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International Journal of Public Sector Management is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.4), ABDC B, ABS / AJG 1, WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Emerald Group Publishing.
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ISSN 0951-3558Verify ISSN ↗1758-6666Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Political Science and International Relations | 72 / 745 | 90th | Q1 |
| Geography, Planning and Development | 176 / 876 | 79th | Q1 |
| Public Administration | 55 / 248 | 78th | Q1 |
| Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law | 139 / 432 | 67th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1988–present (also 1970), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.4.
International Journal of Public Sector Management is Q1 in Political Science and International Relations (rank 72 of 745), Q1 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 176 of 876) and Q1 in Public Administration (rank 55 of 248), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
International Journal of Public Sector Management is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 5.4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 90th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.659, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 74.
International Journal of Public Sector Management is published by Emerald Group Publishing. Its print ISSN is 0951-3558 and its online ISSN is 1758-6666.
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.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
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.
International Journal of Public Sector Management has an h-index of 98 and a 2-year mean of 3.86 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #26 of 704 Scopus journals in Political Science and International Relations.
International Journal of Public Sector Management published 59 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 66. 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 97 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from Italy (20.9%), United States (10.9%) and Netherlands (7%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 1 retracted paper is recorded (0.6 per 1,000 papers). 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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