About this journal

Aims and scope

Public Integrity is now included in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, ©2017 Clarivate Analytics. Now included in Scopus (forthcoming) , ©2018 Elsevier B.V.

Public Integrity welcomes original manuscripts from a variety of disciplines that address ethical issues of importance to the public, especially those that introduce new discourse to the field. The Journal’s readership is global and inclusive of scholars, students, and professionals in government; NGOs; nonprofits; and business. The scope of topics addressed include theoretical and applied ethics; corruption; law; organizational behavior and performance; social equity; criminal justice; environmental concerns; philosophy; and human rights.

Journal metrics

Usage

  • 151K annual downloads/views

Citation metrics

  • 1.3 (2023) Impact Factor
  • 1.5 (2023) 5 year IF
  • 2.3 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
  • Q1 CiteScore Best Quartile
  • 0.913 (2023) SNIP
  • 0.467 (2023) SJR

Speed/acceptance

  • 21 days avg. from submission to first decision
  • 57 days avg. from submission to first post-review decision
  • 22 days avg. from acceptance to online publication
  • 34% acceptance rate

Editorial board

Editor-in-Chief
Sue Neal, Arkansas State University

Managing Editor
Jeremy Phillips, Murray State University

Vantage Point Editor

Meril Antony, Rutgers University - Newark

Co-Book Review Editors
Patrick Exmeyer, University of Louisville
Darrell Lovell, West Texas A&M University

Public Engagement Editor
Rachel Pittaluga, University of Central Florida

Associate Editors
Jane Beckett-Camarata, Penn State University Harrisburg
Wilfred Uronu Lameck, Mzumbe University
Sharon Mastracci, Center for Public Administration and Policy, Virginia Tech
David Reed, Center for Public Administrators
Norma Riccucci, Rutgers University - Newark
Christina Sarrafian, Keystone State ASPA
Gina Scutelnicu-Todoran, Pace University

Editorial Board
Aisha S. Ahmadu, Sam Houston State University
Staffan Andersson, Institutionen för statsvetenskap (Department of Political Science)
David Arellano-Gault, Arizona State University
Annus Azhar, Arizona State University
Hunter Bacot, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Domonic A. Bearfield, Rutgers University - Newark
Beverly A. Cigler, Penn State University - Harrisburg
Jerrell Coggburn, North Carolina State University
Terry L. Cooper, University of Southern California
Elina De Simone, Roma Tre University
Luís de Sousa, Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciencias Sociais
Gabriel Donleavy, University of New England
Angela Eikenberry, University of Nebraska - Omaha
Nicole Elias, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY
Heather Gertha-Taylor, University of Kansas
Cynthia Golembeski, The New School and Rutgers University
Mary E. Guy, University of Colorado Denver
Beverly Harkema, Grand Valley State University
Courtney Harris, University of Louisiana Monroe
Nuriel Heckler, University of Nebraska at Omaha
Marc Holzer, Suffolk University
Leo Huberts, Vrije Universiteit - Amsterdam
José Irizarry, North Carolina Central University (NCCU)
Richard Greggory Johnson, III, University of San Francisco
Michael Johnston, Colgate University
Susan Keim, Park University
Irina Khmelko, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Emile Kolthoff, Open University
Kirk Leach, Old Dominion University
Hannah Lebovits, University of Texas at Arlington
Jeannine M. Love, Roosevelt University
Michael Macaulay, Victoria University of Wellington
Adam Masters, The Australian National University
Sharon Mastracci, The University of Utah
Sean McCandless, University of Illinois at Springfield
Donald Menzel, Northern Illinois University
Seth Meyer, Bridgewater State University
Acar Muhittin, Hacettepe University
Tina Nabatchi, Syracuse University
Lorenda A. Naylor, University of Baltimore
Ashley Nickels, Kent State University
Diane Odeh, Portland State University
Rosemary O'Leary, University of Kansas
Zaleha Othman, Northern University of Malaysia
Lynn Pasquerella, American Association of Colleges and Universities
Mike Potter, Mississippi State University
David Reed, Center for Public Administrators
Norma M. Riccucci, Rutgers University - Newark
John C. Ronquillo, University of Colorado Denver
Beth A. Rosenson, University of Florida
David Schultz, Hamline University
Gina Scutelnicu, Pace University
Anna Simonati, University of Trento
Maryse Tremblay, University of Montreal
Manuel Villoria, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos - Campus de Vicalvaro
Matthew T. Witt, University of LaVerne
Heather Wyatt-Nichol, University of Baltimore
Abdulfattah Yaghi, United Arab Emirates University (UAE)
Staci M. Zavattaro, University of Central Florida


Public Integrity is a journal of the American Society for Public Administration.

Abstracting and indexing

Public Integrity is abstracted/indexed in:

EBSCOhost
Academic Search Alumni Edition,
Academic Search Complete
Academic Search Elite
Academic Search Premier
Academic Search Ultimate
Academic Search Index
Advanced Placement Source
NSA Collection Full Text
Political Science Complete
TOC Premier (Table of Contents)
Google Scholar
Clarivate Analytics
Emerging Sources Citation Index
Web of Science
Scopus (forthcoming)

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