Journal profile · PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
Perspectives on Public Management and Governance
ISSN 2398-4910 · eISSN 2398-4929 · Oxford University Press
Perspectives on Public Management and Governance: CAS Zone 3 · Management (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 7.2 (journal website); hybrid open access; APC about USD 4,029; review about 22 days (submission to first decision, publisher); 28 articles in 2025; indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Perspectives on Public Management and Governance is published by Oxford University Press and is in Zone 3 of Management in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Public Policy and Administration Research, Management and Organizational Studies and Regulation and Compliance Studies, together about 48.6% of its articles. Its main subfields are Political Science and International Relations. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Perspectives on Public Management and Governance is dedicated to theory development and conceptual work challenging and advancing the field of public affairs. PPMG seeks to develop new theories, frameworks, and conceptual models, as well as summative and critical evaluations of existing theoretical frameworks. It welcomes contributions from a variety of epistemological frameworks that can add a new perspective to public administration and governance, e.g. positivist, normative, interpretive, grounded, and critical theory. In addition to publishing new theoretical work, the journal is interested in analytical reviews of literature. While the primary focus of the journal is not to conduct empirical studies, it anticipates treatment of concepts used in empirical work, discussion of trends, advancements, and synthesis of empirical work such as meta-analyses, and theoretical developments that offer empirical illustrations, either quantitative or qualitative. Perspectives on Public Management and Governance is an official journal of the Public Management Research Association. Please visit their website for more information at www.pmranet.org. Journal metrics Citation metrics Clarivate 2025 Impact Factor 3.3 2025 5 Year Impact Factor 4.9 Public Administration (Rank by Impact Factor) 23/97 2025 Journal Citation Indicator (JCI) 1.49 2025 Cited Half-Life 5.4 years 2025 Immediacy Index 0.9 2025 Eigenfactor Score 0.00144 2025 Article Influence Score 1.724 Scopus 2025 CiteScore 7.2 Public Administration (Rank by CiteScore) 24/248 2025 Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP) 2.079 Readership 2025 Full Text Usage 78,269 Peer Review and Production 2025 Median days from submission to first decision 22 days About metrics Disclaimer Statements of fact and opinion in the articles in Perspectives on Public Management and Governance are those of the respective authors and contributors and not of the Journal, Public Management Research Association, or Oxford University Press, unless otherwise expressly indicated. Neither Oxford University Press, Public Management Research Association, nor the Journal make any representation, express or implied, in respect of the accuracy of the material in the Journal and cannot accept any legal responsibility or liability for any errors or omissions that may be made. Readers should make their own evaluation as to the appropriateness or otherwise of the information included.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
Editorial board by country: 1 in mainland China (about 2%); most named United States 23, United Kingdom 3, Netherlands 3, South Korea 2, Australia 2 (47 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Public Policy and Administration ResearchSocial Sciences32.4%
- Management and Organizational StudiesBusiness, Management and Accounting9.3%
- Regulation and Compliance StudiesBusiness, Management and Accounting6.9%
- E-Government and Public ServicesSocial Sciences6.4%
- Local Government Finance and DecentralizationSocial Sciences5.2%
- Nonprofit Sector and VolunteeringSocial Sciences4.9%
- Accounting and Organizational ManagementBusiness, Management and Accounting3.7%
- Policy Transfer and LearningSocial Sciences3.7%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Management Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Management | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Public Administration | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Management Zone 2
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Management | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Public Administration | Zone 2 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
Database indexing
ESCIScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 7.2Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 4.9Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 7.2LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher) 2025
- 7.2Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 1.99LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 2.08LetPub ·
- h-index
- 38OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 96OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 4.2OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 12.1%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 29.41%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 23LetPub ·
- Downloads per year (publisher) 2025
- 78,269Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 213 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 9 | 5 | 4 |
| 2025 | 28 | 14 | 117 |
| 2024 | 12 | 7 | 85 |
| 2023 | 14 | 7 | 141 |
| 2022 | 24 | 4 | 494 |
| 2021 | 33 | 12 | 641 |
Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
- Submission to first decision 2025
- 22 daysPublisher website ·
- Peer review
- Double anonymous peer reviewPublisher website
Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Hybrid open accessLetPub
A subscription journal in which authors can pay to publish their article open access.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAlex | USD 4,029 | — | — | |
| Publisher website | Yes, amount not published | — | — |
A hybrid journal charges the APC only when the author chooses open access; publishing under the subscription model is usually free.
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
Article types accepted5
- articlesFull length articles should be no longer than 10,000 words, including abstract, tables, and references.Length not stated
- editorialArticles Full length articles should be no longer than 10,000 words, including abstract, tables, and references. Accepted PPMG submissions will be of high quali…Length not stated
- essaysEssays should be between 2500 - 4000 words in length, inclusive of references.Length not stated
- perspectiveArticles Full length articles should be no longer than 10,000 words, including abstract, tables, and references. Accepted PPMG submissions will be of high quali…Length not stated
- reviewArticles Full length articles should be no longer than 10,000 words, including abstract, tables, and references. Accepted PPMG submissions will be of high quali…Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, Conflicts of interest, Data availability, Publication ethics, License & copyright, Open access, Peer review, Preprints
- Authorship Authorship
All persons designated as authors should qualify for authorship. The order of authorship should be a joint decision of the co-authors. Each author should have participated sufficiently in the work to take public responsibility for the content. Authorship credit should be based on substantial contribution to conception and design, execution, or analysis and interpretation of data. All authors shoul…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Conflicts of interest Conflict of Interest
Potential financial interests must be disclosed to the Editor in the form of a statement in the covering letter. This statement will be published at the Editor's discretion. The conflict of interest test is simple: is there anything (e.g., shareholding in or receipt of a grant or consultancy fee from a pharmaceutical company or a contract from a medical devices manufacturer) that would embarrass y…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Data availability Availability of Data and Materials
Data citation policy Model summary
Where ethically feasible, Perspectives on Public Management and Governance strongly encourages authors to make all data and software code on which the conclusions of the paper rely available to readers. We suggest that data be presented in the main manuscript or additional supporting files, or deposited in a public repository whenever possible. For information on general repositories for all data …
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics
Publication ethics (COPE) Model summary
Any cases of ethical or publication malpractice are treated seriously and will be managed in accordance with the Commission on Publication Ethics (COPE) guidelines.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright License to Publish Form
Upon receipt of accepted manuscripts at Oxford Journals authors will be invited to complete an online copyright license to publish form. Please note that by submitting an article for publication you confirm that you are the corresponding/submitting author and that Oxford University Press ("OUP") may retain your email address for the purpose of communicating with you about the article. You agree to…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Third-Party Content in Open Access Papers
If you will be publishing your paper under an Open Access licence but it contains material for which you do not have Open Access re-use permissions, please state this clearly by supplying the following credit line alongside the material: Title of Content Author, original publication, year of original publication, by permission of [rights holder] This image/content is not covered by the terms of th…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review
Double-blind peer review Model summary
PPMG uses a double-blind review process to assess submissions. Authors do not know the identity of reviewers, and reviewers do not know the identity of authors.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Preprints Preprint policy
Preprint policy Model summary
Authors retain the right to make an Author’s Original Version (preprint) available through various channels, and this does not prevent submission to the journal. For further information see our Online Licensing, Copyright and Permissions policies. If accepted, the authors are required to update the status of any preprint, including your published paper’s DOI, as described on our Author Self-Archiv…
Source ↗Publisher website ·
Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- ISSN
- 2398-4910
- Electronic ISSN
- 2398-4929
- Society / sponsor
- Public Management Research Association
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 9, Issue 3 (September 2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Perspectives on Public Management and Governance
What CAS zone is Perspectives on Public Management and Governance in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Perspectives on Public Management and Governance is in Zone 3 of Management, and in Zone 3 of the minor category Public Administration. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 2 of Management. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Perspectives on Public Management and Governance?
The journal's website gives an impact factor of 7.2 (2025); this is the journal's own figure, as LetPub lists none for it; CiteScore 7.2, h-index 38.
How long does peer review take at Perspectives on Public Management and Governance?
The publisher reports about 22 days (submission to first decision); first decisions include desk rejections. Article statistics cover accepted papers only, publisher figures follow the journal's own definitions, and community reports come from authors' own submissions; none is a promise from the journal.
Where are the editorial board members of Perspectives on Public Management and Governance based?
Of the 47 board members whose country the journal's board page names, 1 (about 2%) are in mainland China; the countries named most often are United States (23), United Kingdom (3) and Netherlands (3). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Perspectives on Public Management and Governance?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Perspectives on Public Management and Governance is indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Is Perspectives on Public Management and Governance open access, and what is the APC?
Perspectives on Public Management and Governance is a hybrid journal. For open-access publication: APC about USD 4,029.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, Publisher website; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-24). Last updated: .