OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Review of Administrative Sciences is 4. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The Braibant lecture 2025 – Next generation of administrative reforms: Empowering citizens	86
Empathy, stress, and coproduction: Experience of public professionals in Chinese healthcare	61
Tab the lab: A typology of public sector innovation labs	41
Multilevel power structure and local compliance with government transparency mandates: evidence from China's environmental transparency reform	27
In their own words: Police officers’ insights on identifying and overcoming contemporary policing challenges	25
Institutional geography: effects of physical distance on agency autonomy	24
Tax evasion and governance quality: The moderating role of adopting open government	23
Bad government performance and citizens’ perceptions: A quasi-experimental study of local fiscal crisis	19
Does top-down administrative regulation promote urban safety performance? A quasi-natural experiment with evidence of listed special supervision in China	19
A commentary on “Different strokes for different folks? The translation of public values into official meanings”	17
Administrative delegation revisited: Experimental evidence on the behavioural consequences of public service motivation and risk aversion	16
Interpreting digital governance at the municipal level: Evidence from smart city projects in Belgium	12
Like a bridge over troubled water: Wellbeing and trust in governance during turbulent times	12
The grand challenge of public administration digitalization: The digital identity policy in Italy	11
Chronicle of the International Institute of Administrative Sciences	11
Do programme budget mechanisms improve the efficiency of public spending? Elements of theory and empirical data from Cameroon	11
The effect of fiscal expenditure on the economic growth of developing countries in West Africa	10
What the public wants and how it is best served: forensic scientists’ perceptions of the drivers of public value creation	8
Book Review Hellmut Wollmann, Local Government and Governance in Germany: Challenges , Responses and Perspectives. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2024; 169 pp.: ISBN 978-3	8
e-Government development and environmental performance: Unravelling the dual mediation of regulatory enforcement and citizen participation in China	7
A meta-analysis of how the culture and technical development level influence citizens’ adoption of m-government	7
Private consulting firms’ intervention in public health policymaking: An exploratory review	7
Exploring the negative impacts of artificial intelligence in government: the dark side of intelligent algorithms and cognitive machines	7
Governance and tax revenue: does foreign aid matter?	7
Damned if you, damned if you don’t: The politics of pandemic preparation as a grand challenge	6

Successful remunicipalization processes in Italian waste management: Triggers, key success factors, and results	6
“You’re gonna need a bigger boat”: Understanding politicization in the populist era	6
The value of paired and longitudinal surveys in public administration research	5
Chronicle of the International Institute of Administrative Sciences	5
Meta-governance, uncertainty and self-organization in corporatist social service sectors: The case of Hong Kong	5
Administrative reforms in Portugal and Spain: From bureaucracy to digital transition	5
The civil service careers of university support staff and new public management: A qualitative study from Chile	5
Local government’s response to dissatisfaction with centralized policies: the “do-it-yourself” approach	5
Performance-related pay, fairness perceptions, and effort in public management tasks: a parallel encouragement design	5
Co-production before, during, and after the first COVID-19 lockdown: The case of developmental services for youth with disabilities	4
Fighting depopulation in Europe by analyzing the financial risks of local governments	4
Policy advice utilization in Belgian ministerial cabinets: the contingent importance of internal and external sources of advice	4
Lockdown, information quality, and political trust: An empirical study of the Shanghai lockdown under COVID-19	4
Comply while keeping your autonomy, or the art of managing paradox through dialogue	4
Assessing the role of gender-related aspects in public budgeting debates: A view of the central level in Germany	4
Better data for budgetary surveillance: EU law on statistics as key to unlocking the potential of public sector accounting	4
Attempts at making public sector accrual accounting and reporting useful and useable: The preparers’ perspective	4
Multidomain judging and administration of justice: evidence from a major emerging-market jurisdiction	4
Digitalization of public sector organizations over time: The applicability of quantitative text analysis	4