Policy Studies Journal
Last updated ISSN 0190-292X
Policy Studies Journal is published by Wiley in social sciences. It is a subscription journal. The article processing charge is $4,050.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Policy Studies Journal concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Public Policy and Administration Research
- Policy Transfer and Learning
- Local Government Finance and Decentralization
- Electoral Systems and Political Participation
- Political Influence and Corporate Strategies
- Social Policy and Reform Studies
- Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Evaluation and Performance Assessment
- Political Systems and Governance
Key facts
| Publisher | Wiley |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0190-292X, 1541-0072 |
| Subject area | Social Sciences |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $4,050 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Social Sciences Citation Index · Scopus |
| Articles published | 3,599 |
| Publishing since | 1972 |
| Journal website | onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1541-0 |
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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