Journal profile · PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
Review of Public Personnel Administration
ISSN 0734-371X · eISSN 1552-759X · SAGE
Review of Public Personnel Administration: CAS Zone 2 · Management (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 2.37; hybrid open access; APC about USD 3,900; review about 306 days (submission to acceptance, publisher); acceptance rate 10.7% (journal website); 36 articles in 2025; indexed in SSCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Review of Public Personnel Administration is published by SAGE and is in Zone 2 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, Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior and Labor Movements and Unions, together about 44.8% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Review of Public Personnel Administration (ROPPA), peer-reviewed and published quarterly, presents timely, rigorous scholarship on human resource management in public service organizations. Articles cover both traditional and emerging topics, including analysis of the effects of specific HR procedures or programs on the management function and assessment of the impact of HR management on the broader areas of public policy and administration. This journal is a member of the COPE. View full journal description This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Public Policy and Administration ResearchSocial Sciences22.1%
- Job Satisfaction and Organizational BehaviorBusiness, Management and Accounting13.9%
- Labor Movements and UnionsSocial Sciences8.8%
- Nonprofit Sector and VolunteeringSocial Sciences6.2%
- Gender Diversity and InequalitySocial Sciences5.4%
- Work-Family Balance ChallengesSocial Sciences4.5%
- Accounting and Organizational ManagementBusiness, Management and Accounting4.3%
- Management and Organizational StudiesBusiness, Management and Accounting4.1%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Management Zone 2
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Management | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Public Administration | Zone 2 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Management Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Management | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Public Administration | Zone 2 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Management Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Management | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Public Administration | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
Database indexing
SSCIScopusLetPub
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
- 2.37LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 2.4Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher)
- 4.9Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 9.8LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 1.95LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 2.19LetPub ·
- h-index
- 85OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 559OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 2.64OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 8.3%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 29.41%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 31LetPub ·
- Articles per year (publisher)
- 3Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 1,332 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 36 | 10 | 21 |
| 2025 | 36 | 17 | 100 |
| 2024 | 41 | 22 | 177 |
| 2023 | 36 | 21 | 364 |
| 2022 | 34 | 13 | 1,045 |
| 2021 | 28 | 8 | 712 |
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
Publisher-reported review time from the journal's website
306 dayssubmission to acceptance
The publisher's own definition applies; dates from this journal's articles in the last 24 months are not available yet, so the publisher's figure is used.
Figures by source
- Acceptance rate (publisher)
- 10.7%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 3 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to acceptance
- 306 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication
- 56 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 3,900 / GBP 2,859 | — | — | |
| 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)
What to prepare1 items from the author guidelines
- Abstract
- ≤ 150 words
Article types accepted9
- book reviewThe mission of the Review of Public Personnel Administration (ROPPA) is to present timely, rigorous scholarship on human resource management in public service o…Length not stated
- book reviewsROPPA publishes the following article types: Original Research Articles Book Reviews Legal Brief Special Issue articles Global Perspectives in Public Human Reso…Length not stated
- legal briefROPPA publishes the following article types: Original Research Articles Book Reviews Legal Brief Special Issue articles Global Perspectives in Public Human Reso…Length not stated
- original research articleThe mission of the Review of Public Personnel Administration (ROPPA) is to present timely, rigorous scholarship on human resource management in public service o…Length not stated
- original research articlesROPPA publishes the following article types: Original Research Articles Book Reviews Legal Brief Special Issue articles Global Perspectives in Public Human Reso…Length not stated
- perspectiveThe mission of the Review of Public Personnel Administration (ROPPA) is to present timely, rigorous scholarship on human resource management in public service o…Length not stated
- research articleThe mission of the Review of Public Personnel Administration (ROPPA) is to present timely, rigorous scholarship on human resource management in public service o…Length not stated
- reviewThe mission of the Review of Public Personnel Administration (ROPPA) is to present timely, rigorous scholarship on human resource management in public service o…Length not stated
- special issue articlesROPPA publishes the following article types: Original Research Articles Book Reviews Legal Brief Special Issue articles Global Perspectives in Public Human Reso…Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, Data availability, Publication ethics, Open access, Peer review, Plagiarism, Preprints, Trial registration / reporting guidelines
- Authorship Author Contributions
GPPHRM invites contributions from practitioners, scholars, and pracademics. Each submission must include at least one current public sector practitioner to provide practical, real-world insights. Co-authorship with an academic affiliated with a higher education institution is recommended to integrate evidence-based perspectives. Collaboration with colleagues from different countries is encouraged …
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Data availability Data availability
The Journal is committed to facilitating openness, transparency and reproducibility of research, and has the following research data sharing policy. For more information, including FAQs please visit the Sage Research Data policy pages. Subject to appropriate ethical and legal considerations, authors are encouraged to: Share your research data in a relevant public data repository Include a data ava…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics Ethical considerations
Member of COPE Model summary
Please include your ethics approval statements under this heading, even if you have already included ethics approval information in your methods section. If ethical approval was not required, you need to explicitly state this. All papers reporting studies involving human participants, human data or human tissue must state that the relevant Ethics Committee or Institutional Review Board approved th…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Publishing fees and open access
There are no fees payable to submit or publish in this journal. Figures submitted in color will be published in color in the online version of the journal at no cost. If you wish to have color figures in the printed version, you will receive information regarding the costs from Sage after receipt of your accepted article. Optional open access publishing is available for a fee via the Sage Choice p…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Review Process
Double anonymized peer review Model summary
Submissions to the GPPHRM section will undergo a double-anonymized peer review process. Each manuscript will be reviewed by ROPPA editor and at least one external reviewer. Manuscripts will be evaluated based on their relevance, originality, and contribution to global HRM.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Plagiarism Plagiarism
The journal and Sage take issues of copyright infringement, plagiarism or other breaches of best practice in publication very seriously. Please read Sage's complete policy on plagiarism and the actions we may take.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Preprints Preprints
The journal will consider submissions of manuscripts that have been posted on preprint servers. Please enter the preprint DOI in the designated field when submitting your manuscript. We advise that you inform the Journal Editorial office about your posted preprint at submission. Note that you should not post an updated version of your manuscript on a preprint server while it is being peer reviewed…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Trial registration / reporting guidelines Clinical trial registration
The journal conforms to the ICMJE requirement that clinical trials are registered in a WHO-approved public trials registry at or before the time of first participant enrollment as a condition of consideration for publication. The trial registry name and URL, and registration number must be included at the end of the abstract.
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
- SAGE
- ISSN
- 0734-371X
- Electronic ISSN
- 1552-759X
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Review of Public Personnel Administration
What CAS zone is Review of Public Personnel Administration in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Review of Public Personnel Administration is in Zone 2 of Management, and in Zone 2 of the minor category Public Administration. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 3 of Management. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Review of Public Personnel Administration?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 2.37; CiteScore 9.8, h-index 85.
How long does peer review take at Review of Public Personnel Administration?
The publisher reports about 306 days (submission to acceptance); the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 10.7%. 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.
Which databases index Review of Public Personnel Administration?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Review of Public Personnel Administration is indexed in SSCI and Scopus.
Is Review of Public Personnel Administration open access, and what is the APC?
Review of Public Personnel Administration is a hybrid journal. For open-access publication: APC about USD 3,900.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, Publisher website, OpenAlex; 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 2026-08-25). Last updated: .