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Scandinavian Journal of Public Administration is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.2), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by University of Gothenburg School of Public Administration.
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ISSN 2001-7405Verify ISSN ↗2001-7413Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: University of Gothenburg School of Public Administration
Cost to publish: Checking DOAJ for article charges…
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 348 / 1162 | 70th | Q2 |
| Public Administration | 128 / 248 | 48th | Q3 |
| Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous) | 133 / 235 | 43rd | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.2.
Scandinavian Journal of Public Administration is Q2 in Law (rank 348 of 1162), Q3 in Public Administration (rank 128 of 248) and Q3 in Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous) (rank 133 of 235), by CiteScore 2025.
Scandinavian Journal of Public Administration 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 2.2, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 70th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.407, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 10.
Scandinavian Journal of Public Administration is published by University of Gothenburg School of Public Administration. Its print ISSN is 2001-7405 and its online ISSN is 2001-7413.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Scandinavian Journal of Public Administration has an h-index of 21 and a 2-year mean of 1.4 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.2, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #202 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
Scandinavian Journal of Public Administration published 19 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 31. 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 96 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from Sweden (50.4%), Norway (23.4%) and Finland (14%). 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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