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LOCAL GOVERNMENT STUDIES
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, United Kingdom
LOCAL GOVERNMENT STUDIES is an academic journal published by ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD (United Kingdom). Identifiers: ISSN 0300-3930, eISSN 1743-9388. Indexed in SSCI, SCOPUS. Metrics: JIF 1.9, CiteScore 4.8, SJR 0.769, SNIP 1.54. Subject areas: POLITICAL SCIENCE, PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION, REGIONAL & URBAN PLANNING. tlooto lists 2,316 papers from this journal.
CiteScore
4.80
Scopus citation metric
SJR
0.769
SCImago rank
SNIP
1.54
Source normalized impact
Percentage rank
-
JIF percentile rank
Journal profile
- ISSN
- 0300-3930
- eISSN
- 1743-9388
- Abbreviation
- LOCAL GOV STUD
- Publisher
- ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
- Country
- United Kingdom
Web of Science categories
SSCIPOLITICAL SCIENCE, PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION, REGIONAL & URBAN PLANNING
Scopus ASJC categories
3303 Development3312 Sociology and Political Science
Keywords
Regional & Urban Planning | Political Science | Public Administration
Papers in this journal
Recent papers
- Between agent and governor: local officials’ selective implementation of religious policies in China
2026
- Bridging or bonding? A two-mode network study in top-down and bottom-up inter-municipal environmental collaborations in China
2026
- Digital participation, government responses, and public satisfaction: evidence from environmental appeals in China
2026
- The bottlenecks below: balancing expectations over municipal responsibility for climate adaptation and multilevel governance realities
2026
- Mayors as local leaders - a systematic literature review on European mayor research
2026
Most cited papers
- Examining Citizen Participation: Local Participatory Policy Making and Democracy
2010 · 466 citations
- Local Governance under the Coalition Government: Austerity, Localism and the ‘Big Society’
2012 · 400 citations
- Why do local governments privatise public services? A survey of empirical studies
2007 · 300 citations
- The Determinants of Local Government's Financial Transparency
2011 · 256 citations
- Local Government Reforms in Great Britain, Sweden, Germany and France: Between Multi-Function and Single-Purpose Organisations
2004 · 227 citations