OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Review of Administrative Sciences is 5. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

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	81
How perceived social support encourages citizen coproduction: Evidence from government social media	44
Empathy, stress, and coproduction: Experience of public professionals in Chinese healthcare	42
The Braibant lecture 2025 – Next generation of administrative reforms: Empowering citizens	34
Multilevel power structure and local compliance with government transparency mandates: evidence from China's environmental transparency reform	32
Governance paradigms and public sector innovation: A comparative study	31
Adoption of digital government platforms in Chile: Evidence from a mandatory adoption context	29
In their own words: Police officers’ insights on identifying and overcoming contemporary policing challenges	20
Tab the lab: A typology of public sector innovation labs	17
Does top-down administrative regulation promote urban safety performance? A quasi-natural experiment with evidence of listed special supervision in China	15
Productive resistance in the frontline implementation of social programs: the Chilean case	14
Institutional geography: effects of physical distance on agency autonomy	13
Tax evasion and governance quality: The moderating role of adopting open government	13
Interpreting digital governance at the municipal level: Evidence from smart city projects in Belgium	12
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”	9
Meta-analysis in public administration research: An interdisciplinary perspective review in the age of open science	8
Book Review Hellmut Wollmann, Local Government and Governance in Germany: Challenges , Responses and Perspectives. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2024; 169	8
Do programme budget mechanisms improve the efficiency of public spending? Elements of theory and empirical data from Cameroon	8
The effect of fiscal expenditure on the economic growth of developing countries in West Africa	8
From classroom to bureaucracy: Assessing the alignment of public administration teaching with the public service profession	8
The grand challenge of public administration digitalization: The digital identity policy in Italy	8
Private consulting firms’ intervention in public health policymaking: An exploratory review	7
Chronicle of the International Institute of Administrative Sciences	7
“You’re gonna need a bigger boat”: Understanding politicization in the populist era	7

Implementation of artificial intelligence in public administration: Prospects and challenges of the digital era	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
Beyond dismantling: Institutional hardball tactics and the policy process under democratic backsliding	6
The effect of perceived organizational reputation on job satisfaction in US federal agencies: Exploring the mediating role of perceived organizational identity	6
e-Government development and environmental performance: Unravelling the dual mediation of regulatory enforcement and citizen participation in China	6
Damned if you do, damned if you don’t: The politics of pandemic preparation as a grand challenge	6
Meta-governance, uncertainty and self-organization in corporatist social service sectors: The case of Hong Kong	5
Advancing public administration research: integrating digital governance, institutional resilience, and participatory pathways for public value	5
Mapping the organizational design of policy innovation labs: A systematic literature review	5
Illiberal bureaucrats? A comparative study of illiberal attitudes among public and private workers in Europe	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	5
Co-production before, during, and after the first COVID-19 lockdown: The case of developmental services for youth with disabilities	5
Chronicle of the International Institute of Administrative Sciences	5
Local government transparency across the election cycle: Do text and numbers tell the same story?	5
Administrative reforms in Portugal and Spain: From bureaucracy to digital transition	5
Better data for budgetary surveillance: EU law on statistics as key to unlocking the potential of public sector accounting	5
Administrative burden reducing in China: The digital administration reform and government–business interaction	5