Public Administration and Development

This article is about the journal. For the discipline, see Public administration.

Public Administration and Development

Discipline	Public administration
Language	English
Edited by	Ian C. Elliott and Alfred Wu
Publication details
Former name(s)	Journal of African Administration (1949–1961); Journal of Local Administration Overseas (1962–1966); Journal of Administration Overseas (1966–1980)
History	1949–present
Publisher	Wiley-Blackwell
Frequency	5 per year
Open access	Hybrid
Impact factor	2.5 (2022)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Public Adm. Dev.
Indexing CODEN (alt) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus
ISSN	1099-162X
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Public Administration and Development is a peer-reviewed academic journal which covers practice of public administration at the local, regional, national and international levels where it is directed to managing development processes in low and medium income countries.[1] In 2021, the journal was ranked as a Grade 2 journal in the field of public administration.[2] The journal is published by Wiley (publisher) and is edited by Ian C. Elliott (Northumbria University) and Alfred Wu (National University of Singapore).

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2022 impact factor of 2.5, ranking it 21st out of 42 journals in the category "Development Studies" and 29th out of 49 journals in the category "Public Administration".[3]

Editors-in-chief

The following persons have been editors-in-chief:

• 2023-Present: Ian C. Elliott, Northumbria University and Alfred Wu, National University of Singapore
• 2010-2022: Jose A. Puppim de Oliveira, Fundação Getulio Vargas
• 1993-2010: Paul D. Collins, Royal Institute of Public Administration
• 1984-1992: Brian C. Smith, University of Bath
• 1981-1984: David J. Murray, Professor of Government, Open University
• 1966–1980: Peter Johnston, Administrative Officer, Development Planning Unit, School of Environmental Studies, University of London
• 1964-1965: D. A. Pott, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Local Government, Northern Nigeria
• 1961-1963: B. V. Davies, Administrative Officer, Fiji
• 1960-1961: P. R. Forsyth Thompson, Administrative Officer, Swaziland
• 1957-1959: Ian Eldridge, Northern Rhodesia
• 1955-1956: John Chant, District Officer, Tanganyika Territory
• 1953-1955: Gilbert Stephenson, Northern Nigeria
• 1949-1952: Sir George Cartland, University of Tasmania

Abstracting and indexing

Public Administration and Development is indexed in:

• Social Sciences Citation Index[4]
• Scopus[5]
• Inspec
• InfoTrac
• GEOBASE
• ABI/INFORM Collection

See also

• List of political science journals
• List of public administration journals

References

1. "Elliott, I.C. and Wu, A.M. (2023), New developments at Public Administration and Development. Public Administration and Development, 43: 95-96", Public Administration and Development, April 2023, doi:10.1002/pad.2013, S2CID 258422187, retrieved 10 November 2023
2. Academic Journal Guide 2021. Chartered Association of Business Schools. 2021.
3. "Journals Ranked by Impact: Development Studies and Public Administration". 2022 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Social Sciences ed.). Clarivate Analytics. 2023.
4. "Master Journal List". Intellectual Property & Science. Clarivate Analytics. Retrieved 2020-10-17.
5. "Source details: Public Administration and Development". Scopus Preview. Wiley. Retrieved 2023-01-07.

External links

• Official website