Policy & Politics

Policy & Politics is a quarterly British peer-reviewed academic journal covering public policy and political science. It was established in 1972 and is published by the Policy Press of the University of Bristol. Its mission statement says that it "is committed to advancing our understanding of the dynamics of policy-making and implementation."^[1]

Policy & Politics

Discipline	Public policy
Language	English
Edited by	Oscar Berglund, Claire Dunlop, Elizabeth Koebele, Christopher M. Weible
Publication details
History	1972–present
Publisher	Policy Press (United Kingdom)
Frequency	Quarterly
Impact factor	3.750 (2020)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Policy Politics
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus
ISSN	0305-5736 (print) 1470-8442 (web)
OCLC no.	2266303
Links
Journal homepage Online archive

History

The journal was established in 1972^[2] by Macmillan Publishers with Bleddyn Davies (London School of Economics) as founding editor-in-chief. Publishing of the journal moved to SAGE Publishing in 1974, to the University of Bristol's School for Advanced Urban Studies in 1979, and to the Policy Press in 1996.^[3]

A conference celebrating the 40th anniversary of the journal was held in 2013.^[4] and its 50th anniversary year is due to be celebrated in 2022.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

• Current Contents/Social & Behavioral Sciences^[5]
• EBSCO databases^[6]
• GEOBASE^[7]
• International Bibliography of the Social Sciences^[6]
• ProQuest databases^[6]
• Scopus^[8]
• Social Sciences Citation Index^[5]

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal had a 2020 impact factor of 3.75, ranking it in the top quartile (37th out of 182 journals) in the category "Political Science"^[9] and 13th out of 47 in the category "Public Administration".^[10]

References

1. "About the journal". University of Bristol. Retrieved 22 January 2019.
2. Elisabeth Gayon (1985). "Guide documentaire de l'étudiant et du chercheur en science politique". In Madeleine Grawitz [in French]; Jean Leca [in French] (eds.). Traité de science politique (in French). Presses Universitaires de France. p. 306. ISBN 2-13-038858-2.
3. "Prizes". University of Bristol. Retrieved 22 January 2019.
4. "40 years of Policy & Politics: critical reflections and strategies for the future". PolicyBristol Hub. 22 October 2013.
5. "Master Journal List". Intellectual Property & Science. Clarivate Analytics. Retrieved 24 January 2019.
6. "Policy & Politics". MIAR: Information Matrix for the Analysis of Journals. University of Barcelona. Retrieved 24 January 2019.
7. "Content/Database Overview - GEOBASE Source List". Engineering Village. Elsevier. Retrieved 24 January 2019.
8. "Source details: Policy & Politics". Scopus preview. Elsevier. Retrieved 24 January 2019.
9. "Journals Ranked by Impact: Political Science". 2017 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Social Sciences ed.). Clarivate Analytics. 2018.
10. "Journals Ranked by Impact: Public Administration". 2017 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Social Sciences ed.). Clarivate Analytics. 2018.

External links

• Official website