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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Re-municipalization of local public services: incidence, causes and prospects	58
Getting integrative urban regeneration strategies done: Insights from Antwerp and Gothenburg	46
Governance and tax revenue: does foreign aid matter?	38
Rethinking marine plastics pollution: Science diplomacy and multi-level governance	31
Information on local financial reforms and cognitive processes of citizens	28
An analysis of foreign residents’ perceptions and behaviors regarding digital government portal services in the Republic of South Korea	27
Staff recruitment and geographical representation in international organizations	27
A transformative change through a coordination process and a steering agency. The case of the financial information system of the French central state	25
Financial autonomy in Spanish local governments: Empirical evidence of beta and sigma convergence	20
The autonomy and governance of mutual aid organizations for civil servants’ welfare	20
Financialization beyond partnerships: Real estate investment trusts in elderly care	20
Interconnected bureaucracies? Comparing online and offline networks during global climate negotiations	18
Twenty-five years of accountability research in public administration: Authorship, themes, methods, and future trends	18
“You’re gonna need a bigger boat”: Understanding politicization in the populist era	16
Does process matter more for predicting trust in government? Participation, performance, and process, in local government in Japan	16
Public trust in the Chinese government and life satisfaction during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic	15
Strategic alignment of open government initiatives in Andalusia	13
Sustainable development goals in public administrations: Enabling conditions in local governments	12
A meta-analysis of how the culture and technical development level influence citizens’ adoption of m-government	12
Bureaucratic policy work and analytical capacities in central administrations in Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain: The results of a comparative survey	12
A public sector financial management maturity model for developing countries: the case of Iran	11
Digitization and urban governance: The city as a reflection of its data infrastructure	11
In their own words: Police officers’ insights on identifying and overcoming contemporary policing challenges	11
Performance-related pay, fairness perceptions, and effort in public management tasks: a parallel encouragement design	10
Multilevel power structure and local compliance with government transparency mandates: evidence from China's environmental transparency reform	10

Street-level bureaucracy in weak state institutions: a systematic review of the literature	10
Editorial	8
What's representation got to do with it? Comparing public reactions to diversity among government employees and government contractors	8
Social value in public enterprises from the perspective of Creating Shared Value (CSV): The case of the Korea Expressway Corporation	8
The control of the policy advice industry: how patrons defer their decision-rights to think tank boards	8
Tab the lab: A typology of public sector innovation labs	8
In unsteady waters: How mayors and chief administrative officers make sense of a public service bargain in disequilibrium	8
Towards flexible evaluation schemes in areas with lacking information: a case of waste governance in Mexico	8
Transformational leadership and public employee performance: The mediating roles of employee participation and public service motivation	8
Governing aid coordination in regional platforms: the G20 Compact with Africa case	8
Transparency in the use of assets confiscated from mafia organizations	7
Meta-governance, uncertainty and self-organization in corporatist social service sectors: The case of Hong Kong	7
Organizational learning capacity and international development project success in West Africa: A case study	7
Relocation of public institutions and local public finance: Evidence from South Korea	7
Government choice between contract termination and contract expiration in re-municipalization: a case of historical recurrence?	7
Is bureaucracy ironclad after all? Prevalence and variances of performance- and strategy-oriented management in German local governments	7
Political trust in a multilevel polity: patterns of differentiation among more and less politically sophisticated citizens	7
The digital communication tools and citizens' relationship with local governments: a comparison of Georgian and Polish cities	6
Coopetition in a merger process: Regulators and management of coopetitive tensions	6
Factors influencing political corruption. An empirical research study of regional governments	6
Successful remunicipalization processes in Italian waste management: Triggers, key success factors, and results	6
The effect of pay for performance on work attitudes in the private, public, and nonprofit sectors: A panel study from South Korea	6
Is citizen satisfaction affected by the equivalent framing effect? A study based on situations involving poor government performance	5
Understanding the impact of mandatory accrual accounting on management practices: interpretation of Japanese local governments’ behavior	5
The relevance of budget transparency for development	5
The paradox of citizen grievances in China: an institutional logics perspective	5
Policy recommendations of international bureaucracies: the importance of country-specificity	4
Measuring red tape in a hospital setting: A survey experiment	4
‘Mind the board!’: Board efficacy, managerial role dilemmas and performance in municipally owned corporations	4
Board gender diversity in municipally owned corporations: A resource dependence perspective	4
Administrative reforms in Portugal and Spain: From bureaucracy to digital transition	4
What brings contracting back in-house? A synthesis of international evidence	4
Drivers of reverse corporatization in English local government: A longitudinal analysis	3
Corruption risk analysis in local public procurement: a look at the Àrea Metropolitana de Barcelona	3
Local governments’ communication on social media platforms: refining and assessing patterns of adoption in Belgium	3
Tax evasion and governance quality: The moderating role of adopting open government	3
Editorial	3
Eradicating extreme poverty in Africa through productive inclusion: A comparative assessment of two social protection programmes in Ghana	3
Chronicle of the International Institute of Administrative Sciences	3
Discursive framing and organizational venues: mechanisms of artificial intelligence policy adoption	3
Institutional geography: effects of physical distance on agency autonomy	3
Exploring the relationship of administrative burden with doctors’ motivation and patients’ experience of care: Evidence from primary healthcare in Catalonia	3
The civil service careers of university support staff and new public management: A qualitative study from Chile	3
Harmonising public sector accounting laws and regulations of the European Union member states: powers and competences	3
The practice of motivated reasoning: observing knowledge use in real-world policy processes	3
Innovative work behaviors and networking across government	2
Lessons from public administration for global governance: Conclusions of the special issue on “International Bureaucracy and the United Nations System.”	2
Smart criminal justice: Phenomena and normative requirements	2
Administrative philosophies in the discourse and decisions of the New Zealand public service: is post-New Public Management still a myth?	2
Setting sustainability agenda at the local level: a process of compromise making	2

The effects of performance evaluation on punishment in organisations	2
Analysis of the perception of digital government and artificial intelligence in the public sector in Jalisco, Mexico	2
Does top-down administrative regulation promote urban safety performance? A quasi-natural experiment with evidence of listed special supervision in China	2
Local government’s response to dissatisfaction with centralized policies: the “do-it-yourself” approach	2
Explaining sentiment shifts in UN system annual reporting: a longitudinal comparison of UNHCR, UNRWA and IOM	2
Gender budgeting in public financial management: a literature review and research agenda	2
Administrative delegation revisited: Experimental evidence on the behavioural consequences of public service motivation and risk aversion	2
Governing healthcare in India: a policy capacity perspective	2
Understanding the evolution of open government data research: towards open data sustainability and smartness	2
Bad government performance and citizens’ perceptions: A quasi-experimental study of local fiscal crisis	2
Better data for budgetary surveillance: EU law on statistics as key to unlocking the potential of public sector accounting	2
Like a bridge over troubled water: Wellbeing and trust in governance during turbulent times	2
Introducing a digital tool for sustainability impact assessments within the German Federal Government: A neo-institutional perspective	2