Policy Sciences is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering issues and practices in the policy studies . It was established in 1970 and is published by Springer Science+Business Media on behalf of the Society of Policy Scientists . The editor-in-chief is Michael P. Howlett ( Simon Fraser University ).
6-495: The journal is abstracted and indexed in: According to the Journal Citation Reports , the journal has a 2017 impact factor of 3.023, ranking it ninth out of 57 journals in the category "Planning and Development", seventh out of 47 journals in the category "Public Administration", and fifth out of 98 journals in the category "Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary". The following persons are or have been editor-in-chief of
12-556: Is published the following year after the citations for the year have been published and the information processed. The publication is available online ( JCR on the Web ), or in CD format ( JCR on CD-ROM ); it was originally published in print, with the detailed tables on microfiche . In general, various universities, administrative centers and ministries in charge of higher education make their evaluations of university professors and other researchers on
18-635: The Social Sciences Citation Index . As of the 2023 edition, journals from the Arts and Humanities Citation Index and the Emerging Sources Citation Index have also been included. The information given for each journal includes: There are separate editions for the sciences and the social sciences; the 2013 science edition includes 8,411 journals, and the 2012 social science edition contains 3,016 titles. The issue for each year
24-625: The Web of Science and is accessed from the Web of Science Core Collection . It provides information about academic journals in the natural and social sciences , including impact factors . JCR was originally published as a part of the Science Citation Index . Currently, the JCR , as a distinct service, is based on citations compiled from the Science Citation Index Expanded and
30-538: The journal: Since 1984, the association has awarded the Harold Lasswell Memorial Prize for the best article published in the current volume of the journal. The prize selection committee usually is drawn from the editorial board and Springer Science+Business Media underwrites all expenses related to the prize. Journal Citation Reports Journal Citation Reports ( JCR ) is an annual publication by Clarivate . It has been integrated with
36-597: The number and quality of articles published in journals indexed in the JCR. In recent years, it has often been released in mid-June. The 2017 Journal Citation Reports , based on 2016 data, was released on June 14, 2017. In April 2020, Journal Citation Reports included a beta for open access data, which uses Unpaywall data. It officially left the beta phase with the release of the 2020 JCR in June 2020. The impact factor (IF) or journal impact factor (JIF) of an academic journal
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