Regulation and Governance

Aims & Scope

Regulation & Governance reaches an international audience, and showcases research addressing the world's most pressing audit and risk challenges, across all fields of regulation.

It addresses issues that transcend both intellectual and geographic boundaries and reports empirical results with broad implications.

With guidance from an outstanding editorial board and carefully selected reviewers, Regulation & Governance publishes significant new studies of regulatory governance, review articles on major lines of research in the field, and occasional shorter essays exploring new insights and directions for study.

Published quarterly by Wiley-Blackwell, Regulation & Governance is essential reading for academics, regulators, and legal experts working in business and civil society.

The editorial team is committed to open and critical dialogue and encourages scholarly papers from different disciplines, using diverse methodologies, and from all areas of the world.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	3.8
2024	3.20

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	1.403

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	63

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	2688

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	1206

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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 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.

• Constructing and contesting legitimacy and accountability in polycentric regulatory regimes

  Citation: 604

  Authors: Julia

• Can non‐state global governance be legitimate? An analytical framework

  Citation: 530

  Authors: Steven, Benjamin

• Governance without a state: Can it work?

  Citation: 376

  Authors: Tanja A., Thomas

• Subprime catalyst: Financial regulatory reform and the strengthening of US carbon market governance

  Citation: 325

  Authors: Eric, Jason

• Algorithmic regulation: A critical interrogation

  Citation: 305

  Authors: Karen

• Transnational business governance interactions: Conceptualization and framework for analysis

  Citation: 264

  Authors: Burkard, Kenneth W., Julia, Errol, Stepan

• Command without control: The case of <scp>C</scp>hina's environmental target system

  Citation: 224

  Authors: Genia

• Assembling an experimentalist regime: Transnational governance interactions in the forest sector

  Citation: 223

  Authors: Christine, Jonathan

• Nurturing regulatory compliance: Is procedural justice effective when people question the legitimacy of the law?

  Citation: 221

  Authors: Kristina, Tom R., Amy

• Dynamic governance interactions: Evolutionary effects of state responses to non‐state certification programs

  Citation: 212

  Authors: Lars H.

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