Policy Studies Journal

Papers
(The H4-Index of Policy Studies Journal is 16. 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.)
ArticleCitations
The place of social cohesion in policy design: Lessons from the evolution of pension policy instruments mix in OECD countries42
The particular and diffuse effects of negative interactions on participation: Evidence from responses to police killings31
Advocacy groups, policy subsidies, and policy change: The case of teacher evaluations30
Can reducing learning costs improve public support for means‐tested benefit programs?28
“Protect the women!” Trans‐exclusionary feminist issue framing and support for transgender rights27
The optimal group size of deliberative mini‐publics: A divide in perceptions27
Policy Feedback and the 2021 Advanced Child Tax Credit23
How street‐level dilemmas and politics shape divergence: The accountability regimes framework22
A novel research method to detect punctuation and its application to bureaucratic decision‐making21
The adoption of culturally contentious innovations: The case of citizen oversight of police20
Correction to “Learning in polycentric governance: Insights from the California Delta science enterprise”20
Marketization in Public Purchasing as a Route to Business Corporations' Institutional Power: The Case of Outsourcing Social Services in Israel19
Coproduction as a Causal Process19
Issue Information17
Learning by proxy: How burdensome policies shape policy implementors' views of government16
Editorial introduction: Punctuated equilibrium, multiple streams, environmental governance, and many more16
Issue Information16
Measuring the stasis: Punctuated equilibrium theory and partisan polarization16
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