Review of Public Personnel Administration
# Review of Public Personnel Administration

Review of Public Personnel Administration is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes papers in the field of public administration. The journal's editor are Jessica Sowa (University of Baltimore) and Christine Ledvinka Rush (Mississippi State University). It has been in publication since 1980 and is currently published by SAGE Publications.

## Scope

Review of Public Personnel Administration publishes scholarship on human resource management in public service organizations. The journal contains articles covering both traditional and emerging topics, including analysis of the effects of specific HR procedures or programs on the management function and assessment of the impact of HR management.

## Abstracting and indexing

Review of Public Personnel Administration is abstracted and indexed in, among other databases: SCOPUS, and the Social Sciences Citation Index. According to the Journal Citation Reports, its 2017 impact factor is 2.444, ranking it 14 out of 47 journals in the category 'Public Administration'.

