Public Policy And Administration

ISSN 1648-2603 · Mykolas Romeris University · Lithuania · active 1970–2026

Metrics

Best Scimago quartile (2025)
Q3
Cites per paper (2y)
0.4
SJR
0.183
h-index
16

“Cites per paper” is a two-year cited-by rate computed from OpenAlex. It is not a Clarivate Journal Impact Factor — we neither compute nor license that metric (how the two differ). Citation rates differ enormously between fields, so compare within a discipline. What the other figures mean: journal quartile, SJR, h-index and article processing charge.

Data as of 18 October 2026 (venue index build).

Scimago Journal Rank 2025

In the Scimago Journal Rank 2025 edition, Public Policy And Administration is Q3 in 2 of its 3 subject categories and Q4 in the other 1. Its best category quartile is Q3.

Scimago 2025 quartile and rank of Public Policy And Administration in each subject category
Subject categoryQuartileRank in category
Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous)Q3#379 of 519
Sociology and Political ScienceQ3#1,008 of 1,477
Public AdministrationQ4#198 of 239
Cites per document (2 years, Scopus)
0.72
Documents indexed in 2025 (Scopus)
48

OpenAlex counts about 0.4 citations per paper over two years; Scopus, through Scimago, counts 0.72 per document. The two databases index different journals, documents and citations, so the figures differ. Neither is a Clarivate Journal Impact Factor.

The quartile is the one Scimago prints for each category. Rank is the journal's position by SJR among the journals Scimago lists in that category (#1 is the highest); “—” means we hold no rank consistent with that quartile. The document count is what Scopus indexed that year, which can be lower than a journal's full output. Source: SCImago Journal Rank 2025 edition, from Scopus data (scimagojr.com, CC BY-NC).

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Indexing & access

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Access status:
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Scope

socio-economicdevelopmentsustainabilityeconomicseconometricspublicpolicyadministrationeducationleadershiphealtheconomic

Frequently asked

Is Public Policy And Administration a predatory journal?

Our screening does not flag Public Policy And Administration. That is not a guarantee of quality — it means the venue is not on Beall's archive (frozen since 2017) and does not match our name-pattern heuristic. It is listed in Scopus, which is a positive signal.

Is Public Policy And Administration indexed in Scopus or Web of Science?

Per our venue index, Public Policy And Administration appears in: Scopus. Index membership changes over time — confirm on the index's own site before relying on it.

What is the impact factor of Public Policy And Administration?

Papers in Public Policy And Administration are cited about 0.4 times each within two years of publication, and Scimago places it in Q3, with an h-index of 16. Those are the open equivalents: the Clarivate Journal Impact Factor is a proprietary metric we neither compute nor license, so we show the two-year citation rate and Scimago quartile instead — they answer the same question of how heavily the journal is cited. A citation rate is a property of a field as much as of a journal.

What Scimago quartile is Public Policy And Administration (Q1, Q2, Q3, or Q4)?

In the Scimago Journal Rank 2025 edition, Public Policy And Administration is Q3 in 2 of its 3 subject categories and Q4 in the other 1. By category: Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous): Q3, #379 of 519; Sociology and Political Science: Q3, #1,008 of 1,477; Public Administration: Q4, #198 of 239. Its best category quartile is Q3. Quartiles split the journals in a subject category into four equal groups by SJR, so Q1 is the most-cited quarter and Q4 the least; Public Policy And Administration is cited about 0.4 times per paper over two years, with an h-index of 16.

What is the Web of Science (JCR) quartile of Public Policy And Administration?

The Web of Science quartile comes from Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports (JCR), a proprietary product we neither license nor compute — so we cannot state a JCR quartile for Public Policy And Administration. The open equivalent is its best Scimago quartile, Q3 in Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous) and 1 other category, derived from Scopus citation data. Because JCR ranks against Web of Science and Scimago against Scopus, the two can differ, so check Clarivate's site directly if you need the JCR quartile specifically.

Is Public Policy And Administration open access?

Our index records its access status as "gold". Where this is derived from publisher-level signals rather than works-level data it is a heuristic, so confirm on the journal's own site — particularly if an article processing charge matters to you.

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