Public Administration (journal)

Public Administration  
Abbreviated title (ISO 4)
Publ. Adm.
Discipline Public administration
Language English
Edited by Arjen Boin
Publication details
Publisher
Publication history
1923-present
Frequency Quarterly
Hybrid
1.573
Indexing
ISSN 0033-3298 (print)
1467-9299 (web)
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Public Administration is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal which covers research, theory, and practice in public administration, public policy, public organization theory, and public management. It was established in 1923 and was ranked in the top of its field by a 1983 survey.[1] One of its founders was the Liberal and later Labour statesman Richard Haldane (1st Viscount of Haldane), and the journal awards an annual prize in his honour to the most distinguished practitioner essay published in Public Administration in that year.[2] The journal is published by Wiley-Blackwell and is edited by Arjen Boin.[3] From 1983-2011, the journal was edited by R. A. W. Rhodes.[4] Public Administration is indexed by Scopus and the Social Sciences Citation Index. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2011 impact factor of 1.573, ranking it 4th out of 45 journals in the category "Public Administration".[5]

References

  1. Vocino, Thomas; Elliott, Robert H. (1984). "Public administration journal prestige: A time series analysis". Administrative Science Quarterly 29 (1): 43–51. doi:10.2307/2393079. JSTOR 2393079.
  2. "Haldane Prize for Best Article". Retrieved 2012-11-30.
  3. "Arjen Boin". Retrieved 2012-11-30.
  4. "R.A.W. Rhodes". Retrieved 2012-11-30.
  5. "Journals Ranked by Impact: Public Administration". 2011 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Science ed.). Thomson Reuters. 2012.

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