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Public Administration and Policy is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.9), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Emerald Group Publishing Ltd..
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ISSN 1727-2645Verify ISSN ↗2517-679XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sociology and Political Science | 441 / 1530 | 71st | Q2 |
| Geography, Planning and Development | 358 / 876 | 59th | Q2 |
| Health (social science) | 162 / 387 | 58th | Q2 |
| Public Administration | 104 / 248 | 58th | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2018–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.9.
Public Administration and Policy is Q2 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 441 of 1530), Q2 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 358 of 876) and Q2 in Health (social science) (rank 162 of 387), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Public Administration and Policy 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 2.9, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 71st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.367, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 18.
Public Administration and Policy is published by Emerald Group Publishing Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1727-2645 and its online ISSN is 2517-679X.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Public Administration and Policy has an h-index of 20 and a 2-year mean of 1.9 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.9, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #292 of 1,478 Scopus journals in Sociology and Political Science.
Public Administration and Policy published 35 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 93 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from India (9.7%), Indonesia (9.1%) and United States (9.1%).
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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