Public Administration (journal)

Public Administration is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal which covers research, theory, and practice in public administration, public policy, public organization theory, and public management. It was established in 1923 and was ranked in the top of its field by a 1983 survey. One of its founders was the Liberal and later Labour statesman Richard Haldane (1st Viscount of Haldane), and the journal awards an annual prize in his honour to the most distinguished practitioner essay published in Public Administration in that year. The journal is published by Wiley-Blackwell and is edited by Arjen Boin. From 1983-2011, the journal was edited by R. A. W. Rhodes.Public Administration is indexed by Scopus and the Social Sciences Citation Index. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2015 impact factor of 1.922, ranking it 23rd out of 163 journals in the category "Political Science" and 8th out of 47 journals in the category "Public Administration".