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Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory

Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory is a journal indexed in SJR in Public Administration and Sociology and Political Science with an H index of 147. It has a price of 3000 €. It has an SJR impact factor of 3,454 and it has a best quartile of Q1. It is published in English. It has an SJR impact factor of 3,454.

ISSN: 1053-1858

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Category: Public Administration

Indexation: verifiedScopus / SJR verifiedWeb of Science

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SJR Impact Factor trending_up

3,454 Q1

H-index 147

Acceptance rate pie_chart

23% Selective

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Publication cost (APC) payments

3.000 € Open Access

Non-OA path 0 €

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SJR Impact

3,454

H-index

147

Docs (year)

Docs 3y

142

Total refs

3581

Cites 3y

1296

Citable 3y

142

Cites/Doc 2y

7.17

Ref/Doc

87.34

Immediate OA

3000 €

Embargoed OA

NPD

Non OA / Submission

0 €

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Best articles by citations

Bureaucratic Politics: The View from Below

Wrestling with Intellectual Diversity in Public Administration: Avoiding Disconnectedness and Fragmentation while Seeking Rigor, Depth, and Relevance

Does Democracy Matter? A Transatlantic Research Design on Democratic Performance and Special Purpose Governments

Does Changing the Rules Really Matter? Assessing Procedural Justice Perceptions under Civil Service Reform

Dispersed vs. Centralized Policy Governance: The Case of State Early Care and Education Policy

Crossing the Divide: Building Bridges between Public Administration Practitioners and Scholars

Corrigendum: Public Capacity, Plural Forms of Collaboration, and the Performance of Public Initiatives: A Configurational Approach

Coping During Public Service Delivery: A Conceptualization and Systematic Review of the Literature

Complex Contracting: Why Success is So Hard To Come By

Comparing Public and Private Sector Decision-Making Practices

Civil Servants and Their Constitutions. John Rohr. 2002. Civil Servants and Their Constitutions. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas. 208 pp

Citizen-Based Brand Equity: A Model and Experimental Evaluation

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Bureaucratic Politics Arising From, Not Defined by, a Principal-Agency Dyad

Bounded Rationality and Political Science: Lessons from Public Administration and Public Policy

Assessing the Tools of Agency Control in Rulemaking: Bending the Rules

Are Federal Trust Fund Locked Boxes a Lock? Erik M. Patashnik. 2000. Putting Trust in the U.S. Budget: Federal Trust Funds and the Politics of Commitment. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 280 pp

Adaptive Incrementalism and Complexity: Experiments with Two-Person Cooperative Signaling Games

A Question of Genesis: An Analysis of the Determinants of Public Authorities

A New Era for the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory

A Little Less Conversation, a Little More Action: Using Empirical Research to Promote Social Equity

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"Shielding"" the Knowledge Transfer Process in Human Service Research"

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Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory has an SJR of 3,454 (best quartile Q1) in the CountryOfPapers database.

Immediate OA APC is 3000 EUR. Non-OA / submission fee is 0 EUR.

The acceptance rate recorded for Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory is 23%.

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