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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Performance Information Use in a Purpose-Oriented Network: A Relational Perspective	152
Bureaucratic turnover under new governments: the moderating effect of bureaucratic and political layering	65
Theorizing Multilevel Closure Structures Guiding Forum Participation	51
How the experience of administrative burdens affects clients’ psychological well-being: the role of negativity bias	50
Seeing no evil? Social vulnerabilities, collective inference, and organizational divergence	47
Algorithmic discrimination in public service provision: Understanding citizens’ attribution of responsibility for human versus algorithmic discriminatory outcomes	45
Gendered administrative burden: regulating gendered bodies, labor, and identity	40
How wars impact public administration and street-level bureaucracy: teachers and education professionals on the frontlines of the Russian occupation in Ukraine	35
Breaking down administrative burdens: a user-centered approach to increase interest in active labor market programs by women	32
Changes in the accountability obligation, intensity, and working drive of public employees: evidence from a survey experiment	31
Making administrative work matter in public service delivery: a lens for linking practice with the purpose of office	27
Race, Locality, and Representative Bureaucracy: Does Community Bias Matter?	26
Correction to: The Enduring Role of Sector: Citizen Preferences in Mixed Markets	26
Who is this for? How felt accountability shapes the enactment of accountability in public service delivery	24
Does Reducing Street-Level Bureaucrats’ Workload Enhance Equity in Program Access? Evidence from Burdensome College Financial Aid Programs	23
Correction to: How ensembling AI and public managers improves decision-making	22
Worth the effort? Compliance costs, heuristics, and perceived program accessibility	21
Saving the Salmon: Examining the Cost-Effectiveness of Collaboration in Oregon	20
Preference for group-based social hierarchy and the reluctance to accept women as equals in law enforcement	19
The more expertise the better? Examining the impact of policy venue specialization on environmental policy compliance	18
The Unequal Distribution of Consequences of Contracting Out: Female, Low-skilled, and Young Workers Pay the Highest Price	18
Assessing drivers of sustained engagement in collaborative governance arrangements	17
Volunteers in Public Service Production: Modeling the Contributions of Volunteers to Organizational Performance	16
Critical mass condition of majority bureaucratic behavioral change in representative bureaucracy: a theoretical clarification and a nonparametric exploration	15
All hands on deck: the role of collaborative platforms and lead organizations in achieving environmental goals	15

Does Work Quality Differ between the Public and Private Sectors? Evidence from Two Online Field Experiments	15
Exploring the influence of administrative capacities on administrative burdens	15
Playing with time: data manipulation within the performance evaluation cycle	14
Breaking the rules, but for whom? How client characteristics affect frontline professionals’ prosocial rule-breaking behavior	14
Improving Delivery of the Social Safety Net: The Role of Stigma	14
A process study of managing tensions for sustaining public purpose-oriented networks: toward a “Networks as Practice” perspective	13
Between breaking and restoring boundaries: conceptualizing responsiveness in street-level decision-making	13
Working Towards Policy: A Theory of Organizational Implementation and Management	12
Deservingness, humanness, and representation through lived experience: analyzing first responders’ attitudes	12
Burdens, bribes, and bureaucrats: the political economy of petty corruption and administrative burdens	12
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
The relationship between how agencies work together and coordinated outcomes: a configurational analysis	11
Financial performance of state-owned enterprises: does political ideology play a role?	11
An Analysis of Micro-scale Conflict in Collaborative Governance	10
Conceptualizing and Explaining Flexibility in Administrative Crisis Management: A Cross-district Analysis in Germany	10
Are public officials more risk-averse than private sector employees in decision-making? Interest and accountability matter	10
Anti-Corruption Efforts and Citizen-Initiated Accountability: Evidence from Administrative Litigation	10
Climbing the Velvet Drainpipe: Class Background and Career Progression within the UK Civil Service	9
Distributive Justice in Collaborative Outputs: Empowering Minority Viewpoints Through Deliberation	9
The voice of the voiceless: refugees’ perceptions of participation under constraint	9
Emotional capital in citizen agency: contesting administrative burden through anger	8
Striking multiple balances in cross-sector collaborations: how leaders navigate institutional complexity with interdependent leadership behaviors	8
Administrative Errors and Race: Can Technology Mitigate Inequitable Administrative Outcomes?	8
Partisan bias and performance improvement efforts in program administration: evidence from unemployment insurance programs in the American states	8
Ebb and flow of network participation: flexibility, stability, and forms of flux in a purpose-oriented network	7
Types of administrative burden reduction strategies: who, what, and how	7
The Potential of Meta-ethnography in the Study of Public Administration: A Worked Example on Social Security Encounters in Advanced Liberal Democracies	7
Compliance under distrust: do people comply less when they feel distrusted?	7
Sex, Race, and the Allocation of Credit in Dispersed Teams: Whose Contributions to Team Success Get Noticed and Whose Get Neglected	7
Will trust move mountains? Fostering radical ideas in public organizations	7
The interplay of discretion and complexity in public contracting and renegotiations	7
Cultivating collaborative resilience amid volatility: implementation partnerships between law enforcement and mental health organizations	6
Scarcity and the Mindsets of Social Welfare Recipients: Evidence from a Field Experiment	6
Inequality in frontline communication: bureaucrats talk differently to men and women	6
Top managers’ language dissimilarity and public organizational performance	6
Revisiting an “urban legend”: an experimental assessment of common method variance’s impact on relationships in self-reported data	6
Correction to: Why Are Counterfactual Assessment Methods Not Widespread in Outcome-Based Contracts? A Formal Model Approach	6
How ensembling AI and public managers improves decision-making	6
On the Frontline of Global Inequalities: A Decolonial Approach to the Study of Street-Level Bureaucracies	5
The Performance and Development of Deliberative Routines: A Practice-Based Ethnographic Study	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
Organizational strategies for system robustness: how managers navigate the institutional architecture of complex systems	5
A learning approach to the governance of professionals. Field experimental evidence	5