Public Administration and Development

Public Administration and Development is a peer-reviewed academic journal which covers practice of public administration at the local, regional, national and international levels where it is directed to managing development processes in low and medium income countries. In 2021, the journal was ranked as a Grade 2 journal in the field of public administration. The journal is published by Wiley (publisher) and is edited by Ian C. Elliott (Northumbria University) and Alfred Wu (National University of Singapore).

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2022 impact factor of 2.5, ranking it 21st out of 42 journals in the category "Development Studies" and 29th out of 49 journals in the category "Public Administration".

Editors-in-chief
The following persons have been editors-in-chief: • 2023-Present: Ian C. Elliott, Northumbria University and Alfred Wu, National University of Singapore

• 2010-2022: Jose A. Puppim de Oliveira, Fundação Getulio Vargas

• 1993-2010: Paul D. Collins, Royal Institute of Public Administration

• 1984-1992: Brian C. Smith, University of Bath

• 1981-1984: David J. Murray, Professor of Government, Open University

• 1966–1980: Peter Johnston, Administrative Officer, Development Planning Unit, School of Environmental Studies, University of London

• 1964-1965: D. A. Pott, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Local Government, Northern Nigeria

• 1961-1963: B. V. Davies, Administrative Officer, Fiji

• 1960-1961: P. R. Forsyth Thompson, Administrative Officer, Swaziland

• 1957-1959: Ian Eldridge, Northern Rhodesia

• 1955-1956: John Chant, District Officer, Tanganyika Territory

• 1953-1955: Gilbert Stephenson, Northern Nigeria

• 1949-1952: Sir George Cartland, University of Tasmania

Abstracting and indexing
Public Administration and Development is indexed in:
 * Social Sciences Citation Index
 * Scopus
 * Inspec
 * InfoTrac
 * GEOBASE
 * ABI/INFORM Collection