OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Public Policy and Administration is 7. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Happily unaccountable? Perceptions of accountability by public managers	71
When GenAI writes public foresight reports: Effects on convincing citizens	40
Religion and representative bureaucracy: Does religion guide administrative discretion?	34
The role of values in the interorganizational network response to wicked problems	31
Analyzing determinants of whistleblowing intention with the gamification method	31
Perceiving policy entrepreneurship: A Q-methodology study on the attitudes of mid-level managers in developing countries	29
When citizens meet the chatbot: Evidence from a survey vignette experiment in Estonia	24
Deconstructing complexity: A comparative study of government collaboration in national digital platforms and smart city networks in Europe	22
Network structure, network mechanism, and network effectiveness and legitimacy: A configurational analysis of 26 cases	19
Parental co-production in public higher education during the COVID-19 crisis: A mixed methods study	18
Governance principles and regulatory needs for a national digital education platform	18
Systematic and axiological capacities in artificial intelligence applied in the public sector	16
The dark side of public-private partnerships: Enforced hybridity and power dynamics in fighting financial crime	14
Dissecting the organization matters: Gauging the effect of unit-level and organization-level factors on perceived innovation outcomes	13
Digital transformation in governance: Preconditions for achieving good governance	13
How does population size influence administrative performance? Evidence from Malta, Samoa, and Suriname	12
Internal and external exploration for public service innovation–Measuring the impact of a climate for creativity and collaborative diversity on innovation	12
Geoffrey Kingdon Fry and the British road to public sector reform	11
Public administration reform and political will in cases of political instability: Insights from the Israeli experience	10
In trust we trust: The impact of trust in government on excess mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic	10
Contours of a research programme for the study of the relationship of religion and public administration	10
Collegiality and efficiency in bureaucracy	10
Talking at parties: Bureaucratic language in response to party control changes	10
Affective governmentality and gendered labour in education policy: Sites of non-traditional coproduction	9
Mundane dynamics: Understanding collaborative governance approaches to ‘big’ problems through studying ‘small’ practices	9

Navigating co-production with disadvantaged service users: Local heritage as an agent of value co-creation	9
Street-level bureaucrats’ non-compliance in policy transfer: How to assess the success and failure of policy transfer and outcomes	8
Exploring the functions and role of social impact measurement in enhancing the social value of public-private partnerships: A systematic literature review	7
Problem structuring, wrong-problem problems and metagovernance as the strategic management of intractable positions: The case of the EU GM Crop Regulatory Framework controversy	7
The shifting political-administrative interface under Westminster: Australia’s prime ministerial views from Fraser to Morrison	7
Who should (not) participate? Public service organisations’ attitudes towards participation in policy-making modes	7
Data science, artificial intelligence and the third wave of digital era governance	7
Mission invisible? Managing boundaries for flood protection	7
The long and winding road towards the EU policy of support to Member States public administration reform: History (2000–2021) and prospects	7
Beyond specific case responses: Accountability, public service motivation, and bureaucrats’ policy responsiveness	7