OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory is 10. 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
Should I Stay or Should I Go? Why Participants Leave Collaborative Governance Arrangements	90
All hands on deck: the role of collaborative platforms and lead organizations in achieving environmental goals	67
Resourcing Goal-directed Networks: Toward A Practice-based Perspective	48
Public service users’ responses to performance information: Bayesian learning or motivated reasoning?	24
The Unequal Distribution of Consequences of Contracting Out: Female, Low-skilled, and Young Workers Pay the Highest Price	24
Assessing drivers of sustained engagement in collaborative governance arrangements	24
Quasi-Market Competition in Public Service Provision: User Sorting and Cream-Skimming	22
Corporatization, Administrative Intensity, and the Performance of Public Sector Organizations	22
Critical mass condition of majority bureaucratic behavioral change in representative bureaucracy: a theoretical clarification and a nonparametric exploration	21
Sex, Race, and the Allocation of Credit in Dispersed Teams: Whose Contributions to Team Success Get Noticed and Whose Get Neglected	20
Acres for the Affluent: An Interactive Model of Nonprofit Resources and Demand Heterogeneity	19
Corrigendum to: Pathways to Implementation: Evidence on How Participation in Environmental Governance Impacts on Environmental Outcomes	19
Bureaucratic Control and Strategic Compliance: How Do Subnational Governments Implement Central Guidelines in China?	18
Performance Information Use in a Purpose-Oriented Network: A Relational Perspective	18
Guiding or Following the Crowd? Strategic Communication as Reputational and Regulatory Strategy	18
“Honor List” and “Shame Roll”: Quasi-Experimental Evidence of the Effect of Performance Feedback under Political Control	18
Slipstreaming for Public Sector Reform: How Enterprising Public Sector Leaders Navigate Institutional Inertia	18
Types of administrative burden reduction strategies: who, what, and how	17
Can Sunlight Disperse Mistrust? A Meta-Analysis of the Effect of Transparency on Citizens’ Trust in Government	15
Administrative Errors and Race: Can Technology Mitigate Inequitable Administrative Outcomes?	15
Linking Organizational Capacity and Performance: The Case of Probation and Medicaid Reform in California Counties	15
Linguistic Features of Public Service Encounters: How Spoken Administrative Language Affects Citizen Satisfaction	15
When Tensions Become Opportunities: Managing Accountability Demands in Collaborative Governance	14
Individual Agency in Street-Level Bureaucrats’ Implementation of Policy Reforms: The Role of Their Policy Evaluation and Self-efficacy	13
Volunteers in Public Service Production: Modeling the Contributions of Volunteers to Organizational Performance	13

Theorizing Multilevel Closure Structures Guiding Forum Participation	13
Understanding Public Participation as a Mechanism Affecting Government Fiscal Outcomes: Theory and Evidence From Participatory Budgeting	13
Responding to Environmental Uncertainties in Critical Supply Acquisition: An Examination of Contracting for Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) in the Aftermath of COVID-19	13
Thanks, but No Thanks: Preferences towards Teleworking Colleagues in Public Organizations	12
Discretionary Responses in Frontline Encounters: Balancing Standardization with the Ethics of Office	12
Rulemaking Speed in the US States	12
Representative Bureaucracy and Organizational Justice in Mediation	11
Anticipated Adjudication: An Analysis of the Judicialization of the US Administrative State	11
Why Are Counterfactual Assessment Methods Not Widespread in Outcome-Based Contracts? A Formal Model Approach	11
Do Minimum Charity Care Provision Requirements Increase Nonprofit Hospital Performance? Examining Hospitals’ Responses to Regulatory Changes	11
Does Coordinated Administrative Leadership Improve US Federal Agency Management of Discrimination Problems?	11
Finding Your Crowd: The Role of Government Level and Charity Type in Revenue Crowd-Out	10
(Mis)Led by an Outsider: Abusive Supervision, Disengagement, and Silence in Politicized Bureaucracies	10
Compliance under distrust: do people comply less when they feel distrusted?	10
The Professional Agency Narrative—Conceptualizing the Role of Professional Knowledge in Frontline Work	10
Competition, Ownership, and the Impact of Government Outsourcing on Employees	10
Does Work Quality Differ between the Public and Private Sectors? Evidence from Two Online Field Experiments	10
Regulators as Guardians of Trust? The Contingent and Modest Positive Effect of Targeted Transparency on Citizen Trust in Regulated Sectors	10
Role distance. An ethnographic study on how street-level managers cope	10