Public Administration and Development is a peer-reviewed academic journal which covers practice of public administration at the local, regional, national and international levels where it is directed to managing development processes in low and medium income countries.

[1] In 2021, the journal was ranked as a Grade 2 journal in the field of public administration.

[2] The journal is published by Wiley (publisher) and is edited by Ian C. Elliott (Northumbria University) and Alfred Wu (National University of Singapore).

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2022 impact factor of 2.5, ranking it 21st out of 42 journals in the category "Development Studies" and 29th out of 49 journals in the category "Public Administration".

[3] The following persons have been editors-in-chief: Public Administration and Development is indexed in: