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 2021-05-01 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
What the public wants and how it is best served: forensic scientists’ perceptions of the drivers of public value creation	10
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
“You’re gonna need a bigger boat”: Understanding politicization in the populist era	9
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

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
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
Administrative reforms in Portugal and Spain: From bureaucracy to digital transition	7
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
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
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