OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Review of Public Personnel Administration 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Relationships Between Nonprofits’ Social Responsibility Structures and Employee Relations: A Multi-Level Approach	49
Can We Talk? An Exploratory Study of Gender and Network Ties in a Local Government Setting	41
Book Review: Civil service systems in East and Southeast Asia	35
Favoritism in the Federal Workplace: Are Rules the Solution?	34
Thinking “Outside the Box” Whilst Remaining “Inside the Box”: Do Rules and Procedures Demotivate Creativity and Innovation in the Public Sector?	30
Putting the Humanity Back Into Public Human Resources Management: A Narrative Inquiry Analysis of Public Service in the Time of COVID-19	28
A Moderated Mediation Model on the Relationship Among Public Service Motivation (PSM), Self-Efficacy, Job Satisfaction, and Readiness for Change	28
Pause But Not Panic: Exploring COVID-19 as a Critical Incident for Nonprofit Workers	26
Why Is Outsourcing Good for Some Employees and Bad for Others? How Demands and Resources Moderate the Outcome	24
Corrigendum to “Are we innovative? Increasing perceptions of nonprofit innovation through leadership, inclusion, and commitment”	24
A Tradition of Public Service in Families	22
The Impacts of Telework Options on Worker Outcomes in Local Government: Social Exchange and Social Exclusion Perspectives	18
Women’s Representation and Federal Employees’ Sexual Harassment Experience	17
Cognitive Uncertainty and Employees’ Daily Innovative Work Behavior: The Moderating Role of Ambidextrous Leadership	17
The Emotional Toll of the COVID-19 Crisis on Local Government Workers	15
Unbureaucratic Behavior in Times of Crisis: Rule-Breaking by Public Administrators	15
Halos, Performance Matching, and PSM: Experimental Evidence of Performance Appraisal Bias Among Korean Government Workers	13
Book Review: Maternity Leave: Policy and Practice	10
Leadership Ambition: The Gendered and Racialized Differences of Leadership Representation in Public Organizations	9
Managerial Challenges of Emotional Labor Disruption: The COVID-19 Crisis in Mexico	9
Unions, Monitoring, and Deferred Compensation: Evidence From California School Districts	9
When Destruction is the Goal	9
Telework and Public Employees’ Attitudes Post-Pandemic: Experimental Evidence From Italy	9
Do Motivated Public Servants Behave More Ethically?	9
Improving Local Government Performance Through the Use of Contract Workers: A Case From South Korea	9

Influence of Transactional Leadership, Transformational Leadership, and Leader Feedback on Reward Fairness, Organization Citizenship Behavior, and Job Satisfaction	8
Increasing Street-Level Bureaucrats’ Well-Being in Times of Crisis: A Survey Experiment With Two Social Belonging Interventions	8
Human Capital Drivers of Employee Intent to Innovate: The Case of Public Procurement Professionals	7
I’m Only Human: A New E-road to Advancing Social Equity Through a Humanist Approach to Mentoring in Public Service	7
Take (part) or Toss? Applying a Job Demands-Resources Lens to Public Leaders’ Motivation to Engage in Leader Training	7
Joining in With Leadership? A Survey of Leadership Behaviour and Identity of Non-Managerial Employees in Public Organizations	6
Emotionally Intelligent Street-Level Bureaucracies: Agenda Setting for Promoting Equity in Public Service Delivery	6
Workplace Disruption in the Public Sector and HRM Practices to Enhance Employee Resilience	6
Coping With, Or Recovering From COVID-19 Related Red Tape? Comparing Public Servants’ Strategies to Deal With the Health-Impairment and Demotivational Processes From Red Tape Through Well-Being on Per	6
Empowering Public Sector Employees With Disabilities: The Impact of DEIA Initiatives on Experience, Welfare, and Performance Confidence	6
Developing Perceived and Experienced Identity: How Leadership Training Affects Leadership Identity	6
Increasing the Effectiveness of Job Advertisements: How the Use of Imagery Language Impacts Perceived Organizational Attractiveness	6