Public Administration and Development

*Public Administration and Development*
Discipline	Public administration
Language	English
Edited by	Mariana Chudnovsky and Ian C. Elliott
Publication details
Former name(s)	Journal of African Administration (1949–1961); Journal of Local Administration Overseas (1962–1966); Journal of Administration Overseas (1966–1980)
History	1949–present
Publisher	Wiley-Blackwell
Frequency	5 per year
Open access	Hybrid
Impact factor	2.6 (2023)
Standard abbreviations;
ISO 4	Public Adm. Dev.
Indexing;
ISSN	1099-162X;
Links
	Journal homepage; Online access; Online archive;

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.^[1] In 2021, the journal was ranked as a Grade 2 journal in the field of public administration.^[2] The journal is published by Wiley (publisher) and is edited by Mariana Chudnovsky, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile and Ian C. Elliott (University of Glasgow).

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2023 impact factor of 2.6, ranking it 18th out of 63 journals in the category "Development Studies" and 28th out of 91 journals in the category "Public Administration".^[3]

Editors-in-chief

The following persons have been editors-in-chief:

2025-Present: Mariana Chudnovsky, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile and Ian C. Elliott, University of Glasgow
2023-2025: 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