Policy and Politics

Top Research Topics at Policy and Politics?

Policy and Politics investigates areas of study like Public administration, Politics, Public relations, Economic growth and Political economy. Some problems in Public administration that were presented in it overlapped with concepts under Government, Corporate governance and Policy studies, Public policy.

• Public administration (32.31%)
• Politics (14.34%)
• Public relations (12.01%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

• The politics of the new social policies: providing coverage against new social risks in mature welfare states (420 citations)
• Who should get what, and why? On deservingness criteria and the conditionality of solidarity among the public (384 citations)
• Developments in intergovernmental relations: towards multi-level governance (248 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Policy and Politics:

The most cited publications explore disciplines such as Public administration, Politics, Public relations, Corporate governance and Economic growth. The most cited papers focus on Public administration but sometimes tackle the closely related disciplines such as

• Government that connect with fields like Local government,
• Public policy together with Public economics.. In addition to Politics research, the most cited articles aim to explore topics under Social policy and Political economy.

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

• Law
• Politics
• Social science

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

Public administration, Public policy, Co-creation, Public value and Corporate governance are the subjects of interest in Policy and Politics. It explores topics in Public administration which can be helpful for research in disciplines like Discretion, Opposition (politics), Asylum seeker, Civil servants and Process (engineering). While work presented in Policy and Politics provided substantial information on Public policy, it also covered topics in Psychological intervention, Public relations, Behavioural sciences, Disability insurance and Life course approach.

The presented research on Co-creation deals specifically with Public management but it also addresses topics in Key (cryptography), Process management and Production (economics). The studies in Public value featured incorporate elements of Public sector, Strategic management, Knowledge management and Industrial organization. Collaborative governance is a major topic of Corporate governance research presented in Policy and Politics.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

• Beyond nudge : advancing the state-of-the-art of behavioural public policy and administration (6 citations)
• Who are behavioural public policy experts and how are they organised globally (4 citations)
• Advancing behavioural public policies: in pursuit of a more comprehensive concept (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 Policy and Politics (based on the number of publications) are:

• Stephen James Martin (11 papers) absent at the last edition,
• Peter John (9 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
• Ewan Ferlie (8 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition,
• James Daniel Downe (8 papers) absent at the last edition,
• Bleddyn P. Davies (8 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 Policy and Politics (based on the number of publications) are:

• University of Bristol (13 papers) absent at the last edition,
• National Center for Public Policy Research (12 papers) absent at the last edition,
• Cardiff University (9 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
• Universidad Iberoamericana (UNIBE) (5 papers) absent at the last edition,
• University of Edinburgh (5 papers) absent 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, 3.57% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 22.22% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 22.22% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 25.93% of all publications and 29.63% 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.