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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Should I Stay or Should I Go? Why Participants Leave Collaborative Governance Arrangements	113
All hands on deck: the role of collaborative platforms and lead organizations in achieving environmental goals	99
Public service users’ responses to performance information: Bayesian learning or motivated reasoning?	54
Volunteers in Public Service Production: Modeling the Contributions of Volunteers to Organizational Performance	39
Corrigendum to: Pathways to Implementation: Evidence on How Participation in Environmental Governance Impacts on Environmental Outcomes	35
Corporatization, Administrative Intensity, and the Performance of Public Sector Organizations	31
Sex, Race, and the Allocation of Credit in Dispersed Teams: Whose Contributions to Team Success Get Noticed and Whose Get Neglected	31
Performance Information Use in a Purpose-Oriented Network: A Relational Perspective	29
Slipstreaming for Public Sector Reform: How Enterprising Public Sector Leaders Navigate Institutional Inertia	28
Resourcing Goal-directed Networks: Toward A Practice-based Perspective	27
Theorizing Multilevel Closure Structures Guiding Forum Participation	25
When Tensions Become Opportunities: Managing Accountability Demands in Collaborative Governance	24
The Unequal Distribution of Consequences of Contracting Out: Female, Low-skilled, and Young Workers Pay the Highest Price	23
Guiding or Following the Crowd? Strategic Communication as Reputational and Regulatory Strategy	22
Can Sunlight Disperse Mistrust? A Meta-Analysis of the Effect of Transparency on Citizens’ Trust in Government	20
Administrative Errors and Race: Can Technology Mitigate Inequitable Administrative Outcomes?	20
Linking Organizational Capacity and Performance: The Case of Probation and Medicaid Reform in California Counties	19
Types of administrative burden reduction strategies: who, what, and how	18
Bureaucratic Control and Strategic Compliance: How Do Subnational Governments Implement Central Guidelines in China?	18
Critical mass condition of majority bureaucratic behavioral change in representative bureaucracy: a theoretical clarification and a nonparametric exploration	18
“Honor List” and “Shame Roll”: Quasi-Experimental Evidence of the Effect of Performance Feedback under Political Control	18
Individual Agency in Street-Level Bureaucrats’ Implementation of Policy Reforms: The Role of Their Policy Evaluation and Self-efficacy	17
Acres for the Affluent: An Interactive Model of Nonprofit Resources and Demand Heterogeneity	17
Understanding Public Participation as a Mechanism Affecting Government Fiscal Outcomes: Theory and Evidence From Participatory Budgeting	17
Linguistic Features of Public Service Encounters: How Spoken Administrative Language Affects Citizen Satisfaction	16

The interplay of discretion and complexity in public contracting and renegotiations	15
Assessing drivers of sustained engagement in collaborative governance arrangements	15
Responding to Environmental Uncertainties in Critical Supply Acquisition: An Examination of Contracting for Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) in the Aftermath of COVID-19	15
(Mis)Led by an Outsider: Abusive Supervision, Disengagement, and Silence in Politicized Bureaucracies	14
Hang in there: capacity constraints and processes of sustaining collaboration over time	14
Rulemaking Speed in the US States	14
Does Coordinated Administrative Leadership Improve US Federal Agency Management of Discrimination Problems?	14
Anticipated Adjudication: An Analysis of the Judicialization of the US Administrative State	13
Do Minimum Charity Care Provision Requirements Increase Nonprofit Hospital Performance? Examining Hospitals’ Responses to Regulatory Changes	13
Competition, Ownership, and the Impact of Government Outsourcing on Employees	12
Finding Your Crowd: The Role of Government Level and Charity Type in Revenue Crowd-Out	12
Why Are Counterfactual Assessment Methods Not Widespread in Outcome-Based Contracts? A Formal Model Approach	12
The Performance and Development of Deliberative Routines: A Practice-Based Ethnographic Study	11
Role distance. An ethnographic study on how street-level managers cope	11
Comparing Systemic and Individual Sources of Racially Disparate Traffic Stop Outcomes	11
Compliance under distrust: do people comply less when they feel distrusted?	11
How to organize in turbulence: arrangements and pathways for robust governance	11