Journal rankings · indicator year 2007
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Subfield ranking · 2007
Public Administration journal rankings 2007
46 ranked journals · Subfield in Social Sciences
Public Administration has 46 ranked journals in 2007. The median OJR fell 0.11 on 2006 to 0.93, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.99. The top three are European Journal of Industrial Relations, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, and Public Administration Review.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2007. 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 2004–2006, the window the 2007 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 2006. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2004–2006, the window the 2007 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2004–2006 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 2007. | Compare |
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1European Journal of Industrial RelationsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 5.45Q1 | 2.79 0.15 up from 2006 | 55 | 65% | $3,650 | ||
2Journal of Public Administration Research and TheoryOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 4.93Q1 | 2.43 0.39 down from 2006 | 143 | 28% | $4,029 | ||
3Public Administration ReviewWiley · United States | 4.86Q1 | 2.51 0.08 up from 2006 | 305 | 8% | $4,250 | ||
4Public AdministrationWiley · United Kingdom | 3.97Q1 | 1.84 1.00 down from 2006 | 168 | 10% | $3,950 | ||
5The American Review of Public AdministrationSAGE Publishing · United States | 3.89Q1 | 1.73 0.32 up from 2006 | 78 | 0% | $3,900 | ||
6Administration & SocietySAGE Publishing · United States | 3.09Q1 | 1.40 0.20 down from 2006 | 102 | 5% | $3,650 | ||
7British Journal of Industrial RelationsWiley · United Kingdom | 3.01Q1 | 1.95 0.69 up from 2006 | 111 | 6% | $3,860 | ||
8Public Management ReviewTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.67Q1 | 1.42 0.21 down from 2006 | 88 | 0% | — | ||
9International Journal of Public Sector ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.62Q1 | 1.32 0.05 up from 2006 | 135 | 9% | — | ||
10International Public Management JournalTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.24Q1 | 1.00 0.58 up from 2006 | 31 | 6% | — | ||
11Social Work ResearchOxford University Press · United States | 2.20Q1 | 1.58 0.58 up from 2006 | 52 | 0% | — | ||
12International Review of Administrative SciencesSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.99Q1 | 0.96 0.44 up from 2006 | 146 | 2% | $3,650 | ||
13Social WorkOxford University Press · United States | 1.94Q2 | 1.62 0.45 up from 2006 | 163 | 5% | — | ||
14Journal of Social Work EducationTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.90Q2 | 1.25 0.37 up from 2006 | 99 | 3% | — | ||
15Public Money & ManagementTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.66Q2 | 1.09 0.44 up from 2006 | 146 | 3% | — | ||
16The British Journal of Social WorkOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.59Q2 | 1.20 0.04 up from 2006 | 320 | 6% | $4,492 | ||
17Administration in Social WorkHaworth Press · United States | 1.52Q2 | 1.06 0.48 up from 2006 | 69 | 3% | — | ||
18Qualitative Social WorkSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.45Q2 | 0.60 0.29 down from 2006 | 81 | 9% | $3,650 | ||
19Industrial Relations A Journal of Economy and SocietyWiley · United States | 1.42Q2 | 0.77 0.17 up from 2006 | 117 | 14% | $3,470 | ||
20Social Work EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.25Q2 | 0.67 0.17 down from 2006 | 198 | 4% | — | ||
21Economic and Industrial DemocracySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.16Q2 | 0.90 0.13 up from 2006 | 83 | 15% | $3,650 | ||
22Financial Accountability and ManagementWiley · United Kingdom | 1.02Q2 | 0.88 0.68 up from 2006 | 71 | 19% | $2,900 | ||
23Journal of Industrial RelationsSAGE Publishing · Australia | 0.95Q2 | 0.84 0.20 up from 2006 | 95 | 11% | $3,650 | ||
24Industrial Relations JournalWiley · United Kingdom | 0.90Q3 | 0.77 0.26 up from 2006 | 107 | 3% | $2,900 | ||
25International Social WorkSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.90Q3 | 0.60 0.06 up from 2006 | 172 | 7% | $3,650 | ||
26European Journal of Social WorkTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.79Q3 | 0.45 0.10 down from 2006 | 88 | 7% | — | ||
27Journal of Social Work PracticeTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.71Q3 | 0.68 0.15 down from 2006 | 71 | 0% | — | ||
28Australian Social WorkTaylor & Francis · Australia | 0.71Q3 | 0.52 0.03 down from 2006 | 159 | 8% | — | ||
29The Journal of Sociology & Social WelfareWestern Michigan University · United States | 0.64Q3 | 0.30 0.12 up from 2006 | 380 | 66% | — | ||
30Journal of Social WorkSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.54Q3 | 0.16 0.52 down from 2006 | 123 | 1% | $3,650 | ||
31Social Work With GroupsTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.53Q3 | 0.54 0.03 down from 2006 | 103 | 0% | — | ||
32Journal of Teaching in Social WorkTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.53Q3 | 0.19 0.01 up from 2006 | 77 | 8% | — | ||
33Public Policy and AdministrationSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.50Q3 | 0.24 0.04 up from 2006 | 168 | 3% | $3,650 | ||
34Asia Pacific Journal of Public AdministrationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.49Q3 | 0.14no change | 42 | 0% | — | ||
35Canadian Public AdministrationWiley · United Kingdom | 0.40Q3 | 0.18 0.09 down from 2006 | 87 | 10% | $2,900 | ||
36Labor Studies JournalSAGE Publishing · United States | 0.39Q4 | 0.18 0.11 down from 2006 | 263 | 3% | $3,400 | ||
37PracticeTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.39Q4 | 0.30 0.06 up from 2006 | 61 | 11% | — | ||
38Journal of Public Budgeting Accounting & Financial ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 0.39Q4 | 0.22 0.01 up from 2006 | 78 | 12% | — | ||
39Smith College Studies in Social WorkTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.36Q4 | 0.22 0.01 down from 2006 | 77 | 6% | — | ||
40Comparative labor law & policy journalCambridge University Press · United States | 0.34Q4 | 0.15 0.15 up from 2006 | 36 | 0% | — | ||
41Journal of Ethnic & Cultural Diversity in Social WorkTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.33Q4 | 0.31 1.10 down from 2006 | 51 | 0% | — | ||
42Journal of Baccalaureate Social WorkUnited States | 0.14Q4 | 0.06 0.05 down from 2006 | 93 | 0% | — | ||
43Advances in Social WorkOAIndiana University School of Social Work · United States | 0.11Q4 | 0.14 0.07 up from 2006 | 62 | 100% | — | ||
44The Journal of Practice Teaching in Health and Social WorkUnited Kingdom | 0.07Q4 | 0.03 0.20 down from 2006 | 37 | — | — | ||
45Chinese Public Administration ReviewOAUnited States | 0.06Q4 | 0.02 0.02 up from 2006 | 48 | 0% | $3,650 | ||
| 0.02Q4 | 0.00no change | 85 | 0% | — |
Subfields of Social Sciences, with Public Administration highlighted.
- Sociology and Political Science826
- Education426
- Political Science and International Relations248
- Public Administration46
- Gender Studies43
- Communication38
- Health34
- Library and Information Sciences34
- Safety Research33
- Law32
- Linguistics and Language32
- Anthropology30
- Demography27
- Transportation27
- Urban Studies25
- Geography, Planning and Development17
- Cultural Studies9
- Development2
- General Social Sciences2
- Human Factors and Ergonomics1
- Archeology0
- Life-span and Life-course Studies0
Journals
Citations made in 2007. Corpus-wide, 72.1% 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 2004–2006, 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: 2007. Publication window: 2004–2006. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 46
- Window papers (baseline)
- 7,550 +19.7% from indicator year 2004
- Median OJR
- 0.93 +16.4% from indicator year 2004
- Rising journals (2025)
- 6
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2004–2006 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.