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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01)

Rank	Journal	TQCC
1	Policy and Society	13
2	Climate Policy	12
3	Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory	11
4	Public Administration	10
-	Public Management Review	10
6	Journal of European Public Policy	9
7	Policy Sciences	8
8	Public Administration Review	7
-	Public Performance & Management Review	7
10	Policy Studies	6
-	Public Personnel Management	6
-	Administration & Society	6
-	Journal of Accounting and Public Policy	6
-	Journal of European Social Policy	6
-	Policy and Politics	6
-	Review of Policy Research	6
-	Science and Public Policy	6
-	International Review of Administrative Sciences	6
19	Regulation & Governance	5
-	Review of Public Personnel Administration	5
-	International Public Management Journal	5
-	Public Policy and Administration	5
23	Nonprofit Management & Leadership	4
-	Public Money & Management	4
-	Australian Journal of Public Administration	4
-	Canadian Public Policy-Analyse de Politiques	4
-	Journal of Social Policy	4
-	Policy Studies Journal	4
-	Public Administration and Development	4
-	American Review of Public Administration	4
-	Governance-An International Journal of Policy Administration and Institutions	4
32	Journal of Public Policy	3
-	Social Policy & Administration	3
-	Contemporary Economic Policy	3
-	Local Government Studies	3
-	Critical Policy Studies	3
37	Journal of Policy Analysis and Management	2
-	Canadian Public Administration-Administration Publique du Canada	2
-	Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis	2
40	Lex Localis-Journal of Local Self-Government	1
-	Gestion y Politica Publica	1
-	Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences	1