About the Journal

The journal “Studia z Polityki Publicznej / Public Policy Studies” is a quarterly journal that publishes academic papers. Its profile refers to the Anglo-Saxon analytic tradition known as public policy.

The articles focus on the issues of public policy in its various dimensions, including:

  • - Analysis of public problems (challenges, risks).
  • - Analysis of public actions (reforms) in various types of policies (sectoral and horizontal).
  • - Stakeholder networks of specific policies (policy communities), their interests, mutual interactions.
  • - Concepts or theories of public policy (including sectoral policies).
  • - Models and cycles in a given policy (from the diagnosis of the problem to the evaluation of the solution).
  • - Attitudes, values, motives of actions of policy actors (e.g., the role of trust among stakeholders, ability to cooperate).
  • - Methods for evaluating results in policies.
  • - Indicators demonstrating the results of public activities.
  • - Mechanisms of resource allocation in public action (market and its fragility, state fragility).
  • - Sources influencing the shaping of public policies (e.g., intellectual, social, cultural, historical).
  • - Sources of knowledge in selected policies (policy knowledge); knowledge brokers (expert networks).
  • - Decision-making processes and styles of action in public policy (unilateral vs. partner actions, anticipation of problems vs. reactivity).
  • - Institutional factors co-shaping public policy (e.g., party systems, parliamentary systems, public administration).​

We kindly invite you to submit papers devoted to economic, social (e.g., welfare, social security) or infrastructural (e.g., energy, transport) policies, as well as policies regarding education, higher education and horizontal policies (e.g., regional policy, public strategies).

Scientific Disciplines

Ministry of Education and Science, Poland: health sciences, economics and finance, political and administrative sciences, sociological sciences

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Fields of Science and Technology (OECD FOS): health sciences, economics and business, political science, social and economic geography, sociology

The journal is a diamond Open Access publication, indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) - meeting requirements for Open Access publishing.

Key Information

Journal name: Studia z Polityki Publicznej / Public Policy Studies

ISSN: 2391-6389

eISSN: 2719-7131​

Editor-in-Chief: Andrzej Zybała (SGH)

Publisher: Collegium of Socio-Economics, SGH Warsaw School of Economics
in collaboration with: SGH Publishing House - SGH Warsaw School of Economics, Poland

Register of newspapers and magazines: PR 18551, Warsaw District Court, VII Civil Registry Division, Poland

Establishment year: 2014

Editorial contact: kwartalnikSPP@sgh.waw.pl

Principal contact: Anna Anetta Janowska (SGH), secretary of the editorial board,, ajanows@sgh.waw.pl

Frequency: 4 issues per year

Review process: double-blind peer review

Article Processing Charges (APCs): None

Submission fee: None

License: The journal of “Studia z Polityki Publicznej/Public Policy Studies” provides access to the content of articles in the diamond Open Access mode on the basis of the Creative Commons license Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).

 License CC-BY

Indexing: among others the databases BazEkon, Central and Eastern European Online Library (CEEOL), CrossRef, Google Scholar, Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), ERIH PLUS, Free Journal Network (FJN), Polska Bibliografia Naukowa (PBN), Lens, Dimensions, Scite, Scilit, Baidu Scholar, NAVER, Korea Open Access Platform for Researchers (KOAR), Informationsdienst Politikwissenschaft (POLLUX), International Political Science Abstracts (IPSA), J-Gate, Research Papers in Economics (RePEc), Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE), Gale Academic OneFile, China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI), EBSCOhost, HeinOnline.

Archiving: The National Library of Poland, the Library of the SGH Warsaw School of Economics, the Fatcat system of Internet Archive, PKP Preservation Network (PKP PN) included in The Keepers registry.

Author Self-Archiving Policy: This journal permits and encourages authors to post items submitted to the journal on personal websites or institutional repositories both prior to and after publication.

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