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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01)

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
9	Journal of European Social Policy	7
-	Public Performance & Management Review	7
-	Public Personnel Management	7
12	Administration & Society	6
-	Journal of Accounting and Public Policy	6
-	Policy and Politics	6
-	Review of Policy Research	6
-	Science and Public Policy	6
17	International Public Management Journal	5
-	Public Policy and Administration	5
-	American Review of Public Administration	5
-	Journal of Chinese Governance	5
-	Nonprofit Management & Leadership	5
-	Regulation & Governance	5
-	Review of Public Personnel Administration	5
24	Australian Journal of Public Administration	4
-	Governance-An International Journal of Policy Administration and Institutions	4
-	Journal of Social Policy	4
-	Local Government Studies	4
-	International Review of Administrative Sciences	4
-	Journal of Public Policy	4
-	Policy Studies	4
-	Public Money & Management	4
32	Canadian Public Policy-Analyse de Politiques	3
-	Environment and Planning C-Politics and Space	3
-	Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis	3
-	Policy Studies Journal	3
-	Public Administration and Development	3
-	Critical Policy Studies	3
-	Social Policy & Administration	3
39	Contemporary Economic Policy	2
-	Canadian Public Administration-Administration Publique du Canada	2
-	Human Service Organizations Management Leadership & Governance	2
-	Journal of Policy Analysis and Management	2
43	Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences	1
-	Gestion y Politica Publica	1
45	Lex Localis-Journal of Local Self-Government	0