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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

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	73
Multilevel power structure and local compliance with government transparency mandates: evidence from China's environmental transparency reform	61
Empathy, stress, and coproduction: Experience of public professionals in Chinese healthcare	36
The Braibant lecture 2025 – Next generation of administrative reforms: Empowering citizens	33
Tab the lab: A typology of public sector innovation labs	31
In their own words: Police officers’ insights on identifying and overcoming contemporary policing challenges	28
Governance paradigms and public sector innovation: A comparative study	27
Institutional geography: effects of physical distance on agency autonomy	26
Productive resistance in the frontline implementation of social programs: the Chilean case	24
Does top-down administrative regulation promote urban safety performance? A quasi-natural experiment with evidence of listed special supervision in China	16
Tax evasion and governance quality: The moderating role of adopting open government	16
A commentary on “Different strokes for different folks? The translation of public values into official meanings”	14
Like a bridge over troubled water: Wellbeing and trust in governance during turbulent times	13
Interpreting digital governance at the municipal level: Evidence from smart city projects in Belgium	12
Chronicle of the International Institute of Administrative Sciences	10
The effect of fiscal expenditure on the economic growth of developing countries in West Africa	9
The grand challenge of public administration digitalization: The digital identity policy in Italy	9
Book Review Hellmut Wollmann, Local Government and Governance in Germany: Challenges , Responses and Perspectives. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2024; 169	9
Do programme budget mechanisms improve the efficiency of public spending? Elements of theory and empirical data from Cameroon	9
What the public wants and how it is best served: forensic scientists’ perceptions of the drivers of public value creation	8
Meta-analysis in public administration research: An interdisciplinary perspective review in the age of open science	8
Implementation of artificial intelligence in public administration: Prospects and challenges of the digital era	7
Beyond dismantling: Institutional hardball tactics and the policy process under democratic backsliding	7
“You’re gonna need a bigger boat”: Understanding politicization in the populist era	7
Exploring the negative impacts of artificial intelligence in government: the dark side of intelligent algorithms and cognitive machines	7

Damned if you, damned if you don’t: The politics of pandemic preparation as a grand challenge	7
Private consulting firms’ intervention in public health policymaking: An exploratory review	7
Building local public action against a backdrop of ecological emergency: A public management paradigms-based approach	7
e-Government development and environmental performance: Unravelling the dual mediation of regulatory enforcement and citizen participation in China	7
Chronicle of the International Institute of Administrative Sciences	6
Meta-governance, uncertainty and self-organization in corporatist social service sectors: The case of Hong Kong	6
The civil service careers of university support staff and new public management: A qualitative study from Chile	6
Performance-related pay, fairness perceptions, and effort in public management tasks: a parallel encouragement design	6
The effect of perceived organizational reputation on job satisfaction in US federal agencies: Exploring the mediating role of perceived organizational identity	6
Comply while keeping your autonomy, or the art of managing paradox through dialogue	5
Advancing public administration research: integrating digital governance, institutional resilience, and participatory pathways for public value	5
Better data for budgetary surveillance: EU law on statistics as key to unlocking the potential of public sector accounting	5
The value of paired and longitudinal surveys in public administration research	5
Administrative reforms in Portugal and Spain: From bureaucracy to digital transition	5
Local government transparency across the election cycle: Do text and numbers tell the same story?	5
Local government’s response to dissatisfaction with centralized policies: the “do-it-yourself” approach	5