Brian William 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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- Public Policy and Administration Research 28
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- Evaluation and Performance Assessment 31
- 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 (10 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 William Head
220 papers receiving 6.8k citations
Brian William Head's Hit Papers
Peers
Comparison fields: 5 of 180
- Public Administration 1.2k
- Management Science and Operations Research 947
- Political Science and International Relations 1.6k
- Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law 680
- Sociology and Political Science 2.1k
Countries citing papers authored by Brian William Head
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Fields of papers citing papers by Brian William Head
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Co-authors
The 25 scholars most cited alongside Brian William 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 239 papers — load more, or switch the sort, to bring in the rest.
| # | Work | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wicked Problems Hit paper breakdown → | 2013 | 1076 |
| 2 | Three Lenses of Evidence‐Based Policy Hit paper breakdown → | 2008 | 488 |
| 3 | 2010 | 329 | |
| 4 | Wicked and less wicked problems: a typology and a contingency framework Hit paper breakdown → | 2017 | 300 |
| 5 | Forty years of wicked problems literature: forging closer links to policy studies Hit paper breakdown → | 2018 | 282 |
| 6 | Toward More “Evidence‐Informed” Policy Making? Hit paper breakdown → | 2015 | 272 |
| 7 | 2011 | 260 | |
| 8 | 2007 | 258 | |
| 9 | Wicked Problems in Public Policy Hit paper breakdown → | 2022 | 176 |
| 10 | 2010 | 157 | |
| 11 | 2012 | 153 | |
| 12 | 2015 | 151 | |
| 13 | 2017 | 136 | |
| 14 | 2008 | 121 | |
| 15 | 2014 | 110 | |
| 16 | 2016 | 99 | |
| 17 | 2009 | 93 | |
| 18 | 2016 | 87 | |
| 19 | State and economy in Australia | 1983 | 78 |
| 20 | 1985 | 73 |
About Brian William Head
Brian William Head is a scholar working on Public Administration, Management Science and Operations Research, Political Science and International Relations, General Health Professions and Sociology and Political Science, having authored 239 papers that have together received 7.7k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Evaluation and Performance Assessment (31 papers), Public Policy and Administration Research (28 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 (12 papers), Commonwealth, Australian Politics and Federalism (10 papers) and Health Policy Implementation Science (10 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Public Administration (1.2k citations), Management Science and Operations Research (947 citations), Political Science and International Relations (1.6k citations), Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law (680 citations) and Sociology and Political Science (2.1k citations). Brian William 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 Carla Meurk. 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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