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

Article	Citations
Theorizing Multilevel Closure Structures Guiding Forum Participation	129
Performance Information Use in a Purpose-Oriented Network: A Relational Perspective	57
Algorithmic discrimination in public service provision: Understanding citizens’ attribution of responsibility for human versus algorithmic discriminatory outcomes	46
Seeing no evil? Social vulnerabilities, collective inference, and organizational divergence	40
How the experience of administrative burdens affects clients’ psychological well-being: the role of negativity bias	39
Breaking down administrative burdens: a user-centered approach to increase interest in active labor market programs by women	38
Changes in the accountability obligation, intensity, and working drive of public employees: evidence from a survey experiment	29
How wars impact public administration and street-level bureaucracy: teachers and education professionals on the frontlines of the Russian occupation in Ukraine	29
Gendered administrative burden: regulating gendered bodies, labor, and identity	28
Correction to: The Enduring Role of Sector: Citizen Preferences in Mixed Markets	26
Race, Locality, and Representative Bureaucracy: Does Community Bias Matter?	25
Making administrative work matter in public service delivery: a lens for linking practice with the purpose of office	24
Does Reducing Street-Level Bureaucrats’ Workload Enhance Equity in Program Access? Evidence from Burdensome College Financial Aid Programs	23
Correction to: How ensembling AI and public managers improves decision-making	23
The more expertise the better? Examining the impact of policy venue specialization on environmental policy compliance	22
Worth the effort? Compliance costs, heuristics, and perceived program accessibility	22
Saving the Salmon: Examining the Cost-Effectiveness of Collaboration in Oregon	20
Preference for group-based social hierarchy and the reluctance to accept women as equals in law enforcement	20
Explaining Public Organization Adaptation to Climate Change: Configurations of Macro- and Meso-Level Institutional Logics	20
Exploring the influence of administrative capacities on administrative burdens	18
Assessing drivers of sustained engagement in collaborative governance arrangements	18
All hands on deck: the role of collaborative platforms and lead organizations in achieving environmental goals	17
The Unequal Distribution of Consequences of Contracting Out: Female, Low-skilled, and Young Workers Pay the Highest Price	17
Volunteers in Public Service Production: Modeling the Contributions of Volunteers to Organizational Performance	17
Understanding Public Participation as a Mechanism Affecting Government Fiscal Outcomes: Theory and Evidence From Participatory Budgeting	15

Breaking the rules, but for whom? How client characteristics affect frontline professionals’ prosocial rule-breaking behavior	14
Does Work Quality Differ between the Public and Private Sectors? Evidence from Two Online Field Experiments	14
Critical mass condition of majority bureaucratic behavioral change in representative bureaucracy: a theoretical clarification and a nonparametric exploration	14
Between breaking and restoring boundaries: conceptualizing responsiveness in street-level decision-making	13
Financial performance of state-owned enterprises: does political ideology play a role?	13
Improving Delivery of the Social Safety Net: The Role of Stigma	13
Deservingness, humanness, and representation through lived experience: analyzing first responders’ attitudes	12
Country of Origin and Representative Bureaucracy	12
A process study of managing tensions for sustaining public purpose-oriented networks: toward a “Networks as Practice” perspective	12
Burdens, bribes, and bureaucrats: the political economy of petty corruption and administrative burdens	12
Working Towards Policy: A Theory of Organizational Implementation and Management	11
Correction to: Climbing the Velvet Drainpipe: Class Background and Career Progression within the UK Civil Service	10
The relationship between how agencies work together and coordinated outcomes: a configurational analysis	10
An Analysis of Micro-scale Conflict in Collaborative Governance	9
Distributive Justice in Collaborative Outputs: Empowering Minority Viewpoints Through Deliberation	9
The weakness of weak ties: do social capital investments among leaders pay off during times of disaster?	9
Climbing the Velvet Drainpipe: Class Background and Career Progression within the UK Civil Service	9
Are public officials more risk-averse than private sector employees in decision-making? Interest and accountability matter	9
Conceptualizing and Explaining Flexibility in Administrative Crisis Management: A Cross-district Analysis in Germany	9
Types of administrative burden reduction strategies: who, what, and how	8
Partisan bias and performance improvement efforts in program administration: evidence from unemployment insurance programs in the American states	8
Sex, Race, and the Allocation of Credit in Dispersed Teams: Whose Contributions to Team Success Get Noticed and Whose Get Neglected	8
Emotional capital in citizen agency: contesting administrative burden through anger	8
Compliance under distrust: do people comply less when they feel distrusted?	7
Scarcity and the Mindsets of Social Welfare Recipients: Evidence from a Field Experiment	7
Does Coordinated Administrative Leadership Improve US Federal Agency Management of Discrimination Problems?	7
Will trust move mountains? Fostering radical ideas in public organizations	7
The interplay of discretion and complexity in public contracting and renegotiations	7
Administrative Errors and Race: Can Technology Mitigate Inequitable Administrative Outcomes?	7
Shared Positions on Divisive Beliefs Explain Interorganizational Collaboration: Evidence from Climate Change Policy Subsystems in 11 Countries	7
Correction to: Why Are Counterfactual Assessment Methods Not Widespread in Outcome-Based Contracts? A Formal Model Approach	6
The Potential of Meta-ethnography in the Study of Public Administration: A Worked Example on Social Security Encounters in Advanced Liberal Democracies	6
Revisiting an “urban legend”: an experimental assessment of common method variance’s impact on relationships in self-reported data	6
Top managers’ language dissimilarity and public organizational performance	6
Ebb and flow of network participation: flexibility, stability, and forms of flux in a purpose-oriented network	6
Inequality in frontline communication: bureaucrats talk differently to men and women	6
Cultivating collaborative resilience amid volatility: implementation partnerships between law enforcement and mental health organizations	6
How ensembling AI and public managers improves decision-making	5
On the Frontline of Global Inequalities: A Decolonial Approach to the Study of Street-Level Bureaucracies	5
Implementation support: a field experiment on the effects of fidelity and professional responsibility approaches	5
User Involvement as a Catalyst for Collaborative Public Service Innovation	5
A learning approach to the governance of professionals. Field experimental evidence	5
The professional profile, competence, and responsiveness of senior bureaucrats: a paired survey experiment with citizens and elite respondents	5
Linguistic Features of Public Service Encounters: How Spoken Administrative Language Affects Citizen Satisfaction	5