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 2022-07-01 to 2026-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Theorizing Multilevel Closure Structures Guiding Forum Participation	143
Performance Information Use in a Purpose-Oriented Network: A Relational Perspective	65
How the experience of administrative burdens affects clients’ psychological well-being: the role of negativity bias	49
Seeing no evil? Social vulnerabilities, collective inference, and organizational divergence	46
Algorithmic discrimination in public service provision: Understanding citizens’ attribution of responsibility for human versus algorithmic discriminatory outcomes	43
How wars impact public administration and street-level bureaucracy: teachers and education professionals on the frontlines of the Russian occupation in Ukraine	41
Changes in the accountability obligation, intensity, and working drive of public employees: evidence from a survey experiment	35
Breaking down administrative burdens: a user-centered approach to increase interest in active labor market programs by women	32
Gendered administrative burden: regulating gendered bodies, labor, and identity	32
Making administrative work matter in public service delivery: a lens for linking practice with the purpose of office	29
Race, Locality, and Representative Bureaucracy: Does Community Bias Matter?	27
Correction to: The Enduring Role of Sector: Citizen Preferences in Mixed Markets	25
Who is this for? How felt accountability shapes the enactment of accountability in public service delivery	24
Does Reducing Street-Level Bureaucrats’ Workload Enhance Equity in Program Access? Evidence from Burdensome College Financial Aid Programs	24
Correction to: How ensembling AI and public managers improves decision-making	23
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
Worth the effort? Compliance costs, heuristics, and perceived program accessibility	20
The more expertise the better? Examining the impact of policy venue specialization on environmental policy compliance	19
Exploring the influence of administrative capacities on administrative burdens	18
The Unequal Distribution of Consequences of Contracting Out: Female, Low-skilled, and Young Workers Pay the Highest Price	18
Assessing drivers of sustained engagement in collaborative governance arrangements	17
Volunteers in Public Service Production: Modeling the Contributions of Volunteers to Organizational Performance	15
All hands on deck: the role of collaborative platforms and lead organizations in achieving environmental goals	15
Critical mass condition of majority bureaucratic behavioral change in representative bureaucracy: a theoretical clarification and a nonparametric exploration	15

Does Work Quality Differ between the Public and Private Sectors? Evidence from Two Online Field Experiments	14
Breaking the rules, but for whom? How client characteristics affect frontline professionals’ prosocial rule-breaking behavior	14
Between breaking and restoring boundaries: conceptualizing responsiveness in street-level decision-making	13
Country of Origin and Representative Bureaucracy	13
Improving Delivery of the Social Safety Net: The Role of Stigma	13
Deservingness, humanness, and representation through lived experience: analyzing first responders’ attitudes	13
A process study of managing tensions for sustaining public purpose-oriented networks: toward a “Networks as Practice” perspective	13
Working Towards Policy: A Theory of Organizational Implementation and Management	12
Burdens, bribes, and bureaucrats: the political economy of petty corruption and administrative burdens	12