OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Public Management Journal is 2. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Public sector innovation: Sources, benefits, and leadership	27
Understanding the nomological network of red tape: Synthesis and research agenda	26
Sit it out or dance: Representative bureaucracy contagion effects in health care	26
Handbook on measuring governance	25
The dynamics of governance capacity and legitimacy: the case of a digital tracing technology during the COVID-19 pandemic	25
Institutional pressures, discretion, and bureaucratic responses to clients: An experimental study of school-based law enforcement officers	25
Strategic management in the public sector - the case of the Swedish transport administration	25
Municipal corporations in national and disciplinary contexts: A systematic literature review and future research agenda	22
Controversies in employee-driven innovation: Exploring the Danish public healthcare	21
Public value and the digital economy	21
Accounting capacity on accrual accounting adoption in Vietnamese public sector organizations—a moderated moderation model of leadership quality and digital transformation	20
Race, gender, and rules: How intersectionality and congruence shape leadership perceptions	19
Correction	16
Coproduction encouragement can backfire: evidence from randomized controlled trials	15
Social impact bonds and public service reform: back to the future of New Public Management?	15
The disease of corruption: Missing funds and health conditions in Brazilian municipalities	15
Choir of believers? Experimental and longitudinal evidence on survey participation, response bias, and public service motivation	14
Antecedents of employee intrapreneurship in the public sector: a proactive motivation approach	13
How a manager’s background shapes perceived leader credibility: A survey experiment among teachers and civil servants in The Netherlands	12
Strategizing in public management: The concept and its measurement	12
Personality traits and the endorsement of competing leadership roles: evidence from officer cadets enrolled in the Danish Defense College	12
Crisis coordination in centralized regimes: Explaining China's strategy for combatting the COVID-19 pandemic	11
Information processing and the transparency–trust link: Political affiliation, values, and information search behaviors in China	11
Through the looking glass: Extending the “satisfaction mirror” in thirty-nine countries	11
Balancing speed and coordination: Senior leaders’ perspectives on civil service transformation during and after the pandemic	10

Stakeholder engagement-as-practice in public sector innovation	10
Machine learning in public administration research: review and prospects	10
Deviating from the course: How presentational strategies and leadership investments affect leader credibility and collaborative engagement	10
Exploring the trickle-down effect of public service motivation from supervisors to their subordinates	10
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	9
Deliberative Democracy, Public Policy, and Local Government	9
Problem-Solving and Learning for Public Services and Public Management	8
The climatization of global politics	8
Room for leadership? A comparison of perceived managerial job autonomy in public, private and hybrid organizations	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	8
Linking innovation climate to innovative behavior in public organizations: Exploring the role of psychological needs	8
Letter from the editors	7
Easier said than done. Do defaults and reminders affect public workers’ knowledge of guidelines?	7
Smart government: practical uses of artificial intelligence in local government	7
Karma chameleon: Exploring the leadership complexities of middle managers in the public sector	7
Value propositions and facilitating promises of value—The case of the Swedish Public Employment Service	7
Letter from the editor	7
Popular financial reporting increases understanding, interest, and trust: Experimental evidence	7
The Curious Public Administrator	7
Rising to the challenge: Job stress, role overload, and change-oriented organizational citizenship behavior in the public sector	6
Effective co-production in local government networks: A story of structure	6
How and when servant leadership fosters employee voice behavior: Evidence from Chinese local governments	6
Benefits, blame, and budgets: Citizen responses to cutback management strategies in public education	6
The Politics of Collaborative Public Management A Primer	6
Can transparency promote citizen compliance in China? The role of justice and social identification	6
Crisis management through citizen engagement on Twitter: The case of the covid-19 pandemic in Latin American municipalities	6
Recent developments in experimental public administration: a systematic literature review of lab, survey, and field experiments	5
How knowledge sharing shapes the performance of U.S. federal agencies: The importance of agency task characteristics	5
Blame dynamics across the organizational hierarchy and sectors: How a staffing shortage and ownership shape blame for nursing homes in crisis	5
Reputation management and communication under political control: The case of China’s central bank	5
Have we ‘stretched’ social impact bonds too far? An empirical analysis of SIB design in practice	5
Red tape reform, transaction costs, and corporate social performance: A natural quasi-experiment in China	5
Coping with representation: the moderating effect of workload on individual-level representation	5
Managing public-private collaboration: extensive and intensive accountability	5
Digital media use and public engagement in nongovernmental organizations: Reflections from three Sub-Saharan African countries	4
Outsourcing safety regulation and public blame attribution for regulatory failures: Evidence from survey experiments	4
Divergent pathways: PPP developments in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland	4
Co-production during crises: A strategy to mitigate crisis-induced conflicts in public service provision	4
The efficacy of protection: the effects of the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act of 2012 on the Transportation Security Administration	4
Citizens blame agencies and spread negative word-of-mouth after experiencing a public service failure? Results from an online experiment	4
When intragroup conflict is a good thing: Team diversity and use of force by police	4
Enhancing employee engagement through integrating leadership and employee job resources: evidence from a public healthcare setting	4
Through the mist: how institution-knowledge bricoleurs make sense of a crisis	4
Telework and public value creation: Evidence from Mexican public officials	4
In search of innovation capability and its sources in local government organizations: a critical interpretative synthesis of the literature	4
Service decline and policymaker support for coproduction: evidence from a survey experiment	3
It takes two to tango: concepts and evidence of further integration of public service motivation theory and self-determination theory	3
Are collaborative challenges barriers to working together? – A multi-level multi-case network analysis	3
Projectification and its impact on the work and identity of public sector employees: Project natives, emigrants and immigrants	3
Strategic planning in public organizations: reviewing 35 years of research	3

A decade of subnational gender budgeting and its effects in India: A difference-in-differences analysis	3
Bridging the trust gap through proactive transparency: evidence from a survey experiment	3
What makes networks innovative? A configurational analysis of 18 collaborative innovation cases	3
Can whistleblowing reshape public organizations? Examining the consequences of whistleblowing on procedural justice and perceived organizational performance	3
Going separate ways: ex-post interdependence and the dissolution of collaborative relations	3
Contested Social Impact Bonds: welfare conventions, conflicts and compromises in five European Active-Labor Market Programs	3
Organizational capabilities and the achievement of Sustainable Development Goals in Brazilian municipal governments	3
The social construction of performance judgements: Do opinions of others influence how citizens evaluate government?	3
Long-run impacts of performance feedback: evidence of organizational learning and forgetting	3
Courageous decision making in public organizations: the roles of ethical leadership and dynamic capabilities	2
How generative artificial intelligence shapes citizens’ perceptions of public value: An experimental study	2
Expanding Kelman’s vision for digital transformation in public procurement	2
Risk Management and Public Service Reform Changing Governance and Funding Structures within School Education Services	2
Mapping response during the wartime: A network study of the humanitarian crisis efforts in Ukraine	2
Strategizing and “strategifying” for the common good: the case of deprived neighborhoods in the Swedish city of Gothenburg	2
Do citizen perceptual measures align with archival performance measures: a meta-analysis	2
Whom do we learn from? The impact of global networks and political regime types on e-government development	2
Which trust matters and to whom in cross-sector collaboration? Evidence from the local level in the Middle East	2
E-Government and provision of public services: economic, social, and political determinants of citizen complaints	2
Citizens’ choice to voice in response to administrative burdens	2
Religion and Public Administration: An Introduction	2
Letter from the editor	2
Cui prodest ? Nudging prosocial behavior among healthcare professionals	2
Nonprofit organizational legitimacy and government grants under authoritarianism: evidence from Chinese foundations	2
The role of exogenous macro shocks in shaping the appeal of government employment	2
The perceived need for guanxi: Organizational, interpersonal, and individual antecedents	2