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Public Governance, Administration and Finances Law Review is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.9), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by University of Public Service, Ludovika University Press.
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ISSN 2498-6275Verify ISSN ↗2786-0736Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: University of Public Service, Ludovika University Press
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 663 / 1162 | 42nd | Q3 |
| Public Administration | 186 / 248 | 25th | Q3 |
| Finance | 280 / 342 | 18th | Q4 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2021–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.9.
Public Governance, Administration and Finances Law Review is Q3 in Law (rank 663 of 1162), Q3 in Public Administration (rank 186 of 248) and Q4 in Finance (rank 280 of 342), by CiteScore 2025.
Public Governance, Administration and Finances Law Review 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 0.9, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 42nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.221, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 4.
Public Governance, Administration and Finances Law Review is published by University of Public Service, Ludovika University Press. Its print ISSN is 2498-6275 and its online ISSN is 2786-0736.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Public Governance, Administration and Finances Law Review has an h-index of 6 and a 2-year mean of 0.57 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.9, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #500 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
Public Governance, Administration and Finances Law Review published 17 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 25. 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 89 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from Hungary (34.3%), United States (13.3%) and Portugal (4.5%).
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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