Public Administration journals in Scopus

Scopus journals in the Public Administration category, ranked by their quartile in this category.

Scopus subject areas › Social Sciences › Public Administration

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245 journals · page 2 of 5 · list date 2026-11-10

JournalWeb of ScienceJCRCategory QDOAJ
Q1Publius: The Journal of Federalism
United Kingdom · OXFORD UNIV PRESS · ISSN 0048-5950, 1747-7107
SSCIQ1Q1—
Q1Regulation and Governance
United Kingdom · WILEY · ISSN 1748-5983, 1748-5991
SSCIQ1Q1—
Q1Research and Politics
United Kingdom · SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC · ISSN 2053-1680
SSCIQ1Q1Yes
Q1Review of Policy Research
United Kingdom · WILEY · ISSN 1541-132X, 1541-1338
SSCIQ1Q1—
Q1Review of Public Personnel Administration
United States · SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC · ISSN 0734-371X, 1552-759X
SSCIQ2Q1—
Q1Science and Public Policy
United Kingdom · OXFORD UNIV PRESS · ISSN 0302-3427, 1471-5430
SSCIQ2Q1—
Q1Social Policy and Administration
United Kingdom · WILEY · ISSN 0144-5596, 1467-9515
SSCIQ1Q1—
Q1Urban Governance
Netherlands · Elsevier B.V. · ISSN 2664-3286
——Q1Yes
Q1Voluntas
United States · CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS · ISSN 0957-8765, 1573-7888
SSCIQ2Q1—
Q1Yale Journal on Regulation
United States · YALE JOURNAL ON REGULATION · ISSN 0741-9457, 2376-5925
SSCIQ1Q1—
Q2AHURI Final Report
Australia · Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute · ISSN 1834-7223
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Q2Area Development and Policy
United Kingdom · ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD · ISSN 2379-2949, 2379-2957
ESCIQ2Q2—
Q2Australian Journal of Public Administration
United Kingdom · WILEY · ISSN 0313-6647, 1467-8500
SSCIQ2Q2—
Q2Bestuur
Indonesia · Sebelas Maret University Faculty of Law · ISSN 2302-3783, 2722-4708
——Q2Yes
Q2Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences
China · Science Press · ISSN 1000-3045
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Q2Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences
United States · WILEY · ISSN 0825-0383, 1936-4490
SSCIQ4Q2—
Q2Canadian Public Administration
United States · WILEY · ISSN 0008-4840, 1754-7121
SSCIQ3Q2—
Q2Canadian Public Policy
Canada · UNIV TORONTO PRESS INC · ISSN 0317-0861
SSCIQ3Q2—
Q2Chinese Public Administration Review
United Kingdom · SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC · ISSN 1539-6754, 2573-1483
ESCIQ3Q2—
Q2Data and Policy
United Kingdom · CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS · ISSN 2632-3249
ESCIQ2Q2Yes
Q2Digital Government: Research and Practice
United States · Association for Computing Machinery · ISSN 2639-0175
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Q2Education Inquiry
United Kingdom · TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD · ISSN 2000-4508
ESCIQ2Q2Yes
Q2Environmental Economics
Ukraine · LLC CPC BUSINESS PERSPECTIVES · ISSN 1998-6041, 1998-605X
ESCIQ2Q2Yes
Q2European Journal of Social Security
United Kingdom · SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD · ISSN 1388-2627, 2399-2948
ESCIQ2Q2—
Q2Frontiers in Political Science
Switzerland · FRONTIERS MEDIA SA · ISSN 2673-3145
ESCIQ2Q2Yes
Q2Globalizations
United Kingdom · ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD · ISSN 1474-7731, 1474-774X
SSCIQ1Q2—
Q2Global Public Policy and Governance
China · SPRINGERNATURE · ISSN 2730-6291, 2730-6305
ESCIQ2Q2—
Q2Human Service Organizations Management, Leadership and Governance
United Kingdom · ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD · ISSN 2330-3131, 2330-314X
SSCIQ2Q2—
Q2IAFOR Journal of Education
Japan · INT ACAD FORUM-IAFOR · ISSN 2187-0594
ESCIQ3Q2Yes
Q2Information Polity
United Kingdom · SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC · ISSN 1570-1255, 1875-8754
ESCIQ2Q2—
Q2International Journal of Organization Theory and Behavior
United Kingdom · EMERALD GROUP PUBLISHING LTD · ISSN 1093-4537, 1532-4273
ESCIQ3Q2—
Q2International Journal of Public Administration
United Kingdom · ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD · ISSN 0190-0692, 1532-4265
ESCIQ2Q2—
Q2International Journal of Public Sector Management
United Kingdom · EMERALD GROUP PUBLISHING LTD · ISSN 0951-3558, 1758-6666
ESCIQ2Q2—
Q2International Review of Public Administration
United Kingdom · Taylor and Francis Ltd. · ISSN 1229-4659, 2331-7795
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Q2International Social Security Review
United Kingdom · WILEY · ISSN 0020-871X, 1468-246X
ESCIQ4Q2—
Q2Journal of Asian Public Policy
United Kingdom · ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD · ISSN 1751-6234, 1751-6242
SSCIQ1Q2—
Q2Journal of Community Practice
United States · ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD · ISSN 1070-5422, 1543-3706
ESCIQ2Q2—
Q2Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice
United States · ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD · ISSN 1387-6988, 1572-5448
SSCIQ1Q2—
Q2Journal of Data and Information Science
Poland · PARADIGM PUBLISHING SERVICES-DE GRUYTER BRILL SP ZOO · ISSN 2096-157X, 2543-683X
ESCIQ2Q2Yes
Q2Journal of Education and Work
United Kingdom · ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD · ISSN 1363-9080, 1469-9435
ESCIQ2Q2—
Q2Journal of Human Rights, Culture and Legal System
Indonesia · Lembaga Contrarius Indonesia · ISSN 2807-2812, 2807-2979
——Q2—
Q2Journal of Library Administration
United States · ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD · ISSN 0193-0826, 1540-3564
ESCIQ3Q2—
Q2Journal of Money Laundering Control
United Kingdom · EMERALD GROUP PUBLISHING LTD · ISSN 1368-5201, 1758-7808
ESCIQ3Q2—
Q2Journal of Policy Studies
South Korea · Seoul National University - Graduate School of Public Administration · ISSN 2799-9130, 2800-0714
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Q2Journal of Poverty and Social Justice
United Kingdom · POLICY PRESS · ISSN 1759-8273, 1759-8281
SSCIQ2Q2—
Q2Journal of Public Affairs
United States · WILEY · ISSN 1472-3891, 1479-1854
ESCIQ3Q2—
Q2Journal of Public Affairs Education
United States · SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC · ISSN 1523-6803, 2328-9643
ESCIQ2Q2—
Q2Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice
United Kingdom · BRISTOL UNIV PRESS & POLICY PRESS · ISSN 2515-6918, 2515-6926
ESCIQ2Q2—
Q2Journal of Public Procurement
United Kingdom · EMERALD GROUP PUBLISHING LTD · ISSN 1535-0118, 2150-6930
ESCIQ2Q2—
Q2Journal of Race Ethnicity and the City
United States · Routledge · ISSN 2688-4674, 2688-4682
——Q2—

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