John Alford

7.8k total citations · 3 hit papers
51 papers, 4.5k citations indexed

About

John Alford is a scholar working on Public Administration, Sociology and Political Science and Strategy and Management. According to data from OpenAlex, John Alford has authored 51 papers receiving a total of 4.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 29 papers in Public Administration, 13 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 9 papers in Strategy and Management. Recurrent topics in John Alford's work include Public Policy and Administration Research (29 papers), Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering (12 papers) and Management and Organizational Studies (8 papers). John Alford is often cited by papers focused on Public Policy and Administration Research (29 papers), Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering (12 papers) and Management and Organizational Studies (8 papers). John Alford collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United States and United Kingdom. John Alford's 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 and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Biological Chemistry, Biochemistry and Public Administration Review.

In The Last Decade

John Alford

48 papers receiving 4.1k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Wicked Problems

2013 850 citations Brian Head, John Alford Administration & Society profile →
Making Sense of Public Value: Concepts, Critiques and Emergent Meanings

2009 316 citations John Alford, Janine O’Flynn profile →
Wicked and less wicked problems: a typology and a contingency framework

2017 241 citations John Alford, Brian Head profile →

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Fields of papers citing papers by John Alford

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All Works

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Multiple Genes Core to ERAD, Macroautophagy and Lysosomal Degradation Pathways Participate in the Proteostasis Response in α1-Antitrypsin Deficiency 2024 ·Cellular and Molecular Gastroenterology and Hepatology ·Jie Li, Francesca Moretti, Tunda Hidvegi, Sanja Sviben, James A. J. Fitzpatrick, (unknown), Stephen C. Pak, Gary A. Silverman, Britta Knapp, Ireos Filipuzzi, John Alford, John Reece-Hoyes, Florian Nigsch, Leon O. Murphy, Beat Nyfeler, David H. Perlmutter	1
2	Bile acid analogues are activators of pyrin inflammasome 2019 ·Journal of Biological Chemistry ·(unknown), Suchithra Menon, Nadire R. Cochran, (unknown), Qiong Wang, John Alford, John Concannon, Zinger Yang, Edmund Harrington, Luis Llamas, Alicia Lindeman, Gregory R. Hoffman, Tim Schuhmann, Carsten Russ, John Reece-Hoyes, Stephen M. Canham, Xinming Cai	42
3	Ventures in public value management: introduction to the symposium 2016 ·Public Management Review ·John Alford, Scott Douglas, Karin Geuijen, Paul ‘t Hart	53
4	Leading with political astuteness: A study of public managers in Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom 2013 ·Open Research Online (The Open University) ·Jean Hartley, John Alford, Owen E. Hughes, Sophie Yates	19
5	Wicked Problems breakdown → 2013 ·Administration & Society ·Brian Head, John Alford	850
6	The Multiple Facets of Co-Production: Building on the work of Elinor Ostrom 2013 ·Public Management Review ·John Alford	262
7	Rethinking Public Service Delivery 2012 ·John Alford, Janine O’Flynn	113
8	Making Sense of Public Value: Concepts, Critiques and Emergent Meanings 2011 ·SSRN Electronic Journal ·John Alford, Janine O’Flynn	2
9	Engaging Public Sector Clients: From Service-Delivery to Co-Production 2009 ·Minerva Access (University of Melbourne) ·John Alford	222
10	Public Value: A Stocktake of a Concept 2008 ·SSRN Electronic Journal ·John Alford, Janine O’Flynn	23
11	THE SEPARATION/SPECIFICATION DILEMMA IN CONTRACTING: THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT EXPERIENCE IN VICTORIA 2008 ·Public Administration ·Janine O’Flynn, John Alford	31
12	The Limits to Traditional Public Administration, or Rescuing Public Value from Misrepresentation 2008 ·Australian Journal of Public Administration ·John Alford	57
13	Inside the 'Black Box' of Contracting: Evidence from Local Government 2005 ·University of Canberra Research Portal ·Janine O’Flynn, John Alford	1
14	Defining the Client in the Public Sector: A Social‐Exchange Perspective 2002 ·Public Administration Review ·John Alford	253
15	Why Do Public-Sector Clients Coproduce? 2002 ·Administration & Society ·John Alford	226
16	Who Said Production Was Simple?: Delineating the ‘Public Production Process’ 1996 ·Australian Journal of Public Administration ·John Alford	2
17	Reflections on the Contract State 1994 ·Deirdre O’Neill, John Alford	1
18	The New Legislative Order 1994 ·Deirdre O’Neill, John Alford	1
19	Towards a new public management model : beyond "managerialism" and its critics. by John Alford 1993 ·Australian Journal of Public Administration ·John Alford	3
20	Conotoxin GI: disulfide bridges, synthesis, and preparation of iodinated derivatives 1984 ·Biochemistry ·(unknown), (unknown), Robert Galyean, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), John Alford, (unknown)	57

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