OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Review of Administrative Sciences is 6. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Staff recruitment and geographical representation in international organizations	53
Does process matter more for predicting trust in government? Participation, performance, and process, in local government in Japan	41
An analysis of foreign residents’ perceptions and behaviors regarding digital government portal services in the Republic of South Korea	40
Getting integrative urban regeneration strategies done: Insights from Antwerp and Gothenburg	32
Strategic alignment of open government initiatives in Andalusia	30
Governance and tax revenue: does foreign aid matter?	25
A comparative study of COVID-19 responses in South Korea and Japan: political nexus triad and policy responses	24
Information on local financial reforms and cognitive processes of citizens	24
Interconnected bureaucracies? Comparing online and offline networks during global climate negotiations	24
Financial autonomy in Spanish local governments: Empirical evidence of beta and sigma convergence	20
The autonomy and governance of mutual aid organizations for civil servants’ welfare	18
Twenty-five years of accountability research in public administration: Authorship, themes, methods, and future trends	18
How can subnational governments develop and deliver distinctive policy agendas?	17
A meta-analysis of how the culture and technical development level influence citizens’ adoption of m-government	17
Public trust in the Chinese government and life satisfaction during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic	17
Sustainable development goals in public administrations: Enabling conditions in local governments	16
Re-municipalization of local public services: incidence, causes and prospects	16
Rethinking marine plastics pollution: Science diplomacy and multi-level governance	15
Participatory budgeting and government efficiency: evidence from municipal governments in South Korea	14
Bureaucratic policy work and analytical capacities in central administrations in Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain: The results of a comparative survey	13
Organizational learning capacity and international development project success in West Africa: A case study	12
A transformative change through a coordination process and a steering agency. The case of the financial information system of the French central state	12
Transparency in the use of assets confiscated from mafia organizations	11
Relocation of public institutions and local public finance: Evidence from South Korea	11
Government choice between contract termination and contract expiration in re-municipalization: a case of historical recurrence?	11

Exploration of the technocratic mentality among European civil servants	11
Multilevel power structure and local compliance with government transparency mandates: evidence from China's environmental transparency reform	10
Successful remunicipalization processes in Italian waste management: Triggers, key success factors, and results	10
What's representation got to do with it? Comparing public reactions to diversity among government employees and government contractors	10
Street-level bureaucracy in weak state institutions: a systematic review of the literature	9
Transformational leadership and public employee performance: The mediating roles of employee participation and public service motivation	9
Editorial	8
In unsteady waters: How mayors and chief administrative officers make sense of a public service bargain in disequilibrium	8
Governing aid coordination in regional platforms: the G20 Compact with Africa case	8
Is bureaucracy ironclad after all? Prevalence and variances of performance- and strategy-oriented management in German local governments	8
Social value in public enterprises from the perspective of Creating Shared Value (CSV): The case of the Korea Expressway Corporation	7
In their own words: Police officers’ insights on identifying and overcoming contemporary policing challenges	7
Political trust in a multilevel polity: patterns of differentiation among more and less politically sophisticated citizens	7
A public sector financial management maturity model for developing countries: the case of Iran	7
Tab the lab: A typology of public sector innovation labs	7
The control of the policy advice industry: how patrons defer their decision-rights to think tank boards	7
Digitization and urban governance: The city as a reflection of its data infrastructure	7
Performance-related pay, fairness perceptions, and effort in public management tasks: a parallel encouragement design	6
Happiness in developing countries: can government competitiveness substitute for formal institutions?	6
Opportunity management of the COVID-19 pandemic: testing the crisis from a global perspective	6
Meta-governance, uncertainty and self-organization in corporatist social service sectors: The case of Hong Kong	6
Measuring red tape in a hospital setting: A survey experiment	6
Towards flexible evaluation schemes in areas with lacking information: a case of waste governance in Mexico	6
Smart criminal justice: Phenomena and normative requirements	6
Factors influencing political corruption. An empirical research study of regional governments	6