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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01)

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