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

Article	Citations
Theorizing Multilevel Closure Structures Guiding Forum Participation	199
Performance Information Use in a Purpose-Oriented Network: A Relational Perspective	165
Seeing No Evil? Social Vulnerabilities, Collective Inference and Organizational Divergence	97
Algorithmic discrimination in public service provision: Understanding citizens’ attribution of responsibility for human versus algorithmic discriminatory outcomes	45
Changes in the accountability obligation, intensity, and working drive of public employees: evidence from a survey experiment	43
Gendered administrative burden: regulating gendered bodies, labor, and identity	36
When Agency Priorities Matter: Risk Aversion for Autonomy and Turf Protection in Mandated Collaboration	35
How Wars Impact Public Administration and Street-Level Bureaucracy: Teachers and Education Professionals on the Frontlines of the Russian Occupation in Ukraine	34
Data Manipulation through Patronage Networks: Evidence from Environmental Emissions in China	32
Correction to: The Enduring Role of Sector: Citizen Preferences in Mixed Markets	32
Making administrative work matter in public service delivery: a lens for linking practice with the purpose of office	29
Race, Locality, and Representative Bureaucracy: Does Community Bias Matter?	28
Correction to: How ensembling AI and public managers improves decision-making	26
Does Reducing Street-Level Bureaucrats’ Workload Enhance Equity in Program Access? Evidence from Burdensome College Financial Aid Programs	26
Saving the Salmon: Examining the Cost-Effectiveness of Collaboration in Oregon	25
Dismantling or Disguising Racialization?: Defining Racialized Change Work in the Context of Postsecondary Grantmaking	25
Preference for group-based social hierarchy and the reluctance to accept women as equals in law enforcement	24
Explaining Public Organization Adaptation to Climate Change: Configurations of Macro- and Meso-Level Institutional Logics	22
Job Satisfaction and Citizen Satisfaction with Street-level Bureaucrats: Is There a Satisfaction Mirror?	22
Volunteers in Public Service Production: Modeling the Contributions of Volunteers to Organizational Performance	21
All hands on deck: the role of collaborative platforms and lead organizations in achieving environmental goals	20
Assessing drivers of sustained engagement in collaborative governance arrangements	20
Exploring the influence of administrative capacities on administrative burdens	19
Understanding Public Participation as a Mechanism Affecting Government Fiscal Outcomes: Theory and Evidence From Participatory Budgeting	18
Critical mass condition of majority bureaucratic behavioral change in representative bureaucracy: a theoretical clarification and a nonparametric exploration	18

The Unequal Distribution of Consequences of Contracting Out: Female, Low-skilled, and Young Workers Pay the Highest Price	18
Breaking the rules, but for whom? How client characteristics affect frontline professionals’ prosocial rule-breaking behavior	17
Does Work Quality Differ between the Public and Private Sectors? Evidence from Two Online Field Experiments	17
Discretionary Responses in Frontline Encounters: Balancing Standardization with the Ethics of Office	16
Improving Delivery of the Social Safety Net: The Role of Stigma	15
Deservingness, humanness, and representation through lived experience: analyzing first responders’ attitudes	15
Country of Origin and Representative Bureaucracy	15
Activating the “Big Man”: Social Status, Patronage Networks, and Pro-Social Behavior in African Bureaucracies	15
Financial performance of state-owned enterprises: does political ideology play a role?	15
A process study of managing tensions for sustaining public purpose-oriented networks: toward a “Networks as Practice” perspective	14
Working Towards Policy: A Theory of Organizational Implementation and Management	14
Burdens, bribes, and bureaucrats: the political economy of petty corruption and administrative burdens	14
Between breaking and restoring boundaries: conceptualizing responsiveness in street-level decision-making	13
Resisting or Facilitating Change? How Street-Level Managers’Situational WorkContributes to the Implementation of Public Reforms	13
The relationship between how agencies work together and coordinated outcomes: a configurational analysis	13
Correction to: Climbing the Velvet Drainpipe: Class Background and Career Progression within the UK Civil Service	13
The weakness of weak ties: do social capital investments among leaders pay off during times of disaster?	12
An Analysis of Micro-scale Conflict in Collaborative Governance	11
Deconstructing Burnout at the Intersections of Race, Gender, and Generation in Local Government	11
Climbing the Velvet Drainpipe: Class Background and Career Progression within the UK Civil Service	11
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
Types of administrative burden reduction strategies: who, what, and how	9
Administrative Errors and Race: Can Technology Mitigate Inequitable Administrative Outcomes?	9
Emotional capital in citizen agency: contesting administrative burden through anger	9
Sex, Race, and the Allocation of Credit in Dispersed Teams: Whose Contributions to Team Success Get Noticed and Whose Get Neglected	9
Should I Stay or Should I Go? Why Participants Leave Collaborative Governance Arrangements	9
Does Coordinated Administrative Leadership Improve US Federal Agency Management of Discrimination Problems?	8
Slipstreaming for Public Sector Reform: How Enterprising Public Sector Leaders Navigate Institutional Inertia	8
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
The interplay of discretion and complexity in public contracting and renegotiations	7
The Enduring Role of Sector: Citizen Preferences in Mixed Markets	7
Compliance under distrust: do people comply less when they feel distrusted?	7
Scarcity and the Mindsets of Social Welfare Recipients: Evidence from a Field Experiment	7
Correction to: Why Are Counterfactual Assessment Methods Not Widespread in Outcome-Based Contracts? A Formal Model Approach	6
Cultivating collaborative resilience amid volatility: implementation partnerships between law enforcement and mental health organizations	6
Racialized Burdens: Applying Racialized Organization Theory to the Administrative State	6
Shared Positions on Divisive Beliefs Explain Interorganizational Collaboration: Evidence from Climate Change Policy Subsystems in 11 Countries	6
Top managers’ language dissimilarity and public organizational performance	6
Will trust move mountains? Fostering radical ideas in public organizations	6
How ensembling AI and public managers improves decision-making	5
On the Frontline of Global Inequalities: A Decolonial Approach to the Study of Street-Level Bureaucracies	5
Human–AI Interactions in Public Sector Decision Making: “Automation Bias” and “Selective Adherence” to Algorithmic Advice	5
The professional profile, competence, and responsiveness of senior bureaucrats: a paired survey experiment with citizens and elite respondents	5
Inequality in frontline communication: Bureaucrats talk differently to men and women	5
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
When does employee turnover matter? Analyzing the role of organizational memory in the federal IT workforce	4
Linguistic Features of Public Service Encounters: How Spoken Administrative Language Affects Citizen Satisfaction	4

The Performance and Development of Deliberative Routines: A Practice-Based Ethnographic Study	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
(Mis)Led by an Outsider: Abusive Supervision, Disengagement, and Silence in Politicized Bureaucracies	4
Responding to Environmental Uncertainties in Critical Supply Acquisition: An Examination of Contracting for Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) in the Aftermath of COVID-19	4
User Involvement as a Catalyst for Collaborative Public Service Innovation	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
Implementation Support: A Field Experiment on the Effects of Fidelity and Professional Responsibility Approaches	4