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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Tab the lab: A typology of public sector innovation labs	74
Digitization and urban governance: The city as a reflection of its data infrastructure	53
Multilevel power structure and local compliance with government transparency mandates: evidence from China's environmental transparency reform	33
Empathy, stress, and coproduction: Experience of public professionals in Chinese healthcare	33
In their own words: Police officers’ insights on identifying and overcoming contemporary policing challenges	23
The Braibant lecture 2025 – Next generation of administrative reforms: Empowering citizens	22
Understanding the impact of mandatory accrual accounting on management practices: interpretation of Japanese local governments’ behavior	19
Institutional geography: effects of physical distance on agency autonomy	18
Tax evasion and governance quality: The moderating role of adopting open government	17
Bad government performance and citizens’ perceptions: A quasi-experimental study of local fiscal crisis	14
Does top-down administrative regulation promote urban safety performance? A quasi-natural experiment with evidence of listed special supervision in China	14
Administrative delegation revisited: Experimental evidence on the behavioural consequences of public service motivation and risk aversion	13
A commentary on “Different strokes for different folks? The translation of public values into official meanings”	13
Like a bridge over troubled water: Wellbeing and trust in governance during turbulent times	12
A stakeholder perspective on public sector innovation: Linking the target groups of innovations to the inclusion of stakeholder ideas	11
The grand challenge of public administration digitalization: The digital identity policy in Italy	10
Chronicle of the International Institute of Administrative Sciences	10
Interpreting digital governance at the municipal level: Evidence from smart city projects in Belgium	10
Do programme budget mechanisms improve the efficiency of public spending? Elements of theory and empirical data from Cameroon	10
Private consulting firms’ intervention in public health policymaking: An exploratory review	9
Governance and tax revenue: does foreign aid matter?	9
What the public wants and how it is best served: forensic scientists’ perceptions of the drivers of public value creation	9
Exploring the negative impacts of artificial intelligence in government: the dark side of intelligent algorithms and cognitive machines	9
Book Review: Local Government and Governance in Germany: Challenges by Hellmut Wollmann WollmannHellmut, Local Government and Governance in Germany: Challenges, Response	9
A meta-analysis of how the culture and technical development level influence citizens’ adoption of m-government	8

e-Government development and environmental performance: Unravelling the dual mediation of regulatory enforcement and citizen participation in China	8
“You’re gonna need a bigger boat”: Understanding politicization in the populist era	8
Meta-governance, uncertainty and self-organization in corporatist social service sectors: The case of Hong Kong	7
Damned if you, damned if you don’t: The politics of pandemic preparation as a grand challenge	7
Performance-related pay, fairness perceptions, and effort in public management tasks: a parallel encouragement design	7
Successful remunicipalization processes in Italian waste management: Triggers, key success factors, and results	7
Chronicle of the International Institute of Administrative Sciences	6
Local government’s response to dissatisfaction with centralized policies: the “do-it-yourself” approach	6
The civil service careers of university support staff and new public management: A qualitative study from Chile	6
Smart criminal justice: Phenomena and normative requirements	6
Lessons from public administration for global governance: Conclusions of the special issue on “International Bureaucracy and the United Nations System.”	6
Administrative reforms in Portugal and Spain: From bureaucracy to digital transition	6
Co-production before, during, and after the first COVID-19 lockdown: The case of developmental services for youth with disabilities	5
Strategizing for grand challenges: economic development and governance traditions in Malaysian local government	5
Introducing a digital tool for sustainability impact assessments within the German Federal Government: A neo-institutional perspective	5
Better data for budgetary surveillance: EU law on statistics as key to unlocking the potential of public sector accounting	4
The effects of performance evaluation on punishment in organisations	4
Lockdown, information quality, and political trust: An empirical study of the Shanghai lockdown under COVID-19	4
Fighting depopulation in Europe by analyzing the financial risks of local governments	4
Multidomain judging and administration of justice: evidence from a major emerging-market jurisdiction	4
Comply while keeping your autonomy, or the art of managing paradox through dialogue	4
Do transparency mechanisms reduce government corruption? A meta-analysis	3
Structures and functions of complex evaluation systems: comparison of six Central and Eastern European countries	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
Transparency in the use of assets confiscated from mafia organizations	3
Bureaucratic policy work and analytical capacities in central administrations in Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain: The results of a comparative survey	3
Attempts at making public sector accrual accounting and reporting useful and useable: The preparers’ perspective	3
Assessing the role of gender-related aspects in public budgeting debates: A view of the central level in Germany	3
Digitalization of public sector organizations over time: The applicability of quantitative text analysis	3
The control of the policy advice industry: how patrons defer their decision-rights to think tank boards	3
Budget oversight in territorial autonomies: A comparative analysis of Hong Kong and Macao	3
What determines public affairs researchers’ motivations for policy impact? Results from an exploratory study	3
Policy advice utilization in Belgian ministerial cabinets: the contingent importance of internal and external sources of advice	3
The top-heavy shape of authoritarian bureaucracy: evidence from Russia and China	3
The dark side of innovative work behavior: Turnover intention in public service and the moderating role of hierarchical organizational culture	3
Editorial	3
In unsteady waters: How mayors and chief administrative officers make sense of a public service bargain in disequilibrium	3
Public trust in the Chinese government and life satisfaction during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Eradicating extreme poverty in Africa through productive inclusion: A comparative assessment of two social protection programmes in Ghana	2
Factors influencing political corruption. An empirical research study of regional governments	2
Exploring the relationship of administrative burden with doctors’ motivation and patients’ experience of care: Evidence from primary healthcare in Catalonia	2
Relational dimensions, motivation and knowledge-sharing in healthcare: a perspective from relational models theory	2
Cross-country differences in implicit citizenship and servantship theories: Contrasting evidence from Germany and Taiwan	2
Governing aid coordination in regional platforms: the G20 Compact with Africa case	2
‘Mind the board!’: Board efficacy, managerial role dilemmas and performance in municipally owned corporations	2
Seen but not partisan: Changing expectations of public servants in Westminster systems	2
Top executives’ discretion and organizational performance: Analysis of quasi-governmental organizations in Korean government	2
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	2
Corruption risk analysis in local public procurement: a look at the Àrea Metropolitana de Barcelona	2

Fiscal transparency and tax morale: is the relationship shaped by perceptions of government performance and corruption?	2
Changes in public service motivation: Can public administration education help cultivate it?	2