Commonwealth Journal of Local Governance
Last updated ISSN 1836-0394
Commonwealth Journal of Local Governance is published by UTS ePRESS in social sciences. It is open access. Its article processing charge is not published.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Commonwealth Journal of Local Governance concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Local Government Finance and Decentralization
- Public Policy and Administration Research
- Community Development and Social Impact
- Urban and Rural Development Challenges
- Legal Issues in South Africa
- Local Economic Development and Planning
- Political Systems and Governance
- Public-Private Partnership Projects
- Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
- Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth
Key facts
| Publisher | UTS ePRESS |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 1836-0394 |
| Subject area | Social Sciences |
| Access | Open access |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | DOAJ |
| Articles published | 341 |
| Publishing since | 1970 |
| Journal website | epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/cjlg |
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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