About 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

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: Andrzej Klimczuk (SGH), Editorial Secretary, aklimcz@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 Open Access mode on the basis of the Creative Commons license Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).

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.

Social networks: Facebook

Basic Statistics

Articles published last year: 26

Manuscripts received last year: 70

% accepted last year: 37

% immediately rejected last year: 12

Reviews requested last year: 150

Reviews received last year: 107

The average time between submission and publication: 34 weeks

If you have an idea for a Thematic Issue that falls within the Aims and Scope of the scientific journal “Studia z Polityki Publicznej/Public Policy Studies,” please submit a proposal to dr Andrzej Klimczuk, Editorial Secretary of the journal (aklimcz@sgh.waw.pl).

The Proposal of a Thematic Issue Should Contain the Following Descriptions:

- Project title and keywords.

- The importance and rationale of the proposed Thematic Issue, main goals, and/or research questions.

- List of potential topics for articles to be included in the Thematic Issue.

- Proposed schedule and deadlines for abstracts and manuscripts.

- Planned activities to recruit authors and disseminate Call for Papers (e.g., specific scientific communities, selected mailing lists, and social media).

- Short biography(ies) or CV(s) of Guest Editor(s).

Important Rules:

- All papers submitted to a Thematic Issue will be peer-reviewed in conformity with the journal peer-review rules.

- Once papers are submitted to the journal, all editorial decisions are made by the Editorial Board. Decisions are consulted with Guest Editor(s).

- The contributing Authors and Guest Editor(s) must follow the submission guidelines and the publishing ethics of the journal.

Current “Calls for Papers” in the Thematic Issues:

- Descriptions are available here