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Public Administration Issues is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.3), WoS ESCI. Published by National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE University).
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ISSN 1999-5431Verify ISSN ↗2409-5095Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE University)
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Public Administration | 166 / 248 | 33rd | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2016–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.3.
Public Administration Issues is Q3 in Public Administration (rank 166 of 248), by CiteScore 2025.
Public Administration Issues 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 1.3, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 33rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.216, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 12.
Public Administration Issues is published by National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE University). Its print ISSN is 1999-5431 and its online ISSN is 2409-5095.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Public Administration Issues has an h-index of 13 and a 2-year mean of 1.31 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.3, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #117 of 245 Scopus journals in Public Administration.
Public Administration Issues published 43 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 87. 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 (2024–2026), authors are most often from Russia (59.7%), Indonesia (13.3%) and Nigeria (3.6%). 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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