| Open government in authoritarian regimes K O’Connor, S Janenova, C Knox International Review of Public Policy 1 (1: 1), 65-82, 2019 | 48 | 2019 |
| How bureaucratic elites imagine Europe: towards convergence of governance beliefs? CM Radaelli, K O'Connor Journal of European Public Policy 16 (7), 971-989, 2009 | 42 | 2009 |
| Public Administration in Contested Societies K O'Connor Springer, 2014 | 39 | 2014 |
| Alcohol consumption among university students: a typology of consumption to aid the tailoring of effective public health policy MP Davoren, M Cronin, IJ Perry, K O'Connor BMJ open 6 (11), e011815, 2016 | 38 | 2016 |
| A typology of alcohol consumption among young people–A narrative synthesis MP Davoren, M Cronin, IJ Perry, J Demant, F Shiely, K O’Connor Addiction Research & Theory 24 (4), 261-273, 2016 | 20 | 2016 |
| What are the ideas and motivations of bureaucrats within a religiously contested society? K O’Connor International Review of Administrative Sciences 83 (1), 63-84, 2017 | 17* | 2017 |
| Bureaucrats, authoritarianism, and role conceptions K O’Connor, C Knox, S Janenova Review of Public Personnel Administration 41 (2), 358-383, 2021 | 16 | 2021 |
| Belfast Revisited: Everyday Policymaking in a Contested Environment K O'Connor Irish Political Studies 28 (1), 58-77, 2013 | 13 | 2013 |
| Q Methodology as a Tool for Committee Governance Research K O’Connor West European Politics 36 (5), 1073-1087, 2013 | 9 | 2013 |
| EU PEACE funding: The policy implementation deficit C Knox, K O'Connor, M Ketola, P Carmichael European Policy Analysis 9 (3), 290-310, 2023 | 8 | 2023 |
| School choice and conflict narratives: Representative bureaucracy at the street level in east Jerusalem K O’Connor, C Larkin, M Nasasra, K Shanks Administration & Society 52 (4), 528-565, 2020 | 7 | 2020 |
| Between Scylla and Charybdis? Twenty-five years administrating the contested region of Brussels K O’Connor, J Vaesen Administration & Society, 0095399715607931, 2016 | 6 | 2016 |
| The status of public administration teaching in the UK IC Elliott, KA Bottom, K O’Connor Journal of Public Affairs Education 29 (3), 262-274, 2023 | 5 | 2023 |
| The craft of public administration in Eurasia K O’Connor, P Carmichael Public Policy and Administration 35 (4), 465-484, 2020 | 5 | 2020 |
| Lost in Transition: Governing Northern Ireland M Rouse, K O’Connor The Palgrave Handbook of the Public Servant, 1-15, 2020 | 4 | 2020 |
| Educating a civil service that is fit for purpose: perceptions from UK stakeholders IC Elliott, KA Bottom, R Glennon, K O’Connor Public Money & Management 45 (2), 119-128, 2025 | 3 | 2025 |
| What the public wants and how it is best served: forensic scientists’ perceptions of the drivers of public value creation K O’Connor, K Lasslett, S Bunyan, D Duffy International Review of Administrative Sciences 89 (4), 1046-1061, 2023 | 3 | 2023 |
| Regulatory Policy 2.0: Viewpoints and beliefs about better regulation. A report from the “Q Exercise” CM Radaelli, L Allio, K O'CONNOR, R Alcorn, D Trnka OECD Publishing, 2022 | 2 | 2022 |
| Governing the West Bank: What Role Do Elite Level Civil Servants Actively Represent? K O’Connor, U Shahwan Review of Public Personnel Administration, 0734371X241242436, 2024 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Merit Principle in a Representative Bureaucracy: Belfast K O’Connor, K O’Connor Public Administration in Contested Societies, 113-125, 2014 | 1 | 2014 |
