OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory is 4. 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
Performance Information Use in a Purpose-Oriented Network: A Relational Perspective	174
Theorizing Multilevel Closure Structures Guiding Forum Participation	154
Algorithmic discrimination in public service provision: Understanding citizens’ attribution of responsibility for human versus algorithmic discriminatory outcomes	81
When Agency Priorities Matter: Risk Aversion for Autonomy and Turf Protection in Mandated Collaboration	42
Gendered administrative burden: regulating gendered bodies, labor, and identity	39
Changes in the accountability obligation, intensity, and working drive of public employees: evidence from a survey experiment	34
Data Manipulation through Patronage Networks: Evidence from Environmental Emissions in China	33
Correction to: The Enduring Role of Sector: Citizen Preferences in Mixed Markets	32
Race, Locality, and Representative Bureaucracy: Does Community Bias Matter?	30
Does Reducing Street-Level Bureaucrats’ Workload Enhance Equity in Program Access? Evidence from Burdensome College Financial Aid Programs	29
Making administrative work matter in public service delivery: a lens for linking practice with the purpose of office	29
Correction to: How ensembling AI and public managers improves decision-making	26
Job Satisfaction and Citizen Satisfaction with Street-level Bureaucrats: Is There a Satisfaction Mirror?	25
Dismantling or Disguising Racialization?: Defining Racialized Change Work in the Context of Postsecondary Grantmaking	25
Saving the Salmon: Examining the Cost-Effectiveness of Collaboration in Oregon	24
Preference for group-based social hierarchy and the reluctance to accept women as equals in law enforcement	23
Explaining Public Organization Adaptation to Climate Change: Configurations of Macro- and Meso-Level Institutional Logics	22
Exploring the influence of administrative capacities on administrative burdens	21
Volunteers in Public Service Production: Modeling the Contributions of Volunteers to Organizational Performance	21
Understanding Public Participation as a Mechanism Affecting Government Fiscal Outcomes: Theory and Evidence From Participatory Budgeting	20
Critical mass condition of majority bureaucratic behavioral change in representative bureaucracy: a theoretical clarification and a nonparametric exploration	20
The Unequal Distribution of Consequences of Contracting Out: Female, Low-skilled, and Young Workers Pay the Highest Price	18
All hands on deck: the role of collaborative platforms and lead organizations in achieving environmental goals	18
Assessing drivers of sustained engagement in collaborative governance arrangements	17
Acres for the Affluent: An Interactive Model of Nonprofit Resources and Demand Heterogeneity	17

Breaking the rules, but for whom? How client characteristics affect frontline professionals’ prosocial rule-breaking behavior	16
Discretionary Responses in Frontline Encounters: Balancing Standardization with the Ethics of Office	15
Does Work Quality Differ between the Public and Private Sectors? Evidence from Two Online Field Experiments	15
Improving Delivery of the Social Safety Net: The Role of Stigma	14
Working Towards Policy: A Theory of Organizational Implementation and Management	14
Deservingness, humanness, and representation through lived experience: analyzing first responders’ attitudes	14
Financial performance of state-owned enterprises: does political ideology play a role?	13
Burdens, bribes, and bureaucrats: the political economy of petty corruption and administrative burdens	13
Correction to: Climbing the Velvet Drainpipe: Class Background and Career Progression within the UK Civil Service	13
A Process Study of Managing Tensions for Sustaining Public Purpose-Oriented Networks: Toward A “Networks as Practice” Perspective	13
Country of Origin and Representative Bureaucracy	13
Activating the “Big Man”: Social Status, Patronage Networks, and Pro-Social Behavior in African Bureaucracies	13
The weakness of weak ties: do social capital investments among leaders pay off during times of disaster?	12
The relationship between how agencies work together and coordinated outcomes: a configurational analysis	12
An Analysis of Micro-scale Conflict in Collaborative Governance	11
Climbing the Velvet Drainpipe: Class Background and Career Progression within the UK Civil Service	11
Assessments of Digital Client Representations: How Frontline Workers Reconstruct Client Narratives from Fragmented Information	11
Resisting or Facilitating Change? How Street-Level Managers’Situational WorkContributes to the Implementation of Public Reforms	11
Deconstructing Burnout at the Intersections of Race, Gender, and Generation in Local Government	11
Emotional capital in citizen agency: contesting administrative burden through anger	10
Distributive Justice in Collaborative Outputs: Empowering Minority Viewpoints Through Deliberation	10
Conceptualizing and Explaining Flexibility in Administrative Crisis Management: A Cross-district Analysis in Germany	10
Types of administrative burden reduction strategies: who, what, and how	9
Sex, Race, and the Allocation of Credit in Dispersed Teams: Whose Contributions to Team Success Get Noticed and Whose Get Neglected	9
Slipstreaming for Public Sector Reform: How Enterprising Public Sector Leaders Navigate Institutional Inertia	9
Does Coordinated Administrative Leadership Improve US Federal Agency Management of Discrimination Problems?	8
Should I Stay or Should I Go? Why Participants Leave Collaborative Governance Arrangements	8
The interplay of discretion and complexity in public contracting and renegotiations	8
Administrative Errors and Race: Can Technology Mitigate Inequitable Administrative Outcomes?	8
Shared Positions on Divisive Beliefs Explain Interorganizational Collaboration: Evidence from Climate Change Policy Subsystems in 11 Countries	7
The Enduring Role of Sector: Citizen Preferences in Mixed Markets	7
Ebb and flow of network participation: flexibility, stability, and forms of flux in a purpose-oriented network	7
Scarcity and the Mindsets of Social Welfare Recipients: Evidence from a Field Experiment	7
Compliance under distrust: do people comply less when they feel distrusted?	7
The Potential of Meta-ethnography in the Study of Public Administration: A Worked Example on Social Security Encounters in Advanced Liberal Democracies	7
Racialized Burdens: Applying Racialized Organization Theory to the Administrative State	6
Will trust move mountains? Fostering radical ideas in public organizations	6
Cultivating Collaborative Resilience amid Volatility: Implementation Partnerships between Law Enforcement and Mental Health Organizations	6
Correction to: Why Are Counterfactual Assessment Methods Not Widespread in Outcome-Based Contracts? A Formal Model Approach	6
Top managers’ language dissimilarity and public organizational performance	6
Responding to Environmental Uncertainties in Critical Supply Acquisition: An Examination of Contracting for Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) in the Aftermath of COVID-19	5
Developing the Theory of Pragmatic Public Management through Classic Grounded Theory Methodology	5
The professional profile, competence, and responsiveness of senior bureaucrats: a paired survey experiment with citizens and elite respondents	5
Linguistic Features of Public Service Encounters: How Spoken Administrative Language Affects Citizen Satisfaction	5
How ensembling AI and public managers improves decision-making	5
Human–AI Interactions in Public Sector Decision Making: “Automation Bias” and “Selective Adherence” to Algorithmic Advice	5
On the Frontline of Global Inequalities: A Decolonial Approach to the Study of Street-Level Bureaucracies	5
User Involvement as a Catalyst for Collaborative Public Service Innovation	5
The Performance and Development of Deliberative Routines: A Practice-Based Ethnographic Study	4
(Mis)Led by an Outsider: Abusive Supervision, Disengagement, and Silence in Politicized Bureaucracies	4

Patterns of bureaucracy: Conceptualizing administrative traditions	4
Performance-based accountability systems at the organizational level: effects of a school program	4
A Learning Approach to the Governance of Professionals. Field Experimental Evidence	4
Assessing the Effects of User Accountability in Contracting Out	4
Why are policy actors so distrustful of each other, and how? Cognitive, behavioral, and endogenous relational sources of perceived distrust in governance networks	4
When does employee turnover matter? Analyzing the role of organizational memory in the federal IT workforce	4
Signaling Resilience: A Computational Assessment of Narratives in Local Government Budgets	4
Women hold up the shattering sky? Performance feedback on multiple conflicting goals and women’s representation in top management teams in the public sector	4