2026 Tom Christensen: Political Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Political Science	57	141	123	2	2	282	17870

Research.com Recognitions

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

Overview

Tom Christensen is affiliated with the University of Oslo in Norway and works primarily within the social sciences, with a particular focus on political science and international relations, sociology and political science, public administration, strategy and management, and communication.

They have contributed extensively to the study of public policy and administration research, local government finance and decentralization, China's socioeconomic reforms and governance, disaster management and resilience, policy transfer and learning, public relations and crisis communication, and corporate identity and reputation.

Their recent publications include:

Balancing Governance Capacity and Legitimacy: How the Norwegian Government Handled the COVID-19 Crisis as a High Performer, 2020, Public Administration Review
Population Genomics of the Viking World, 2020, Nature
The Coronavirus Crisis-Crisis Communication, Meaning-Making, and Reputation Management, 2020, International Public Management Journal
The Nordic Governments' Responses to the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Comparative Study of Variation in Governance Arrangements and Regulatory Instruments, 2022, Regulation & Governance
Trust in Local Government: Service Satisfaction, Culture, and Demography, 2020, Administration & Society

Coauthors frequently collaborating with them include:

Per Lægreid
Liang Ma
Sicheng Chen
Jüri Peets
Xiaolong Tian

Tom Christensen has published in several prominent venues, with multiple publications in:

Public Organization Review (10 publications)
International Public Management Journal (7 publications)
Public Administration (5 publications)
International Journal of Public Administration (4 publications)
Public Administration Review (3 publications)

Their book publications include titles such as Organising and Governing Governmental Institutions (2022) published by Fagbokforlaget eBooks, and The Co-evolution of Reputation Management, Governance Capacity, Legitimacy and Accountability in Crisis Management (2020) published by the University of Bergen.

Best Publications

The Whole‐of‐Government Approach to Public Sector Reform

Tom Christensen;Per Lægreid

1669
Citations
New public management : the transformation of ideas and practice

T. D. Christensen;Per Lægreid

1546
Citations
Organization Theory and the Public Sector: Instrument, Culture and Myth

Tom Christensen;Per Lægreid;Kjell Arne Røvik

995
Citations
Trust in Government – the Relative Importance of Service Satisfaction, Political Factors and Demography

Tom Christensen;Per Lægreid

940
Citations
Complexity and Hybrid Public Administration—Theoretical and Empirical Challenges

Tom Christensen;Per Lægreid

615
Citations
Organizing for Crisis Management: Building Governance Capacity and Legitimacy

Tom Christensen;Per Lægreid;Lise H. Rykkja

518
Citations
Autonomy and regulation : coping with agencies in the modern state

Tom Christensen;Per Lægreid

508
Citations
The Ashgate Research Companion to New Public Management

T. D. Christensen;Per Lægreid

448
Citations
Balancing governance capacity and legitimacy - how the Norwegian government handled the COVID-19 crisis as a high performer.

Tom Christensen;Per Lægreid

406
Citations
NEW PUBLIC MANAGEMENT: The effects of contractualism and devolution on political control

Tom Christensen;Per Lægreid

388
Citations
University governance reforms: potential problems of more autonomy?

Tom Christensen

387
Citations
Citizens and Consumers: An NPM dilemma

Joel D Aberbach;Tom Christensen

365
Citations
Population genomics of the Viking world

Ashot Margaryan;Ashot Margaryan;Daniel J. Lawson;Martin Sikora;Fernando Racimo

335
Citations
New Public Management: Puzzles of Democracy and the Influence of Citizens

Tom Christensen;Per Lægreid

311
Citations
Post-NPM and changing public governance

Tom Christensen

275
Citations
Regulatory Agencies—The Challenges of Balancing Agency Autonomy and Political Control

Tom Christensen;Per Lægreid

267
Citations
New Public Management: Design, Resistance, or Transformation? A Study of How Modern Reforms Are Received in a Civil Service System

Tom Christensen;Per Lægreid

253
Citations
COMPARING COORDINATION STRUCTURES FOR CRISIS MANAGEMENT IN SIX COUNTRIES

Tom Christensen;Ole Andreas Danielsen;Per Lægreid;Lise H. Rykkja

241
Citations
The Challenge of Coordination in Central Government Organizations: The Norwegian Case

Tom Christensen;Per Lægreid

237
Citations
The formalization of the university: rules, roots, and routes

Francisco O. Ramirez;Tom Christensen

226
Citations
Reform of the employment and welfare administrations — the challenges of co-coordinating diverse public organizations

Tom Christensen;Anne Lise Fimreite;Per Lægreid

221
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Per Lægreid University of Bergen

Martin Painter City University of Hong Kong

Karsten Vrangbæk University of Copenhagen

Åse Gornitzka University of Oslo

Martin Lodge London School of Economics and Political Science

Arjen Boin Leiden University

Francisco O. Ramirez Stanford University

Richard M. Walker Lingnan University

Peter Maassen University of Oslo

Bjørn Stensaker University of Oslo

External Links

Personal website of Tom Christensen Google Scholar page

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