3.6(top 4%)
Impact Factor
4.3(top 4%)
extended IF
81(top 5%)
H-Index
376
authors
2.5K
papers
36.3K
citations
3.7K
citing journals
9.8K
citing authors

Most Cited Articles of Policy Studies Journal

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Background on the Institutional Analysis and Development Framework2011729
Policy Entrepreneurship and Policy Change2009614
Themes and Variations: Taking Stock of the Advocacy Coalition Framework2009473
A Narrative Policy Framework: Clear Enough to Be Wrong?2010415
CONSUMERS AS COPRODUCERS OF PUBLIC SERVICES: SOME ECONOMIC AND INSTITUTIONAL CONSIDERATIONS1981392
Outsourcing Regulation: Analyzing Nongovernmental Systems of Labor Standards and Monitoring2003364
THE IMPLEMENTATION OF PUBLIC POLICY: A FRAMEWORK OF ANALYSIS*1980356
The Institutional Collective Action Framework2013328
An Introduction to IAD and the Language of the Ostrom Workshop: A Simple Guide to a Complex Framework2011297
Global Public Policy, Transnational Policy Communities, and Their Networks2008285
Advocacy Coalitions, Policy Entrepreneurs, and Policy Change1996276
Expert-Based Information and Policy Subsystems: A Review and Synthesis2008270
Policy Instruments, Policy Styles, and Policy Implementation1991243
From There to Here: Punctuated Equilibrium to the General Punctuation Thesis to a Theory of Government Information Processing2012227
Is There Life After Policy Streams, Advocacy Coalitions, and Punctuations: Using Evolutionary Theory to Explain Policy Change?2003224
Governing Institutional Complexity: The Ecology of Games Framework2013208
Comparing Policy Networks: Marine Protected Areas in California2005205
Assessing the Performance of Voluntary Environmental Programs: Does Certification Matter?2008200
Policy Narratives and Policy Processes2011195
Building a Conceptual Approach to Collective Learning: Lessons for Public Policy Scholars2013190
Network Structures within Policy Processes: Coalitions, Power, and Brokerage in Swiss Climate Policy2011178
Beyond Empiricism: Policy Inquiry in Post positivist Perspective1998178
A River Runs Through It: A Multiple Streams Meta-Review2016178
The Performance of Policy Networks: The Relation between Network Structure and Network Performance2008170
Problem Definition, Agenda Access, and Policy Choice1993169