OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Theorizing Multilevel Closure Structures Guiding Forum Participation	137
Performance Information Use in a Purpose-Oriented Network: A Relational Perspective	133
Gendered administrative burden: regulating gendered bodies, labor, and identity	66
Conflict Contagion: How Interdependence Shapes Patterns of Conflict and Cooperation in Polycentric Systems	39
When Agency Priorities Matter: Risk Aversion for Autonomy and Turf Protection in Mandated Collaboration	35
Data Manipulation through Patronage Networks: Evidence from Environmental Emissions in China	32
Correction to: The Enduring Role of Sector: Citizen Preferences in Mixed Markets	31
Making administrative work matter in public service delivery: a lens for linking practice with the purpose of office	28
Does Reducing Street-Level Bureaucrats’ Workload Enhance Equity in Program Access? Evidence from Burdensome College Financial Aid Programs	27
Race, Locality, and Representative Bureaucracy: Does Community Bias Matter?	27
Dismantling or Disguising Racialization?: Defining Racialized Change Work in the Context of Postsecondary Grantmaking	25
Meta-Analysis of Collaboration and Performance: Moderating Tests of Sectoral Differences in Collaborative Performance	24
A Vacancy Chain Model of Local Managers’ Career Advancement	23
Preference for group-based social hierarchy and the reluctance to accept women as equals in law enforcement	22
Job Satisfaction and Citizen Satisfaction with Street-level Bureaucrats: Is There a Satisfaction Mirror?	22
Saving the Salmon: Examining the Cost-Effectiveness of Collaboration in Oregon	21
Explaining Public Organization Adaptation to Climate Change: Configurations of Macro- and Meso-Level Institutional Logics	20
All hands on deck: the role of collaborative platforms and lead organizations in achieving environmental goals	20
Acres for the Affluent: An Interactive Model of Nonprofit Resources and Demand Heterogeneity	19
The Unequal Distribution of Consequences of Contracting Out: Female, Low-skilled, and Young Workers Pay the Highest Price	19
Understanding Public Participation as a Mechanism Affecting Government Fiscal Outcomes: Theory and Evidence From Participatory Budgeting	18
Volunteers in Public Service Production: Modeling the Contributions of Volunteers to Organizational Performance	18
Assessing drivers of sustained engagement in collaborative governance arrangements	17
Critical mass condition of majority bureaucratic behavioral change in representative bureaucracy: a theoretical clarification and a nonparametric exploration	17
Exploring the influence of administrative capacities on administrative burdens	16

Does Work Quality Differ between the Public and Private Sectors? Evidence from Two Online Field Experiments	15
Breaking the rules, but for whom? How client characteristics affect frontline professionals’ prosocial rule-breaking behavior	15
Discretionary Responses in Frontline Encounters: Balancing Standardization with the Ethics of Office	15
Improving Delivery of the Social Safety Net: The Role of Stigma	15
Representative Bureaucracy and Organizational Justice in Mediation	15
Working Towards Policy: A Theory of Organizational Implementation and Management	15
Burdens, bribes, and bureaucrats: the political economy of petty corruption and administrative burdens	14
Deservingness, humanness, and representation through lived experience: analyzing first responders’ attitudes	14
Country of Origin and Representative Bureaucracy	12
Financial performance of state-owned enterprises: does political ideology play a role?	12
Activating the “Big Man”: Social Status, Patronage Networks, and Pro-Social Behavior in African Bureaucracies	12
An Analysis of Micro-scale Conflict in Collaborative Governance	11
Resisting or Facilitating Change? How Street-Level Managers’Situational WorkContributes to the Implementation of Public Reforms	11
The weakness of weak ties: do social capital investments among leaders pay off during times of disaster?	11
Correction to: Climbing the Velvet Drainpipe: Class Background and Career Progression within the UK Civil Service	11
Deconstructing Burnout at the Intersections of Race, Gender, and Generation in Local Government	10
Political (Over)Representation of Public Sector Employees and the Double-Motive Hypothesis: Evidence from Norwegian Register Data (2007–2019)	10
Climbing the Velvet Drainpipe: Class Background and Career Progression within the UK Civil Service	10
Conceptualizing and Explaining Flexibility in Administrative Crisis Management: A Cross-district Analysis in Germany	10
Distributive Justice in Collaborative Outputs: Empowering Minority Viewpoints Through Deliberation	10
Assessments of Digital Client Representations: How Frontline Workers Reconstruct Client Narratives from Fragmented Information	10
The relationship between how agencies work together and coordinated outcomes: a configurational analysis	10
Sex, Race, and the Allocation of Credit in Dispersed Teams: Whose Contributions to Team Success Get Noticed and Whose Get Neglected	9
Types of administrative burden reduction strategies: who, what, and how	9
Emotional capital in citizen agency: contesting administrative burden through anger	9
Slipstreaming for Public Sector Reform: How Enterprising Public Sector Leaders Navigate Institutional Inertia	9
The interplay of discretion and complexity in public contracting and renegotiations	8
Scarcity and the Mindsets of Social Welfare Recipients: Evidence from a Field Experiment	8
Should I Stay or Should I Go? Why Participants Leave Collaborative Governance Arrangements	8
Compliance under distrust: do people comply less when they feel distrusted?	8
Administrative Errors and Race: Can Technology Mitigate Inequitable Administrative Outcomes?	8
Will trust move mountains? Fostering radical ideas in public organizations	8
Does Coordinated Administrative Leadership Improve US Federal Agency Management of Discrimination Problems?	8
Shared Positions on Divisive Beliefs Explain Interorganizational Collaboration: Evidence from Climate Change Policy Subsystems in 11 Countries	7
Sexual Orientation and Organizational Justice in the Federal Service: Exploring Differences through an Intersectional Lens	7
The Enduring Role of Sector: Citizen Preferences in Mixed Markets	7
The Potential of Meta-ethnography in the Study of Public Administration: A Worked Example on Social Security Encounters in Advanced Liberal Democracies	7
Ebb and flow of network participation: flexibility, stability, and forms of flux in a purpose-oriented network	7
Racialized Burdens: Applying Racialized Organization Theory to the Administrative State	7
Reducing Burnout and Resignations among Frontline Workers: A Field Experiment	6
The professional profile, competence, and responsiveness of senior bureaucrats: a paired survey experiment with citizens and elite respondents	6
Correction to: Why Are Counterfactual Assessment Methods Not Widespread in Outcome-Based Contracts? A Formal Model Approach	6
Human–AI Interactions in Public Sector Decision Making: “Automation Bias” and “Selective Adherence” to Algorithmic Advice	6
Disaster Experience and Governments’ Savings: The Moderating Role of Organizational Capacity	5
Developing the Theory of Pragmatic Public Management through Classic Grounded Theory Methodology	5
Responding to Environmental Uncertainties in Critical Supply Acquisition: An Examination of Contracting for Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) in the Aftermath of COVID-19	5
Linguistic Features of Public Service Encounters: How Spoken Administrative Language Affects Citizen Satisfaction	5
User Involvement as a Catalyst for Collaborative Public Service Innovation	5
How ensembling AI and public managers improves decision-making	5
Why are policy actors so distrustful of each other, and how? Cognitive, behavioral, and endogenous relational sources of perceived distrust in governance networks	5

On the Frontline of Global Inequalities: A Decolonial Approach to the Study of Street-Level Bureaucracies	5
Administrative Groupings and Equality in Public Service Provision	5
Anticipated Adjudication: An Analysis of the Judicialization of the US Administrative State	5
Performance-based accountability systems at the organizational level: effects of a school program	5