OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory is 12. 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
Performance Information Use in a Purpose-Oriented Network: A Relational Perspective	174
Theorizing Multilevel Closure Structures Guiding Forum Participation	154
Algorithmic discrimination in public service provision: Understanding citizens’ attribution of responsibility for human versus algorithmic discriminatory outcomes	81
When Agency Priorities Matter: Risk Aversion for Autonomy and Turf Protection in Mandated Collaboration	42
Gendered administrative burden: regulating gendered bodies, labor, and identity	39
Changes in the accountability obligation, intensity, and working drive of public employees: evidence from a survey experiment	34
Data Manipulation through Patronage Networks: Evidence from Environmental Emissions in China	33
Correction to: The Enduring Role of Sector: Citizen Preferences in Mixed Markets	32
Race, Locality, and Representative Bureaucracy: Does Community Bias Matter?	30
Making administrative work matter in public service delivery: a lens for linking practice with the purpose of office	29
Does Reducing Street-Level Bureaucrats’ Workload Enhance Equity in Program Access? Evidence from Burdensome College Financial Aid Programs	29
Correction to: How ensembling AI and public managers improves decision-making	26
Dismantling or Disguising Racialization?: Defining Racialized Change Work in the Context of Postsecondary Grantmaking	25
Job Satisfaction and Citizen Satisfaction with Street-level Bureaucrats: Is There a Satisfaction Mirror?	25
Saving the Salmon: Examining the Cost-Effectiveness of Collaboration in Oregon	24
Preference for group-based social hierarchy and the reluctance to accept women as equals in law enforcement	23
Explaining Public Organization Adaptation to Climate Change: Configurations of Macro- and Meso-Level Institutional Logics	22
Volunteers in Public Service Production: Modeling the Contributions of Volunteers to Organizational Performance	21
Exploring the influence of administrative capacities on administrative burdens	21
Understanding Public Participation as a Mechanism Affecting Government Fiscal Outcomes: Theory and Evidence From Participatory Budgeting	20
Critical mass condition of majority bureaucratic behavioral change in representative bureaucracy: a theoretical clarification and a nonparametric exploration	20
All hands on deck: the role of collaborative platforms and lead organizations in achieving environmental goals	18
The Unequal Distribution of Consequences of Contracting Out: Female, Low-skilled, and Young Workers Pay the Highest Price	18
Acres for the Affluent: An Interactive Model of Nonprofit Resources and Demand Heterogeneity	17
Assessing drivers of sustained engagement in collaborative governance arrangements	17

Breaking the rules, but for whom? How client characteristics affect frontline professionals’ prosocial rule-breaking behavior	16
Discretionary Responses in Frontline Encounters: Balancing Standardization with the Ethics of Office	15
Does Work Quality Differ between the Public and Private Sectors? Evidence from Two Online Field Experiments	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
Working Towards Policy: A Theory of Organizational Implementation and Management	14
Country of Origin and Representative Bureaucracy	13
Activating the “Big Man”: Social Status, Patronage Networks, and Pro-Social Behavior in African Bureaucracies	13
Financial performance of state-owned enterprises: does political ideology play a role?	13
Burdens, bribes, and bureaucrats: the political economy of petty corruption and administrative burdens	13
Correction to: Climbing the Velvet Drainpipe: Class Background and Career Progression within the UK Civil Service	13
A Process Study of Managing Tensions for Sustaining Public Purpose-Oriented Networks: Toward A “Networks as Practice” Perspective	13
The relationship between how agencies work together and coordinated outcomes: a configurational analysis	12
The weakness of weak ties: do social capital investments among leaders pay off during times of disaster?	12