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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Interconnected bureaucracies? Comparing online and offline networks during global climate negotiations	69
Multilevel power structure and local compliance with government transparency mandates: evidence from China's environmental transparency reform	44
In their own words: Police officers’ insights on identifying and overcoming contemporary policing challenges	38
Tab the lab: A typology of public sector innovation labs	30
Digitization and urban governance: The city as a reflection of its data infrastructure	30
Social value in public enterprises from the perspective of Creating Shared Value (CSV): The case of the Korea Expressway Corporation	26
Understanding the impact of mandatory accrual accounting on management practices: interpretation of Japanese local governments’ behavior	21
Does top-down administrative regulation promote urban safety performance? A quasi-natural experiment with evidence of listed special supervision in China	20
Institutional geography: effects of physical distance on agency autonomy	17
Tax evasion and governance quality: The moderating role of adopting open government	16
Bad government performance and citizens’ perceptions: A quasi-experimental study of local fiscal crisis	15
A commentary on “Different strokes for different folks? The translation of public values into official meanings”	13
Chronicle of the International Institute of Administrative Sciences	12
Like a bridge over troubled water: Wellbeing and trust in governance during turbulent times	12
Interpreting digital governance at the municipal level: Evidence from smart city projects in Belgium	12
Administrative delegation revisited: Experimental evidence on the behavioural consequences of public service motivation and risk aversion	12
A stakeholder perspective on public sector innovation: Linking the target groups of innovations to the inclusion of stakeholder ideas	12
Do programme budget mechanisms improve the efficiency of public spending? Elements of theory and empirical data from Cameroon	11
Private consulting firms’ intervention in public health policymaking: An exploratory review	10
The grand challenge of public administration digitalization: The digital identity policy in Italy	10
What the public wants and how it is best served: forensic scientists’ perceptions of the drivers of public value creation	10
Governance and tax revenue: does foreign aid matter?	9
“You’re gonna need a bigger boat”: Understanding politicization in the populist era	9
A meta-analysis of how the culture and technical development level influence citizens’ adoption of m-government	9
Exploring the negative impacts of artificial intelligence in government: the dark side of intelligent algorithms and cognitive machines	9

Meta-governance, uncertainty and self-organization in corporatist social service sectors: The case of Hong Kong	8
Smart criminal justice: Phenomena and normative requirements	8
Performance-related pay, fairness perceptions, and effort in public management tasks: a parallel encouragement design	8
The effect of pay for performance on work attitudes in the private, public, and nonprofit sectors: A panel study from South Korea	8
Successful remunicipalization processes in Italian waste management: Triggers, key success factors, and results	8
Local government’s response to dissatisfaction with centralized policies: the “do-it-yourself” approach	7
The civil service careers of university support staff and new public management: A qualitative study from Chile	7
Lessons from public administration for global governance: Conclusions of the special issue on “International Bureaucracy and the United Nations System.”	7
Administrative reforms in Portugal and Spain: From bureaucracy to digital transition	7
Chronicle of the International Institute of Administrative Sciences	7
Lockdown, information quality, and political trust: An empirical study of the Shanghai lockdown under COVID-19	6
Comply while keeping your autonomy, or the art of managing paradox through dialogue	6
Strategizing for grand challenges: economic development and governance traditions in Malaysian local government	6
Introducing a digital tool for sustainability impact assessments within the German Federal Government: A neo-institutional perspective	6
The effects of performance evaluation on punishment in organisations	6
Co-production before, during, and after the first COVID-19 lockdown: The case of developmental services for youth with disabilities	6
Administrative convergence in the United Nations system? Patterns of administrative reform in four United Nations organizations over time	6
Policy advice utilization in Belgian ministerial cabinets: the contingent importance of internal and external sources of advice	5
Digitalization of public sector organizations over time: The applicability of quantitative text analysis	5
Fighting depopulation in Europe by analyzing the financial risks of local governments	5
Better data for budgetary surveillance: EU law on statistics as key to unlocking the potential of public sector accounting	5
Multidomain judging and administration of justice: evidence from a major emerging-market jurisdiction	5
Do transparency mechanisms reduce government corruption? A meta-analysis	5
The top-heavy shape of authoritarian bureaucracy: evidence from Russia and China	4
Assessing the role of gender-related aspects in public budgeting debates: A view of the central level in Germany	4
Structures and functions of complex evaluation systems: comparison of six Central and Eastern European countries	4
Budget oversight in territorial autonomies: A comparative analysis of Hong Kong and Macao	4
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
The control of the policy advice industry: how patrons defer their decision-rights to think tank boards	3
‘Mind the board!’: Board efficacy, managerial role dilemmas and performance in municipally owned corporations	3
“Money is not an issue!”: Hospital CFOs’ narratives about handling a sudden shift in managerial focus	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
Factors influencing political corruption. An empirical research study of regional governments	3
In unsteady waters: How mayors and chief administrative officers make sense of a public service bargain in disequilibrium	3
What determines public affairs researchers’ motivations for policy impact? Results from an exploratory study	3
Bureaucratic policy work and analytical capacities in central administrations in Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain: The results of a comparative survey	3
Governing aid coordination in regional platforms: the G20 Compact with Africa case	3
Eradicating extreme poverty in Africa through productive inclusion: A comparative assessment of two social protection programmes in Ghana	3
Corruption risk analysis in local public procurement: a look at the Àrea Metropolitana de Barcelona	2
Changes in public service motivation: Can public administration education help cultivate it?	2
Relational dimensions, motivation and knowledge-sharing in healthcare: a perspective from relational models theory	2
Information on local financial reforms and cognitive processes of citizens	2
Relocation of public institutions and local public finance: Evidence from South Korea	2
Exploring the relationship of administrative burden with doctors’ motivation and patients’ experience of care: Evidence from primary healthcare in Catalonia	2
Gender budgeting in public financial management: a literature review and research agenda	2
Public service-oriented work motives across Europe: A cross-country, multi-level investigation	2
Sustainable development goals in public administrations: Enabling conditions in local governments	2

The practice of motivated reasoning: observing knowledge use in real-world policy processes	2
Seen but not partisan: Changing expectations of public servants in Westminster systems	2
Fiscal transparency and tax morale: is the relationship shaped by perceptions of government performance and corruption?	2
Top executives’ discretion and organizational performance: Analysis of quasi-governmental organizations in Korean government	2
Rethinking marine plastics pollution: Science diplomacy and multi-level governance	2
Editorial	2
Conceptualizing talent in public sector municipalities	2