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International Review of Public Administration is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.3), 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 1229-4659Verify ISSN ↗2331-7795Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Online
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Public Administration | 124 / 248 | 50th | Q2 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1999–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.3.
International Review of Public Administration is Q2 in Public Administration (rank 124 of 248), by CiteScore 2025.
International Review of Public Administration 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 2.3, quartile Q2, 50th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.435, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 28.
International Review of Public Administration is published by Taylor & Francis Online. Its print ISSN is 1229-4659 and its online ISSN is 2331-7795.
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 Other commerce, management, tourism and services.
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 Review of Public Administration has an h-index of 37 and a 2-year mean of 1.65 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.3, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #101 of 245 Scopus journals in Public Administration.
International Review of Public Administration published 30 papers in 2025. 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 98 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from South Korea (40.3%), United States (17.9%) and Thailand (4.1%).
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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