Public Administration

2.6M citations
148.1k papers · indexed · since 1950

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Public Administration

17.2k papers receiving 120.5k citations

Countries where authors publish papers about Public Administration

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This map shows the geographic impact of research in Public Administration. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by papers about Public Administration with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Public Administration more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers about Public Administration

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers covering Public Administration. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers covering Public Administration.

About Public Administration

148.1k papers covering Public Administration have received a total of 2.6M indexed citations since 1950 . Papers on Public Administration are most often about the specific topic of Labor Movements and Unions, Public Policy and Administration Research, Social Work Education and Practice, Social Policy and Reform Studies, Employment and Welfare Studies, Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering, Homelessness and Social Issues and International Labor and Employment Law and also cover the fields of Political Science and International Relations, General Health Professions, Industrial relations, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management and Strategy and Management. Papers citing work on Public Administration are usually about Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Political Science and International Relations, Strategy and Management, General Health Professions and Sociology and Political Science. Some of the most active scholars covering Public Administration are Christopher Hood, Christine Oliver, Joan Acker, Paul Sabatier, Donald P. Moynihan, R. A. W. Rhodes, Laurence J. O’Toole, Christopher Pollitt, Arne L. Kalleberg and Kenneth J. Meier.

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

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