OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Australian Journal of Public Administration is 1. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
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Activation through welfare conditionality and marketisation in active labour market policies: Evidence from Indonesia	28
Best person or best mix? How public sector managers understand the merit principle	18
Relational street‐level bureaucracy: Proximity policing and the construction of trust between citizens and municipal police officers in Nezahualcóyotl, Mexico	17
Collaborating in future states—Contextual instability, paradigmatic remaking, and public policy	16
From local innovation to national policy: Cross‐boundary policy entrepreneurship in China's health regulatory reform	15
Reshaping disaster management: An integrated community‐led approach	13
Collaboration risk, vulnerability, and resource sharing in disaster management networks	12
An update from the Editors of the Australian Journal of Public Administration	12
Deliberate disproportionate policy outcomes and regulating deforestation in Queensland, Australia	10
The role of authentic leadership on healthcare Street‐Level Bureaucrats’ well‐being during the pandemic	10
Issue Information ‐ TOC	9
‘We're trying to get out of here, that's what we're doing’: A Bourdieusian examination of ‘choice’ in the National Disability Insurance Scheme	9
Will return‐to‐office mandates prevent proximity bias for employees working from home?	9
Fiscal decentralisation and the attenuating effects of inter‐governmental transfers and economic development on corruption in China	9
Papua New Guinea's Public Services Commission since independence: Sidelined or strengthened?	8
Hybrid governance and welfare standards for broiler chickens raised for human consumption	8
Why do politicians employ public–private partnerships? Results from a mixed‐method study	8
Do ‘humble’ leaders help employees to perform better? Evidence from the Chinese public sector	8
Religion and public administration at the micro level: The lens of street‐level bureaucracy theory in democracies	7
A critical examination of data for market stewardship: The case of the Australian National Disability Insurance Scheme	7
Issue Information ‐ TOC	7
Reflecting on AJPA, 2015–2021: Revisiting the relationship between policy academics and public servants—Distances from learning	7
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The development of the Australian Unemployed Workers Union Rating Scale (AUWURS) of employment service providers	7

Who decides what works? Ethical considerations arising from the Australian Government's use of behavioural insights and Robodebt	7
How can local government be better supported to collaborate for community health and wellbeing?	6
Behavioural change and cultural evolution, rather than cultural change: Insights for Australian Public Service Reform	6
ChatGPT in public policy teaching and assessment: An examination of opportunities and challenges	6
How an intermediary model manages the tension between low contractibility and probity when outsourcing human services	6
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Indigenous institutions and local government in the Torres Strait	5
Policy success and failure in Australia	5
Hybridised public management: Introduction to the special issue	5
Can network analysis identify market problems in quasi‐markets? A proof‐of‐concept study on the National Disability Insurance Scheme	5
Risk analysis in social housing delivery: A public–private partnerships approach	5
Issues of cross‐sector service delivery in complex settings: Does the ‘public policy–implementation’ framework help?	5
Issue Information ‐ TOC	5
From theory to practice: Value congruence in performance measures in U.S. federal agencies	4
Not my debt: The institutional origins of Robodebt	4
Reducing the gap between rhetoric and reality: Use of Digital Service Standards for public service innovation through digital transformation in Australia	4
Leadership skills for regulators	4
The limits of voluntary measures: Packaging the plastic pollution problem in Australia	4
Fostering change: Using the co‐production of services by the state and non‐profits to combat violence within the Israeli Arab community	4
Issue Information ‐ TOC	4
Modelling the determinants of electronic tax filing services’ continuance usage intention	4
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Issue Information ‐ TOC	4
Administrative Burden Symposium: Introduction – Are we ‘administering inequality’ through our welfare systems?	4
Issue Information ‐ TOC	4
E‐participation for combating corruption, increasing voice and accountability, and developing government effectiveness: A cross‐country data analysis	4
Barriers to public sector innovation in Switzerland: A phase‐based investigation	4
Public sector innovation for sustainable development goals: A comparative study of innovation types in Thailand and Korea	3
Fear of missing out? Linking workplace changes and presenteeism	3
Issue Information ‐ TOC	3
Analysing policy success and failure in Australia: Pink batts and set‐top boxes	3
Co‐generated knowledge as a path for establishing research impact	3
Opportunities and challenges of using workforce big data: Insights from a mixed methods study on flexible working	3
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Is there a role for hybrid service provision in place‐based initiatives within the human services sector? Findings from an Australian exploratory study	3
What do ministers and their advisers say to the critics of Public–Private Partnerships? Results from a mixed‐methods study	3
Issue Information ‐ TOC	3
Citizen satisfaction with public services: A multi‐province study in Vietnam	3
Research use and publishing diversity: The role of organisation research publishing for policy and practice	3
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Hybridity as a governmental technique for designing and delivering NAPLAN in Australian schools	3
The Iranian policy advisory system: Contained politicisation and emerging technicisation	3
Cabinetisation or a Westminster solution? Understanding the employment of public servants in Australian ministers’ offices	3
Co‐design or top‐down welfare conditionality? An analysis of the impact of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander submissions to six parliamentary inquiries into the Cashless Debit Card	2
Back to the future: Reflections and predictions	2
Vale Gemma Carey: Warrior, scholar, friend	2
Addressing (in)equity through public policy and local governance systems: A case study of Queensland, Australia	2
A ‘fair go’ values framework for public policy	2
Innovating for the greater good: Examining innovation champions and what motivates them	2
How do street‐level organisations adapt to a new policy framework? Evidence from a Swiss canton	2

The role of Australian local government in economic development: Building international engagement capacity	2
The values dimension of policy success and failure: Considering two Australian rural adjustment policies	2
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Assessing immigration policy success in Australia	2
The influence of religious institutional logic in frontline work	2
Public servants working from home during the pandemic: Who gained and who lost?	2
Combining project and process management in PPP network: Relationship between management style and outcome	2
What is in a form? Examining the complexity of application forms and administrative burden	2
Issue Information ‐ TOC	2
Value co‐destruction in complex public service networks: Exploring the dynamics of value creation and destruction	2
Public management in turbulent times: COVID‐19 as an ecosystem disruptor	1
Why are individuals unwilling to report corruption? An inquiry into perception‐based definitions of corruption and employment‐related factors	1
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Understanding the costs of co‐commissioning: Early experiences with co‐commissioning in Australia	1
Children, COVID, and confusion: How frontline workers cope with the challenges of vaccine mandates	1
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Is ‘more’ better? Testing the assumption that larger local governments are more sustainable	1
Prioritisation in municipal service delivery management: An exploratory qualitative research study in Turkish municipalities	1
Building people up: Growth‐oriented leadership in the public sector	1
Knowing what not to know: Unravelling the dynamics of selective knowledge in government policymaking	1
South Australia's quiet multiculturalism: Elite perspectives of the policy success of immigrant multiculturalism from 2007 to 2017	1
How Green Banks can create multiple types of value in the transition to net zero emissions	1
Collective action and co‐production of public services as alternative politics: The case of public transportation in Israel	1
Examining organisational subcultures: Machinery of Government mergers and emerging organisational microcultures	1
Administrative burden alleviation and business ecosystem promotion: Evidence from China's company survey	1
The other side of the local government ledger—The association between revenue growth and population growth	1
How the political elite make decisions	1
Hard bargaining—Passing Commonwealth schools funding legislation through the Senate—Successful policy but political failure	1
The mixed effects of e‐participation on the dynamic of trust in government: Evidence from Cameroon	1
Introduction to the special issue ‘The implications of new public governance arrangements for street‐level organisations and bureaucrats’	1
Hybrid organisational form as a response to institutional complexity: The case of local municipally owned corporations in Lahore	1
Authentic leadership, psychological capital, acceptance of change, and innovative work behaviour in non‐profit organisations	1
U.S. against the world: Authoritarianism among American public servants	1
Rights‐based accountability in aged care organisations: The roles of beliefs and boundary controls	1
Governing hybrid organisations: Lessons from the provision of local sports facility services in 2020s Finland	1
Governmental implementation of information and communication technology at the local level: Digital co‐production during a crisis	1
Regulating digital mental health services in Australia: Strengthening oversight and clarifying complaints mechanisms	1
What influences public decision‐makers? An Australian case study	1
At a cost: A review of the public accountability risks of Social Impact Bonds	1
Where specialist and mainstream service systems collide: The National Disability Insurance Scheme in prisons	1
Assessing policy analytical capacity in contemporary governments: New measures and metrics	1
The negative relationships between employee resilience and ambiguity, complexity, and inter‐agency collaboration	1
Refining policies for financial stress	1
Policy on innovation in Australia: Divergence in definitions, problems, and solutions	1
The nature of measurement across the hybridised social sector: A systematic review of reviews	1
The concept of the strategic state: An assessment after 30 years	1
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A cogwheel model of dynamic capabilities: Evidence from an Australian university	1