Journal rankings · indicator year 2008
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Subfield ranking · 2008
Public Administration journal rankings 2008
48 ranked journals · Subfield in Social Sciences
Public Administration has 48 ranked journals in 2008. The median OJR rose 0.27 on 2007 to 1.20, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 2.01. The top three are Public Administration Review, Public Administration, and Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2008. 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 2005–2007, the window the 2008 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)
48 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 2007. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2005–2007, the window the 2008 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2005–2007 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 2008. | Compare |
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1Public Administration ReviewWiley · United States | 4.97Q1 | 2.49 0.02 down from 2007 | 372 | 7% | $4,250 | ||
2Public AdministrationWiley · United Kingdom | 4.70Q1 | 1.98 0.14 up from 2007 | 213 | 10% | $3,950 | ||
3Journal of Public Administration Research and TheoryOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 3.93Q1 | 1.52 0.90 down from 2007 | 121 | 16% | $4,029 | ||
4The American Review of Public AdministrationSAGE Publishing · United States | 3.35Q1 | 1.85 0.12 up from 2007 | 83 | 4% | $3,900 | ||
5European Journal of Industrial RelationsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 3.15Q1 | 1.89 0.90 down from 2007 | 56 | 42% | $3,650 | ||
6British Journal of Industrial RelationsWiley · United Kingdom | 2.99Q1 | 1.76 0.19 down from 2007 | 134 | 9% | $3,860 | ||
7Administration & SocietySAGE Publishing · United States | 2.90Q1 | 1.66 0.26 up from 2007 | 105 | 2% | $3,650 | ||
8Public Management ReviewTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.80Q1 | 1.64 0.22 up from 2007 | 89 | 5% | — | ||
9International Review of Administrative SciencesSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.35Q1 | 1.11 0.15 up from 2007 | 141 | 13% | $3,650 | ||
10International Journal of Public Sector ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.25Q1 | 1.30 0.02 down from 2007 | 139 | 11% | — | ||
11Economic and Industrial DemocracySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.13Q1 | 0.88 0.03 down from 2007 | 72 | 11% | $3,650 | ||
12Social Work ResearchOxford University Press · United States | 2.01Q1 | 1.07 0.51 down from 2007 | 55 | 9% | — | ||
13Industrial Relations A Journal of Economy and SocietyWiley · United States | 1.95Q2 | 1.00 0.23 up from 2007 | 116 | 10% | $3,470 | ||
14Public Money & ManagementTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.94Q2 | 1.03 0.06 down from 2007 | 154 | 12% | — | ||
15Social WorkOxford University Press · United States | 1.93Q2 | 1.45 0.17 down from 2007 | 133 | 5% | — | ||
16Financial Accountability and ManagementWiley · United Kingdom | 1.79Q2 | 1.61 0.74 up from 2007 | 71 | 11% | $2,900 | ||
17The British Journal of Social WorkOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.75Q2 | 1.15 0.05 down from 2007 | 331 | 9% | $4,492 | ||
18Journal of Social Work EducationTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.71Q2 | 1.48 0.23 up from 2007 | 99 | 6% | — | ||
19Industrial Relations JournalWiley · United Kingdom | 1.66Q2 | 1.18 0.41 up from 2007 | 115 | 6% | $2,900 | ||
20International Public Management JournalTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.65Q2 | 0.79 0.21 down from 2007 | 53 | 7% | — | ||
21Qualitative Social WorkSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.61Q2 | 1.08 0.48 up from 2007 | 81 | 7% | $3,650 | ||
22Administration in Social WorkHaworth Press · United States | 1.45Q2 | 0.76 0.29 down from 2007 | 63 | 10% | — | ||
23Public Performance & Management ReviewTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.24Q2 | 0.67 0.37 up from 2007 | 52 | 6% | — | ||
24Journal of Teaching in Social WorkTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.22Q2 | 0.83 0.63 up from 2007 | 88 | 3% | — | ||
25Journal of Industrial RelationsSAGE Publishing · Australia | 1.17Q3 | 0.80 0.04 down from 2007 | 109 | 2% | $3,650 | ||
26International Social WorkSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.04Q3 | 0.81 0.22 up from 2007 | 192 | 4% | $3,650 | ||
27Public Policy and AdministrationSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.99Q3 | 0.43 0.18 up from 2007 | 171 | 3% | $3,650 | ||
28Social Work EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.90Q3 | 0.63 0.03 down from 2007 | 212 | 16% | — | ||
29Australian Social WorkTaylor & Francis · Australia | 0.70Q3 | 0.48 0.04 down from 2007 | 127 | 11% | — | ||
30Comparative labor law & policy journalCambridge University Press · United States | 0.67Q3 | 0.29 0.14 up from 2007 | 50 | 0% | — | ||
31Journal of Social WorkSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.64Q3 | 0.29 0.13 up from 2007 | 125 | 2% | $3,650 | ||
32Journal of Public Budgeting Accounting & Financial ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 0.63Q3 | 0.23 0.01 up from 2007 | 75 | 4% | — | ||
33PracticeTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.63Q3 | 0.33 0.03 up from 2007 | 62 | 10% | — | ||
34Journal of Social Work PracticeTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.62Q3 | 0.43 0.25 down from 2007 | 75 | 12% | — | ||
35European Journal of Social WorkTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.61Q3 | 0.39 0.06 down from 2007 | 99 | 8% | — | ||
36The Journal of Sociology & Social WelfareWestern Michigan University · United States | 0.59Q3 | 0.21 0.09 down from 2007 | 385 | 69% | — | ||
37Canadian Public AdministrationWiley · United Kingdom | 0.54Q4 | 0.31 0.13 up from 2007 | 94 | 8% | $2,900 | ||
38Journal of Ethnic & Cultural Diversity in Social WorkTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.49Q4 | 0.21 0.10 down from 2007 | 57 | 0% | — | ||
39Labor Studies JournalSAGE Publishing · United States | 0.48Q4 | 0.41 0.23 up from 2007 | 230 | 1% | $3,400 | ||
40Asia Pacific Journal of Public AdministrationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.47Q4 | 0.12 0.02 down from 2007 | 40 | 7% | — | ||
41Social Work With GroupsTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.42Q4 | 0.41 0.14 down from 2007 | 97 | 3% | — | ||
42Journal of Baccalaureate Social WorkUnited States | 0.33Q4 | 0.22 0.16 up from 2007 | 83 | 0% | — | ||
43Journal of Progressive Human ServicesTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.33Q4 | 0.17 0.10 down from 2007 | 38 | 0% | — | ||
44Smith College Studies in Social WorkTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.30Q4 | 0.21 0.01 down from 2007 | 65 | 2% | — | ||
45Advances in Social WorkOAIndiana University School of Social Work · United States | 0.19Q4 | 0.15 0.01 up from 2007 | 70 | 100% | — | ||
46Chinese Public Administration ReviewOAUnited States | 0.15Q4 | 0.05 0.02 up from 2007 | 50 | 0% | $3,650 | ||
47The Journal of Practice Teaching in Health and Social WorkUnited Kingdom | 0.14Q4 | 0.26 0.24 up from 2007 | 37 | 64% | — | ||
| 0.05Q4 | 0.03 0.03 up from 2007 | 88 | 0% | — |
Subfields of Social Sciences, with Public Administration highlighted.
- Sociology and Political Science861
- Education443
- Political Science and International Relations255
- Public Administration48
- Gender Studies44
- Communication43
- Library and Information Sciences36
- Health35
- Linguistics and Language35
- Law34
- Safety Research34
- Anthropology33
- Demography29
- Urban Studies28
- Transportation27
- Geography, Planning and Development18
- Cultural Studies9
- Development3
- General Social Sciences2
- Human Factors and Ergonomics1
- Archeology0
- Life-span and Life-course Studies0
Journals
Citations made in 2008. Corpus-wide, 71.1% 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 2005–2007, 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: 2008. Publication window: 2005–2007. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 48
- Window papers (baseline)
- 8,059 +24.8% from indicator year 2005
- Median OJR
- 1.20 +38.1% from indicator year 2005
- Rising journals (2025)
- 6
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2005–2007 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.