OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Theorizing Multilevel Closure Structures Guiding Forum Participation	163
Performance Information Use in a Purpose-Oriented Network: A Relational Perspective	148
Algorithmic discrimination in public service provision: Understanding citizens’ attribution of responsibility for human versus algorithmic discriminatory outcomes	78
Gendered administrative burden: regulating gendered bodies, labor, and identity	41
When Agency Priorities Matter: Risk Aversion for Autonomy and Turf Protection in Mandated Collaboration	38
Changes in the accountability obligation, intensity, and working drive of public employees: evidence from a survey experiment	35
Data Manipulation through Patronage Networks: Evidence from Environmental Emissions in China	34
Conflict Contagion: How Interdependence Shapes Patterns of Conflict and Cooperation in Polycentric Systems	32
Race, Locality, and Representative Bureaucracy: Does Community Bias Matter?	31
Making administrative work matter in public service delivery: a lens for linking practice with the purpose of office	28
Correction to: The Enduring Role of Sector: Citizen Preferences in Mixed Markets	27
Correction to: How ensembling AI and public managers improves decision-making	26
Does Reducing Street-Level Bureaucrats’ Workload Enhance Equity in Program Access? Evidence from Burdensome College Financial Aid Programs	26
Dismantling or Disguising Racialization?: Defining Racialized Change Work in the Context of Postsecondary Grantmaking	24
Explaining Public Organization Adaptation to Climate Change: Configurations of Macro- and Meso-Level Institutional Logics	23
Saving the Salmon: Examining the Cost-Effectiveness of Collaboration in Oregon	22
Job Satisfaction and Citizen Satisfaction with Street-level Bureaucrats: Is There a Satisfaction Mirror?	22
Preference for group-based social hierarchy and the reluctance to accept women as equals in law enforcement	22
Volunteers in Public Service Production: Modeling the Contributions of Volunteers to Organizational Performance	21
Acres for the Affluent: An Interactive Model of Nonprofit Resources and Demand Heterogeneity	20
The Unequal Distribution of Consequences of Contracting Out: Female, Low-skilled, and Young Workers Pay the Highest Price	20
Critical mass condition of majority bureaucratic behavioral change in representative bureaucracy: a theoretical clarification and a nonparametric exploration	19
Assessing drivers of sustained engagement in collaborative governance arrangements	18
Exploring the influence of administrative capacities on administrative burdens	18
Understanding Public Participation as a Mechanism Affecting Government Fiscal Outcomes: Theory and Evidence From Participatory Budgeting	17

Breaking the rules, but for whom? How client characteristics affect frontline professionals’ prosocial rule-breaking behavior	16
All hands on deck: the role of collaborative platforms and lead organizations in achieving environmental goals	16
Does Work Quality Differ between the Public and Private Sectors? Evidence from Two Online Field Experiments	15
Representative Bureaucracy and Organizational Justice in Mediation	15
Discretionary Responses in Frontline Encounters: Balancing Standardization with the Ethics of Office	15
Deservingness, humanness, and representation through lived experience: analyzing first responders’ attitudes	14
Improving Delivery of the Social Safety Net: The Role of Stigma	14
Country of Origin and Representative Bureaucracy	13
Activating the “Big Man”: Social Status, Patronage Networks, and Pro-Social Behavior in African Bureaucracies	13
Working Towards Policy: A Theory of Organizational Implementation and Management	13
Correction to: Climbing the Velvet Drainpipe: Class Background and Career Progression within the UK Civil Service	12
The weakness of weak ties: do social capital investments among leaders pay off during times of disaster?	12
Financial performance of state-owned enterprises: does political ideology play a role?	12
Burdens, bribes, and bureaucrats: the political economy of petty corruption and administrative burdens	12
Resisting or Facilitating Change? How Street-Level Managers’Situational WorkContributes to the Implementation of Public Reforms	12
Deconstructing Burnout at the Intersections of Race, Gender, and Generation in Local Government	11
An Analysis of Micro-scale Conflict in Collaborative Governance	11
Conceptualizing and Explaining Flexibility in Administrative Crisis Management: A Cross-district Analysis in Germany	11
The relationship between how agencies work together and coordinated outcomes: a configurational analysis	11
Assessments of Digital Client Representations: How Frontline Workers Reconstruct Client Narratives from Fragmented Information	11
Climbing the Velvet Drainpipe: Class Background and Career Progression within the UK Civil Service	11
Types of administrative burden reduction strategies: who, what, and how	10
Emotional capital in citizen agency: contesting administrative burden through anger	10
Sex, Race, and the Allocation of Credit in Dispersed Teams: Whose Contributions to Team Success Get Noticed and Whose Get Neglected	10
Distributive Justice in Collaborative Outputs: Empowering Minority Viewpoints Through Deliberation	10
Slipstreaming for Public Sector Reform: How Enterprising Public Sector Leaders Navigate Institutional Inertia	10
Should I Stay or Should I Go? Why Participants Leave Collaborative Governance Arrangements	9
Administrative Errors and Race: Can Technology Mitigate Inequitable Administrative Outcomes?	9
Does Coordinated Administrative Leadership Improve US Federal Agency Management of Discrimination Problems?	8
The interplay of discretion and complexity in public contracting and renegotiations	8
The Potential of Meta-ethnography in the Study of Public Administration: A Worked Example on Social Security Encounters in Advanced Liberal Democracies	8
Compliance under distrust: do people comply less when they feel distrusted?	8
The Enduring Role of Sector: Citizen Preferences in Mixed Markets	8
Racialized Burdens: Applying Racialized Organization Theory to the Administrative State	7
Shared Positions on Divisive Beliefs Explain Interorganizational Collaboration: Evidence from Climate Change Policy Subsystems in 11 Countries	7
Will trust move mountains? Fostering radical ideas in public organizations	7
Top managers’ language dissimilarity and public organizational performance	7
Ebb and flow of network participation: flexibility, stability, and forms of flux in a purpose-oriented network	7
Sexual Orientation and Organizational Justice in the Federal Service: Exploring Differences through an Intersectional Lens	7
Scarcity and the Mindsets of Social Welfare Recipients: Evidence from a Field Experiment	7
Correction to: Why Are Counterfactual Assessment Methods Not Widespread in Outcome-Based Contracts? A Formal Model Approach	6
The professional profile, competence, and responsiveness of senior bureaucrats: a paired survey experiment with citizens and elite respondents	5
On the Frontline of Global Inequalities: A Decolonial Approach to the Study of Street-Level Bureaucracies	5
The Performance and Development of Deliberative Routines: A Practice-Based Ethnographic Study	5
Anticipated Adjudication: An Analysis of the Judicialization of the US Administrative State	5
Human–AI Interactions in Public Sector Decision Making: “Automation Bias” and “Selective Adherence” to Algorithmic Advice	5
Developing the Theory of Pragmatic Public Management through Classic Grounded Theory Methodology	5
Disaster Experience and Governments’ Savings: The Moderating Role of Organizational Capacity	5
How ensembling AI and public managers improves decision-making	5
Reducing Burnout and Resignations among Frontline Workers: A Field Experiment	5

User Involvement as a Catalyst for Collaborative Public Service Innovation	5
Linguistic Features of Public Service Encounters: How Spoken Administrative Language Affects Citizen Satisfaction	5