Muhammad Azfar Nisar

731 total citations · 1 hit paper
29 papers, 489 citations indexed

About

Muhammad Azfar Nisar is a scholar working on Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science and Public Administration. According to data from OpenAlex, Muhammad Azfar Nisar has authored 29 papers receiving a total of 489 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Political Science and International Relations, 13 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 7 papers in Public Administration. Recurrent topics in Muhammad Azfar Nisar's work include Public Policy and Administration Research (7 papers), Foucault, Power, and Ethics (3 papers) and Management and Organizational Studies (3 papers). Muhammad Azfar Nisar is often cited by papers focused on Public Policy and Administration Research (7 papers), Foucault, Power, and Ethics (3 papers) and Management and Organizational Studies (3 papers). Muhammad Azfar Nisar collaborates with scholars based in Pakistan, United States and Australia. Muhammad Azfar Nisar's co-authors include Ayesha Masood, Spiro Maroulis, Christopher S. Hayter, Mohsin Bashir, Scott Taylor, Carl Rhodes, Janne Tienari, Ajnesh Prasad, Daniel Diermeier and Kashif-ur-Rehman and has published in prestigious journals such as Public Administration Review, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory and Higher Education.

In The Last Decade

Muhammad Azfar Nisar

28 papers receiving 467 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.

  1. Administrative Capital and Citizens’ Responses to Administrative Burden
    2020 128 citations Ayesha Masood, Muhammad Azfar Nisar Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Muhammad Azfar Nisar Pakistan 12 187 186 160 77 69 29 489
Miyeon Song United States 13 157 0.8× 133 0.7× 183 1.1× 43 0.6× 60 0.9× 29 432
Daniel P. Hawes United States 12 246 1.3× 123 0.7× 148 0.9× 52 0.7× 28 0.4× 29 492
Shannon Portillo United States 17 362 1.9× 205 1.1× 237 1.5× 122 1.6× 39 0.6× 41 743
Menno Fenger Netherlands 9 202 1.1× 300 1.6× 76 0.5× 158 2.1× 90 1.3× 46 597
Rebecca Kolins Givan United States 12 173 0.9× 149 0.8× 153 1.0× 162 2.1× 43 0.6× 20 449
Morgen Johansen United States 13 164 0.9× 51 0.3× 138 0.9× 56 0.7× 58 0.8× 25 404
Helen Bewley United Kingdom 11 127 0.7× 90 0.5× 162 1.0× 226 2.9× 83 1.2× 28 494
Mohamad G. Alkadry United States 13 247 1.3× 84 0.5× 159 1.0× 57 0.7× 66 1.0× 32 638
Mette Kjærgaard Thomsen Denmark 11 157 0.8× 95 0.5× 141 0.9× 74 1.0× 47 0.7× 23 430
Michael Smith United States 7 267 1.4× 121 0.7× 94 0.6× 57 0.7× 62 0.9× 28 488

Countries citing papers authored by Muhammad Azfar Nisar

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Muhammad Azfar Nisar

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Nisar, Muhammad Azfar & Ayesha Masood. (2024). Governance by artifacts: Theory and evidence on materiality of administrative burdens. Public Administration Review. 84(6). 1052–1066. 3 indexed citations
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Nisar, Muhammad Azfar & Ayesha Masood. (2022). Imagining an Otherwise Global Public Administration. Administration & Society. 55(2). 326–345. 6 indexed citations
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Nisar, Muhammad Azfar. (2022). Decolonization and public administration: Frustrated ramblings of a spoilsport. Administrative Theory & Praxis. 45(2). 147–157. 10 indexed citations
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Nisar, Muhammad Azfar. (2021). Person-Centered Public Administration: An Ideal-Type Model of Citizen-Administrator Interactions. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations
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Nisar, Muhammad Azfar. (2021). Governing Thirdness. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 6 indexed citations
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Masood, Ayesha & Muhammad Azfar Nisar. (2021). Repairing the State: Policy Repair in the Frontline Bureaucracy. Public Administration Review. 82(2). 256–268. 39 indexed citations
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Nisar, Muhammad Azfar & Ayesha Masood. (2021). Imagining an Otherwise Global Public Administration: Conceptual Reflections. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations
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Nisar, Muhammad Azfar & Ayesha Masood. (2021). Bureaucracy and the Other: A Systematic Review of Postcolonial Scholarship in Public Administration. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations
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Bashir, Mohsin & Muhammad Azfar Nisar. (2020). Expectation versus Reality: Political Expediency and Implementation of Right to Information Laws. Public Administration Quarterly. 44(1). 3–30. 6 indexed citations
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Masood, Ayesha & Muhammad Azfar Nisar. (2020). Administrative Capital and Citizens’ Responses to Administrative Burden. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory. 31(1). 56–72. 128 indexed citations breakdown →
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Masood, Ayesha & Muhammad Azfar Nisar. (2019). Speaking out: A postcolonial critique of the academic discourse on far-right populism. Organization. 27(1). 162–173. 21 indexed citations
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Nisar, Muhammad Azfar. (2018). Overcoming resistance to resistance in public administration: Resistance strategies of marginalized publics in citizen‐state interactions. Public Administration and Development. 38(1). 15–25. 27 indexed citations
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Nisar, Muhammad Azfar & Spiro Maroulis. (2017). Foundations of Relating: Theory and Evidence on the Formation of Street‐Level Bureaucrats’ Workplace Networks. Public Administration Review. 77(6). 829–839. 39 indexed citations
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Hayter, Christopher S. & Muhammad Azfar Nisar. (2016). Spurring Vaccine Development for the Developing World: A Collaborative Governance Perspective on Product Development Partnerships. International Journal of Public Administration. 41(1). 46–58. 7 indexed citations
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Nisar, Muhammad Azfar. (2016). Managing the Margins: Intersections of the State and the Khawaja Sira in Lahore, Pakistan. 4 indexed citations
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Nisar, Muhammad Azfar. (2015). Practitioner Envy and Construction of the Other in Public Administration. Administration & Society. 49(10). 1403–1423. 8 indexed citations
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Nisar, Muhammad Azfar. (2014). Higher education governance and performance based funding as an ecology of games. Higher Education. 69(2). 289–302. 47 indexed citations
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Nisar, Muhammad Azfar, et al.. (2013). Significant predictor and outcome of interpersonal trust: Empirical evidence from Pakistan.. AFRICAN JOURNAL OF BUSINESS MANAGEMENT. 7(9). 671–677. 3 indexed citations
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Nisar, Muhammad Azfar & Ayesha Masood. (2012). The Nostalgic Detective: Identity formation in Detective Fiction of Pakistan. 4(3). 33–60. 1 indexed citations
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Nisar, Muhammad Azfar. (2009). Education, Religion and the Creation of Subject: Different Educational Systems of Pakistan. 2(1). 46–61. 4 indexed citations

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