OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Government Information Quarterly is 8. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Decentralising the patent system	231
Nothing but symbolic: Chinese new authoritarianism, smart government, and the challenge of multi-level governance	150
Examining the antecedents and outcomes of smart government usage: An integrated model	99
Combining shallow and deep learning approaches against data scarcity in legal domains	96
The dynamics of AI capability and its influence on public value creation of AI within public administration	96
The effect of crowdsourcing on organizational learning: Evidence from local governments	89
Paradoxical digital inclusion: The mixed blessing of street-level intermediaries in reducing administrative burden	84
Understanding issues with stakeholders participation processes : A conceptual model of SPPs' dimensions of issues	76
Measuring the effect of political alignment, platforms, and fake news consumption on voter concern for election processes	75
Editorial Board	74
Towards a multicentric quality framework for legal information portals: An application to the DACH region	73
The role of digital technologies in global climate negotiations	73
Platform, or technology project? A spectrum of six strategic ‘plays’ from UK government IT initiatives and their implications for policy	70
Sensemaking and social processes in digital government projects	64
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure – Building capacities for the use of big data algorithm systems (BDAS) in early crisis detection	64
Improving the assessment of digital services in government websites: Evidence from the Mexican State government portals ranking	57
Digital government transformation as an organizational response to the COVID-19 pandemic	53
An attention-based view of AI assimilation in public sector organizations: The case of Saudi Arabia	51
Government-led and Internet-empowered citizen participation in China's policymaking: A case study of the Shanghai 2035 Master Plan	47
Governance networks that strengthen older adults' digital inclusion: The challenges of metagovernance	47
Social media use for work during non-work hours and work engagement: Effects of work-family conflict and public service motivation	46
Diplomacy under fire: Engagement with governmental versus non-governmental messages on social media during armed conflicts	45
Creating a workforce of fatigued cynics? A randomized controlled trial of implementing an algorithmic decision-making support tool	45
Spreading the word? European Union agencies and social media attention	44
We shall endure: Exploring the impact of government information quality and partisanship on citizens' well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic	38

Enhancing the adoption of digital public services: Evidence from a large-scale field experiment	37
Beyond the box: Reflections on the need for more blue sky thinking in research	36
Open government data from a legal perspective: An AI-driven systematic literature review	36
Exploring the potential and limits of digital tools for inclusive regulatory engagement with citizens	36
Understanding citizens' perception of government fiscal information through a survey experiment	35
The construction of self-sovereign identity: Extending the interpretive flexibility of technology towards institutions	35
Artificial Intelligence for data-driven decision-making and governance in public affairs	35
Government to business e-services – A systematic literature review	34
Co-production in digital transformation of public administration and public value creation: The case of Denmark	32
Trends and challenges of e-government chatbots: Advances in exploring open government data and citizen participation content	31
An ecosystem perspective on developing data collaboratives for addressing societal issues: The role of conveners	31
Machine learning for predicting elections in Latin America based on social media engagement and polls	31
Digital transparency and citizen participation: Evidence from the online crowdsourcing platform of the City of Sacramento	30
Artificial intelligence for the public sector: results of landscaping the use of AI in government across the European Union	29
Data-driven government: Cross-case comparison of data stewardship in data ecosystems	28
Artificial intelligence in local government services: Public perceptions from Australia and Hong Kong	28
Artificial intelligence in public services: When and why citizens accept its usage	28
Understanding the antecedents of privacy fatigue in facial recognition-based m-Gov services: An empirical study from China	28
Public engagement and AI: A values analysis of national strategies	28
Open government data and self-efficacy: The empirical evidence of micro foundation via survey experiments	27
Overcompliance and reluctance to make decisions: Exploring warning systems in support of public managers	27
Coping with digital transformation in frontline public services: A study of user adaptation in policing	27
Big data analytics, resource orchestration, and digital sustainability: A case study of smart city development	27
Digital transformation toward AI-augmented public administration: The perception of government employees and the willingness to use AI in government	27
Regulating generative AI: The limits of technology-neutral regulatory frameworks. Insights from Italy's intervention on ChatGPT	26
Editorial Board	26
Ironies of automation and their implications for public service automation	26
The impact of legacy systems on digital transformation in European public administration: Lesson learned from a multi case analysis	26
Organizational maturity for co-creation: Towards a multi-attribute decision support model for public organizations	25
A user-centred analysis of decision support requirements in legal informatics	24
Critical constraints on high performance of provincial E-governments in China: A necessary condition analysis	24
Understanding the key factors and configurational paths of the open government data performance: Based on fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis	23
Persuasion, information technology, and the environmental citizen: An empirical study of the persuasion effectiveness of city applications	23
Government transparency: Monitoring public policy accumulation and administrative overload	23
How do citizens perceive the use of Artificial Intelligence in public sector decisions?	23
A conceptual digital policy framework via mixed-methods approach: Navigating public value for value-driven digital transformation	22
Comparison of personal information de-identification policies and laws within the EU, the US, Japan, and South Korea	22
Modalities of monitoring: Evidence from cameras and recorders in policing	21
Editorial Board	21
The diffusion of public eServices in European cities	20
The implementation of an e-archive to facilitate open data publication and the use of common specifications: A case of three Swedish agencies	20
Revisiting social media institutionalization in government. An empirical analysis of barriers	20
Institutional challenges in agile adoption: Evidence from a public sector IT project	19
Designing boundary resources in digital government platforms for collaborative service innovation	19
Unpacking the digitalisation of public services: Configuring work during automation in local government	18
The role of municipal digital services in advancing rural resilience	18
Does government social media promote users' information security behavior towards COVID-19 scams? Cultivation effects and protective motivations	18
Blockchain governance in the public sector: A conceptual framework for public management	18
Locating information systems in the freedom of information process	18
The divergent effects of agent-controlled transparency on corruption latency: Evidence from China	17

Political determinants in the strategic planning formulation of smart initiatives	17
Does political extremity harm the ability to identify online information validity? Testing the impact of polarisation through online experiments	17
How to promote AI in the US federal government: Insights from policy process frameworks	17
Regulating artificial intelligence: Proposal for a global solution	17
To fee or not to fee: Requester attitudes toward freedom of information charges	16
Proactivity in digital public services: A conceptual analysis	16
The moon, the ghetto and artificial intelligence: Reducing systemic racism in computational algorithms	16
Sustainability challenges of artificial intelligence and Citizens' regulatory preferences	16
A stigma power perspective on digital government service avoidance	16
Joining the open government partnership initiative: An empirical analysis of diffusion effects	16
Transforming towards inclusion-by-design: Information system design principles shaping data-driven financial inclusiveness	15
The impact of chatbots on public service provision: A qualitative interview study with citizens and public service providers	15
Determinants of digital innovation in the public sector	15
Open Government Data (OGD) as a catalyst for smart city development: Empirical evidence from Chinese cities	15
Playing the telephone game in a multilevel polity: On the implementation of e-government services for business in the EU	15
Does trust in government moderate the perception towards deepfakes? Comparative perspectives from Asia on the risks of AI and misinformation for democracy	15
Does information technology–organizational resource interaction affect E-government performance? Moderating roles of environmental uncertainty	15
Citizens' acceptance of artificial intelligence in public services: Evidence from a conjoint experiment about processing permit applications	14
Impact of national e-participation levels on inclusive human development and environmental performance: The mediating role of corruption control	14
Public AI canvas for AI-enabled public value: A design science approach	14
Challenge stressors from using social media for work and change-oriented organizational citizenship behavior: Effects of public service motivation and job involvement	14
Digital government transformation in turbulent times: Responses, challenges, and future direction	14
Editorial Board	13
Determinants of open government data usage: Integrating trust theory and social cognitive theory	13
A conceptual framework for digital tax administration - A systematic review	13
Creating public value through digital service delivery from a citizen's perspective	13
Internet voting increases expatriate voter turnout	12
A data quality approach to the identification of discrimination risk in automated decision making systems	12
Exploring E-petitioning and media: The case of #BringBackOurGirls	12
Public value creation through the use of open government data in Australian public sector: A quantitative study from employees' perspective	12
Strategic communication? Measurement and evaluation of Twitter use among municipal governments	12
Facial recognition systems in policing and racial disparities in arrests	12
Building open government data platform ecosystems: A dynamic development approach that engages users from the start	12
Technological frames, CIOs, and Artificial Intelligence in public administration: A socio-cognitive exploratory study in Spanish local governments	12
Not all undecided voters are alike: Evidence from an Israeli election	12
Institutional trustworthiness on public attitudes toward facial recognition technology: Evidence from U.S. policing	12
The roles of privacy concerns and trust in voluntary use of governmental proximity tracing applications	11
Public buyer's concerns influencing the early phases of information system acquisition	11
Inclusion interrupted: Lessons from the making of a digital assistant by and for people with disability	11
eParticipation practices and mechanisms of influence: An investigation of public policymaking	11
Acceptability of the COVID-19 contact-tracing app – Does culture matter?	11
Discerning the effect of privacy information transparency on privacy fatigue in e-government	11
Efficiency gains in public service delivery through information technology in municipalities	11
Promoting digital equality in co-production: The role of platform design	11
Open data work for empowered deliberative democracy: Findings from a living lab study	11
Using artificial intelligence to identify administrative errors in unemployment insurance	11
The strategic use of AI in the public sector: A public values analysis of national AI strategies	11
Open government data portals: Predictors of site engagement among early users of Health Data NY	11
Assessing and improving the National Interoperability Frameworks of European Union Member States: The case of Greece	11
ICT-based co-production and democracy: Enacting space, people, and authority in polycentric sites of governance in Estonia	11
A validation of the modified democratic e-governance website evaluation model	11
Government as a platform: Intergovernmental participation for public services in the Russian Federation	11
Continual usage intention of platform-based governance services: A study from an emerging economy	11
Toward a person-environment fit framework for artificial intelligence implementation in the public sector	10
Beyond contact-tracing: The public value of eHealth application in a pandemic	10
Looking for datasets to open: An exploration of government officials' information behaviors in open data policy implementation	10
One tool to rule? – A field experimental longitudinal study on the costs and benefits of mobile device usage in public agencies	10
Internet voting in Estonia 2005–2019: Evidence from eleven elections	10
Conceptualizing citizen-to-citizen (C2C) interactions within the E-government domain	10
Do citizens trust trustworthy artificial intelligence? Experimental evidence on the limits of ethical AI measures in government	10
Editorial Board	9
Experimenting with collaboration in the Smart City: Legal and governance structures of Urban Living Labs	9
Open data innovation: Visualizations and process redesign as a way to bridge the transparency-accountability gap	9
Digital government and the circular economy transition: An analytical framework and a research agenda	9
Smart cities & citizen discontent: A systematic review of the literature	9
Transplanting good practices in Smart City development: A step-wise approach	9
Sentiment analysis of public services for smart society: Literature review and future research directions	9
Untangling the web between digital citizen empowerment, accountability and quality of participation experience for e-government: Lessons from India	9
Measuring public procurement transparency with an index: Exploring the role of e-GP systems and institutions	9
What type of algorithm is perceived as fairer and more acceptable? A comparative analysis of rule-driven versus data-driven algorithmic decision-making in public affairs	8
Assessing behavioral data science privacy issues in government artificial intelligence deployment	8
AI adoption and diffusion in public administration: A systematic literature review and future research agenda	8
Implementing challenges of artificial intelligence: Evidence from public manufacturing sector of an emerging economy	8
Digital transformation decoupling: The impact of willful ignorance on public sector digital transformation	8
Local compliance with national transparency legislation	8
Transparency and accountability in digital public services: Learning from the Brazilian cases	8
Are governments complying with transparency? Findings from 15 years of evaluation	8