OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Review of Administrative Sciences is 6. 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
A stakeholder perspective on public sector innovation: Linking the target groups of innovations to the inclusion of stakeholder ideas	12
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
Do programme budget mechanisms improve the efficiency of public spending? Elements of theory and empirical data from Cameroon	11
What the public wants and how it is best served: forensic scientists’ perceptions of the drivers of public value creation	10
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
Exploring the negative impacts of artificial intelligence in government: the dark side of intelligent algorithms and cognitive machines	9
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

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
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
Administrative reforms in Portugal and Spain: From bureaucracy to digital transition	7
Chronicle of the International Institute of Administrative Sciences	7
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
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
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