Thomas Elston

811 total citations
30 papers, 516 citations indexed

About

Thomas Elston is a scholar working on Public Administration, Political Science and International Relations and Strategy and Management. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas Elston has authored 30 papers receiving a total of 516 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Public Administration, 13 papers in Political Science and International Relations and 7 papers in Strategy and Management. Recurrent topics in Thomas Elston's work include Public Policy and Administration Research (14 papers), Healthcare innovation and challenges (7 papers) and Local Government Finance and Decentralization (6 papers). Thomas Elston is often cited by papers focused on Public Policy and Administration Research (14 papers), Healthcare innovation and challenges (7 papers) and Local Government Finance and Decentralization (6 papers). Thomas Elston collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Spain and United States. Thomas Elston's co-authors include Ruth Dixon, Germà Bel, Muiris MacCárthaigh, Michael R. Lappin, Koen Verhoest, Jennifer Hawley, Melissa Brewer, Jessica M. Quimby, James R. Richards and Ilona Rodan and has published in prestigious journals such as Public Administration Review, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory and QJM.

In The Last Decade

Thomas Elston

27 papers receiving 484 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Thomas Elston United Kingdom 12 138 129 91 88 67 30 516
Klaus König Germany 14 61 0.4× 111 0.9× 45 0.5× 32 0.4× 49 0.7× 65 570
Warren S. Eller United States 11 90 0.7× 80 0.6× 12 0.1× 39 0.4× 160 2.4× 25 365
Lotte Groth Jensen Denmark 17 28 0.2× 42 0.3× 9 0.1× 14 0.2× 80 1.2× 45 804
Robert M. Pike United States 15 19 0.1× 183 1.4× 47 0.5× 70 0.8× 216 3.2× 70 1.5k
Fengshi Wu China 18 24 0.2× 263 2.0× 10 0.1× 40 0.5× 353 5.3× 58 893
James Stimson United Kingdom 10 54 0.4× 737 5.7× 16 0.2× 235 2.7× 267 4.0× 24 1.2k
Justin Fisher United Kingdom 23 77 0.6× 810 6.3× 21 0.2× 211 2.4× 318 4.7× 101 1.5k
Linda Struyk Netherlands 13 27 0.2× 19 0.1× 32 0.4× 29 0.3× 10 0.1× 23 604
Bart Maddens Belgium 21 53 0.4× 952 7.4× 16 0.2× 181 2.1× 419 6.3× 134 1.6k
Konstantinos Papadakis Greece 15 62 0.4× 55 0.4× 198 2.2× 52 0.6× 20 0.3× 28 596

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Fields of papers citing papers by Thomas Elston

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Thomas Elston

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Elston, Thomas & Yuxi Zhang. (2025). Ready, willing, and able? Bureaucratic capacity, slack resources, and political control. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory. 35(4). 452–468.
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Bel, Germà, Thomas Elston, Marc Estève, & Ole Helby Petersen. (2024). Local government reform beyond privatization and amalgamation: advances in the analysis of inter-municipal cooperation. Journal of Economic Policy Reform. 27(2). 125–139.
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Elston, Thomas. (2024). Understanding and Improving Public Management Reforms. Policy Press eBooks. 4 indexed citations
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Elston, Thomas, et al.. (2024). The effect of inter‐municipal cooperation on social assistance programs: Evidence from housing allowances in England. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. 44(3). 1060–1088. 2 indexed citations
5.
Bel, Germà & Thomas Elston. (2024). Disentangling the separate and combined effects of privatization and cooperation on local government service delivery. Public Administration. 102(4). 1624–1646. 9 indexed citations
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Elston, Thomas. (2024). Understanding and Improving Public Management Reforms. Policy Press eBooks.
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Bel, Germà & Thomas Elston. (2023). When the time is right: testing for dynamic effects in collaborative performance. Public Management Review. 26(12). 3429–3455. 6 indexed citations
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Elston, Thomas, et al.. (2023). Going separate ways: ex-post interdependence and the dissolution of collaborative relations. International Public Management Journal. 27(4). 583–608. 7 indexed citations
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Elston, Thomas, et al.. (2023). If it ain't broke, don't fix it: When collaborative public management becomes collaborative excess. Public Administration Review. 83(6). 1737–1760. 11 indexed citations
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Elston, Thomas & Germà Bel. (2022). Does inter-municipal collaboration improve public service resilience? Evidence from local authorities in England. Public Management Review. 25(4). 734–761. 32 indexed citations
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Elston, Thomas & Yuxi Zhang. (2021). Implementing Public Accounts Committee Recommendations: Evidence from the UK Government’s ‘Progress Reports’ since 2012. Parliamentary Affairs. 76(3). 662–693. 5 indexed citations
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Dixon, Ruth & Thomas Elston. (2019). Efficiency and legitimacy in collaborative public management: Mapping inter‐local agreements in England using social network analysis. Public Administration. 98(3). 746–767. 29 indexed citations
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Elston, Thomas, Muiris MacCárthaigh, & Koen Verhoest. (2018). Collaborative cost-cutting: productive efficiency as an interdependency between public organizations. Public Management Review. 20(12). 1815–1835. 42 indexed citations
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Elston, Thomas & Muiris MacCárthaigh. (2016). Sharing services, saving money? Five risks to cost-saving when organizations share services. Public Money & Management. 36(5). 349–356. 26 indexed citations
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Elston, Thomas. (2012). Koen Verhoest, Sandra Van Thiel, Geert Bouckaert and Per Lægreid (eds) (2012) Government Agencies: Practices and Lessons from 30 Countries. International Review of Administrative Sciences. 78(2). 369–371. 2 indexed citations
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Richards, James R., Thomas Elston, Richard B. Ford, et al.. (2006). The 2006 American Association of Feline Practitioners Feline Vaccine Advisory Panel Report. Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association. 229(9). 1405–1441. 81 indexed citations
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Richards, James R., Thomas Elston, Mattie J. Hendrick, et al.. (2005). Vaccine-Associated Feline Sarcoma Task Force: Roundtable Discussion The current understanding and management of vaccine-associated sarcomas in cats T. 7 indexed citations
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Richards, James R., Ilona Rodan, Thomas Elston, et al.. (2001). Feline Vaccine Selection and Administration. Compendium on Continuing Education for The Practicing Veterinarian. 23(1). 71–80. 9 indexed citations
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Elston, Thomas, et al.. (1998). 1998 Report of the American Association of Feline Practitioners and Academy of Feline Medicine Advisory Panel on Feline Vaccines. Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association. 212(2). 227–241. 24 indexed citations

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