Journal rankings · indicator year 2010
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Subfield ranking · 2010
Public Administration journal rankings 2010
48 ranked journals · Subfield in Social Sciences
Public Administration has 48 ranked journals in 2010. The median OJR rose 0.27 on 2009 to 1.33, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 2.53. The top three are Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Public Administration, and International Public Management Journal.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2010. 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 2007–2009, the window the 2010 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
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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 2009. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2007–2009, the window the 2010 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2007–2009 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 2001 to 2010. | Compare |
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1Journal of Public Administration Research and TheoryOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 5.62Q1 | 1.95 1.61 down from 2009 | 114 | 31% | $4,029 | ||
2Public AdministrationWiley · United Kingdom | 4.10Q1 | 1.62 0.08 down from 2009 | 276 | 17% | $3,950 | ||
3International Public Management JournalTaylor & Francis · United States | 3.84Q1 | 3.55 1.23 up from 2009 | 65 | 7% | — | ||
4Public Administration ReviewWiley · United States | 3.79Q1 | 1.74 0.09 up from 2009 | 507 | 6% | $4,250 | ||
5European Journal of Industrial RelationsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 3.63Q1 | 2.02 0.12 down from 2009 | 61 | 23% | $3,650 | ||
6Administration & SocietySAGE Publishing · United States | 3.55Q1 | 1.72 0.13 down from 2009 | 130 | 12% | $3,650 | ||
7The American Review of Public AdministrationSAGE Publishing · United States | 3.46Q1 | 1.65 0.30 up from 2009 | 109 | 18% | $3,900 | ||
8International Review of Administrative SciencesSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 3.33Q1 | 1.44 0.27 up from 2009 | 130 | 8% | $3,650 | ||
9Public Management ReviewTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.17Q1 | 2.13 0.09 up from 2009 | 118 | 7% | — | ||
10British Journal of Industrial RelationsWiley · United Kingdom | 2.96Q1 | 1.37 0.13 down from 2009 | 182 | 16% | $3,860 | ||
11Financial Accountability and ManagementWiley · United Kingdom | 2.65Q1 | 1.94 0.34 up from 2009 | 72 | 14% | $2,900 | ||
12Industrial Relations A Journal of Economy and SocietyWiley · United States | 2.53Q1 | 1.21 0.38 down from 2009 | 137 | 22% | $3,470 | ||
13Social WorkOxford University Press · United States | 2.31Q2 | 1.25 0.39 down from 2009 | 124 | 10% | — | ||
14Industrial Relations JournalWiley · United Kingdom | 2.17Q2 | 1.13 0.27 down from 2009 | 116 | 19% | $2,900 | ||
15International Journal of Public Sector ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.17Q2 | 1.25 0.08 up from 2009 | 150 | 11% | — | ||
16The British Journal of Social WorkOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.16Q2 | 1.77 0.40 up from 2009 | 245 | 11% | $4,492 | ||
17Public Money & ManagementTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.02Q2 | 1.06 0.05 up from 2009 | 171 | 4% | — | ||
18Journal of Social Work EducationTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.97Q2 | 1.23 0.19 up from 2009 | 102 | 6% | — | ||
19Economic and Industrial DemocracySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.62Q2 | 0.96 0.09 down from 2009 | 72 | 15% | $3,650 | ||
20Public Performance & Management ReviewTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.54Q2 | 0.87 0.03 down from 2009 | 97 | 3% | — | ||
21Asia Pacific Journal of Public AdministrationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.52Q2 | 0.36 0.09 up from 2009 | 37 | 9% | — | ||
22Social Work ResearchOxford University Press · United States | 1.48Q2 | 1.16 0.38 up from 2009 | 82 | 19% | — | ||
23Journal of Industrial RelationsSAGE Publishing · Australia | 1.44Q2 | 1.06 0.04 up from 2009 | 137 | 4% | $3,650 | ||
24Journal of Social WorkSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.35Q2 | 1.03 0.43 up from 2009 | 88 | 1% | $3,650 | ||
25Qualitative Social WorkSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.31Q3 | 0.73 0.07 down from 2009 | 90 | 6% | $3,650 | ||
26International Social WorkSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.26Q3 | 0.90 0.25 up from 2009 | 177 | 2% | $3,650 | ||
27Social Work EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.24Q3 | 1.13 0.37 up from 2009 | 243 | 6% | — | ||
28Administration in Social WorkHaworth Press · United States | 1.24Q3 | 0.85 0.15 down from 2009 | 86 | 9% | — | ||
29Journal of Teaching in Social WorkTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.12Q3 | 0.30 0.39 down from 2009 | 97 | 19% | — | ||
30Public Policy and AdministrationSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.09Q3 | 0.33 0.01 down from 2009 | 196 | 6% | $3,650 | ||
31Australian Social WorkTaylor & Francis · Australia | 1.08Q3 | 0.81 0.11 down from 2009 | 119 | 10% | — | ||
32PracticeTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.04Q3 | 0.72 0.04 up from 2009 | 58 | 3% | — | ||
33Canadian Public AdministrationWiley · United Kingdom | 1.03Q3 | 0.51 0.26 up from 2009 | 130 | 8% | $2,900 | ||
34Journal of Social Work PracticeTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.77Q3 | 0.71 0.04 down from 2009 | 94 | 4% | — | ||
35European Journal of Social WorkTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.75Q3 | 0.57 0.10 down from 2009 | 120 | 6% | — | ||
36Journal of Ethnic & Cultural Diversity in Social WorkTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.74Q3 | 0.69 0.48 up from 2009 | 60 | 21% | — | ||
37Labor Studies JournalSAGE Publishing · United States | 0.74Q4 | 0.74 0.39 up from 2009 | 121 | 2% | $3,400 | ||
38Journal of Progressive Human ServicesTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.57Q4 | 0.33 0.05 down from 2009 | 68 | 0% | — | ||
39China Journal of Social WorkTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.52Q4 | 0.28 0.32 down from 2009 | 40 | 7% | — | ||
40Comparative labor law & policy journalCambridge University Press · United States | 0.51Q4 | 0.20 0.10 up from 2009 | 73 | 0% | — | ||
41The Journal of Sociology & Social WelfareWestern Michigan University · United States | 0.49Q4 | 0.17no change | 390 | 58% | — | ||
42Social Work With GroupsTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.44Q4 | 0.39 0.44 down from 2009 | 82 | 15% | — | ||
43Smith College Studies in Social WorkTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.38Q4 | 0.30 0.19 up from 2009 | 64 | 3% | — | ||
44Journal of Public Budgeting Accounting & Financial ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 0.37Q4 | 0.19 0.04 up from 2009 | 76 | 0% | — | ||
45Advances in Social WorkOAIndiana University School of Social Work · United States | 0.36Q4 | 0.36 0.21 up from 2009 | 54 | 100% | — | ||
46Journal of Baccalaureate Social WorkUnited States | 0.33Q4 | 0.15 0.01 up from 2009 | 76 | 0% | — | ||
47The Journal of Practice Teaching in Health and Social WorkUnited Kingdom | 0.08Q4 | 0.08no change | 53 | 87% | — | ||
| 0.03Q4 | 0.01 0.01 up from 2009 | 100 | 0% | — |
Subfields of Social Sciences, with Public Administration highlighted.
- Sociology and Political Science960
- Education489
- Political Science and International Relations270
- Gender Studies55
- Communication52
- Public Administration48
- Safety Research41
- Health38
- Library and Information Sciences38
- Linguistics and Language38
- Law36
- Transportation35
- Anthropology34
- Urban Studies32
- Demography31
- Geography, Planning and Development18
- Cultural Studies9
- Development3
- General Social Sciences3
- Human Factors and Ergonomics1
- Archeology0
- Life-span and Life-course Studies0
Journals
Citations made in 2010. Corpus-wide, 73.2% 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 2007–2009, 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: 2010. Publication window: 2007–2009. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 48
- Window papers (baseline)
- 8,390 +11.1% from indicator year 2007
- Median OJR
- 1.3317 +43.5% from indicator year 2007
- Rising journals (2025)
- 6
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2007–2009 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.