OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory is 11. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Theorizing Multilevel Closure Structures Guiding Forum Participation	119
Performance Information Use in a Purpose-Oriented Network: A Relational Perspective	104
Finding Your Crowd: The Role of Government Level and Charity Type in Revenue Crowd-Out	44
When Agency Priorities Matter: Risk Aversion for Autonomy and Turf Protection in Mandated Collaboration	35
“It’s Not Over When It’s Over”―Post-Decision Arrangements and Empirical Legitimacy	33
Conflict Contagion: How Interdependence Shapes Patterns of Conflict and Cooperation in Polycentric Systems	31
Gendered administrative burden: regulating gendered bodies, labor, and identity	31
Data Manipulation through Patronage Networks: Evidence from Environmental Emissions in China	28
Correction to: The Enduring Role of Sector: Citizen Preferences in Mixed Markets	27
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	25
Does Reducing Street-Level Bureaucrats’ Workload Enhance Equity in Program Access? Evidence from Burdensome College Financial Aid Programs	23
Meta-Analysis of Collaboration and Performance: Moderating Tests of Sectoral Differences in Collaborative Performance	20
Exit, Voice, and Sabotage: Public Service Motivation and Guerrilla Bureaucracy in Times of Unprincipled Political Principals	20
Do Cogovernance and CSOs Supplement Municipal Capacity for Service Delivery? An Assessment of Differences in Simple versus Complex Services	20
Service Providers’ Influence in Collaborative Governance Networks: Effectiveness in Reducing Chronic Homelessness	19
Explaining Public Organization Adaptation to Climate Change: Configurations of Macro- and Meso-Level Institutional Logics	18
Dismantling or Disguising Racialization?: Defining Racialized Change Work in the Context of Postsecondary Grantmaking	18
A Vacancy Chain Model of Local Managers’ Career Advancement	18
Accountability and Affective Styles in Administrative Reporting: The Case of UNRWA, 1951–2020	18
Preference for group-based social hierarchy and the reluctance to accept women as equals in law enforcement	18
Saving the Salmon: Examining the Cost-Effectiveness of Collaboration in Oregon	17
Job Satisfaction and Citizen Satisfaction with Street-level Bureaucrats: Is There a Satisfaction Mirror?	17
Acres for the Affluent: An Interactive Model of Nonprofit Resources and Demand Heterogeneity	16
Assessing drivers of sustained engagement in collaborative governance arrangements	16

Understanding Public Participation as a Mechanism Affecting Government Fiscal Outcomes: Theory and Evidence From Participatory Budgeting	16
All hands on deck: the role of collaborative platforms and lead organizations in achieving environmental goals	15
Representative Bureaucracy and Organizational Justice in Mediation	15
The Unequal Distribution of Consequences of Contracting Out: Female, Low-skilled, and Young Workers Pay the Highest Price	15
Volunteers in Public Service Production: Modeling the Contributions of Volunteers to Organizational Performance	15
Critical mass condition of majority bureaucratic behavioral change in representative bureaucracy: a theoretical clarification and a nonparametric exploration	15
Improving Delivery of the Social Safety Net: The Role of Stigma	14
Does Work Quality Differ between the Public and Private Sectors? Evidence from Two Online Field Experiments	14
Burdens, bribes, and bureaucrats: the political economy of petty corruption and administrative burdens	13
Breaking the rules, but for whom? How client characteristics affect frontline professionals’ prosocial rule-breaking behavior	13
Working Towards Policy: A Theory of Organizational Implementation and Management	13
Discretionary Responses in Frontline Encounters: Balancing Standardization with the Ethics of Office	13
Activating the “Big Man”: Social Status, Patronage Networks, and Pro-Social Behavior in African Bureaucracies	12
Deservingness, humanness, and representation through lived experience: analyzing first responders’ attitudes	12
Correction to: Climbing the Velvet Drainpipe: Class Background and Career Progression within the UK Civil Service	11
An Analysis of Micro-scale Conflict in Collaborative Governance	11
The relationship between how agencies work together and coordinated outcomes: a configurational analysis	11
Country of Origin and Representative Bureaucracy	11