| Public-service motivation: A multivariate test DJ Houston Journal of public administration research and theory 10 (4), 713-728, 2000 | 1302 | 2000 |
| “Walking the walk” of public service motivation: Public employees and charitable gifts of time, blood, and money DJ Houston Journal of public administration research and theory 16 (1), 67-86, 2006 | 790 | 2006 |
| Implications of occupational locus and focus for public service motivation: Attitudes toward work motives across nations DJ Houston Public administration review 71 (5), 761-771, 2011 | 229 | 2011 |
| Public administration research: An assessment of journal publications DJ Houston, SM Delevan Public Administration Review 50 (6), 674, 1990 | 222 | 1990 |
| Spirituality and public service DJ Houston, KE Cartwright Public Administration Review 67 (1), 88-102, 2007 | 215 | 2007 |
| Motorcyclist fatality rates and mandatory helmet-use laws DJ Houston, LE Richardson Accident Analysis & Prevention 40 (1), 200-208, 2008 | 125 | 2008 |
| Public trust in government administrators: Explaining citizen perceptions of trustworthiness and competence DJ Houston, LH Harding Public Integrity 16 (1), 53-76, 2013 | 114 | 2013 |
| Motorcycle safety and the repeal of universal helmet laws DJ Houston, LE Richardson Jr American Journal of Public Health 97 (11), 2063-2069, 2007 | 90 | 2007 |
| Getting Americans to buckle up: the efficacy of state seat belt laws DJ Houston, LE Richardson Jr Accident Analysis & Prevention 37 (6), 1114-1120, 2005 | 89 | 2005 |
| Traffic safety and the switch to a primary seat belt law: the California experience DJ Houston, LE Richardson Jr Accident Analysis & Prevention 34 (6), 743-751, 2002 | 79 | 2002 |
| Are helmet laws protecting young motorcyclists? DJ Houston Journal of Safety Research 38 (3), 329-336, 2007 | 71 | 2007 |
| Behavior in the public square DJ Houston Motivation in public management: The call of public service, 177-199, 2008 | 70 | 2008 |
| Drinking-and-driving in America: A test of behavioral assumptions underlying public policy DJ Houston, LE Richardson Jr Political research quarterly 57 (1), 53-64, 2004 | 69 | 2004 |
| City–county consolidation: Promises made, promises kept? AJ Nownes, DJ Houston, M Schwerdt, NJ Swartz, MJ Dluhy, A Lukemeyer, ... Georgetown University Press, 2010 | 67 | 2010 |
| The politics of air bag safety: A competition among problem definitions DJ Houston, LE Richardson Jr Policy Studies Journal 28 (3), 485-501, 2000 | 63 | 2000 |
| Citizen trust in civil servants: A cross-national examination DJ Houston, NR Aitalieva, AL Morelock, CA Shults International Journal of Public Administration 39 (14), 1203-1214, 2016 | 62 | 2016 |
| How naked is the public square? Religion, public service, and implications for public administration DJ Houston, PK Freeman, DL Feldman Public Administration Review 68 (3), 428-444, 2008 | 53 | 2008 |
| Legislating traffic safety: a pooled time series analysis DJ Houston, LE Richardson Jr, GW Neeley Social Science Quarterly, 328-345, 1995 | 53 | 1995 |
| Risk Compensation or Risk Reduction? Seatbelts, State Laws, and Traffic Fatalities* DJ Houston, LE Richardson Social Science Quarterly 88 (4), 913-936, 2007 | 50 | 2007 |
| Implications of the 65-mph speed limit for traffic safety DJ Houston Evaluation Review 23 (3), 304-315, 1999 | 49 | 1999 |
