This web page aims to provide a latest list of top Public Administration journals. The journals are Web of Science (SCI) indexed with high impact factor. Moreover, the listed journals are UGC CARE approved, Scopus indexed. The journals are sorted based on Scopus SJR score.
| S. No. | Journal Title | Publisher | ISSN | SJR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Administrative Science Quarterly | SAGE Publications Ltd | 00018392, 19303815 | 9.595 |
| 2 | Annual Review of Public Health | Annual Reviews Inc. | 01637525, 15452093 | 8.648 |
| 3 | The Lancet Public Health | Elsevier Ltd | 24682667 | 8.25 |
| 4 | Clinical Microbiology Reviews | American Society for Microbiology | 08938512, 10986618 | 6.584 |
| 5 | Implementation Science | BioMed Central Ltd | 17485908 | 4.951 |
| 6 | The Lancet Planetary Health | Elsevier B.V. | 25425196 | 4.577 |
| 7 | The Lancet Regional Health - Europe | Elsevier Ltd | 26667762 | 4.499 |
| 8 | Public Administration Review | Wiley-Blackwell | 00333352, 15406210 | 3.305 |
| 9 | Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory | Oxford University Press | 14779803, 10531858 | 3.301 |
| 10 | Obesity Reviews | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd | 1467789X, 14677881 | 3.028 |
| 11 | Trauma, Violence, and Abuse | SAGE Publications Ltd | 15248380, 15528324 | 2.896 |
| 12 | JAMA Health Forum | American Medical Association | 26890186 | 2.833 |
| 13 | The Lancet Regional Health - Americas | Elsevier Ltd | 2667193X | 2.828 |
| 14 | Eurosurveillance | European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) | 15607917, 1025496X | 2.81 |
| 15 | The Lancet Regional Health - Western Pacific | Elsevier Ltd | 26666065 | 2.77 |
| 16 | Environmental Health Perspectives | Public Health Services, US Dept of Health and Human Services | 15529924, 00916765 | 2.746 |
| 17 | Public Administration | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd | 14679299, 00333298 | 2.723 |
| 18 | Current Environmental Health Reports | Springer International Publishing AG | 21965412 | 2.663 |
| 19 | Public Management Review | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 14719045, 14719037 | 2.54 |
| 20 | Milbank Quarterly | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd | 0887378X, 14680009 | 2.473 |
| 21 | Journal of Health Economics | Elsevier B.V. | 18791646, 01676296 | 2.471 |
| 22 | Journal of Occupational Health Psychology | Educational Publishing Foundation | 19391307, 10768998 | 2.356 |
| 23 | American Journal of Health Economics | University of Chicago Press | 23323493, 23323507 | 2.232 |
| 24 | Journal of European Public Policy | Routledge | 14664429, 13501763 | 2.219 |
| 25 | Government and Opposition | Cambridge University Press | 0017257X, 14777053 | 2.172 |
| 26 | BMJ Global Health | BMJ Publishing Group | 20597908 | 2.14 |
| 27 | Communications Medicine | Springer Nature | 2730664X | 2.138 |
| 28 | Science in One Health | Elsevier B.V. | 29497043 | 2.131 |
| 29 | Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology | Springer | 21976554, 01795953 | 2.125 |
| 30 | Tobacco Control | BMJ Publishing Group | 09644563, 14683318 | 2.054 |
| 31 | Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences | Cambridge University Press | 20457979, 20457960 | 2.051 |
| 32 | Accident Analysis and Prevention | Elsevier Ltd | 18792057, 00014575 | 1.997 |
| 33 | Perspectives on Public Management and Governance | Oxford University Press | 23984910, 23984929 | 1.988 |
| 34 | American Journal of Preventive Medicine | Elsevier Inc. | 07493797, 18732607 | 1.979 |
| 35 | The Lancet Regional Health - Southeast Asia | Elsevier Ltd | 27723682 | 1.953 |
| 36 | Review of Public Personnel Administration | SAGE Publications Inc. | 1552759X, 0734371X | 1.952 |
| 37 | Environmental Research Letters | Institute of Physics | 17489326 | 1.933 |
| 38 | Journal of the International AIDS Society | John Wiley & Sons Inc. | 17582652 | 1.923 |
| 39 | Educational Administration Quarterly | SAGE Publications Inc. | 0013161X, 15523519 | 1.907 |
| 40 | Emerging Contaminants | KeAi Communications Co. | 24056650, 24056642 | 1.901 |
| 41 | International Journal of Consumer Studies | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd | 14706423, 14706431 | 1.894 |
| 42 | Translational Research | Elsevier Inc. | 19315244, 18781810 | 1.884 |
| 43 | Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology | Springer Nature | 1559064X, 15590631 | 1.876 |
| 44 | Journal of Health and Social Behavior | American Sociological Association | 00221465, 21506000 | 1.867 |
| 45 | Society and Mental Health | SAGE Publications Inc. | 21568731, 21568693 | 1.867 |
| 46 | Infectious Diseases of Poverty | BioMed Central Ltd | 20499957, 20955162 | 1.85 |
| 47 | Environmental Research | Academic Press Inc. | 10960953, 00139351 | 1.836 |
| 48 | Preventing Chronic Disease | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) | 21665435, 15451151 | 1.824 |
| 49 | Criminology and Public Policy | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd | 17459133, 15386473 | 1.821 |
| 50 | PharmacoEconomics | 11707690, 11792027 | 1.807 | |
| 51 | Environmental Health: A Global Access Science Source | BioMed Central Ltd | 1476069X | 1.769 |
| 52 | Journal of Travel Medicine | Oxford University Press | 11951982, 17088305 | 1.747 |
| 53 | Journal of Policy Analysis and Management | Wiley-Liss Inc. | 02768739, 15206688 | 1.741 |
| 54 | Globalization and Health | BioMed Central Ltd | 17448603 | 1.692 |
| 55 | Journal of Health Monitoring | Robert Koch Institute | 25112708 | 1.661 |
| 56 | National Health Statistics Reports | National Center for Health Statistics | 23328363, 21648344 | 1.653 |
| 57 | Chemosphere | Elsevier Ltd | 00456535, 18791298 | 1.648 |
| 58 | Influenza and other Respiratory Viruses | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd | 17502640, 17502659 | 1.632 |
| 59 | Value in Health | Elsevier Ltd | 10983015, 15244733 | 1.626 |
| 60 | npj Science of Food | Nature Publishing Group | 23968370 | 1.609 |
| 61 | Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment and Health | Nordic Association of Occupational Safety and Health | 03553140, 1795990X | 1.598 |
| 62 | Governance | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd | 09521895, 14680491 | 1.581 |
| 63 | Global Health Research and Policy | KeAi Communications Co. | 23970642 | 1.551 |
| 64 | International Journal for Equity in Health | BioMed Central Ltd | 14759276 | 1.55 |
| 65 | Conflict and Health | BioMed Central Ltd | 17521505 | 1.549 |
| 66 | Bulletin of the World Health Organization | World Health Organization | 15640604, 00429686 | 1.547 |
| 67 | Regulation and Governance | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd | 17485983, 17485991 | 1.536 |
| 68 | Current Opinion in Environmental Science and Health | Elsevier B.V. | 24685844 | 1.527 |
| 69 | Human Resources for Health | BioMed Central Ltd | 14784491 | 1.527 |
| 70 | Journal of Adolescent Health | Elsevier Inc. | 1054139X, 18791972 | 1.527 |
| 71 | Policy and Internet | John Wiley and Sons Ltd | 19442866 | 1.521 |
| 72 | GeoHealth | John Wiley & Sons Inc. | 24711403 | 1.515 |
| 73 | Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety | Academic Press | 01476513, 10902414 | 1.513 |
| 74 | Harm Reduction Journal | BioMed Central Ltd | 14777517 | 1.513 |
| 75 | AIDS Patient Care and STDs | Mary Ann Liebert Inc. | 15577449, 10872914 | 1.51 |
| 76 | SSM - Population Health | Elsevier Ltd | 23528273 | 1.504 |
| 77 | Prevention Science | Springer New York | 13894986, 15736695 | 1.477 |
| 78 | Research and Politics | SAGE Publications Ltd | 20531680 | 1.467 |
| 79 | International Journal of Mental Health Systems | BioMed Central Ltd | 17524458 | 1.46 |
| 80 | Information Technology for Development | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 15540170, 02681102 | 1.456 |
| 81 | Journal of Urban Health | Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH | 10993460, 14682869 | 1.448 |
| 82 | Safety Science | Elsevier B.V. | 18791042, 09257535 | 1.443 |
| 83 | Policy and Society | Oxford University Press | 18393373, 14494035 | 1.442 |
| 84 | Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health | BMJ Publishing Group | 14702738, 0143005X | 1.441 |
| 85 | Water Emerging Contaminants and Nanoplastics | OAE Publishing Inc. | 28312597 | 1.426 |
| 86 | Preventive Medicine | Elsevier Inc. | 10960260, 00917435 | 1.424 |
| 87 | Environmental Science: Processes and Impacts | Royal Society of Chemistry | 20507887, 20507895 | 1.412 |
| 88 | Journal of Rural Health | Wiley-Blackwell | 0890765X, 17480361 | 1.411 |
| 89 | American Journal of Public Health | American Public Health Association Inc. | 00900036, 15410048 | 1.407 |
| 90 | LGBT Health | Mary Ann Liebert Inc. | 23258306, 23258292 | 1.389 |
| 91 | International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health | Elsevier GmbH | 14384639, 1618131X | 1.372 |
| 92 | Policy Studies Journal | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd | 0190292X, 15410072 | 1.363 |
| 93 | JMIR Public Health and Surveillance | JMIR Publications Inc. | 23692960 | 1.358 |
| 94 | BMC Public Health | BioMed Central Ltd | 14712458 | 1.356 |
| 95 | NanoImpact | Elsevier B.V. | 24520748 | 1.349 |
| 96 | Remedial and Special Education | SAGE Publications Inc. | 15384756, 07419325 | 1.345 |
| 97 | Implementation Science Communications | BioMed Central Ltd | 26622211 | 1.343 |
| 98 | One Health | Elsevier B.V. | 23527714 | 1.343 |
| 99 | Research and Practice for Persons with Severe Disabilities | SAGE Publications Inc. | 15407969, 21692408 | 1.342 |
| 100 | Journal of Social Policy | Cambridge University Press | 14697823, 00472794 | 1.335 |
| 101 | Reviews on Environmental Health | De Gruyter Open Ltd | 00487554, 21910308 | 1.334 |
| 102 | Health and Place | Elsevier Ltd | 18732054, 13538292 | 1.328 |
| 103 | Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control | BioMed Central Ltd | 20472994 | 1.306 |
| 104 | Journal of Global Health | University of Edinburgh | 20472986, 20472978 | 1.299 |
| 105 | Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior | Wiley-Blackwell | 03630234, 1943278X | 1.296 |
| 106 | PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases | Public Library of Science | 19352727, 19352735 | 1.29 |
| 107 | Policy Sciences | Springer Netherlands | 00322687, 15730891 | 1.273 |
| 108 | Public Health Research and Practice | CSIRO Publishing | 22042091 | 1.259 |
| 109 | Journal of Public Relations Research | Routledge | 1062726X, 1532754X | 1.255 |
| 110 | Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities | Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH | 21968837, 21973792 | 1.255 |
| 111 | BMC Global and Public Health | BioMed Central Ltd | 2731913X | 1.25 |
| 112 | Public Health Reviews | Frontiers Media SA | 21076952, 03010422 | 1.242 |
| 113 | Yale Journal on Regulation | Yale Journal on Regulation | 23765925, 07419457 | 1.238 |
| 114 | Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space | SAGE Publications Ltd | 23996552, 23996544 | 1.227 |
| 115 | Journal of Health Services Research and Policy | SAGE Publications Ltd | 17581060, 13558196 | 1.227 |
| 116 | International Public Management Journal | Routledge | 15593169, 10967494 | 1.226 |
| 117 | Journal of Exercise Science and Fitness | Elsevier (Singapore) Pte Ltd | 1728869X | 1.226 |
| 118 | Population Health Metrics | BioMed Central Ltd | 14787954 | 1.225 |
| 119 | American Review of Public Administration | SAGE Publications Inc. | 15523357, 02750740 | 1.221 |
| 120 | Health Expectations | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd | 13696513, 13697625 | 1.215 |
| 121 | Medical Care | Lippincott Williams and Wilkins | 15371948, 00257079 | 1.215 |
| 122 | Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada : Research, Policy and Practice | Public Health Agency of Canada | 2368738X | 1.204 |
| 123 | Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research | Springer New York | 15733289, 0894587X | 1.196 |
| 124 | American Journal of Community Psychology | John Wiley and Sons Inc | 00910562, 15732770 | 1.195 |
| 125 | npj Primary Care Respiratory Medicine | Nature Research | 20551010 | 1.194 |
| 126 | Vaccine | Elsevier Ltd | 0264410X, 18732518 | 1.186 |
| 127 | Sociology of Health and Illness | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd | 01419889, 14679566 | 1.18 |
| 128 | Journal of Information Technology and Politics | Routledge | 19331681, 1933169X | 1.168 |
| 129 | Permanente Journal | The Permanente Federation LLC | 15525767, 15525775 | 1.168 |
| 130 | International Review of Administrative Sciences | SAGE Publications Ltd | 00208523, 14617226 | 1.163 |
| 131 | Nicotine and Tobacco Research | Oxford University Press | 1469994X, 14622203 | 1.161 |
| 132 | Quality of Life Research | Springer Netherlands | 15732649, 09629343 | 1.154 |
| 133 | Health Care Science | John Wiley and Sons Inc | 27711749, 27711757 | 1.152 |
| 134 | Contemporary Economic Policy | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd | 14657287, 10743529 | 1.15 |
| 135 | Management of Environmental Quality | Emerald Publishing | 17586119, 14777835 | 1.15 |
| 136 | Family Medicine and Community Health | BMJ Publishing Group | 20098774, 23056983 | 1.149 |
| 137 | Journal of Infection and Public Health | Elsevier Ltd | 18760341, 1876035X | 1.149 |
| 138 | International Journal of COPD | Dove Medical Press Ltd | 11782005, 11769106 | 1.145 |
| 139 | Public Personnel Management | SAGE Publications Inc. | 00910260, 19457421 | 1.144 |
| 140 | Informatics and Health | KeAi Communications Co. | 29499534 | 1.143 |
| 141 | Journal of Urban Management | Elsevier B.V. | 25890360, 22265856 | 1.142 |
| 142 | Ageing and Society | Cambridge University Press | 0144686X, 14691779 | 1.135 |
| 143 | European Journal of Public Health | Oxford University Press | 1464360X, 11011262 | 1.134 |
| 144 | Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health | John Wiley and Sons Inc | 15386341, 19312393 | 1.129 |
| 145 | Environmental Epidemiology | Wolters Kluwer Health | 24747882 | 1.126 |
| 146 | Pediatric Obesity | John Wiley and Sons Ltd | 20476302, 20476310 | 1.125 |
| 147 | Mental Health and Prevention | Elsevier GmbH | 22126570 | 1.119 |
| 148 | Journal of Climate Change and Health | Elsevier Masson s.r.l. | 26672782 | 1.117 |
| 149 | Occupational and Environmental Medicine | BMJ Publishing Group | 14707926, 13510711 | 1.116 |
| 150 | Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health | Korean Society for Preventive Medicine | 19758375, 22334521 | 1.115 |
| 151 | Health and Quality of Life Outcomes | BioMed Central Ltd | 14777525 | 1.111 |
| 152 | Health Reports | Statistics Canada | 12091367, 08406529 | 1.105 |
| 153 | Frontiers in Public Health | Frontiers Media SA | 22962565 | 1.103 |
| 154 | World Journal of Men's Health | Korean Society for Sexual Medicine and Andrology | 22874690, 22874208 | 1.103 |
| 155 | Journal of Healthcare Leadership | Dove Medical Press Ltd | 11793201 | 1.097 |
| 156 | Public Performance and Management Review | Routledge | 15309576, 15579271 | 1.097 |
| 157 | Exposure and Health | Springer | 24519766, 24519685 | 1.093 |
| 158 | Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management | Routledge | 14699508, 1360080X | 1.091 |
| 159 | Public Health | Elsevier B.V. | 00333506, 14765616 | 1.089 |
| 160 | Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Administration | Emerald Group Publishing Ltd. | 17574331, 17574323 | 1.086 |
| 161 | Women's Health Issues | Elsevier Inc. | 10493867, 18784321 | 1.086 |
| 162 | Food and Nutrition Research | Swedish Nutrition Foundation | 1654661X, 16546628 | 1.085 |
| 163 | AIDS and Behavior | Springer New York | 10907165, 15733254 | 1.084 |
| 164 | Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health | Springer New York | 15571912, 15571920 | 1.083 |
| 165 | Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease | Elsevier Inc. | 18730442, 14778939 | 1.083 |
| 166 | MDM Policy and Practice | SAGE Publications Inc. | 23814683 | 1.082 |
| 167 | Administration and Society | SAGE Publications Inc. | 00953997, 15523039 | 1.073 |
| 168 | Qualitative Health Research | SAGE Publications Inc. | 15527557, 10497323 | 1.07 |
| 169 | Journal of Medical Screening | SAGE Publications Ltd | 09691413, 14755793 | 1.067 |
| 170 | Preventive Medicine Reports | Elsevier Inc. | 22113355 | 1.05 |
| 171 | Journal of Environmental Exposure Assessment | OAE Publishing Inc. | 27715949 | 1.047 |
| 172 | Maternal and Child Nutrition | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd | 17408695, 17408709 | 1.044 |
| 173 | Project Leadership and Society | Elsevier Ltd | 26667215 | 1.036 |
| 174 | Scandinavian Journal of Public Health | SAGE Publications Ltd | 14034948, 16511905 | 1.035 |
| 175 | Health Promotion Perspectives | Tabriz University of Medical Sciences | 22286497 | 1.033 |
| 176 | Disability and Health Journal | Elsevier Inc. | 19366574, 18767583 | 1.029 |
| 177 | Public Health Nutrition | Cambridge University Press | 14752727, 13689800 | 1.027 |
| 178 | Review of Policy Research | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd | 1541132X, 15411338 | 1.024 |
| 179 | Archives of Public Health | BioMed Central Ltd | 20493258, 07787367 | 1.022 |
| 180 | Public Policy and Administration | SAGE Publications Ltd | 09520767, 17494192 | 1.011 |
| 181 | Epidemics | Elsevier B.V. | 17554365, 18780067 | 1.006 |
| 182 | Psychology and Health | Routledge | 08870446, 14768321 | 1.005 |
| 183 | Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 19438168, 1943815X | 1.003 |
| 184 | Contemporary Drug Problems | SAGE Publications Inc. | 914509 | 1.002 |
| 185 | Ethnicity and Health | Routledge | 14653419, 13557858 | 1.001 |
| 186 | American Journal of Industrial Medicine | Wiley-Liss Inc. | 02713586, 10970274 | 1 |
| 187 | Salud Publica de Mexico | Instituto Nacional de Salud Publica | 16067916, 00363634 | 0.992 |
| 188 | Learning Health Systems | John Wiley & Sons Inc. | 23796146 | 0.991 |
| 189 | PLOS Global Public Health | Public Library of Science | 27673375 | 0.991 |
| 190 | European Journal of Applied Physiology | Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH | 14396319, 14396327 | 0.985 |
| 191 | Journal of American College Health | Routledge | 7448481 | 0.985 |
| 192 | Health and Social Care in the Community | John Wiley and Sons Ltd | 09660410, 13652524 | 0.984 |
| 193 | Revista de Saude Publica | Universidade de Sao Paulo. Museu de Zoologia | 00348910, 15188787 | 0.983 |
| 194 | Food Production, Processing and Nutrition | BioMed Central Ltd | 26618974 | 0.982 |
| 195 | Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease | Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) | 24146366 | 0.979 |
| 196 | Health Equity | Mary Ann Liebert Inc. | 24731242 | 0.976 |
| 197 | AJPM Focus | Elsevier B.V. | 27730654 | 0.973 |
| 198 | Nutrition and Dietetics | John Wiley and Sons Inc | 14466368, 17470080 | 0.968 |
| 199 | Arthroscopy, Sports Medicine, and Rehabilitation | Elsevier Inc. | 2666061X | 0.956 |
| 200 | Journal of Educational Administration | Emerald Group Publishing Ltd. | 9578234 | 0.954 |
| 201 | International Journal of Health Geographics | BioMed Central Ltd | 1476072X | 0.952 |
| 202 | Global Health Science and Practice | Johns Hopkins University Press | 2169575X | 0.949 |
| 203 | Health Promotion International | Oxford University Press | 09574824, 14602245 | 0.945 |
| 204 | Voluntas | Cambridge University Press | 09578765, 15737888 | 0.939 |
| 205 | Pathogens and Global Health | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 20477724, 20477732 | 0.932 |
| 206 | International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health | Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) | 16617827, 16604601 | 0.927 |
| 207 | Global Health Action | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 16549716, 16549880 | 0.926 |
| 208 | Journal of Physiological Anthropology | BioMed Central Ltd | 18806791, 18806805 | 0.925 |
| 209 | Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition | BioMed Central Ltd | 16060997, 20721315 | 0.923 |
| 210 | Journal of Community Health | Springer Netherlands | 00945145, 15733610 | 0.919 |