How do academic public administration and public policy researchers affect policymaking? Functional groupings from survey data

Nelson, John P.; Bozeman, Barry; Bretschneider, Stuart; Lindsay, Spencer L.

doi:10.1007/s11192-023-04860-w

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“…In conclusion, our study employs the citations by policy documents to stimulate and provide a foundation for evaluating the policy impact of scholarly articles. It complements recent studies using conventional methods such as surveys (Bozeman et al, 2023;Nelson et al, 2024) and interviews (Bogenschneider et al, 2019), thereby enriching the methodological toolkit available for exploring this subject. Our study underscores the importance of fostering collaboration between practitioners and scholars, encouraging interdisciplinary interactions, and posing thought-provoking and paradigm-shifting questions.…”

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confidence: 92%

Why do some academic articles receive more citations from policy communities?

Ma,

Cheng

2024

Public Administration Review

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We (1) present the landscape of the citations of Public Administration and Policy (PAP) scholarly articles in policy documents and (2) examine influencing factors along three dimensions: collaborative teams, cross‐disciplinary interactions, and disruptive paradigms. Using data from the 30 most‐cited PAP peer‐reviewed journals and 38,062 documents from 1107 policy institutions, we find that 10.1% of all PAP scholarship receives high citations from both academics and policy communities. Collaborative teams, cross‐disciplinary interactions, and disruptive paradigms can all increase the citations within policy communities, yet the relationships are not linear. Nonacademic authors can consistently attract more policy citations, whether publishing alone or collaborating with academics. An article should ideally cite no more than 13 disciplinary subjects. No significant trade‐off between scholarly and policy impact as scholarly citations and the academic reputation of authors often translate into policy citations. These findings offer novel and concrete insights into optimizing academic research for policy impact.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 92%