OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Review of Administrative Sciences 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
“Helping others as the key to achieving happiness”: The effect of social capital and public service motivation on subjective well-being among Chinese young adults	73
Multilevel power structure and local compliance with government transparency mandates: evidence from China's environmental transparency reform	61
Empathy, stress, and coproduction: Experience of public professionals in Chinese healthcare	36
The Braibant lecture 2025 – Next generation of administrative reforms: Empowering citizens	33
Tab the lab: A typology of public sector innovation labs	31
In their own words: Police officers’ insights on identifying and overcoming contemporary policing challenges	28
Governance paradigms and public sector innovation: A comparative study	27
Institutional geography: effects of physical distance on agency autonomy	26
Productive resistance in the frontline implementation of social programs: the Chilean case	24
Tax evasion and governance quality: The moderating role of adopting open government	16
Does top-down administrative regulation promote urban safety performance? A quasi-natural experiment with evidence of listed special supervision in China	16
A commentary on “Different strokes for different folks? The translation of public values into official meanings”	14
Like a bridge over troubled water: Wellbeing and trust in governance during turbulent times	13
Interpreting digital governance at the municipal level: Evidence from smart city projects in Belgium	12
Chronicle of the International Institute of Administrative Sciences	10
Do programme budget mechanisms improve the efficiency of public spending? Elements of theory and empirical data from Cameroon	9
The effect of fiscal expenditure on the economic growth of developing countries in West Africa	9
The grand challenge of public administration digitalization: The digital identity policy in Italy	9
Book Review Hellmut Wollmann, Local Government and Governance in Germany: Challenges , Responses and Perspectives. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2024; 169	9
Meta-analysis in public administration research: An interdisciplinary perspective review in the age of open science	8
What the public wants and how it is best served: forensic scientists’ perceptions of the drivers of public value creation	8
Private consulting firms’ intervention in public health policymaking: An exploratory review	7
Building local public action against a backdrop of ecological emergency: A public management paradigms-based approach	7
e-Government development and environmental performance: Unravelling the dual mediation of regulatory enforcement and citizen participation in China	7
Implementation of artificial intelligence in public administration: Prospects and challenges of the digital era	7

Beyond dismantling: Institutional hardball tactics and the policy process under democratic backsliding	7
“You’re gonna need a bigger boat”: Understanding politicization in the populist era	7
Exploring the negative impacts of artificial intelligence in government: the dark side of intelligent algorithms and cognitive machines	7
Damned if you, damned if you don’t: The politics of pandemic preparation as a grand challenge	7
The effect of perceived organizational reputation on job satisfaction in US federal agencies: Exploring the mediating role of perceived organizational identity	6
Chronicle of the International Institute of Administrative Sciences	6
Meta-governance, uncertainty and self-organization in corporatist social service sectors: The case of Hong Kong	6
The civil service careers of university support staff and new public management: A qualitative study from Chile	6
Performance-related pay, fairness perceptions, and effort in public management tasks: a parallel encouragement design	6
The value of paired and longitudinal surveys in public administration research	5
Administrative reforms in Portugal and Spain: From bureaucracy to digital transition	5
Local government transparency across the election cycle: Do text and numbers tell the same story?	5
Local government’s response to dissatisfaction with centralized policies: the “do-it-yourself” approach	5
Comply while keeping your autonomy, or the art of managing paradox through dialogue	5
Advancing public administration research: integrating digital governance, institutional resilience, and participatory pathways for public value	5
Better data for budgetary surveillance: EU law on statistics as key to unlocking the potential of public sector accounting	5
Policy advice utilization in Belgian ministerial cabinets: the contingent importance of internal and external sources of advice	4
Co-production before, during, and after the first COVID-19 lockdown: The case of developmental services for youth with disabilities	4
Illiberal bureaucrats? A comparative study of illiberal attitudes among public and private workers in Europe	4
Administrative burden reducing in China: The digital administration reform and government–business interaction	4
Fighting depopulation in Europe by analyzing the financial risks of local governments	4
Lockdown, information quality, and political trust: An empirical study of the Shanghai lockdown under COVID-19	4
Attempts at making public sector accrual accounting and reporting useful and useable: The preparers’ perspective	3
Closeness to citizens as a source for political trust? A comparison of opinions on local parliaments and the European Parliament in 12 European regions	3
Public trust in the Chinese government and life satisfaction during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Governing aid coordination in regional platforms: the G20 Compact with Africa case	3
The emergence of Green Budgeting in public organizations: The challenges of a new environmental performance control system	3
The control of the policy advice industry: how patrons defer their decision-rights to think tank boards	3
Assessing the role of gender-related aspects in public budgeting debates: A view of the central level in Germany	3
“Money is not an issue!”: Hospital CFOs’ narratives about handling a sudden shift in managerial focus	3
Key sustainable success factors and peculiarities of publicly owned utilities: Multiple case studies in Italy	3
Public leaders’ organisational learning in times of recurring crisis and the role of public service motivation: a case study on local governments in Oromia Regional State, Ethiopia	3
In unsteady waters: How mayors and chief administrative officers make sense of a public service bargain in disequilibrium	3
Bureaucratic policy work and analytical capacities in central administrations in Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain: The results of a comparative survey	3
Digitalization of public sector organizations over time: The applicability of quantitative text analysis	3
What determines public affairs researchers’ motivations for policy impact? Results from an exploratory study	3
Editorial	3
The dark side of innovative work behavior: Turnover intention in public service and the moderating role of hierarchical organizational culture	3
Transparency in the use of assets confiscated from mafia organizations	3
Book Review: Futures for the Public Sector by Bouckaert, G., Hondeghem, A., Steen, T. and Van de Walle, S. BouckaertG.HondeghemA.SteenT.Van de WalleS.(ed	3
How does strategic foresight enhance policy capacities in the governance of grand challenges?	2
Developing and validating a scale to measure perceived trust in public institutions: An approach aligned with Türkiye’s administrative context	2
Fiscal transparency and tax morale: is the relationship shaped by perceptions of government performance and corruption?	2
Factors influencing political corruption. An empirical research study of regional governments	2
‘Mind the board!’: Board efficacy, managerial role dilemmas and performance in municipally owned corporations	2
Cross-country differences in implicit citizenship and servantship theories: Contrasting evidence from Germany and Taiwan	2
Top executives’ discretion and organizational performance: Analysis of quasi-governmental organizations in Korean government	2
Exploring the relationship of administrative burden with doctors’ motivation and patients’ experience of care: Evidence from primary healthcare in Catalonia	2
Eradicating extreme poverty in Africa through productive inclusion: A comparative assessment of two social protection programmes in Ghana	2
Seen but not partisan: Changing expectations of public servants in Westminster systems	2

Factors affecting chief executive officers’ managerial autonomy in municipally owned corporations: a qualitative study	2
Corruption risk analysis in local public procurement: a look at the Àrea Metropolitana de Barcelona	2