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
DisciplinePublic policy
LanguageEnglish
Edited bySarah Ayres, Steve Martin, Felicity Matthews
Publication details
History1972–present
Publisher
Policy Press (United Kingdom)
FrequencyQuarterly
1.250 (2017)
Standard abbreviations
ISO 4Policy Politics
Indexing
ISSN0305-5736 (print)
1470-8442 (web)
OCLC no.2266303
Links

History

The journal was established in 1972 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.[2]

A conference celebrating the 40th anniversary of the journal was held in 2013.[3]

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal had a 2017 impact factor of 1.250, ranking it 78th out of 169 journals in the category "Political Science"[8] and 30th out of 47 in the category "Public Administration".[9]

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References
  1. "About the journal". University of Bristol. Retrieved 22 January 2019.
  2. "Prizes". University of Bristol. Retrieved 22 January 2019.
  3. "40 years of Policy & Politics: critical reflections and strategies for the future". PolicyBristol Hub. 22 October 2013.
  4. "Master Journal List". Intellectual Property & Science. Clarivate Analytics. Retrieved 2019-01-24.
  5. "Policy & Politics". MIAR: Information Matrix for the Analysis of Journals. University of Barcelona. Retrieved 2019-01-24.
  6. "Content/Database Overview - GEOBASE Source List". Engineering Village. Elsevier. Retrieved 2019-01-24.
  7. "Source details: Policy & Politics". Scopus preview. Elsevier. Retrieved 2019-01-24.
  8. "Journals Ranked by Impact: Political Science". 2017 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Social Sciences ed.). Clarivate Analytics. 2018.
  9. "Journals Ranked by Impact: Public Administration". 2017 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Social Sciences ed.). Clarivate Analytics. 2018.
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