Journal rankings · indicator year 2000
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Subfield ranking · 2000
Public Administration journal rankings 2000
39 ranked journals · Subfield in Social Sciences
Public Administration has 39 ranked journals in 2000. Its median journal scores above the world average: OJR 1.23 against 1.00. A journal needs OJR 1.75 to reach Q1. The top three are European Journal of Industrial Relations, Public Administration, and British Journal of Industrial Relations.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2000. Journal access status and listed APC: source snapshot September 23, 2026.
Journals whose main subfield sits in this category and that published at least 30 citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) in 1997–1999, the window the 2000 score is computed on.
The OpenJournalRank Indicator (OJR) is a free, publicly available metric of a journal’s field-normalized citation impact, computed from open OpenAlex citation data. It compares citations to a journal’s papers from the previous three years with the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and values can be compared across fields. It is computed with the NCI3 method.
The middle OJR among ranked journals in this category: half score higher, half lower. 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type.
The dot is this category, the solid tick is the median of all ranked journals and the dashed line is the world average.
Share of ranked journals in this category that are fully open access, so every paper is free to read. Hybrid journals, which sell subscriptions and open single papers for a fee, are not counted.
Median list price of the article processing charge, in US dollars, among ranked journals in this category that list a price above zero. Journals with a listed APC of $0 and journals with no known price are left out of this median. The At a glance table below gives a second median that includes the $0 prices.
Subfields of Social Sciences (22)
39 ranked journals
Filters
Rank is the position by OJR within the list on screen; 1 is the highest. | OJR is field-normalized 3-year citation impact: 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so values compare across fields. The badge is the journal’s quartile in this list. | Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is not field-normalized, so compare it only between journals of the same field. ▲ or ▼ is the change from 1999. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 1997–1999, the window the 2000 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 1997–1999 papers that are free to read in any open-access form. The green OA tag next to a title marks a fully open-access journal. | List price of the article processing charge in US dollars. “$0 listed” means the listed price is zero; a dash means no price is listed. | The line is the journal’s OJR from 2000 to 2000. | Compare |
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1European Journal of Industrial RelationsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 5.38Q1 | 2.10no 1999 value | 45 | 11% | $3,650 | — | |
2Public AdministrationWiley · United Kingdom | 3.51Q1 | 1.41no 1999 value | 129 | 7% | $3,950 | — | |
3British Journal of Industrial RelationsWiley · United Kingdom | 3.48Q1 | 1.85no 1999 value | 84 | 19% | $3,860 | — | |
4Administration in Social WorkHaworth Press · United States | 3.13Q1 | 0.93no 1999 value | 66 | 0% | — | — | |
5Public Administration ReviewWiley · United States | 2.94Q1 | 1.58no 1999 value | 217 | 5% | $4,250 | — | |
6Public Policy and AdministrationSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.05Q1 | 0.75no 1999 value | 75 | 6% | $3,650 | — | |
7Social WorkOxford University Press · United States | 1.96Q1 | 0.95no 1999 value | 232 | 1% | — | — | |
8Teaching Public AdministrationSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.83Q1 | 1.15no 1999 value | 30 | 7% | $3,650 | — | |
9Journal of Public Administration Research and TheoryOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.78Q1 | 1.07no 1999 value | 93 | 26% | $4,029 | — | |
10Journal of Social Work EducationTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.75Q1 | 1.01no 1999 value | 129 | 2% | — | — | |
11Financial Accountability and ManagementWiley · United Kingdom | 1.72Q2 | 0.63no 1999 value | 63 | 19% | $2,900 | — | |
12Industrial Relations JournalWiley · United Kingdom | 1.65Q2 | 0.95no 1999 value | 89 | 20% | $2,900 | — | |
13Public Management ReviewTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.61Q2 | 0.73no 1999 value | 33 | 1% | — | — | |
14International Journal of Public Sector ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.59Q2 | 0.79no 1999 value | 113 | 3% | — | — | |
15Industrial Relations A Journal of Economy and SocietyWiley · United States | 1.49Q2 | 0.59no 1999 value | 102 | 6% | $3,470 | — | |
16Public Money & ManagementTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.49Q2 | 0.71no 1999 value | 87 | 7% | — | — | |
17Labor Studies JournalSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.49Q2 | 0.68no 1999 value | 39 | 1% | $3,400 | — | |
18Administration & SocietySAGE Publishing · United States | 1.42Q2 | 0.68no 1999 value | 100 | 9% | $3,650 | — | |
19The American Review of Public AdministrationSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.26Q2 | 0.65no 1999 value | 57 | 4% | $3,900 | — | |
20International Review of Administrative SciencesSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.23Q2 | 0.42no 1999 value | 119 | 0% | $3,650 | — | |
21The British Journal of Social WorkOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.20Q3 | 0.86no 1999 value | 147 | 3% | $4,492 | — | |
22Social Work ResearchOxford University Press · United States | 1.20Q3 | 1.06no 1999 value | 67 | 7% | — | — | |
23Canadian Public AdministrationWiley · United Kingdom | 0.94Q3 | 0.32no 1999 value | 98 | 6% | $2,900 | — | |
24Journal of Industrial RelationsSAGE Publishing · Australia | 0.87Q3 | 0.37no 1999 value | 95 | 5% | $3,650 | — | |
25Smith College Studies in Social WorkTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.62Q3 | 0.24no 1999 value | 70 | 0% | — | — | |
26International Social WorkSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.58Q3 | 0.27no 1999 value | 92 | 5% | $3,650 | — | |
27European Journal of Social WorkTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.57Q3 | 0.21no 1999 value | 80 | 0% | — | — | |
28Social Work EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.57Q3 | 0.34no 1999 value | 101 | 5% | — | — | |
29International Public Management JournalTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.52Q3 | 0.40no 1999 value | 30 | 0% | — | — | |
30Social Work With GroupsTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.43Q3 | 0.25no 1999 value | 59 | 0% | — | — | |
31Journal of Teaching in Social WorkTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.34Q4 | 0.17no 1999 value | 68 | 0% | — | — | |
32Journal of Social Work PracticeTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.32Q4 | 0.30no 1999 value | 55 | 0% | — | — | |
33Comparative labor law & policy journalCambridge University Press · United States | 0.29Q4 | 0.09no 1999 value | 35 | 0% | — | — | |
34Australian Social WorkTaylor & Francis · Australia | 0.23Q4 | 0.35no 1999 value | 124 | 7% | — | — | |
35The Journal of Sociology & Social WelfareWestern Michigan University · United States | 0.22Q4 | 0.11no 1999 value | 283 | 77% | — | — | |
36PracticeTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.21Q4 | 0.12no 1999 value | 70 | 0% | — | — | |
37Journal of Public Budgeting Accounting & Financial ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 0.17Q4 | 0.02no 1999 value | 49 | 0% | — | — | |
38Journal of Baccalaureate Social WorkUnited States | 0.14Q4 | 0.07no 1999 value | 68 | 0% | — | — | |
| 0.03Q4 | 0.02no 1999 value | 70 | 0% | — | — |
Subfields of Social Sciences, with Public Administration highlighted.
- Sociology and Political Science588
- Education306
- Political Science and International Relations185
- Public Administration39
- Communication28
- Gender Studies28
- Linguistics and Language28
- Safety Research27
- Health26
- Law26
- Library and Information Sciences26
- Anthropology24
- Transportation22
- Urban Studies17
- Demography16
- Geography, Planning and Development12
- Cultural Studies7
- Development1
- Archeology0
- General Social Sciences0
- Human Factors and Ergonomics0
- Life-span and Life-course Studies0
Journals
Citations made in 2000. Corpus-wide, 66.2% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
7 additional Public Administration journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 1997–1999, at least 80% of them with a subfield, and a positive world-average expectation. Ranks are within the whole category; filters hide rows without re-ranking. OJR excludes self-citations.
At a glance
Indicator year: 2000. Publication window: 1997–1999. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 39
- Window papers (baseline)
- 5,291 Change unavailable from indicator year 1997
- Median OJR
- 1.23 Change unavailable from indicator year 1997
- Rising journals (2025)
- 6
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 1997–1999 in all journals of the world-average baseline, including non-core journals, counted by each paper’s own subfield. They are not the papers of the ranked journals alone.
| Measure | Year series | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ranked journals | 39 | 39 | 44 | 46 | 46 | 46 | 45 | 46 | 48 | 48 | 48 | 48 | 48 | 49 | 50 | 51 | 51 | 51 | 50 | 51 | 51 | 52 | 52 | 52 | 51 | 49 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 5,291 | 5,454 | 5,737 | 6,096 | 6,309 | 6,459 | 7,069 | 7,550 | 8,059 | 8,152 | 8,390 | 8,538 | 8,687 | 9,064 | 9,283 | 9,721 | 9,886 | 10,257 | 9,866 | 9,630 | 9,356 | 9,519 | 9,597 | 9,348 | 9,065 | 8,961 | |
| Median OJR | 1.23 | 1.03 | 0.94 | 0.79 | 0.80 | 0.87 | 1.04 | 0.93 | 1.20 | 1.07 | 1.3317 | 1.51 | 1.41 | 1.21 | 1.239 | 1.48 | 1.3324 | 1.243 | 1.192 | 1.46 | 1.36 | 1.34 | 1.22 | 1.18 | 1.189 | 1.37 |
How to read these rankings
- OJR, the OpenJournalRank Indicator
- A field-normalized 3-year citation impact, computed from OpenAlex with the NCI3 method. It divides the citations a journal’s papers received by the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and 2.00 means twice as many citations as expected. Because it is normalized, it can be compared across fields. Read the methodology
- Quartiles
- Q1 to Q4 split the ranked journals of the list you are viewing into four equal groups by OJR. A journal’s quartile depends on the list: the same journal can be Q1 in its subfield and Q2 among all journals.
- Impact factor (2-year)
- Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is easy to compare with familiar impact factors but is not field-normalized, so compare it only within a field. It is not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. Why it differs from the Journal Impact Factor
- Rank ranges
- Each rank in the latest year carries a likely range from 1,000 resamples of the journal’s papers. Where two journals’ ranges overlap, the data cannot tell them apart, so treat neighbouring ranks as ties.