OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Public Management Journal is 1. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
The effectiveness of anti-corruption reforms in a region of Europe: the role of social empowerment	31
Public sector innovation: Sources, benefits, and leadership	29
The dynamics of governance capacity and legitimacy: the case of a digital tracing technology during the COVID-19 pandemic	29
Sit it out or dance: Representative bureaucracy contagion effects in health care	29
Understanding the nomological network of red tape: Synthesis and research agenda	28
Institutional pressures, discretion, and bureaucratic responses to clients: An experimental study of school-based law enforcement officers	28
Municipal corporations in national and disciplinary contexts: A systematic literature review and future research agenda	26
Handbook on measuring governance	26
Strategic management in the public sector - the case of the Swedish transport administration	19
Coproduction encouragement can backfire: evidence from randomized controlled trials	18
Public value and the digital economy	18
Controversies in employee-driven innovation: Exploring the Danish public healthcare	15
Accounting capacity on accrual accounting adoption in Vietnamese public sector organizations—a moderated moderation model of leadership quality and digital transformation	15
Representation and high-risk clients: an empirical examination of gender effects in healthcare	13
Choir of believers? Experimental and longitudinal evidence on survey participation, response bias, and public service motivation	12
Antecedents of employee intrapreneurship in the public sector: a proactive motivation approach	12
Race, gender, and rules: How intersectionality and congruence shape leadership perceptions	12
How a manager’s background shapes perceived leader credibility: A survey experiment among teachers and civil servants in The Netherlands	11
Personality traits and the endorsement of competing leadership roles: evidence from officer cadets enrolled in the Danish Defense College	11
Strategizing in public management: The concept and its measurement	10
Disentangling the notion of value in public services: evidence and future directions from a systematic literature review	10
Beyond the hassle: how favorable outcomes reduce the subjective experience of administrative burden	10
Exploring the trickle-down effect of public service motivation from supervisors to their subordinates	9
Information processing and the transparency–trust link: Political affiliation, values, and information search behaviors in China	9
Machine learning in public administration research: review and prospects	9

Through the looking glass: Extending the “satisfaction mirror” in thirty-nine countries	9
Balancing speed and coordination: Senior leaders’ perspectives on civil service transformation during and after the pandemic	9
Stakeholder engagement-as-practice in public sector innovation	8
Understanding the role of Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) in the “central government-local government-society” framework: a case study on public crisis management during the pandemic in China	8
Deviating from the course: How presentational strategies and leadership investments affect leader credibility and collaborative engagement	8
Cultural Competency for Emergency and Crisis Management Concept, Theories and Case Studies Cultural Competency for Emergency and Crisis Management Concept, Theories and Case Studies	7
Linking innovation climate to innovative behavior in public organizations: Exploring the role of psychological needs	7
The climatization of global politics	7
Deliberative Democracy, Public Policy, and Local Government	7
Problem-Solving and Learning for Public Services and Public Management	7
Popular financial reporting increases understanding, interest, and trust: Experimental evidence	6
Easier said than done. Do defaults and reminders affect public workers’ knowledge of guidelines?	6
Rising to the challenge: Job stress, role overload, and change-oriented organizational citizenship behavior in the public sector	6
Karma chameleon: Exploring the leadership complexities of middle managers in the public sector	6
Letter from the editor	6
Letter from the editors	6
The Curious Public Administrator	6
Value propositions and facilitating promises of value—The case of the Swedish Public Employment Service	6
Smart government: practical uses of artificial intelligence in local government	6
Benefits, blame, and budgets: Citizen responses to cutback management strategies in public education	5
Prior beliefs and the biased interpretation of performance information: the mediating role of attention	5
Red tape reform, transaction costs, and corporate social performance: A natural quasi-experiment in China	5
How and when servant leadership fosters employee voice behavior: Evidence from Chinese local governments	5
The Politics of Collaborative Public Management A Primer	5
Can transparency promote citizen compliance in China? The role of justice and social identification	5
Effective co-production in local government networks: A story of structure	5
Regional bombs and public labor obligations	5
Managing public-private collaboration: extensive and intensive accountability	5
Recent developments in experimental public administration: a systematic literature review of lab, survey, and field experiments	4
How knowledge sharing shapes the performance of U.S. federal agencies: The importance of agency task characteristics	4
Reputation management and communication under political control: The case of China’s central bank	4
Divergent pathways: PPP developments in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland	4
Through the mist: how institution-knowledge bricoleurs make sense of a crisis	4
The efficacy of protection: the effects of the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act of 2012 on the Transportation Security Administration	4
Co-production during crises: A strategy to mitigate crisis-induced conflicts in public service provision	4
When intragroup conflict is a good thing: Team diversity and use of force by police	4
Crisis management through citizen engagement on Twitter: The case of the covid-19 pandemic in Latin American municipalities	4
Digital media use and public engagement in nongovernmental organizations: Reflections from three Sub-Saharan African countries	4
Enhancing employee engagement through integrating leadership and employee job resources: evidence from a public healthcare setting	4
Telework and public value creation: Evidence from Mexican public officials	4
What makes networks innovative? A configurational analysis of 18 collaborative innovation cases	3
Outsourcing safety regulation and public blame attribution for regulatory failures: Evidence from survey experiments	3
Going separate ways: ex-post interdependence and the dissolution of collaborative relations	3
Bridging the trust gap through proactive transparency: evidence from a survey experiment	3
Organizational capabilities and the achievement of Sustainable Development Goals in Brazilian municipal governments	3
Can whistleblowing reshape public organizations? Examining the consequences of whistleblowing on procedural justice and perceived organizational performance	3
Service decline and policymaker support for coproduction: evidence from a survey experiment	3
Citizens blame agencies and spread negative word-of-mouth after experiencing a public service failure? Results from an online experiment	3
A decade of subnational gender budgeting and its effects in India: A difference-in-differences analysis	3
Public service delivery under stress: The governance of funeral value-chain services during a pandemic	3

In search of innovation capability and its sources in local government organizations: a critical interpretative synthesis of the literature	3
Chainsaw or scalpel: which leads to more blame for a service failure when leaders downsize government?	3
It takes two to tango: concepts and evidence of further integration of public service motivation theory and self-determination theory	3
Projectification and its impact on the work and identity of public sector employees: Project natives, emigrants and immigrants	2
The social construction of performance judgements: Do opinions of others influence how citizens evaluate government?	2
Strategic planning in public organizations: reviewing 35 years of research	2
Courageous decision making in public organizations: the roles of ethical leadership and dynamic capabilities	2
Cui prodest ? Nudging prosocial behavior among healthcare professionals	2
E-Government and provision of public services: economic, social, and political determinants of citizen complaints	2
Expanding Kelman’s vision for digital transformation in public procurement	2
Which trust matters and to whom in cross-sector collaboration? Evidence from the local level in the Middle East	2
Long-run impacts of performance feedback: evidence of organizational learning and forgetting	2
Letter from the editor	2
How generative artificial intelligence shapes citizens’ perceptions of public value: An experimental study	2
Public service motivation and pro-environmental behaviors: A survey experiment	1
Tell me how you really feel: Unpacking sub-dimensions of citizen satisfaction with hospital services	1
Religion and Public Administration: An Introduction	1
Strategizing and “strategifying” for the common good: the case of deprived neighborhoods in the Swedish city of Gothenburg	1
Mapping response during the wartime: A network study of the humanitarian crisis efforts in Ukraine	1
A complexity theory perspective on politico-administrative systems: Insights from a systematic literature review	1
Beyond technology: reducing environmental information asymmetry by centralizing environmental monitoring	1
Traditional bureaucracy and newly-revived leading groups: The Chinese government’s organizational responses to COVID-19	1
The role of exogenous macro shocks in shaping the appeal of government employment	1
Do citizen perceptual measures align with archival performance measures: a meta-analysis	1
The perceived need for guanxi: Organizational, interpersonal, and individual antecedents	1
Why modify or terminate contracts for critical supplies? Evaluating federal purchasing of PPE following COVID-19	1
When officials disagree with AI: public perceptions of bureaucratic discretion in algorithmic governance	1
Intersectional identities in administrative encounters: empirical evidence from traffic policing	1
How public managers view Sustainable Development Goals: a Q-study	1
Risk Management and Public Service Reform Changing Governance and Funding Structures within School Education Services	1
Leading intra-organizational collaboration among public employees: a mixed methods study	1
Misprocurement and public performance in Cambodia: reflections on reform and resistance	1