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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Happily unaccountable? Perceptions of accountability by public managers	60
Analyzing determinants of whistleblowing intention with the gamification method	36
Religion and representative bureaucracy: Does religion guide administrative discretion?	32
Deconstructing complexity: A comparative study of government collaboration in national digital platforms and smart city networks in Europe	27
Perceiving policy entrepreneurship: A Q-methodology study on the attitudes of mid-level managers in developing countries	27
The role of values in the interorganizational network response to wicked problems	25
Governance principles and regulatory needs for a national digital education platform	20
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
Systematic and axiological capacities in artificial intelligence applied in the public sector	18
Digital transformation in governance: Preconditions for achieving good governance	15
Dissecting the organization matters: Gauging the effect of unit-level and organization-level factors on perceived innovation outcomes	15
How does population size influence administrative performance? Evidence from Malta, Samoa, and Suriname	13
The dark side of public-private partnerships: Enforced hybridity and power dynamics in fighting financial crime	13
Internal and external exploration for public service innovation–Measuring the impact of a climate for creativity and collaborative diversity on innovation	12
Contours of a research programme for the study of the relationship of religion and public administration	10
Talking at parties: Bureaucratic language in response to party control changes	10
Public administration reform and political will in cases of political instability: Insights from the Israeli experience	10
Geoffrey Kingdon Fry and the British road to public sector reform	10
Navigating co-production with disadvantaged service users: Local heritage as an agent of value co-creation	9
Collegiality and efficiency in bureaucracy	9
Street-level bureaucrats’ non-compliance in policy transfer: How to assess the success and failure of policy transfer and outcomes	8
Data science, artificial intelligence and the third wave of digital era governance	8
Mundane dynamics: Understanding collaborative governance approaches to ‘big’ problems through studying ‘small’ practices	8
In trust we trust: The impact of trust in government on excess mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic	8

Affective governmentality and gendered labour in education policy: Sites of non-traditional coproduction	8
Exploring the functions and role of social impact measurement in enhancing the social value of public-private partnerships: A systematic literature review	7
The long and winding road towards the EU policy of support to Member States public administration reform: History (2000–2021) and prospects	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
Who should (not) participate? Public service organisations’ attitudes towards participation in policy-making modes	7
Mission invisible? Managing boundaries for flood protection	7