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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Blame avoidance, scapegoats and spin: Why Dutch politicians won’t evaluate ZBO-outcomes	45
Happily unaccountable? Perceptions of accountability by public managers	38
Analyzing determinants of whistleblowing intention with the gamification method	27
Religion and representative bureaucracy: Does religion guide administrative discretion?	23
The role of values in the interorganizational network response to wicked problems	18
Perceiving policy entrepreneurship: A Q-methodology study on the attitudes of mid-level managers in developing countries	16
Deconstructing complexity: A comparative study of government collaboration in national digital platforms and smart city networks in Europe	16
Governance principles and regulatory needs for a national digital education platform	15
Dissecting the organization matters: Gauging the effect of unit-level and organization-level factors on perceived innovation outcomes	15
Implementing digitalization in the public sector. Technologies, agency, and governance	15
Comparing policy conflict on electricity transmission line sitings	14
Systematic and axiological capacities in artificial intelligence applied in the public sector	11
The dark side of public-private partnerships: Enforced hybridity and power dynamics in fighting financial crime	10
How does population size influence administrative performance? Evidence from Malta, Samoa, and Suriname	10
Geoffrey Kingdon Fry and the British road to public sector reform	9
Contours of a research programme for the study of the relationship of religion and public administration	9
Public administration reform and political will in cases of political instability: Insights from the Israeli experience	9
Internal and external exploration for public service innovation–Measuring the impact of a climate for creativity and collaborative diversity on innovation	9
Talking at parties: Bureaucratic language in response to party control changes	8
Mundane dynamics: Understanding collaborative governance approaches to ‘big’ problems through studying ‘small’ practices	7
The long and winding road towards the EU policy of support to Member States public administration reform: History (2000–2021) and prospects	7
Affective governmentality and gendered labour in education policy: Sites of non-traditional coproduction	6
Navigating co-production with disadvantaged service users: Local heritage as an agent of value co-creation	6
Collegiality and efficiency in bureaucracy	6
In trust we trust: The impact of trust in government on excess mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic	6

Data science, artificial intelligence and the third wave of digital era governance	5
Problem structuring, wrong-problem problems and metagovernance as the strategic management of intractable positions: The case of the EU GM Crop Regulatory Framework controversy	5
Crisis decision-making inside the core executive: Rationality, bureaucratic politics, standard procedures and the COVID-19 lockdown	5
Electoral administration and the problem of poll worker recruitment: Who volunteers, and why?	5
Exploring the functions and role of social impact measurement in enhancing the social value of public-private partnerships: A systematic literature review	5