Brian Head
Impact in
- Public Administration top 0.1%
- Public Policy and Administration Research
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- Evaluation and Performance Assessment
- Complex Systems and Decision Making
Papers in
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- Policy Transfer and Learning 15
- Co-authors
- John Alford (3 shared papers)Adrian Cherney (15 shared papers)Kelly S. Fielding (3 shared papers)Joshua Newman (6 shared papers)Kate Crowley (11 shared papers)Michele Ferguson (10 shared papers)Paul Boreham (11 shared papers)Wei‐Ning Xiang (2 shared papers)
- Journals
- Australian Journal of Public Administration (12 papers)Policy and Society (7 papers)Evidence & Policy (5 papers)Public Administration Review (4 papers)Landscape and Urban Planning (4 papers)
- Partner nations
- AustraliaUnited StatesUnited Kingdom
In The Last Decade
Brian Head
224 papers receiving 6.9k citations
Brian Head's Hit Papers
Peers
Comparison fields: 5 of 179
- Public Administration 1.2k
- Management Science and Operations Research 967
- Political Science and International Relations 1.7k
- Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law 678
- Sociology and Political Science 2.2k
Countries citing papers authored by Brian Head
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Fields of papers citing papers by Brian Head
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Co-authors
The 25 scholars most cited alongside Brian Head, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.
All Works
Showing the 20 most-cited of 246 papers — load more, or switch the sort, to bring in the rest.
| # | Work | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wicked Problems Hit paper breakdown → | 2013 | 1062 |
| 2 | Three Lenses of Evidence‐Based Policy Hit paper breakdown → | 2008 | 487 |
| 3 | 2010 | 330 | |
| 4 | Wicked and less wicked problems: a typology and a contingency framework Hit paper breakdown → | 2017 | 289 |
| 5 | Forty years of wicked problems literature: forging closer links to policy studies Hit paper breakdown → | 2018 | 278 |
| 6 | Toward More “Evidence‐Informed” Policy Making? Hit paper breakdown → | 2015 | 269 |
| 7 | 2007 | 266 | |
| 8 | 2011 | 256 | |
| 9 | Wicked Problems in Public Policy Hit paper breakdown → | 2022 | 159 |
| 10 | 2010 | 156 | |
| 11 | 2012 | 153 | |
| 12 | 2015 | 150 | |
| 13 | 2017 | 132 | |
| 14 | 2008 | 122 | |
| 15 | 2014 | 111 | |
| 16 | 2016 | 96 | |
| 17 | 2009 | 95 | |
| 18 | Wicked Problems in Public Policy Hit paper breakdown → | 2023 | 83 |
| 19 | 2016 | 81 | |
| 20 | State and economy in Australia | 1983 | 80 |
About Brian Head
Brian Head is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations, Management Science and Operations Research, General Health Professions and Public Administration, having authored 246 papers that have together received 7.8k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Evaluation and Performance Assessment (34 papers), Public Policy and Administration Research (29 papers), Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (19 papers), Water resources management and optimization (17 papers), Policy Transfer and Learning (15 papers), Community Health and Development (14 papers), Health Policy Implementation Science (11 papers) and Healthcare innovation and challenges (9 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Public Administration (1.2k citations), Management Science and Operations Research (967 citations), Political Science and International Relations (1.7k citations), Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law (678 citations) and Sociology and Political Science (2.2k citations). Brian Head has collaborated with scholars based in Australia, United States and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include John Alford, Adrian Cherney, Kelly S. Fielding, Joshua Newman, Kate Crowley, Michele Ferguson, Paul Boreham, Wei‐Ning Xiang, Jenny Povey and James Walter. Their work appears in journals such as Australian Journal of Public Administration, Policy and Society, Evidence & Policy, Public Administration Review and Landscape and Urban Planning.
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