American Review of Public Administration

Top Research Topics at The American Review of Public Administration?

The journal mainly tackles studies in Public administration, Public relations, Government, Politics and State (polity). The Public administration works featured in The American Review of Public Administration incorporate elements from Administration (government), Corporate governance, Bureaucracy and Public policy. Public service is the primary subject of Public relations works presented in The American Review of Public Administration.

• Public administration (42.87%)
• Public relations (31.16%)
• Government (16.90%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

• Public Value Management: A New Narrative for Networked Governance? (790 citations)
• PUBLIC DELIBERATION IN AN AGE OF DIRECT CITIZEN PARTICIPATION (506 citations)
• Reward Preferences among Public and Private Managers: In Search of the Service Ethic (474 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at The American Review of Public Administration:

The published papers primarily focus on research topics in Public relations, Public administration, Government, Public sector and Corporate governance. The study of Public relations in the most cited publications encompasses disciplines such as Public service motivation, as well as fields such as Work motivation, all of which overlap with one another. While the most cited publications focused on Public administration, they were also able to explore topics like Bureaucracy, Politics, Accountability and New public management.

What topics the last edition of the journal is best known for?

• Law
• World War II
• Social science

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The American Review of Public Administration aims to foster the development of research in Public administration, Public relations, Government, Law and State (polity). Public administration research presented is mostly focused on the subject of Public value. The journal served as a forum through which researchers explored different topics like Public relations and Perspective (graphical).

Government research featured in the journal incorporates concerns from various other topics such as Administrative law, Democratic legitimacy, Expectancy theory, Key (cryptography) and Process management. Aside from investigating topics in Unitary state, Adjudication, Grading (education) and Charter under Law, the journal also explores concepts in Deep state. Some problems in State (polity) that were presented in the journal overlapped with concepts under Public economics, Pension and Accountability.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

• Can Technology Work for Policing? Citizen Perceptions of Police-Body Worn Cameras: (5 citations)
• Regionalism With and Without Metropolitanism: Governance Structures of Rural and Non-Rural Regional Intergovernmental Organizations (4 citations)
• The Role of Interorganizational Competition in Motivating Street-Level Bureaucrats to Adopt Policy Entrepreneurship Strategies: The Case of Israeli Rabbis in Government Hospitals: (3 citations)

Papers citation over time

A key indicator for each journal is its effectiveness in reaching other researchers with the papers published at that venue.

The chart below presents the interquartile range (first quartile 25%, median 50% and third quartile 75%) of the number of citations of articles over time.

Top authors and change over time

The top authors publishing in The American Review of Public Administration (based on the number of publications) are:

• David H. Rosenbloom (15 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
• Gregory B. Lewis (11 papers) absent at the last edition,
• Jeffrey L. Brudney (10 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
• Kenneth J. Meier (10 papers) absent at the last edition,
• Richard C. Feiock (10 papers) absent at the last edition.

The overall trend for top authors publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top authors.

Top affiliations and change over time

Only papers with recognized affiliations are considered

The top affiliations publishing in The American Review of Public Administration (based on the number of publications) are:

• Florida State University (38 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition, 2 less than at the previous edition,
• University of Georgia (38 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
• Indiana University (37 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
• Rutgers University (34 papers) absent at the last edition,
• Georgia State University (31 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition.

The overall trend for top affiliations publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top affiliations.

Publication chance based on affiliation

The publication chance index shows the ratio of articles published by the best research institutions in the journal edition to all articles published within that journal. The best research institutions were selected based on the largest number of articles published during all editions of the journal.

The chart below presents the percentage ratio of articles from top institutions (based on their ranking of total papers).Top affiliations were grouped by their rank into the following tiers: top 1-10, top 11-20, top 21-50, and top 51+. Only articles with a recognized affiliation are considered.

During the most recent 2021 edition, 3.92% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 32.65% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 4.08% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 22.45% of all publications and 40.82% were from other institutions.

Returning Authors Index

A very common phenomenon observed among researchers publishing scientific articles is the intentional selection of journals they have already attended in the past. In particular, it is worth analyzing the case when the authors participate in the same journal from year to year.

The Returning Authors Index presented below illustrates the ratio of authors who participated in both a given as well as the previous edition of the journal in relation to all participants in a given year.

Returning Institution Index

The graph below shows the Returning Institution Index, illustrating the ratio of institutions that participated in both a given and the previous edition of the conference in relation to all affiliations present in a given year.

The experience to innovation index

Our experience to innovation index was created to show a cross-section of the experience level of authors publishing in a journal. The index includes the authors publishing at the last edition of a journal, grouped by total number of publications throughout their academic career (P) and the total number of citations of these publications ever received (C).

The group intervals were selected empirically to best show the diversity of the authors' experiences, their labels were selected as a convenience, not as judgment. The authors were divided into the following groups:

• Novice - P < 5 or C < 25 (the number of publications less than 5 or the number of citations less than 25),
• Competent - P < 10 or C < 100 (the number of publications less than 10 or the number of citations less than 100),
• Experienced - P < 25 or C < 625 (the number of publications less than 25 or the number of citations less than 625),
• Master - P < 50 or C < 2500 (the number of publications less than 50 or the number of citations less than 2500),
• Star - P ≥ 50 and C ≥ 2500 (both the number of publications greater than 50 and the number of citations greater than 2500).

The chart below illustrates experience levels of first authors in cases of publications with multiple authors.