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Public Finance and Management
Public Finance and Management is rated ABDC B. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Sage Publications.
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ISSN 1523-9721Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Sage Publications
Cost to publish: About US$3,400 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
Not listed in: Scopus, Web of Science, DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
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Is Public Finance and Management indexed in Scopus?
No — Public Finance and Management is not currently indexed in Scopus.
What is the impact factor of Public Finance and Management?
Public Finance and Management has no Journal Impact Factor — JIF is published only for journals in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI and ESCI) — and Scopus has not published a current CiteScore for it either. Treat any "impact factor" quoted for this journal elsewhere as unofficial.
How much does it cost to publish in Public Finance and Management?
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,400 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Who publishes Public Finance and Management and what is its ISSN?
Public Finance and Management is published by Sage Publications. Its ISSN is 1523-9721.
Is Public Finance and Management covered under ONOS in India?
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.
Is Public Finance and Management in Web of Science?
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
What is the ABDC rating of Public Finance and Management?
It is rated B in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Banking, finance and investment.
Is Public Finance and Management open access?
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
How well cited is Public Finance and Management? — open metrics via OpenAlex
Public Finance and Management has an h-index of 26 and a 2-year mean of 1.23 citations per paper (OpenAlex).
Public Finance and Management published 20 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. Updated 2026-10-14.
Who publishes in Public Finance and Management? — latest 55 articles, 2021–2026
In its latest 55 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (68.2%), China (3.6%) and India (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.
Are there integrity warnings for Public Finance and Management? — indicators, not proof of misconduct
Scopus status: Not in the Scopus source list. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
- Scopus statusNot in the Scopus source list
- Retracted papers None recorded
- Problematic Paper Screener flags None flagged
- Author concentration68.2% of recent authorship from United States
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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