OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory is 13. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Performance Information Use in a Purpose-Oriented Network: A Relational Perspective	190
Theorizing Multilevel Closure Structures Guiding Forum Participation	163
Algorithmic discrimination in public service provision: Understanding citizens’ attribution of responsibility for human versus algorithmic discriminatory outcomes	92
Changes in the accountability obligation, intensity, and working drive of public employees: evidence from a survey experiment	44
Data Manipulation through Patronage Networks: Evidence from Environmental Emissions in China	43
When Agency Priorities Matter: Risk Aversion for Autonomy and Turf Protection in Mandated Collaboration	38
Gendered administrative burden: regulating gendered bodies, labor, and identity	34
Correction to: The Enduring Role of Sector: Citizen Preferences in Mixed Markets	33
Making administrative work matter in public service delivery: a lens for linking practice with the purpose of office	31
Race, Locality, and Representative Bureaucracy: Does Community Bias Matter?	30
Does Reducing Street-Level Bureaucrats’ Workload Enhance Equity in Program Access? Evidence from Burdensome College Financial Aid Programs	30
Correction to: How ensembling AI and public managers improves decision-making	27
Saving the Salmon: Examining the Cost-Effectiveness of Collaboration in Oregon	26
Dismantling or Disguising Racialization?: Defining Racialized Change Work in the Context of Postsecondary Grantmaking	26
Volunteers in Public Service Production: Modeling the Contributions of Volunteers to Organizational Performance	25
Preference for group-based social hierarchy and the reluctance to accept women as equals in law enforcement	25
Explaining Public Organization Adaptation to Climate Change: Configurations of Macro- and Meso-Level Institutional Logics	25
Job Satisfaction and Citizen Satisfaction with Street-level Bureaucrats: Is There a Satisfaction Mirror?	25
Exploring the influence of administrative capacities on administrative burdens	22
Understanding Public Participation as a Mechanism Affecting Government Fiscal Outcomes: Theory and Evidence From Participatory Budgeting	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	20
Assessing drivers of sustained engagement in collaborative governance arrangements	19
All hands on deck: the role of collaborative platforms and lead organizations in achieving environmental goals	18
Breaking the rules, but for whom? How client characteristics affect frontline professionals’ prosocial rule-breaking behavior	17

Does Work Quality Differ between the Public and Private Sectors? Evidence from Two Online Field Experiments	17
Improving Delivery of the Social Safety Net: The Role of Stigma	16
Deservingness, humanness, and representation through lived experience: analyzing first responders’ attitudes	16
Discretionary Responses in Frontline Encounters: Balancing Standardization with the Ethics of Office	16
Financial performance of state-owned enterprises: does political ideology play a role?	15
Working Towards Policy: A Theory of Organizational Implementation and Management	15
Correction to: Climbing the Velvet Drainpipe: Class Background and Career Progression within the UK Civil Service	14
A process study of managing tensions for sustaining public purpose-oriented networks: toward a “Networks as Practice” perspective	14
Activating the “Big Man”: Social Status, Patronage Networks, and Pro-Social Behavior in African Bureaucracies	14
Country of Origin and Representative Bureaucracy	14
The relationship between how agencies work together and coordinated outcomes: a configurational analysis	14
Burdens, bribes, and bureaucrats: the political economy of petty corruption and administrative burdens	14
Deconstructing Burnout at the Intersections of Race, Gender, and Generation in Local Government	13
An Analysis of Micro-scale Conflict in Collaborative Governance	13
Resisting or Facilitating Change? How Street-Level Managers’Situational WorkContributes to the Implementation of Public Reforms	13
Conceptualizing and Explaining Flexibility in Administrative Crisis Management: A Cross-district Analysis in Germany	13
The weakness of weak ties: do social capital investments among leaders pay off during times of disaster?	13
Assessments of Digital Client Representations: How Frontline Workers Reconstruct Client Narratives from Fragmented Information	13
Climbing the Velvet Drainpipe: Class Background and Career Progression within the UK Civil Service	13