Public Administration and Development

This article is about the journal. For the discipline, see Public administration.

Public Administration and Development is a peer-reviewed academic journal which covers practice of public administration at the local, regional, national and international levels where it is directed to managing development processes in low and medium income countries.^[1] In 2021, the journal was ranked as a Grade 2 journal in the field of public administration.^[2] The journal is published by Wiley (publisher) and is edited by Mariana Chudnovsky, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile and Ian C. Elliott (University of Glasgow).

Public Administration and Development

Discipline	Public administration
Language	English
Edited by	Mariana Chudnovsky and Ian C. Elliott
Publication details
Former name(s)	Journal of African Administration (1949–1961); Journal of Local Administration Overseas (1962–1966); Journal of Administration Overseas (1966–1980)
History	1949–present
Publisher	Wiley-Blackwell
Frequency	5 per year
Open access	Hybrid
Impact factor	2.6 (2023)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Public Adm. Dev.
Indexing CODEN (alt) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L
ISSN	1099-162X
Links
Journal homepage Online access Online archive

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2023 impact factor of 2.6, ranking it 18th out of 63 journals in the category "Development Studies" and 28th out of 91 journals in the category "Public Administration".^[3]

Editors-in-chief

The following persons have been editors-in-chief:

• 2025-Present: Mariana Chudnovsky, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile and Ian C. Elliott, University of Glasgow
• 2023-2025: Ian C. Elliott, Northumbria University and Alfred Wu, National University of Singapore
• 2010-2022: Jose A. Puppim de Oliveira, Fundação Getulio Vargas
• 1993-2010: Paul D. Collins, Royal Institute of Public Administration
• 1984-1992: Brian C. Smith, University of Bath
• 1981-1984: David J. Murray, Professor of Government, Open University
• 1966–1980: Peter Johnston, Administrative Officer, Development Planning Unit, School of Environmental Studies, University of London
• 1964-1965: D. A. Pott, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Local Government, Northern Nigeria
• 1961-1963: B. V. Davies, Administrative Officer, Fiji
• 1960-1961: P. R. Forsyth Thompson, Administrative Officer, Swaziland
• 1957-1959: Ian Eldridge, Northern Rhodesia
• 1955-1956: John Chant, District Officer, Tanganyika Territory
• 1953-1955: Gilbert Stephenson, Northern Nigeria
• 1949-1952: Sir George Cartland, University of Tasmania

Abstracting and indexing

Public Administration and Development is indexed in:

• Social Sciences Citation Index^[4]
• Scopus^[5]
• Inspec
• InfoTrac
• GEOBASE
• ABI/INFORM Collection

See also

• List of political science journals
• List of public administration journals