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
Understanding and using journal metrics
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We strongly recommend that you always use a number of metrics, alongside other qualitative factors such as a journal’s aims & scope, its readership, and a review of past content published in the journal. In addition, a single article should always be assessed on its own merits and never based on the metrics of the journal it was published in.
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Journal metrics in brief
Usage and acceptance rate data above are for the last full calendar year and are updated annually in February. Speed data is updated every six months, based on the prior six months. Citation metrics are updated annually mid-year. Please note that some journals do not display all of the following metrics (find out why).
- Usage: the total number of times articles in the journal were viewed by users of Taylor & Francis Online in the previous calendar year, rounded to the nearest thousand.
Citation Metrics
- Impact Factor*: the average number of citations received by articles published in the journal within a two-year window. Only journals in the Clarivate Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI) and the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) have an Impact Factor.
- Impact Factor Best Quartile*: the journal’s highest subject category ranking in the Journal Citation Reports. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest Impact Factors.
- 5 Year Impact Factor*: the average number of citations received by articles in the journal within a five-year window.
- CiteScore (Scopus)†: the average number of citations received by articles in the journal over a four-year period.
- CiteScore Best Quartile†: the journal’s highest CiteScore ranking in a Scopus subject category. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest CiteScores.
- SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper): the number of citations per paper in the journal, divided by citation potential in the field.
- SJR (Scimago Journal Rank): Average number of (weighted) citations in one year, divided by the number of articles published in the journal in the previous three years.
Speed/acceptance
- From submission to first decision: the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the journal to receive a first decision. Based on manuscripts receiving a first decision in the last six months.
- From submission to first post-review decision: the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the journal to receive a first decision if it is sent out for peer review. Based on manuscripts receiving a post-review first decision in the last six months.
- From acceptance to online publication: the average (median) number of days from acceptance of a manuscript to online publication of the Version of Record. Based on articles published in the last six months.
- Acceptance rate: articles accepted for publication by the journal in the previous calendar year as percentage of all papers receiving a final decision.
For more details on the data above, please read the Author Services guide to understanding journal metrics.
*Copyright: Journal Citation Reports®, Clarivate Analytics
†Copyright: CiteScore™, Scopus
Editorial board
Editor-in-Chief
Sue Neal, Arkansas State University
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)
Open access
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- Rigorous peer review for every open access article
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News, offers and calls for papers
News and offers
Calls for papers
- Special Issue: The Paradox of Anti-Corruption Policy Formulation, Adoption, and Implementation in Contexts of Systemic Corruption
- Special Issue: Sports as a lens for exploring today's administrative dilemmas
- Special Issue: Strategic Corruption: Conceptualizing the geostrategic dimensions of transnational corruption
6 issues per year
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