An Assessment of Public Administration Journals: The Perspective of Editors and Editorial Board Members

Reflections on AJPA and Other Public Administration Journals

“…Subsequent exercises have included an attempt to compare six purely American journals by focusing on the purpose of their published research and the research designs and statistical techniques used (Houston and Delevan 1990), and another prestige-style survey, extending to non-US as well as US journals, asking editors and editorial board members to identify and rank the top 10 journals in each of several related fields: public administration, public policy, public budgeting and finance, public personnel administration and public organization studies (Forrester and Watson 1994).…”

Epistemic Community or Tower of Babel? Theoretical Diffusion in Public Administration

“…Letters to the editor, research notes, news, and such were not included. Streib, Slotkin and Rivera (2001:516-517) and Stallings and Ferris (1988:580-581) make the case for using the premier journal as a window on the field even in the US, where a number of highly regarded public administration journals exist, because of the breadth, depth, and unquestioned prominence of Public Administration Review (PAR) (Forrester and Watson 1994;PA Times 2003). In the three countries that are the focus of this research, a concentration on the premier journal is even less problematic, as these countries lack the competition for prominence within the discipline that characterises the US context.…”

Publication outlets for criminology and criminal justice scholars: A look at race and ethnicity journals

“…These factors include citations to articles published in a journal, peer ratings, whether the journal is peer-reviewed, age of the journal, the editor's status, and sponsorship of the journal by a professional association (Forrester and Watson 1994;Stack 1987). Our current analysis permits us to assess four of these six factors.…”