Public Administration: Journal Rankings

Journal Rankings

TQCC Average citations Median citations H4-Index Number of Papers Impact Factor

(The TQCC is the top quartile citation count: if all publications of a journal are sorted by citation count in descending order, then the TQCC is the citation count of the publication residing at the end of the top quartile; for example, given 100 publications, the TQCC is the citation count of the 25th ranked paper. The data are based on CrossRef. The ranking can be re-used under a CC0-license.)

(Using publications from roughly 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01)

Rank	Journal	TQCC
1	Policy and Society	14
2	Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory	12
3	Climate Policy	11
-	Public Administration	11
5	Public Management Review	10
-	Journal of European Public Policy	10
7	Policy Sciences	9
8	Public Administration Review	8
-	Public Personnel Management	8
10	Journal of European Social Policy	7
-	Policy and Politics	7
-	Public Performance & Management Review	7
-	Public Policy and Administration	7
-	Science and Public Policy	7
15	American Review of Public Administration	6
-	Review of Policy Research	6
-	Journal of Chinese Governance	6
-	Review of Public Personnel Administration	6
19	Governance-An International Journal of Policy Administration and Institutions	5
-	International Public Management Journal	5
-	Journal of Accounting and Public Policy	5
-	Journal of Social Policy	5
-	Administration & Society	5
-	Nonprofit Management & Leadership	5
-	Regulation & Governance	5
26	Local Government Studies	4
-	Policy Studies Journal	4
-	Australian Journal of Public Administration	4
-	International Review of Administrative Sciences	4
-	Journal of Public Policy	4
-	Policy Studies	4
-	Public Money & Management	4
33	Critical Policy Studies	3
-	Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis	3
-	Public Administration and Development	3
-	Canadian Public Policy-Analyse de Politiques	3
-	Environment and Planning C-Politics and Space	3
-	Social Policy & Administration	3
39	Canadian Public Administration-Administration Publique du Canada	2
-	Contemporary Economic Policy	2
-	Human Service Organizations Management Leadership & Governance	2
-	Journal of Policy Analysis and Management	2
43	Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences	1
44	Lex Localis-Journal of Local Self-Government	0