernmental veto points in crisis management: Italy and Spain facing the COVID-19 pandemic	16
Innovative work behaviors and networking across government	16
Street-level bureaucracy in weak state institutions: a systematic review of the literature	15
Government choice between contract termination and contract expiration in re-municipalization: a case of historical recurrence?	15
Building administrative capacity for development: limits and prospects	15
Drivers of service delivery modes in Dutch local government: an analysis over time and across domains	14

Delegating diplomacy: rhetoric across agents in the United Nations General Assembly	13
Does process matter more for predicting trust in government? Participation, performance, and process, in local government in Japan	13
Discursive framing and organizational venues: mechanisms of artificial intelligence policy adoption	13
Participatory budgeting and government efficiency: evidence from municipal governments in South Korea	13
Re-municipalization of local public services: incidence, causes and prospects	12
The digital communication tools and citizens' relationship with local governments: a comparison of Georgian and Polish cities	10
Digitization and urban governance: The city as a reflection of its data infrastructure	10
Government spending and economic growth in the Middle East and North Africa region	9
Interpreting digital governance at the municipal level: Evidence from smart city projects in Belgium	9
Analysis of the perception of digital government and artificial intelligence in the public sector in Jalisco, Mexico	9
How citizens’ dissatisfaction with street-level bureaucrats’ exercise of discretion leads to the alternative supply of public services: the case of Israeli marriage registrars	9
How do international bureaucrats affect policy outputs? Studying administrative influence strategies in international organizations	9
Staff recruitment and geographical representation in international organizations	9
The unsustainable political economy of investor–state dispute settlement mechanisms¹	9
Rationale and process transparency do not reduce perceived red tape: evidence from a survey experiment	8
The relationship between public service employees’ personal resources and psychological well-being	8
Explaining sentiment shifts in UN system annual reporting: a longitudinal comparison of UNHCR, UNRWA and IOM	8
International bureaucracy and the United Nations system: introduction	8
Policy recommendations of international bureaucracies: the importance of country-specificity	8
From the participatory turn of administrations to the bureaucratisation of participatory democracy: study based on the French case	7
Policy capacity matters for capacity development: comparing teacher in-service training and career advancement in basic education systems of India and China	7
Smart criminal justice: Phenomena and normative requirements	7
Successful remunicipalization processes in Italian waste management: Triggers, key success factors, and results	7
Public–private partnership in a smart city: A curious case in Japan	7
External control mechanisms and red tape: testing the roles of external audit and evaluation on red tape in quasi-governmental organizations	7
Lessons from public administration for global governance: Conclusions of the special issue on “International Bureaucracy and the United Nations System.”	7
Strategic alignment of open government initiatives in Andalusia	7
Exploring the negative impacts of artificial intelligence in government: the dark side of intelligent algorithms and cognitive machines	7
Does psychological empowerment condition the impact of public service motivation on perceived organizational performance? Evidence from the US federal government	7
What brings contracting back in-house? A synthesis of international evidence	7
The effect of pay for performance on work attitudes in the private, public, and nonprofit sectors: A panel study from South Korea	7