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Richard M. Walker

Richard M. Walker

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Political Science
China
2026
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Law and Political Science
China
2023

D-Index & Metrics

Political Science

D-Index
65
Citations
17589
World Ranking
83
National Ranking
1

Richard M. Walker publication distribution in Political Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Political Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Richard M. Walker sits on this spectrum.

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36 publications 333+

This scientist: 250 publications — 88th percentile

88% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 333 publications or more.

Richard M. Walker D-index placement in Political Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Political Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Richard M. Walker sits on this spectrum.

20 D-Index: 76 scientists 21 D-Index: 79 scientists 22 D-Index: 84 scientists 23 D-Index: 68 scientists 24 D-Index: 88 scientists 25 D-Index: 82 scientists 26 D-Index: 76 scientists 27 D-Index: 75 scientists 28 D-Index: 99 scientists 29 D-Index: 96 scientists 30 D-Index: 96 scientists 31 D-Index: 81 scientists 32 D-Index: 86 scientists 33 D-Index: 81 scientists 34 D-Index: 84 scientists 35 D-Index: 72 scientists 36 D-Index: 58 scientists 37 D-Index: 53 scientists 38 D-Index: 48 scientists 39 D-Index: 40 scientists 40 D-Index: 40 scientists 41 D-Index: 32 scientists 42 D-Index: 26 scientists 43 D-Index: 25 scientists 44 D-Index: 33 scientists 45 D-Index: 33 scientists 46 D-Index: 17 scientists 47 D-Index: 21 scientists 48 D-Index: 22 scientists 49 D-Index: 18 scientists 50 D-Index: 19 scientists 51 D-Index: 19 scientists 52 D-Index: 15 scientists 53 D-Index: 14 scientists 54 D-Index: 10 scientists 55 D-Index: 13 scientists 56 D-Index: 9 scientists 57 D-Index: 11 scientists 58 D-Index: 12 scientists 59 D-Index: 10 scientists 60 D-Index: 5 scientists 61 D-Index: 7 scientists 62+ D-Index: 100 scientists
20 D-Index 62+

This scientist: 65 D-Index — 96th percentile

96% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 62 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Political Science in China Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Political Science in China Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Law and Political Science in China Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Political Science in China Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Law and Political Science in China Leader Award

Overview

Richard M. Walker is affiliated with Lingnan University in China and has a research focus primarily within the Social Sciences, contributing to 35 publications in this broad field. Their work spans various subfields including Sociology and Political Science, Public Administration, Political Science and International Relations, Surgery, and Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management.

Walker's scholarly output includes numerous publications on topics such as Public Policy and Administration Research, Customer Service Quality and Loyalty, Social and Intergroup Psychology, Patient Satisfaction in Healthcare, Environmental Sustainability in Business, Local Government Finance and Decentralization, and the Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering.

Their recent papers include:

  • The Expectancy-Disconfirmation Model and Citizen Satisfaction with Public Services: A Meta-analysis and an Agenda for Best Practice, 2021, Public Administration Review
  • Co-creating a sustainability performance assessment tool for public sector organisations, 2021, Journal of Cleaner Production
  • The Motivations for the Adoption of Management Innovation by Local Governments and its Performance Effects, 2021, Public Administration Review
  • An Eye for an Eye? An Integrated Model of Attitude Change Toward Protest Violence, 2022, Political Communication
  • A replication of "an experimental test of the expectancy-disconfirmation theory of citizen satisfaction", 2022, Public Administration

Walker frequently collaborates with several scholars, including Zhang Jia-sheng, Wenna Chen, Binzizi Dong, Yao Wang, and Ning Liu. The number of collaborations ranges from five to nine joint works per frequent coauthor, indicating ongoing research partnerships.

Their work is published in a variety of venues with a concentration in public administration and management journals. The most frequent publication venues are:

  • Public Administration Review
  • Harvard Dataverse
  • Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
  • Public Management Review
  • International Public Management Journal

In addition to articles, Walker has contributed to book literature with the publication of "Topics in Public Administration" in 2024 by Cambridge University Press.

Best Publications

  • Combinative effects of innovation types and organizational Performance: A longitudinal study of service organizations

    Fariborz Damanpour;Richard M. Walker;Claudia N. Avellaneda

  • Management Innovation and Organizational Performance: The Mediating Effect of Performance Management

    Richard M. Walker;Fariborz Damanpour;Carlos A. Devece

  • An Empirical Evaluation of Innovation Types and Organizational and Environmental Characteristics: Towards a Configuration Framework

    Richard M. Walker

  • INNOVATION TYPE AND DIFFUSION: AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT

    Richard Mark Walker

  • Strategy Content and Public Service Organizations

    George Alexander Boyne;Richard M. Walker

  • Strategy Content and Organizational Performance: An Empirical Analysis

    Rhys William Andrews;George Alexander Boyne;Richard Mark Walker

  • Evaluating Public Management Reforms: Principles and Practice

    George Alexander Boyne;Catherine Farrell;Jennifer Law;Martin Powell

  • PUBLIC MANAGEMENT REFORM IN THE UK AND ITS CONSEQUENCES FOR PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATION: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS

    Stephen Ackroyd;Ian Kirkpatrick;Richard M. Walker

  • Does Strategic Planning Improve Organizational Performance? A Meta-Analysis

    Bert George;Richard M. Walker;Joost Monster

  • Internal and External Antecedents of Process Innovation: A review and extension

    Richard M. Walker

  • Strategic Management and Public Service Performance: The Way Ahead

    George A. Boyne;Richard M. Walker

  • Centralization, organizational strategy, and public service performance

    Rhys William Andrews;George Alexander Boyne;Jennifer Law;Richard M. Walker

  • Strategic Management and the Performance of Public Organizations: Testing Venerable Ideas against Recent Theories

    Kenneth John Meier;Laurence J. O'Toole;George Alexander Boyne;Richard Mark Walker

  • Public management reform and organizational performance: An empirical assessment of the U.K. Labour government's public service improvement strategy

    Richard Mark Walker;George Alexander Boyne

  • Public service performance : perspectives on measurement and management

    George Alexander Boyne;Kenneth John Meier;Kenneth John Meier;Laurence J. O'Toole;Laurence J. O'Toole;Richard M. Walker;Richard M. Walker

  • Dimensions of publicness and organizational performance: a review of the evidence

    Rhys William Andrews;George Alexander Boyne;Richard M. Walker

  • Subjective and objective measures of organizational performance: An empirical exploration

    Rhys Andrews;George A. Boyne;Richard M. Walker;Richard M. Walker

  • External Constraints on Local Service Standards: The Case of Comprehensive Performance Assessment in English Local Government

    Rhys William Andrews;George Alexander Boyne;Jennifer Law;Richard Mark Walker;Richard Mark Walker

  • Representative Bureaucracy, Organizational Strategy, and Public Service Performance: An Empirical Analysis of English Local Government

    Rhys William Andrews;George Alexander Boyne;Kenneth John Meier;Laurence J. O'Toole

  • Local government management and performance: a review of evidence

    Richard M. Walker;Rhys Andrews

  • Strategy Formulation, Strategy Content and Performance: An empirical analysis

    Rhys William Andrews;George Alexander Boyne;Jennifer Law;Richard Mark Walker;Richard Mark Walker

  • Market Orientation and Public Service Performance: New Public Management Gone Mad?

    Richard M. Walker;Gene A. Brewer;George A. Boyne;Claudia N. Avellaneda

Frequent Co-Authors

George Alexander Boyne
George Alexander Boyne University of Aberdeen
Rhys William Andrews
Rhys William Andrews Cardiff University
Gene A. Brewer
Gene A. Brewer Arizona State University
Kenneth J. Meier
Kenneth J. Meier American University
Laurence J. O'Toole
Laurence J. O'Toole University of Georgia
Fariborz Damanpour
Fariborz Damanpour Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Barry Bozeman
Barry Bozeman Arizona State University
Oliver James
Oliver James University of Exeter
Stephen P. Osborne
Stephen P. Osborne University of Edinburgh
Sandra Caeiro
Sandra Caeiro Universidade Aberta

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