Journal rankings · indicator year 2003
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Subfield ranking · 2003
Public Administration journal rankings 2003
46 ranked journals · Subfield in Social Sciences
Public Administration has 46 ranked journals in 2003. The median OJR fell 0.15 on 2002 to 0.79, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.63. The top three are Public Administration, Public Administration Review, and British Journal of Industrial Relations.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2003. 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 2000–2002, the window the 2003 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)
46 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 2002. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2000–2002, the window the 2003 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2000–2002 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 2003. | Compare |
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1Public AdministrationWiley · United Kingdom | 5.94Q1 | 2.87 2.01 up from 2002 | 140 | 12% | $3,950 | ||
2Public Administration ReviewWiley · United States | 3.66Q1 | 1.40 0.12 up from 2002 | 259 | 11% | $4,250 | ||
3British Journal of Industrial RelationsWiley · United Kingdom | 3.47Q1 | 1.88 0.10 up from 2002 | 86 | 32% | $3,860 | ||
4European Journal of Industrial RelationsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.71Q1 | 1.43 0.92 down from 2002 | 46 | 14% | $3,650 | ||
5The American Review of Public AdministrationSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.46Q1 | 1.00 0.04 down from 2002 | 69 | 4% | $3,900 | ||
6Journal of Public Administration Research and TheoryOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.44Q1 | 0.95 0.27 down from 2002 | 92 | 10% | $4,029 | ||
7Social WorkOxford University Press · United States | 2.21Q1 | 1.59 0.50 up from 2002 | 155 | 0% | — | ||
8Administration & SocietySAGE Publishing · United States | 2.21Q1 | 0.62 0.21 down from 2002 | 90 | 3% | $3,650 | ||
9Qualitative Social WorkSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.83Q1 | 0.68no 2002 value | 41 | 8% | $3,650 | — | |
10Journal of Social Work EducationTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.70Q1 | 1.18 0.13 down from 2002 | 109 | 3% | — | ||
11International Review of Administrative SciencesSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.70Q1 | 0.47 0.14 up from 2002 | 129 | 5% | $3,650 | ||
12The British Journal of Social WorkOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.63Q1 | 1.04 0.13 down from 2002 | 176 | 5% | $4,492 | ||
13Public Management ReviewTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.56Q2 | 0.66 0.21 up from 2002 | 135 | 3% | — | ||
14Social Work ResearchOxford University Press · United States | 1.56Q2 | 0.94 0.01 down from 2002 | 41 | 0% | — | ||
15Public Money & ManagementTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.53Q2 | 0.57 0.09 down from 2002 | 110 | 9% | — | ||
16Economic and Industrial DemocracySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.52Q2 | 0.89 0.02 down from 2002 | 72 | 17% | $3,650 | ||
17Industrial Relations JournalWiley · United Kingdom | 1.49Q2 | 0.94 0.34 up from 2002 | 89 | 48% | $2,900 | ||
18Financial Accountability and ManagementWiley · United Kingdom | 1.49Q2 | 0.97 0.32 up from 2002 | 58 | 50% | $2,900 | ||
19International Public Management JournalTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.25Q2 | 0.71 0.31 up from 2002 | 31 | 0% | — | ||
20Industrial Relations A Journal of Economy and SocietyWiley · United States | 1.19Q2 | 0.44 0.04 down from 2002 | 118 | 55% | $3,470 | ||
21International Journal of Public Sector ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.12Q2 | 0.58 0.12 up from 2002 | 109 | 6% | — | ||
22Journal of Social WorkSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.99Q2 | 0.73 0.37 up from 2002 | 41 | 9% | $3,650 | ||
23Public Performance & Management ReviewTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.80Q2 | 0.32 0.14 down from 2002 | 160 | 2% | — | ||
24Journal of Public Budgeting Accounting & Financial ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 0.78Q3 | 0.33 0.47 down from 2002 | 47 | 8% | — | ||
25Administration in Social WorkHaworth Press · United States | 0.76Q3 | 0.41 0.11 down from 2002 | 62 | 0% | — | ||
26Public Policy and AdministrationSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.75Q3 | 0.21 0.05 down from 2002 | 118 | 5% | $3,650 | ||
27Canadian Public AdministrationWiley · United Kingdom | 0.68Q3 | 0.17 0.06 down from 2002 | 84 | 3% | $2,900 | ||
28Journal of Industrial RelationsSAGE Publishing · Australia | 0.67Q3 | 0.41 0.01 up from 2002 | 98 | 15% | $3,650 | ||
29International Social WorkSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.64Q3 | 0.26 0.05 down from 2002 | 91 | 7% | $3,650 | ||
30Social Work EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.61Q3 | 0.43 0.06 up from 2002 | 151 | 2% | — | ||
31European Journal of Social WorkTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.54Q3 | 0.15 0.04 down from 2002 | 98 | 13% | — | ||
32Advances in Social WorkOAIndiana University School of Social Work · United States | 0.44Q3 | 0.15 0.01 down from 2002 | 42 | 100% | — | ||
33The Journal of Sociology & Social WelfareWestern Michigan University · United States | 0.41Q3 | 0.18 0.06 down from 2002 | 314 | 74% | — | ||
34PracticeTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.34Q3 | 0.25 0.12 down from 2002 | 60 | 6% | — | ||
35Labor Studies JournalSAGE Publishing · United States | 0.34Q3 | 0.20 0.33 down from 2002 | 105 | 0% | $3,400 | ||
36Journal of Social Work PracticeTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.33Q4 | 0.31 0.10 down from 2002 | 49 | 0% | — | ||
37Journal of Teaching in Social WorkTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.33Q4 | 0.15 0.01 up from 2002 | 76 | 0% | — | ||
38Journal of Ethnic & Cultural Diversity in Social WorkTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.31Q4 | 0.26 0.50 down from 2002 | 47 | 0% | — | ||
39Smith College Studies in Social WorkTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.31Q4 | 0.27no change | 65 | 0% | — | ||
40Social Work With GroupsTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.28Q4 | 0.30 0.03 up from 2002 | 52 | 0% | — | ||
41Journal of Progressive Human ServicesTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.22Q4 | 0.17 0.04 down from 2002 | 51 | 0% | — | ||
42Journal of Baccalaureate Social WorkUnited States | 0.21Q4 | 0.04 0.07 down from 2002 | 68 | 7% | — | ||
43Australian Social WorkTaylor & Francis · Australia | 0.18Q4 | 0.15 0.27 down from 2002 | 131 | 6% | — | ||
44Comparative labor law & policy journalCambridge University Press · United States | 0.17Q4 | 0.10 0.07 up from 2002 | 57 | 0% | — | ||
| 0.09Q4 | 0.06 0.04 up from 2002 | 77 | 0% | — | |||
46New Global DevelopmentTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.05Q4 | 0.04no change | 37 | 0% | — |
Subfields of Social Sciences, with Public Administration highlighted.
- Sociology and Political Science679
- Education348
- Political Science and International Relations211
- Public Administration46
- Communication36
- Gender Studies36
- Health32
- Safety Research31
- Library and Information Sciences30
- Linguistics and Language30
- Anthropology29
- Law24
- Transportation23
- Demography22
- Urban Studies18
- Geography, Planning and Development16
- Cultural Studies6
- Development2
- Human Factors and Ergonomics2
- General Social Sciences1
- Archeology0
- Life-span and Life-course Studies0
Journals
Citations made in 2003. Corpus-wide, 70.2% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
4 additional Public Administration journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2000–2002, 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: 2003. Publication window: 2000–2002. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 46
- Window papers (baseline)
- 6,096 +15.2% from indicator year 2000
- Median OJR
- 0.79 -36.0% from indicator year 2000
- Rising journals (2025)
- 6
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2000–2002 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.