John Alford
Impact in
- Public Administration top 0.05%
- Public Policy and Administration Research
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- Management and Organizational Studies
Papers in
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- Public Policy and Administration Research 29
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- Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering 12
- Co-authors
- Brian Head (3 shared papers)Janine O’Flynn (7 shared papers)Owen E. Hughes (5 shared papers)Sophie Yates (6 shared papers)Jean Hartley (5 shared papers)Scott Douglas (2 shared papers)Eva Knies (1 shared paper)Deirdre O’Neill (1 shared paper)
- Journals
- Australian Journal of Public Administration (7 papers)Public Management Review (7 papers)The American Review of Public Administration (2 papers)Administration & Society (2 papers)Public Administration (2 papers)
- Partner nations
- AustraliaUnited StatesUnited Kingdom
In The Last Decade
John Alford
47 papers receiving 4.1k citations
John Alford's Hit Papers
Peers
Comparison fields: 5 of 152
- Public Administration 1.8k
- Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management 586
- Management of Technology and Innovation 406
- Political Science and International Relations 1.3k
- Marketing 435
Countries citing papers authored by John Alford
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Fields of papers citing papers by John Alford
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Co-authors
The 25 scholars most cited alongside John Alford, 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 50 papers — load more, or switch the sort, to bring in the rest.
| # | Work | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wicked Problems Hit paper breakdown → | 2013 | 867 |
| 2 | Making Sense of Public Value: Concepts, Critiques and Emergent Meanings Hit paper breakdown → | 2009 | 319 |
| 3 | 2009 | 299 | |
| 4 | 2008 | 276 | |
| 5 | 2013 | 271 | |
| 6 | 2002 | 256 | |
| 7 | Wicked and less wicked problems: a typology and a contingency framework Hit paper breakdown → | 2017 | 250 |
| 8 | 2002 | 229 | |
| 9 | 2009 | 222 | |
| 10 | 2016 | 187 | |
| 11 | 2015 | 175 | |
| 12 | 1998 | 140 | |
| 13 | 2012 | 116 | |
| 14 | 2014 | 96 | |
| 15 | 2015 | 89 | |
| 16 | The Contract State: Public Management and the Kennett Government | 1994 | 80 |
| 17 | Rethinking Public Service Delivery: Managing with External Providers | 2012 | 65 |
| 18 | 2008 | 57 | |
| 19 | 2017 | 56 | |
| 20 | 2016 | 54 |
About John Alford
John Alford is a scholar working on Public Administration, Sociology and Political Science, Strategy and Management, Management Information Systems and Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, having authored 50 papers that have together received 4.5k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Public Policy and Administration Research (29 papers), Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering (12 papers), Management and Organizational Studies (8 papers), Accounting and Organizational Management (8 papers), E-Government and Public Services (5 papers), Local Government Finance and Decentralization (3 papers), Public-Private Partnership Projects (3 papers) and Regulation and Compliance Studies (3 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Public Administration (1.8k citations), Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management (586 citations), Management of Technology and Innovation (406 citations), Political Science and International Relations (1.3k citations) and Marketing (435 citations). John Alford has collaborated with scholars based in Australia, United States and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include Brian Head, Janine O’Flynn, Owen E. Hughes, Sophie Yates, Jean Hartley, Scott Douglas, Eva Knies, Deirdre O’Neill, Carsten Greve and Richard Speed. Their work appears in journals such as Australian Journal of Public Administration, Public Management Review, The American Review of Public Administration, Administration & Society and Public Administration.
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