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Public Policy and Administration is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1), formerly ABDC B. Published by Mykolo Romerio Universitetas.
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ISSN 1648-2603Verify ISSN ↗2029-2872Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Mykolo Romerio Universitetas
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sociology and Political Science | 943 / 1530 | 38th | Q3 |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous) | 207 / 283 | 27th | Q3 |
| Public Administration | 182 / 248 | 26th | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2011–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.
Public Policy and Administration is Q3 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 943 of 1530), Q3 in Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous) (rank 207 of 283) and Q3 in Public Administration (rank 182 of 248), by CiteScore 2025.
Public Policy and 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 1, quartile Q3, 38th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.183, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 15.
Public Policy and Administration is published by Mykolo Romerio Universitetas. Its print ISSN is 1648-2603 and its online ISSN is 2029-2872.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
It was rated B in the 2022 ABDC list but is not in the current 2025 Journal Quality List.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Public Policy and Administration has an h-index of 16 and a 2-year mean of 0.37 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #993 of 1,478 Scopus journals in Sociology and Political Science.
Public Policy and Administration published 13 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 88. 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 81 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from Lithuania (42.4%), Indonesia (15.4%) and Ukraine (9.9%).
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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