Discipline | Public administration |
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Language | English |
Edited by | Bruce D. McDonald III |
Publication details | |
Former name(s) | Journal of Public Administration |
History | 1923-present |
Publisher | |
Frequency | Quarterly |
Hybrid | |
4.013 (2021) | |
Standard abbreviations | |
ISO 4 | Public Adm. |
Indexing | |
ISSN | 0033-3298 (print) 1467-9299 (web) |
LCCN | 25001505 |
OCLC no. | 768105905 |
Links | |
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[1] and was ranked in the top of its field by a 1983 survey.[2] In 2021, the journal was ranked as second in the field of public administration.[3] 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.[4] The journal is published by Wiley (publisher) and is edited by Bruce D. McDonald III (North Carolina State University).[5]
According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2021 impact factor of 4.013, ranking it 31st out of 187 journals in the category "Political Science" and 11th out of 49 journals in the category "Public Administration".[6]