Journal rankings · indicator year 2002
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Subfield ranking · 2002
Public Administration journal rankings 2002
44 ranked journals · Subfield in Social Sciences
Public Administration has 44 ranked journals in 2002. The median OJR fell 0.09 on 2001 to 0.94, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.99. The top three are European Journal of Industrial Relations, British Journal of Industrial Relations, and Public Administration Review.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2002. 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 1999–2001, the window the 2002 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)
44 ranked journals
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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 2001. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 1999–2001, the window the 2002 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 1999–2001 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 2002. | Compare |
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1European Journal of Industrial RelationsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 4.52Q1 | 2.35 2.39 down from 2001 | 46 | 17% | $3,650 | ||
2British Journal of Industrial RelationsWiley · United Kingdom | 3.69Q1 | 1.77 0.14 up from 2001 | 78 | 35% | $3,860 | ||
3Public Administration ReviewWiley · United States | 3.24Q1 | 1.28 0.03 up from 2001 | 203 | 11% | $4,250 | ||
4Social Work ResearchOxford University Press · United States | 2.62Q1 | 0.95 0.37 down from 2001 | 40 | 4% | — | ||
5Financial Accountability and ManagementWiley · United Kingdom | 2.13Q1 | 0.65 0.18 down from 2001 | 64 | 32% | $2,900 | ||
6The American Review of Public AdministrationSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.10Q1 | 1.04 0.32 up from 2001 | 66 | 8% | $3,900 | ||
7Industrial Relations JournalWiley · United Kingdom | 2.07Q1 | 0.60 0.06 down from 2001 | 88 | 58% | $2,900 | ||
8Journal of Public Administration Research and TheoryOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.05Q1 | 1.22 0.03 up from 2001 | 86 | 32% | $4,029 | ||
9Economic and Industrial DemocracySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.03Q1 | 0.90 0.38 up from 2001 | 81 | 0% | $3,650 | ||
10Public AdministrationWiley · United Kingdom | 2.01Q1 | 0.86 0.06 up from 2001 | 141 | 15% | $3,950 | ||
11Social WorkOxford University Press · United States | 1.99Q1 | 1.10 0.27 up from 2001 | 193 | 2% | — | ||
12The British Journal of Social WorkOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.96Q2 | 1.17 0.20 up from 2001 | 149 | 2% | $4,492 | ||
13Administration & SocietySAGE Publishing · United States | 1.94Q2 | 0.83 0.06 down from 2001 | 91 | 0% | $3,650 | ||
14Public Money & ManagementTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.81Q2 | 0.66 0.03 up from 2001 | 88 | 50% | — | ||
15Journal of Social Work EducationTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.70Q2 | 1.31 0.50 up from 2001 | 123 | 0% | — | ||
16Journal of Ethnic & Cultural Diversity in Social WorkTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.40Q2 | 0.76 0.63 up from 2001 | 37 | 0% | — | ||
17Journal of Public Budgeting Accounting & Financial ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.25Q2 | 0.81 0.07 down from 2001 | 51 | 0% | — | ||
18Public Performance & Management ReviewTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.22Q2 | 0.46 0.28 up from 2001 | 76 | 2% | — | ||
19Industrial Relations A Journal of Economy and SocietyWiley · United States | 1.22Q2 | 0.48 0.42 down from 2001 | 119 | 69% | $3,470 | ||
20Public Management ReviewTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.10Q2 | 0.45 0.04 up from 2001 | 137 | 8% | — | ||
21Public Policy and AdministrationSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.95Q2 | 0.26 0.20 down from 2001 | 79 | 1% | $3,650 | ||
22Administration in Social WorkHaworth Press · United States | 0.95Q2 | 0.52 0.22 up from 2001 | 64 | 4% | — | ||
23International Journal of Public Sector ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 0.94Q3 | 0.46 0.07 down from 2001 | 112 | 9% | — | ||
24Journal of Industrial RelationsSAGE Publishing · Australia | 0.88Q3 | 0.40 0.10 down from 2001 | 94 | 17% | $3,650 | ||
25International Public Management JournalTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.74Q3 | 0.40 0.19 down from 2001 | 50 | 0% | — | ||
26Labor Studies JournalSAGE Publishing · United States | 0.70Q3 | 0.52 0.11 up from 2001 | 70 | 7% | $3,400 | ||
27International Social WorkSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.60Q3 | 0.31 0.02 down from 2001 | 89 | 8% | $3,650 | ||
28Canadian Public AdministrationWiley · United Kingdom | 0.59Q3 | 0.23no change | 76 | 7% | $2,900 | ||
29International Review of Administrative SciencesSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.59Q3 | 0.33 0.09 down from 2001 | 134 | 2% | $3,650 | ||
30Journal of Progressive Human ServicesTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.49Q3 | 0.21 0.12 up from 2001 | 48 | 0% | — | ||
31The Journal of Sociology & Social WelfareWestern Michigan University · United States | 0.46Q3 | 0.23 0.02 up from 2001 | 305 | 75% | — | ||
32Social Work EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.46Q3 | 0.36 0.14 up from 2001 | 138 | 6% | — | ||
33Social Work With GroupsTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.43Q3 | 0.27 0.01 up from 2001 | 60 | 0% | — | ||
34European Journal of Social WorkTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.41Q4 | 0.19 0.04 up from 2001 | 103 | 1% | — | ||
35Journal of Teaching in Social WorkTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.37Q4 | 0.14 0.04 down from 2001 | 79 | 0% | — | ||
36PracticeTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.34Q4 | 0.38 0.10 up from 2001 | 64 | 6% | — | ||
37Journal of Social Work PracticeTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.32Q4 | 0.41 0.07 up from 2001 | 47 | 4% | — | ||
38Advances in Social WorkOAIndiana University School of Social Work · United States | 0.29Q4 | 0.17 0.17 up from 2001 | 30 | 100% | — | ||
39Australian Social WorkTaylor & Francis · Australia | 0.28Q4 | 0.42 0.01 up from 2001 | 113 | 2% | — | ||
40Smith College Studies in Social WorkTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.26Q4 | 0.27 0.05 down from 2001 | 76 | 0% | — | ||
41Journal of Baccalaureate Social WorkUnited States | 0.20Q4 | 0.11 0.02 down from 2001 | 65 | 0% | — | ||
42Comparative labor law & policy journalCambridge University Press · United States | 0.19Q4 | 0.03 0.01 up from 2001 | 59 | 0% | — | ||
43New Global DevelopmentTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.13Q4 | 0.04 0.04 up from 2001 | 30 | 0% | — | ||
| 0.03Q4 | 0.02no change | 69 | 0% | — |
Subfields of Social Sciences, with Public Administration highlighted.
- Sociology and Political Science642
- Education333
- Political Science and International Relations198
- Public Administration44
- Gender Studies35
- Communication32
- Safety Research30
- Health29
- Linguistics and Language29
- Library and Information Sciences28
- Anthropology26
- Law26
- Demography22
- Transportation21
- Urban Studies19
- Geography, Planning and Development15
- Cultural Studies7
- Development2
- General Social Sciences1
- Archeology0
- Human Factors and Ergonomics0
- Life-span and Life-course Studies0
Journals
Citations made in 2002. Corpus-wide, 69.2% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
5 additional Public Administration journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 1999–2001, 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: 2002. Publication window: 1999–2001. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 44
- Window papers (baseline)
- 5,737 Change unavailable from indicator year 1999
- Median OJR
- 0.94 Change unavailable from indicator year 1999
- Rising journals (2025)
- 6
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 1999–2001 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.