Governance

Aims & Scope

Governance provides a forum for the theoretical and practical discussion of executive politics, public policy, administration, and the organization of the state.

Published in association with International Political Science Association's Research Committee on the Structure & Organization of Government (SOG), it emphasizes peer-reviewed articles that take an international or comparative approach to public policy and administration.

All papers, regardless of empirical focus, should have wider theoretical, comparative, or practical significance.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	3.1
2024	2.60

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	2607

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	851

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	1.426

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	99

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Web of Science

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Business, Management and Accounting and Social Sciences, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• Learning from Abroad: The Role of Policy Transfer in Contemporary Policy‐Making

  Citation: 1730

  Authors: David P., David

• Transition Management for Sustainable Development: A Prescriptive, Complexity‐Based Governance Framework

  Citation: 1088

  Authors: DERK

• Introduction: Understanding Public Policy through Its Instruments—From the Nature of Instruments to the Sociology of Public Policy Instrumentation

  Citation: 914

  Authors: PIERRE, PATRICK

• What Is Governance?

  Citation: 805

  Authors: Francis

• Legitimacy and the Privatization of Environmental Governance: How Non–State Market–Driven (NSMD) Governance Systems Gain Rule–Making Authority

  Citation: 779

  Authors: Benjamin

• What Is Quality of Government? A Theory of Impartial Government Institutions

  Citation: 756

  Authors: BO, JAN

• Good Enough Governance: Poverty Reduction and Reform in Developing Countries

  Citation: 586

  Authors: Merilee S.

• Administrative Reform in Public Management: Paradigms, Principles, Paradoxes and Pendulums

  Citation: 552

  Authors: PETER

• Why Anticorruption Reforms Fail—Systemic Corruption as a Collective Action Problem

  Citation: 546

  Authors: Anna, Bo, Jan

• Governance and Complexity—Emerging Issues for Governance Theory

  Citation: 391

  Authors: ANDREAS, VICTOR

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