Halduskultuur

Halduskultuur is published by Halduskultuur Tallinn University of Technology. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Public Policy and Administration Research, Public Administration and Governance and Public Administration and Political Analysis, together about 46.4% of its articles. Its main subfields are Political Science and International Relations. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Public administration is, as Woodrow Wilson writes in 1887, government in action. Government comes into existence, according to Aristotle’s famous phrase, for the sake of life - for our protection -, yet it exists for the good life. The good life is the reason we have governments. Can we have a science about good government actions - about good public administration? Public administration as a discipline of contemporary scholarly inquiry emerges precisely from the need to design better government actions and from the need to know what makes government actions better, and why. This is the beginning of Kameralwissenschaften in 17th century continental Europe epitomized by the publication of Veit Ludwig von Seckendorff’s Der Teutsche Fürstenstaat in1656. This tradition climaxes in 19th century German Staatswissenschaften, which is, however, also a decidedly Estonian tradition: some of the most important representatives of the late 19th century German Staatswissenschaften (Wagner, Lexis, Stieda, Laspeyres, Bücher) worked at one point in their career in Estonia. Administrative Culture firmly positions itself within this tradition which, by default, means openness to other traditions, schools and also cultures and languages.

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): Social Sciences-Public Administration

Editor-in-chief Wolfgang DrechslerPublisher website

Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named United Kingdom 2, Singapore 1, Indonesia 1 (4 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website · 2026-11-01

CAS Journal Ranking

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Impact

CiteScore 2026-06

0.6LetPub · 2026-11-01

SJR 2026-06

0.18LetPub · 2026-11-01

SNIP 2026-06

1.09LetPub · 2026-11-01

h-index

15OpenAlex · 2026-11-01

i10-index

29OpenAlex · 2026-11-01

2-year mean citedness

0.42OpenAlex · 2026-11-01

Share of gold OA articles

0%LetPub · 2026-11-01

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Publisher

Halduskultuur Tallinn University of Technology

ISSN

1736-6070

Electronic ISSN

1736-6089

Latest issue on the website

Volume 25, Issue 1 (2026)

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex