Journal rankings · indicator year 2004
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Subfield ranking · 2004
Public Administration journal rankings 2004
46 ranked journals · Subfield in Social Sciences
Public Administration has 46 ranked journals in 2004. The median journal has an OJR of 0.80, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.01 on 2003; Q1 starts at OJR 1.62. The top three are European Journal of Industrial Relations, British Journal of Industrial Relations, and Public Administration Review.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2004. 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 2001–2003, the window the 2004 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 2003. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2001–2003, the window the 2004 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2001–2003 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 2004. | Compare |
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1European Journal of Industrial RelationsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 5.44Q1 | 3.48 2.05 up from 2003 | 48 | 16% | $3,650 | ||
2British Journal of Industrial RelationsWiley · United Kingdom | 4.34Q1 | 1.58 0.30 down from 2003 | 91 | 41% | $3,860 | ||
3Public Administration ReviewWiley · United States | 4.13Q1 | 1.76 0.36 up from 2003 | 270 | 9% | $4,250 | ||
4Public AdministrationWiley · United Kingdom | 3.92Q1 | 1.80 1.07 down from 2003 | 136 | 15% | $3,950 | ||
5Social WorkOxford University Press · United States | 2.88Q1 | 1.25 0.34 down from 2003 | 158 | 0% | — | ||
6Economic and Industrial DemocracySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.67Q1 | 0.98 0.09 up from 2003 | 68 | 5% | $3,650 | ||
7Journal of Public Administration Research and TheoryOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.52Q1 | 1.27 0.32 up from 2003 | 119 | 17% | $4,029 | ||
8Industrial Relations JournalWiley · United Kingdom | 1.95Q1 | 1.23 0.30 up from 2003 | 94 | 52% | $2,900 | ||
9The American Review of Public AdministrationSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.82Q1 | 1.07 0.07 up from 2003 | 65 | 10% | $3,900 | ||
10Journal of Social Work EducationTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.78Q1 | 1.13 0.05 down from 2003 | 90 | 3% | — | ||
11Social Work ResearchOxford University Press · United States | 1.77Q1 | 0.88 0.06 down from 2003 | 54 | 3% | — | ||
12The British Journal of Social WorkOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.62Q1 | 0.73 0.31 down from 2003 | 195 | 8% | $4,492 | ||
13Administration & SocietySAGE Publishing · United States | 1.46Q2 | 0.52 0.09 down from 2003 | 94 | 3% | $3,650 | ||
14Public Management ReviewTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.43Q2 | 0.75 0.10 up from 2003 | 109 | 6% | — | ||
15Financial Accountability and ManagementWiley · United Kingdom | 1.37Q2 | 0.17 0.80 down from 2003 | 58 | 59% | $2,900 | ||
16International Journal of Public Sector ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.28Q2 | 0.63 0.05 up from 2003 | 106 | 14% | — | ||
17Journal of Social WorkSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.26Q2 | 0.56 0.17 down from 2003 | 68 | 16% | $3,650 | ||
18Industrial Relations A Journal of Economy and SocietyWiley · United States | 1.15Q2 | 0.37 0.07 down from 2003 | 136 | 56% | $3,470 | ||
19Public Money & ManagementTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.15Q2 | 0.77 0.20 up from 2003 | 135 | 20% | — | ||
20International Social WorkSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.05Q2 | 0.58 0.32 up from 2003 | 90 | 9% | $3,650 | ||
21Qualitative Social WorkSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.92Q2 | 0.53 0.15 down from 2003 | 70 | 8% | $3,650 | ||
22Public Performance & Management ReviewTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.91Q2 | 0.62 0.29 up from 2003 | 179 | 0% | — | ||
23Administration in Social WorkHaworth Press · United States | 0.88Q2 | 0.47 0.06 up from 2003 | 57 | 7% | — | ||
24International Review of Administrative SciencesSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.71Q3 | 0.39 0.08 down from 2003 | 148 | 7% | $3,650 | ||
25Public Policy and AdministrationSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.67Q3 | 0.28 0.06 up from 2003 | 141 | 1% | $3,650 | ||
26Social Work EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.65Q3 | 0.48 0.05 up from 2003 | 150 | 5% | — | ||
27Journal of Public Budgeting Accounting & Financial ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 0.60Q3 | 0.26 0.08 down from 2003 | 47 | 0% | — | ||
28Australian Social WorkTaylor & Francis · Australia | 0.52Q3 | 0.40 0.24 up from 2003 | 152 | 5% | — | ||
29European Journal of Social WorkTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.51Q3 | 0.21 0.06 up from 2003 | 94 | 6% | — | ||
30PracticeTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.50Q3 | 0.28 0.03 up from 2003 | 60 | 4% | — | ||
31Journal of Ethnic & Cultural Diversity in Social WorkTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.47Q3 | 0.13 0.12 down from 2003 | 59 | 5% | — | ||
32Journal of Social Work PracticeTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.47Q3 | 0.39 0.08 up from 2003 | 53 | 3% | — | ||
33Journal of Teaching in Social WorkTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.45Q3 | 0.31 0.16 up from 2003 | 80 | 4% | — | ||
34Canadian Public AdministrationWiley · United Kingdom | 0.42Q3 | 0.18 0.01 up from 2003 | 89 | 0% | $2,900 | ||
35Labor Studies JournalSAGE Publishing · United States | 0.40Q3 | 0.12 0.08 down from 2003 | 165 | 0% | $3,400 | ||
36Journal of Industrial RelationsSAGE Publishing · Australia | 0.36Q4 | 0.33 0.08 down from 2003 | 101 | 18% | $3,650 | ||
37Journal of Baccalaureate Social WorkUnited States | 0.36Q4 | 0.06 0.02 up from 2003 | 68 | 0% | — | ||
38Social Work With GroupsTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.35Q4 | 0.35 0.05 up from 2003 | 71 | 7% | — | ||
39The Journal of Sociology & Social WelfareWestern Michigan University · United States | 0.27Q4 | 0.11 0.07 down from 2003 | 329 | 69% | — | ||
40Journal of Progressive Human ServicesTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.26Q4 | 0.21 0.04 up from 2003 | 54 | 0% | — | ||
41Smith College Studies in Social WorkTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.23Q4 | 0.23 0.04 down from 2003 | 64 | 3% | — | ||
42Comparative labor law & policy journalCambridge University Press · United States | 0.18Q4 | 0.00 0.10 down from 2003 | 55 | 0% | — | ||
43Advances in Social WorkOAIndiana University School of Social Work · United States | 0.15Q4 | 0.18 0.02 up from 2003 | 31 | 100% | — | ||
44New Global DevelopmentTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.12Q4 | 0.10 0.06 up from 2003 | 34 | 0% | — | ||
| 0.06Q4 | 0.03 0.03 down from 2003 | 79 | 0% | — | |||
46Chinese Public Administration ReviewOAUnited States | 0.00Q4 | 0.00 0.14 down from 2003 | 31 | 0% | $3,650 |
Subfields of Social Sciences, with Public Administration highlighted.
- Sociology and Political Science716
- Education363
- Political Science and International Relations222
- Public Administration46
- Gender Studies36
- Communication35
- Safety Research33
- Health32
- Library and Information Sciences32
- Linguistics and Language32
- Anthropology30
- Law26
- Demography24
- Transportation24
- Urban Studies19
- Geography, Planning and Development15
- Cultural Studies8
- Development2
- Human Factors and Ergonomics2
- General Social Sciences1
- Archeology0
- Life-span and Life-course Studies0
Journals
Citations made in 2004. Corpus-wide, 69.4% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
6 additional Public Administration journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2001–2003, 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: 2004. Publication window: 2001–2003. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 46
- Window papers (baseline)
- 6,309 +15.7% from indicator year 2001
- Median OJR
- 0.80 -22.5% from indicator year 2001
- Rising journals (2025)
- 6
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2001–2003 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.