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Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory
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Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory

1053-1858

Published by: Oxford University Press

https://academic.oup.com/jpart

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Political Science 41 31 40 17
Business and Management 501 5 8 6

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 47
Documents by Best Scientists*: 55
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 3
SCIMAGO H-index: 147
SCIMAGO SJR: 3.454
Impact Factor: 6.3

Overview

Top Research Topics at Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory?

The scientific interests tackled in Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory are Public administration, Public relations, Government, Bureaucracy and Politics. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory holds forums on Public administration that merges themes from other disciplines such as State (polity), Corporate governance and Agency (sociology). The main emphasis of the journal is the subject of Public relations, focusing on Public service.

The majority of Public sector studies are focused on the issues of New public management.

  • Public administration (31.83%)
  • Public relations (26.30%)
  • Government (15.34%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Collaborative governance in theory and practice (2844 citations)
  • Modes of Network Governance: Structure, Management, and Effectiveness (2066 citations)
  • New public management is dead. Long live digital-era governance (1232 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory:

The most cited articles are organized to reinforce research efforts on Public relations, Public administration, Public sector, Government and Social psychology. The most cited papers tackle studies in Agency (sociology) and the interrelated subject of Law to gain insights into Public relations. While work presented in the most cited papers provide substantial information on Public administration, it also covers topics in Corporate governance, Bureaucracy, Politics and New public management.

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

  • Law
  • Social science
  • Management

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The primary areas of discussion in Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory are Government, Public administration, Public relations, Bureaucracy and Social psychology. The concepts on Government presented in the journal can also apply to other research fields, including Public economics and Revenue. The Public administration works featured in it incorporate elements from Politics and Agency (sociology).

Ideology is a key component of Politics research discussed in Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory. Most of the Public relations studies addressed also intersect with Public sector. Most of the works presented in the journal deals with Social psychology but it intersects with the subject of Public service motivation.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Who Is in Charge? The Provision of Informal Personal Resources at the Street Level (13 citations)
  • Management, Organizational Performance, and Task Clarity: Evidence from Ghana’s Civil Service (8 citations)
  • Administrative Capital and Citizens’ Responses to Administrative Burden (5 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.

The top authors publishing in Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Kenneth J. Meier (28 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Laurence J. O'Toole (21 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Donald P. Moynihan (19 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
  • Richard M. Walker (17 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • George Alexander Boyne (16 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.

Only papers with recognized affiliations are considered

The top affiliations publishing in Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory (based on the number of publications) are:

  • University of Georgia (96 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • Aarhus University (54 papers) published 11 papers at the last edition, 6 more than at the previous edition,
  • Texas A&M University (47 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Syracuse University (42 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition,
  • University of Kansas (42 papers) published 1 paper 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, 2.53% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 28.57% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 10.39% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 22.08% of all publications and 38.96% 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.

Top Publications

  • Racialized Burdens: Applying Racialized Organization Theory to the Administrative State

    (2022)
    111 Citations
  • Why Do Policymakers Support Administrative Burdens? The Roles of Deservingness, Political Ideology, and Personal Experience

    Martin Bækgaard;Donald P. Moynihan;Mette Kjærgaard Thomsen

    (2021)
    76 Citations
  • Reducing Compliance Demands in Government Benefit Programs Improves the Psychological Well-Being of Target Group Members

    Martin Baekgaard;Kim Sass Mikkelsen;Jonas Krogh Madsen;Julian Christensen

    (2021)
    53 Citations
  • The Psychological Costs of Citizen Coproduction

    Mette Kjærgaard Thomsen;Martin Baekgaard;Ulrich Thy Jensen

    (2020)
    47 Citations
  • The Political Psychology of Citizen Satisfaction: Does Functional Responsibility Matter?

    Sebastian Jilke;Martin Baekgaard

    (2020)
    42 Citations
  • It Depends on What You Share: The Elusive Cost Savings from Service Sharing

    Austin M Aldag;Mildred E Warner;Germà Bel

    (2020)
    41 Citations
  • Administrative Burden in Citizen–State Interactions: A Systematic Literature Review

    (2023)
    39 Citations
  • Institutional Mechanisms for Local Sustainability Collaboration: Assessing the Duality of Formal and Informal Mechanisms in Promoting Collaborative Processes

    Angela Y S Park;Rachel M Krause;Christopher V Hawkins

    (2021)
    28 Citations

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