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Researcher · University of Georgia · United States

Laurence J. O’Toole

Laurence J. O’Toole publishes mostly in Public Administration, Political Science and International Relations and Sociology and Political Science, on topics such as Public Policy and Administration Research, Local Government Finance and Decentralization and Accounting and Organizational Management.

OpenAlex
World rank
#33,982
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#12,934
of 1,627,098
Works
275
Citations
13k
Citations per work
48.1
h-index
58
i10-index 117Top 0.2% in Public Administration
Laurence J. O’Toole

What does Laurence J. O’Toole research?

Laurence J. O’Toole's work is mostly in Social Sciences (52%), Business, Management and Accounting (5%), Decision Sciences (5%).

Social Sciences: 185 works · 67.4% of their workSocial Sciences: 144 works · 52.2% of their workPublic Administration: 58 works · 21.2% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 54 works · 19.7% of their workSociology and Political Science: 31 works · 11.3% of their workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 15 works · 5.3% of their workManagement Information Systems: 15 works · 5.3% of their workDecision Sciences: 15 works · 5.3% of their workManagement Science and Operations Research: 15 works · 5.3% of their workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 13 works · 4.6% of their workEconomics and Econometrics: 13 works · 4.6% of their workEverything else: 90 works · 32.6% of their workTHEIR WORKLaurence J.O’Toole275works
Social Sciences67%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
    1. Social Sciences14452.2%
    2. Business, Management and Accounting155.3%
    3. Decision Sciences155.3%
    4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance134.6%
  2. Everything else9032.6%
  1. 1Public Administration21% of their works
  2. 2Political Science and International Relations20% of their works
  3. 3Sociology and Political Science11% of their works
  4. 4Management Information Systems5% of their works
  5. 5Management Science and Operations Research5% of their works
  6. 6Economics and Econometrics5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Laurence J. O’Toole's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Performance Measurement, Institutional Theory, Collaborative Governance, Public Management Reform, Accountability, Fiscal Decentralization, Governance and Management Control Systems.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most. The words come from the keyword list OpenAlex gives each topic, not from the text of the papers, so a word can appear that none of the papers uses.

All 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Performance Measurement1562 topics
  2. Institutional Theory1382 topics
  3. Collaborative Governance1261 topic
  4. Public Management Reform1261 topic
  5. Accountability462 topics
  6. Fiscal Decentralization311 topic
  7. Governance311 topic
  8. Management Control Systems301 topic
  9. Strategic Management301 topic
  10. Prosocial Behavior251 topic
  11. Volunteering251 topic
  12. Concept Mapping221 topic
  13. Theory-Based Evaluation221 topic
  14. E-Government211 topic
  15. Transparency211 topic
  16. Globalization181 topic
  17. Policy Transfer181 topic
  18. Institutional Entrepreneurship121 topic
  19. Organizational Change121 topic

Where does Laurence J. O’Toole work?

Laurence J. O’Toole's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Georgia, United States.

How many publications and citations does Laurence J. O’Toole have?

OpenAlex counts 275 works and 13,230 citations for Laurence J. O’Toole, an h-index of 58, ranking #33,982 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised citation excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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