Public Administration Quarterly
Last updated ISSN 0734-9149
Public Administration Quarterly is published by SPAEF in social sciences. It is a subscription journal. The article processing charge is $3,400.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Public Administration Quarterly concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Public Policy and Administration Research
- Local Government Finance and Decentralization
- Educational Systems and Policies
- Legal and Regulatory Analysis
- Linguistic, Cultural, and Literary Studies
- Military Technology and Strategies
- Accounting and Organizational Management
- E-Government and Public Services
- Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering
- Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth
Key facts
| Publisher | SPAEF |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0734-9149, 2327-4433 |
| Subject area | Social Sciences |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $3,400 |
| Indexed in | Scopus |
| Articles published | 1,238 |
| Publishing since | 1984 |
| Journal website | www.spaef.com/paq.php |
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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