New: Think Tank Rankings 2025

Public Administration

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 Society13
2 Climate Policy12
3 Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory11
4 Public Administration10
- Public Management Review10
6 Journal of European Public Policy9
7 Policy Sciences8
8 Public Administration Review7
- Public Performance & Management Review7
10 Policy Studies6
- Public Personnel Management6
- Administration & Society6
- Journal of Accounting and Public Policy6
- Journal of European Social Policy6
- Policy and Politics6
- Review of Policy Research6
- Science and Public Policy6
- International Review of Administrative Sciences6
19 Regulation & Governance5
- Review of Public Personnel Administration5
- International Public Management Journal5
- Public Policy and Administration5
23 Nonprofit Management & Leadership4
- Public Money & Management4
- Australian Journal of Public Administration4
- Canadian Public Policy-Analyse de Politiques4
- Journal of Social Policy4
- Policy Studies Journal4
- Public Administration and Development4
- American Review of Public Administration4
- Governance-An International Journal of Policy Administration and Institutions4
32 Journal of Public Policy3
- Social Policy & Administration3
- Contemporary Economic Policy3
- Local Government Studies3
- Critical Policy Studies3
37 Journal of Policy Analysis and Management2
- Canadian Public Administration-Administration Publique du Canada2
- Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis2
40 Lex Localis-Journal of Local Self-Government1
- Gestion y Politica Publica1
- Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences1
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