OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory is 11. 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
Race, Locality, and Representative Bureaucracy: Does Community Bias Matter?	27
Does Reducing Street-Level Bureaucrats’ Workload Enhance Equity in Program Access? Evidence from Burdensome College Financial Aid Programs	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
Job Satisfaction and Citizen Satisfaction with Street-level Bureaucrats: Is There a Satisfaction Mirror?	22
Preference for group-based social hierarchy and the reluctance to accept women as equals in law enforcement	22
Saving the Salmon: Examining the Cost-Effectiveness of Collaboration in Oregon	21
All hands on deck: the role of collaborative platforms and lead organizations in achieving environmental goals	20
Explaining Public Organization Adaptation to Climate Change: Configurations of Macro- and Meso-Level Institutional Logics	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
Volunteers in Public Service Production: Modeling the Contributions of Volunteers to Organizational Performance	18
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	17
Assessing drivers of sustained engagement in collaborative governance arrangements	17
Exploring the influence of administrative capacities on administrative burdens	16

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
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
Deservingness, humanness, and representation through lived experience: analyzing first responders’ attitudes	14
Burdens, bribes, and bureaucrats: the political economy of petty corruption and administrative burdens	14
Activating the “Big Man”: Social Status, Patronage Networks, and Pro-Social Behavior in African Bureaucracies	12
Country of Origin and Representative Bureaucracy	12
Financial performance of state-owned enterprises: does political ideology play a role?	12
Correction to: Climbing the Velvet Drainpipe: Class Background and Career Progression within the UK Civil Service	11
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