Bibliometric Study of Journals in Public Administration

Sažetak

The significant advance of public administration as a stand-alone discipline
with interdisciplinary approach has led to a proliferation of journals catering
to the field of public administration. The remarkable growth of the field elicits
the need for bibliometric analysis in order to gauge the impact and influence of
the journals. There are several popular metrics for measuring the impact of the
journals, the impact factor and H-index being the most popular. This paper
offers a bibliometric analysis incorporating a wide range of citation metrics to
provide readers with a comprehensive view of the top 100 journals, along with
an in-depth analysis of the top three journals among them. Therefore, the goal
of the paper is to help researchers make informed decisions when opting for a
journal to publish their work. First, the paper provides a brief overview of public
administration as a field of study, its evolution and recent advancements. The
paper then moves to explain citation metrics and the key aspects pertaining to it.
The next part which also forms the core of the paper offers a tabular presentation
and analysis of the top 100 journals with a range of citation metrics such as
impact factor, H-index, SJR, etc. and key social and thematic aspects of the top
three among them. The analysis shows that Administrative Science Quarterly is
the still the topmost journal with an impact factor of 10.1 and demonstrates the
dominance of co-authorship over single authorship across all the journals in the
field.