OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Public Management Journal 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Sit it out or dance: Representative bureaucracy contagion effects in health care	22
Understanding the nomological network of red tape: Synthesis and research agenda	17
Strategic management in the public sector - the case of the Swedish transport administration	16
Public sector innovation: Sources, benefits, and leadership	16
Municipal corporations in national and disciplinary contexts: A systematic literature review and future research agenda	16
Institutional pressures, discretion, and bureaucratic responses to clients: An experimental study of school-based law enforcement officers	16
The dynamics of governance capacity and legitimacy: the case of a digital tracing technology during the COVID-19 pandemic	16
Public value and the digital economy	15
Risk management in public service delivery: multi-dimensional scale development and validation	15
Controversies in employee-driven innovation: Exploring the Danish public healthcare	12
Accounting capacity on accrual accounting adoption in Vietnamese public sector organizations—a moderated moderation model of leadership quality and digital transformation	12
Choir of believers? Experimental and longitudinal evidence on survey participation, response bias, and public service motivation	12
Social impact bonds and public service reform: back to the future of New Public Management?	11
Race, gender, and rules: How intersectionality and congruence shape leadership perceptions	11
Remunicipalization, corporatization, and outsourcing: the performance of public-sector firms after reorganization	11
Correction	11
Antecedents of employee intrapreneurship in the public sector: a proactive motivation approach	11
The disease of corruption: Missing funds and health conditions in Brazilian municipalities	11
How a manager’s background shapes perceived leader credibility: A survey experiment among teachers and civil servants in The Netherlands	10
Factoring in the human factor: experimental evidence on how public managers make sense of performance information	9
Enhancing the functioning of local purpose-oriented networks through citizens’ co-production of services	9
Exploring the trickle-down effect of public service motivation from supervisors to their subordinates	9
Through the looking glass: Extending the “satisfaction mirror” in thirty-nine countries	9
Crisis coordination in centralized regimes: Explaining China's strategy for combatting the COVID-19 pandemic	9
Balancing speed and coordination: Senior leaders’ perspectives on civil service transformation during and after the pandemic	9

Information processing and the transparency–trust link: Political affiliation, values, and information search behaviors in China	9
Stakeholder engagement-as-practice in public sector innovation	8
Understanding the role of Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) in the “central government-local government-society” framework: a case study on public crisis management during the pandemic in China	8
Deviating from the course: How presentational strategies and leadership investments affect leader credibility and collaborative engagement	7
The fiscal effects of U.S. State budget stabilization funds (BSFs): evidence from a meta-analysis	7
Deliberative Democracy, Public Policy, and Local Government	7
Room for leadership? A comparison of perceived managerial job autonomy in public, private and hybrid organizations	7
Linking innovation climate to innovative behavior in public organizations: Exploring the role of psychological needs	7
Problem-Solving and Learning for Public Services and Public Management	7
Easier said than done. Do defaults and reminders affect public workers’ knowledge of guidelines?	7
Popular financial reporting increases understanding, interest, and trust: Experimental evidence	6
The climatization of global politics	6
Effective co-production in local government networks: A story of structure	6
Karma chameleon: Exploring the leadership complexities of middle managers in the public sector	6
Value propositions and facilitating promises of value—The case of the Swedish Public Employment Service	6
Smart government: practical uses of artificial intelligence in local government	6
Benefits, blame, and budgets: Citizen responses to cutback management strategies in public education	6
Cultural Competency for Emergency and Crisis Management Concept, Theories and Case Studies Cultural Competency for Emergency and Crisis Management Concept, Theories and Case Studies	6
The Curious Public Administrator	6
Can transparency promote citizen compliance in China? The role of justice and social identification	6
Letter from the editors	6
Letter from the editor	5
Red tape reform, transaction costs, and corporate social performance: A natural quasi-experiment in China	5
Have we ‘stretched’ social impact bonds too far? An empirical analysis of SIB design in practice	5
Rising to the challenge: Job stress, role overload, and change-oriented organizational citizenship behavior in the public sector	5
Cognitive bias in citizens’ perceptions of government performance in response to COVID-19: Evidence from a large-scale survey experiment in China	5
How and when servant leadership fosters employee voice behavior: Evidence from Chinese local governments	5
Blame dynamics across the organizational hierarchy and sectors: How a staffing shortage and ownership shape blame for nursing homes in crisis	5
The Politics of Collaborative Public Management A Primer	5