OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Public Policy and Administration is 5. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Happily unaccountable? Perceptions of accountability by public managers	49
Analyzing determinants of whistleblowing intention with the gamification method	30
Religion and representative bureaucracy: Does religion guide administrative discretion?	27
Deconstructing complexity: A comparative study of government collaboration in national digital platforms and smart city networks in Europe	26
The role of values in the interorganizational network response to wicked problems	21
Perceiving policy entrepreneurship: A Q-methodology study on the attitudes of mid-level managers in developing countries	21
Network structure, network mechanism, and network effectiveness and legitimacy: A configurational analysis of 26 cases	19
Governance principles and regulatory needs for a national digital education platform	17
Systematic and axiological capacities in artificial intelligence applied in the public sector	16
Dissecting the organization matters: Gauging the effect of unit-level and organization-level factors on perceived innovation outcomes	14
Digital transformation in governance: Preconditions for achieving good governance	13
How does population size influence administrative performance? Evidence from Malta, Samoa, and Suriname	11
The dark side of public-private partnerships: Enforced hybridity and power dynamics in fighting financial crime	11
Internal and external exploration for public service innovation–Measuring the impact of a climate for creativity and collaborative diversity on innovation	10
Geoffrey Kingdon Fry and the British road to public sector reform	10
Talking at parties: Bureaucratic language in response to party control changes	9
Public administration reform and political will in cases of political instability: Insights from the Israeli experience	9
The long and winding road towards the EU policy of support to Member States public administration reform: History (2000–2021) and prospects	9
Contours of a research programme for the study of the relationship of religion and public administration	9
Navigating co-production with disadvantaged service users: Local heritage as an agent of value co-creation	8
Affective governmentality and gendered labour in education policy: Sites of non-traditional coproduction	8
Collegiality and efficiency in bureaucracy	8
Data science, artificial intelligence and the third wave of digital era governance	7
In trust we trust: The impact of trust in government on excess mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic	7
Mundane dynamics: Understanding collaborative governance approaches to ‘big’ problems through studying ‘small’ practices	6

Exploring the functions and role of social impact measurement in enhancing the social value of public-private partnerships: A systematic literature review	6
Problem structuring, wrong-problem problems and metagovernance as the strategic management of intractable positions: The case of the EU GM Crop Regulatory Framework controversy	6
Crisis decision-making inside the core executive: Rationality, bureaucratic politics, standard procedures and the COVID-19 lockdown	5
Mission invisible? Managing boundaries for flood protection	5
The shifting political-administrative interface under Westminster: Australia’s prime ministerial views from Fraser to Morrison	5
Beyond specific case responses: Accountability, public service motivation, and bureaucrats’ policy responsiveness	5
Why are organisational professionals expanding in the Swedish public sector? The role of accountability	5