Administration & Society
Last updated ISSN 0095-3997
Administration & Society is published by SAGE Publishing in social sciences. It is a subscription journal. The article processing charge is $3,650.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Administration & Society concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Public Policy and Administration Research
- Management and Organizational Studies
- Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering
- Regulation and Compliance Studies
- Local Government Finance and Decentralization
- E-Government and Public Services
- Policy Transfer and Learning
- Political Influence and Corporate Strategies
- Accounting and Organizational Management
- Social Policy and Reform Studies
Key facts
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0095-3997, 1552-3039 |
| Subject area | Social Sciences |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $3,650 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Social Sciences Citation Index · Scopus |
| Articles published | 1,947 |
| Publishing since | 1974 |
| Journal website | aas.sagepub.com/ |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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