Policy Sciences

1.3k papers and 41.2k indexed citations i.

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The 1.3k papers published in Policy Sciences in the last decades have received a total of 41.2k indexed citations. Papers published in Policy Sciences usually cover Political Science and International Relations (410 papers), Sociology and Political Science (276 papers) and Economics and Econometrics (242 papers) specifically the topics of Policy Transfer and Learning (226 papers), Public Policy and Administration Research (169 papers) and Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (104 papers). The most active scholars publishing in Policy Sciences are Horst W. J. Rittel, Melvin M. Webber, Paul Sabatier, Michael Howlett, James Meadowcroft, Maarten A. Hajer, Baruch Fischhoff, Magali A. Delmas, Reinhard Steurer and Ronald D. Brunner.

In The Last Decade

Fields of papers published in Policy Sciences

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers published in Policy Sciences. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers published in Policy Sciences.

Countries where authors publish in Policy Sciences

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This map shows the geographic impact of research published in Policy Sciences. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by papers published in Policy Sciences with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Policy Sciences more than expected).

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar’s output or impact.

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