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Administrative Theory and Praxis is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.5), ABDC B, ABS / AJG 1. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Taylor & Francis Online.
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ISSN 1084-1806Verify ISSN ↗1949-0461Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Online
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sociology and Political Science | 266 / 1530 | 82nd | Q1 |
| Public Administration | 71 / 248 | 71st | Q2 |
| Business and International Management | 185 / 456 | 59th | Q2 |
| Strategy and Management | 224 / 506 | 55th | Q2 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2018–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.5.
Administrative Theory and Praxis is Q1 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 266 of 1530), Q2 in Public Administration (rank 71 of 248) and Q2 in Business and International Management (rank 185 of 456), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Administrative Theory and Praxis is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.5, quartile Q1, 82nd percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.334, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 23.
Administrative Theory and Praxis is published by Taylor & Francis Online. Its print ISSN is 1084-1806 and its online ISSN is 1949-0461.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
It is rated B in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Strategy, management and organisational behaviour.
It is graded 1 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Public Sector and Health Care field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Administrative Theory and Praxis has an h-index of 51 and a 2-year mean of 1.97 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #268 of 1,478 Scopus journals in Sociology and Political Science.
Administrative Theory and Praxis published 40 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 52. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 96 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from United States (74%), Netherlands (5.9%) and Germany (2.3%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
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