Public Administration and Policy Impact factor 2025

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The latest impact factor of Public Administration and Policy and all the other Web of Science journals was released on 20th June 2025 by Clarivate. Through this web page, researchers can check the impact factor, total citation, journal quartile, and journal aim & scope.

Public Administration and Policy: Aim & Scope

Public Administration and Policy is a Web of Science indexed journal tha publishes research in the area: Geography, Planning and Development (Q2); Sociology and Political Science (Q2); Health (social science) (Q3); Public Administration (Q3).
The ISSN of this journal is 2517679X, 17272645.

Impact factor of Public Administration and Policy

Journal Title	Public Administration and Policy
Impact Factor
SJR	0.355
ISSN	2517679X, 17272645
Quartile	Q2

The Journal Impact Factor is defined as citations to the journal in the JCR year to items published in the previous two years, divided by the total number of scholarly items, also known as citable items, (these comprise articles and reviews) published in the journal in the previous two years.

Impact factor data has a strong influence on the scientific community, affecting decisions on where to publish, whom to promote or hire, the success of grant applications, and even salary bonuses.

Only journals listed in the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) and Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) receive an Impact Factor.

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