Publius: The Journal of Federalism

Publius: The Journal of Federalism is the world's leading journal devoted to federalism. It is required reading for scholars of many disciplines who want the latest developments, trends, and empirical and theoretical work on federalism and intergovernmental relations. Publius is an international journal and is interested in publishing work on federalist systems throughout the world. Its goal is to publish the latest research from around the world on federalism theory and practice; the dynamics of federal systems; intergovernmental relations and administration; regional, state and provincial governance; and comparative federalism. Publius encourages submission of manuscripts from many disciplines and a variety of methodological approaches to the study of federalism. Federalism is a dynamic, timely topic in the world today, and the scholarship in Publius aims to reflect core debates underway with theoretical and analytical research and to analyze intergovernmental implications of policy changes. Young scholars are particularly encouraged to submit manuscripts. Publius was the pen name used by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison in 1787-1788 when they published 85 articles entitled The Federalist in defense of the federal republic created by the new Constitution of the United States of America. It is an appropriate name for a journal devoted to the increase and diffusion of knowledge about federalism and intergovernmental relations. Publius: The Journal of Federalism was founded in 1973 by the late Daniel Elazar, a preeminent scholar of federalism. Publius is sponsored by the Section on Federalism and Intergovernmental Relations of the American Political Science Association.

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Category	Year	Quartile
Public Administration	1999	Q3
Public Administration	2000	Q3
Public Administration	2001	Q3
Public Administration	2002	Q3
Public Administration	2003	Q2
Public Administration	2004	Q1
Public Administration	2005	Q3
Public Administration	2006	Q2
Public Administration	2007	Q2
Public Administration	2008	Q1
Public Administration	2009	Q1
Public Administration	2010	Q2
Public Administration	2011	Q1
Public Administration	2012	Q2
Public Administration	2013	Q2
Public Administration	2014	Q2
Public Administration	2015	Q1
Public Administration	2016	Q1
Public Administration	2017	Q2
Public Administration	2018	Q1
Public Administration	2019	Q2
Public Administration	2020	Q1
Public Administration	2021	Q2
Public Administration	2022	Q2
Public Administration	2023	Q2
Sociology and Political Science	1999	Q2
Sociology and Political Science	2000	Q2
Sociology and Political Science	2001	Q2
Sociology and Political Science	2002	Q3
Sociology and Political Science	2003	Q2
Sociology and Political Science	2004	Q1
Sociology and Political Science	2005	Q2
Sociology and Political Science	2006	Q2
Sociology and Political Science	2007	Q2
Sociology and Political Science	2008	Q1
Sociology and Political Science	2009	Q2
Sociology and Political Science	2010	Q2
Sociology and Political Science	2011	Q1
Sociology and Political Science	2012	Q2
Sociology and Political Science	2013	Q2
Sociology and Political Science	2014	Q1
Sociology and Political Science	2015	Q1
Sociology and Political Science	2016	Q1
Sociology and Political Science	2017	Q1
Sociology and Political Science	2018	Q1
Sociology and Political Science	2019	Q1
Sociology and Political Science	2020	Q1
Sociology and Political Science	2021	Q2
Sociology and Political Science	2022	Q2
Sociology and Political Science	2023	Q1

SJR

The SJR is a size-independent prestige indicator that ranks journals by their 'average prestige per article'. It is based on the idea that 'all citations are not created equal'. SJR is a measure of scientific influence of journals that accounts for both the number of citations received by a journal and the importance or prestige of the journals where such citations come from It measures the scientific influence of the average article in a journal, it expresses how central to the global scientific discussion an average article of the journal is.

Year	SJR
1999	0.316
2000	0.288
2001	0.296
2002	0.229
2003	0.327
2004	0.554
2005	0.240
2006	0.324
2007	0.517
2008	0.927
2009	0.634
2010	0.499
2011	1.177
2012	0.517
2013	0.621
2014	0.790
2015	1.010
2016	0.799
2017	0.621
2018	0.897
2019	0.760
2020	0.926
2021	0.476
2022	0.501
2023	0.707

Total Documents

Evolution of the number of published documents. All types of documents are considered, including citable and non citable documents.

Year	Documents
1999	24
2000	29
2001	24
2002	27
2003	21
2004	27
2005	27
2006	27
2007	25
2008	29
2009	29
2010	30
2011	29
2012	29
2013	31
2014	28
2015	28
2016	25
2017	32
2018	25
2019	13
2020	25
2021	32
2022	28
2023	13

Citations per document

This indicator counts the number of citations received by documents from a journal and divides them by the total number of documents published in that journal. The chart shows the evolution of the average number of times documents published in a journal in the past two, three and four years have been cited in the current year. The two years line is equivalent to journal impact factor ™ (Thomson Reuters) metric.

Cites per document	Year	Value
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	1999	0.517
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2000	0.549
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2001	0.495
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2002	0.491
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2003	0.529
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2004	0.634
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2005	0.586
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2006	0.627
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2007	0.853
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2008	1.434
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2009	1.565
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2010	1.782
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2011	1.558
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2012	1.829
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2013	1.761
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2014	1.697
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2015	1.812
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2016	1.983
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2017	2.063
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2018	2.097
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2019	1.364
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2020	2.147
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2021	2.389
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2022	1.916
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2023	2.929
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	1999	0.517
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2000	0.415
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2001	0.433
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2002	0.403
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2003	0.475
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2004	0.514
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2005	0.467
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2006	0.547
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2007	1.012
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2008	1.759
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2009	1.802
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2010	1.386
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2011	1.557
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2012	1.727
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2013	1.534
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2014	1.652
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2015	1.761
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2016	2.000
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2017	1.840
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2018	1.976
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2019	1.329
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2020	2.129
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2021	2.032
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2022	1.971
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2023	2.729
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	1999	0.448
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2000	0.459
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2001	0.396
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2002	0.226
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2003	0.294
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2004	0.375
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2005	0.354
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2006	0.500
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2007	1.259
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2008	2.038
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2009	1.481
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2010	1.224
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2011	1.237
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2012	1.441
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2013	1.500
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2014	1.700
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2015	1.627
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2016	1.839
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2017	1.811
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2018	1.807
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2019	1.368
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2020	2.000
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2021	1.895
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2022	2.070
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2023	3.100

Total Cites

Self-Cites

Evolution of the total number of citations and journal's self-citations received by a journal's published documents during the three previous years.
Journal Self-citation is defined as the number of citation from a journal citing article to articles published by the same journal.

Cites	Year	Value
Self Cites	1999	26
Self Cites	2000	16
Self Cites	2001	15
Self Cites	2002	0
Self Cites	2003	7
Self Cites	2004	10
Self Cites	2005	13
Self Cites	2006	11
Self Cites	2007	20
Self Cites	2008	41
Self Cites	2009	44
Self Cites	2010	23
Self Cites	2011	37
Self Cites	2012	26
Self Cites	2013	38
Self Cites	2014	31
Self Cites	2015	21
Self Cites	2016	30
Self Cites	2017	38
Self Cites	2018	30
Self Cites	2019	4
Self Cites	2020	18
Self Cites	2021	20
Self Cites	2022	24
Self Cites	2023	2
Total Cites	1999	46
Total Cites	2000	34
Total Cites	2001	39
Total Cites	2002	31
Total Cites	2003	38
Total Cites	2004	37
Total Cites	2005	35
Total Cites	2006	41
Total Cites	2007	82
Total Cites	2008	139
Total Cites	2009	146
Total Cites	2010	115
Total Cites	2011	137
Total Cites	2012	152
Total Cites	2013	135
Total Cites	2014	147
Total Cites	2015	155
Total Cites	2016	174
Total Cites	2017	149
Total Cites	2018	168
Total Cites	2019	109
Total Cites	2020	149
Total Cites	2021	128
Total Cites	2022	138
Total Cites	2023	232

External Cites per Doc

Cites per Doc

Evolution of the number of total citation per document and external citation per document (i.e. journal self-citations removed) received by a journal's published documents during the three previous years. External citations are calculated by subtracting the number of self-citations from the total number of citations received by the journal’s documents.

Cites	Year	Value
External Cites per document	1999	0.225
External Cites per document	2000	0.220
External Cites per document	2001	0.267
External Cites per document	2002	0.403
External Cites per document	2003	0.388
External Cites per document	2004	0.375
External Cites per document	2005	0.293
External Cites per document	2006	0.400
External Cites per document	2007	0.765
External Cites per document	2008	1.241
External Cites per document	2009	1.259
External Cites per document	2010	1.108
External Cites per document	2011	1.136
External Cites per document	2012	1.432
External Cites per document	2013	1.102
External Cites per document	2014	1.303
External Cites per document	2015	1.523
External Cites per document	2016	1.655
External Cites per document	2017	1.370
External Cites per document	2018	1.624
External Cites per document	2019	1.280
External Cites per document	2020	1.871
External Cites per document	2021	1.714
External Cites per document	2022	1.629
External Cites per document	2023	2.706
Cites per document	1999	0.517
Cites per document	2000	0.415
Cites per document	2001	0.433
Cites per document	2002	0.403
Cites per document	2003	0.475
Cites per document	2004	0.514
Cites per document	2005	0.467
Cites per document	2006	0.547
Cites per document	2007	1.012
Cites per document	2008	1.759
Cites per document	2009	1.802
Cites per document	2010	1.386
Cites per document	2011	1.557
Cites per document	2012	1.727
Cites per document	2013	1.534
Cites per document	2014	1.652
Cites per document	2015	1.761
Cites per document	2016	2.000
Cites per document	2017	1.840
Cites per document	2018	1.976
Cites per document	2019	1.329
Cites per document	2020	2.129
Cites per document	2021	2.032
Cites per document	2022	1.971
Cites per document	2023	2.729

% International Collaboration

International Collaboration accounts for the articles that have been produced by researchers from several countries. The chart shows the ratio of a journal's documents signed by researchers from more than one country; that is including more than one country address.

Year	International Collaboration
1999	4.17
2000	0.00
2001	4.17
2002	3.70
2003	23.81
2004	3.70
2005	18.52
2006	3.70
2007	12.00
2008	3.45
2009	3.45
2010	20.00
2011	10.34
2012	17.24
2013	22.58
2014	7.14
2015	10.71
2016	16.00
2017	12.50
2018	16.00
2019	30.77
2020	28.00
2021	21.88
2022	28.57
2023	15.38

Citable documents

Non-citable documents

Not every article in a journal is considered primary research and therefore "citable", this chart shows the ratio of a journal's articles including substantial research (research articles, conference papers and reviews) in three year windows vs. those documents other than research articles, reviews and conference papers.

Documents	Year	Value
Non-citable documents	1999	0
Non-citable documents	2000	0
Non-citable documents	2001	0
Non-citable documents	2002	0
Non-citable documents	2003	0
Non-citable documents	2004	0
Non-citable documents	2005	0
Non-citable documents	2006	0
Non-citable documents	2007	1
Non-citable documents	2008	1
Non-citable documents	2009	2
Non-citable documents	2010	1
Non-citable documents	2011	1
Non-citable documents	2012	0
Non-citable documents	2013	0
Non-citable documents	2014	0
Non-citable documents	2015	0
Non-citable documents	2016	1
Non-citable documents	2017	1
Non-citable documents	2018	2
Non-citable documents	2019	1
Non-citable documents	2020	1
Non-citable documents	2021	1
Non-citable documents	2022	1
Non-citable documents	2023	1
Citable documents	1999	89
Citable documents	2000	82
Citable documents	2001	90
Citable documents	2002	77
Citable documents	2003	80
Citable documents	2004	72
Citable documents	2005	75
Citable documents	2006	75
Citable documents	2007	80
Citable documents	2008	78
Citable documents	2009	79
Citable documents	2010	82
Citable documents	2011	87
Citable documents	2012	88
Citable documents	2013	88
Citable documents	2014	89
Citable documents	2015	88
Citable documents	2016	86
Citable documents	2017	80
Citable documents	2018	83
Citable documents	2019	81
Citable documents	2020	69
Citable documents	2021	62
Citable documents	2022	69
Citable documents	2023	84

Cited documents

Uncited documents

Ratio of a journal's items, grouped in three years windows, that have been cited at least once vs. those not cited during the following year.

Documents	Year	Value
Uncited documents	1999	58
Uncited documents	2000	58
Uncited documents	2001	64
Uncited documents	2002	55
Uncited documents	2003	53
Uncited documents	2004	46
Uncited documents	2005	52
Uncited documents	2006	46
Uncited documents	2007	41
Uncited documents	2008	25
Uncited documents	2009	20
Uncited documents	2010	28
Uncited documents	2011	31
Uncited documents	2012	27
Uncited documents	2013	34
Uncited documents	2014	28
Uncited documents	2015	28
Uncited documents	2016	24
Uncited documents	2017	29
Uncited documents	2018	24
Uncited documents	2019	37
Uncited documents	2020	25
Uncited documents	2021	23
Uncited documents	2022	18
Uncited documents	2023	20
Cited documents	1999	31
Cited documents	2000	24
Cited documents	2001	26
Cited documents	2002	22
Cited documents	2003	27
Cited documents	2004	26
Cited documents	2005	23
Cited documents	2006	29
Cited documents	2007	40
Cited documents	2008	54
Cited documents	2009	61
Cited documents	2010	55
Cited documents	2011	57
Cited documents	2012	61
Cited documents	2013	54
Cited documents	2014	61
Cited documents	2015	60
Cited documents	2016	63
Cited documents	2017	52
Cited documents	2018	61
Cited documents	2019	45
Cited documents	2020	45
Cited documents	2021	40
Cited documents	2022	52
Cited documents	2023	65