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Policy Sciences

Integrating Knowledge and Practice to Advance Human Dignity

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With an interdisciplinary and international focus, Policy Sciences encourages a diversity of perspectives. The editors especially welcome conceptual and empirical innovation, together with the potential richness and insight of comparative orientation.

The journal offers articles that examine the normative aspects of policy sciences;
conceptual articles addressing concrete policy issues; articles on particularly controversial pieces of analysis; opposing perspectives, including critiques and rejoinders on articles already published, which open the journal to an exchange of views rather than restricting it to pure presentation; and special issues that analyze specific topics in depth.

Policy Sciences favors, but does not publish exclusively, works that either explicitly or implicitly utilize the policy sciences framework. The policy sciences are a distinctive subset within the policy movement in that they embrace the traditions of innovated and elaborated by Harold D. Lasswell and Myers S. McDougal. The policy sciences can be applied to articles with greater or lesser intensity to accommodate the focus of an author’s work.  At the minimum, this means taking a problem oriented, multi-method or contextual approach. For additional direction authors may consult our Aims and Scope section: http://www.springer.com/social+sciences/political+science/journal/11077.



Officially cited as: Policy Sci

Editor-in-Chief
  • Michael Howlett
Impact factor
5.3 (2022)
5 year impact factor
5.2 (2022)
Submission to first decision (median)
11 days
Downloads
510,763 (2023)

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  • Free Access Collection

    The Editors of Policy Sciences invite you to enjoy free access to a rolling selection of articles.  This collection will be updated monthly with a new assortment of papers, and each selected non-open access paper will be available free of charge for a period of eight weeks. Open access papers are always available free of charge.

Journal information

Electronic ISSN
1573-0891
Print ISSN
0032-2687
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  2. ANVUR
  3. Australian Business Deans Council (ABDC) Journal Quality List
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  5. Baidu
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  7. CNKI
  8. CNPIEC
  9. Current Contents/Social & Behavioral Sciences
  10. Dimensions
  11. EBSCO
  12. EconLit
  13. Engineering Village – GEOBASE
  14. Google Scholar
  15. JSTOR
  16. Japanese Science and Technology Agency (JST)
  17. Naver
  18. OCLC WorldCat Discovery Service
  19. Portico
  20. ProQuest
  21. Research Papers in Economics (RePEc)
  22. SCImago
  23. SCOPUS
  24. Social Science Citation Index
  25. TD Net Discovery Service
  26. UGC-CARE List (India)
  27. Wanfang
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