Policy Sciences

Journal Title：Policy Sciences

The policy sciences are distinctive within the policy movement in that they embrace the scholarly traditions innovated and elaborated by Harold D. Lasswell and Myres S. McDougal. Within these pages we provide space for approaches that are problem-oriented, contextual, and multi-method in orientation. There are many other journals in which authors can take top-down, deductive, and large-sample approach or adopt a primarily theoretical focus. Policy Sciences encourages systematic and empirical investigations in which problems are clearly identified from a practical and theoretical perspective, are well situated in the extant literature, and are investigated utilizing methodologies compatible with contextual, as opposed to reductionist, understandings. We tend not to publish pieces that are solely theoretical, but favor works in which the applied policy lessons are clearly articulated. Policy Sciences favors, but does not publish exclusively, works that either explicitly or implicitly utilize the policy sciences framework. The policy sciences can be applied to articles with greater or lesser intensity to accommodate the focus of an author’s work. At the minimum, this means taking a problem oriented, multi-method or contextual approach. At the fullest expression, it may mean leveraging central theory or explicitly applying aspects of the framework, which is comprised of three principal dimensions: (1) social process, which is mapped in terms of participants, perspectives, situations, base values, strategies, outcomes and effects, with values (power, wealth, enlightenment, skill, rectitude, respect, well-being, and affection) being the key elements in understanding participants’ behaviors and interactions; (2) decision process, which is mapped in terms of seven functions—intelligence, promotion, prescription, invocation, application, termination, and appraisal; and (3) problem orientation, which comprises the intellectual tasks of clarifying goals, describing trends, analyzing conditions, projecting developments, and inventing, evaluating, and selecting alternatives. There is a more extensive core literature that also applies and can be visited at the policy sciences website: http://www.policysciences.org/classicworks.cfm. In addition to articles that explicitly utilize the policy sciences framework, Policy Sciences has a long tradition of publishing papers that draw on various aspects of that framework and its central theory as well as high quality conceptual pieces that address key challenges, opportunities, or approaches in ways congruent with the perspective that this journal strives to maintain and extend.Officially cited as: Policy Sci

政策科学在政策运动中独树一帜，因为它们采用了 Harold D. Lasswell 和 Myres S. McDougal 创新和阐述的学术传统。在这些页面中，我们为面向问题、情境化和多方法导向的方法提供了空间。在许多其他期刊中，作者可以采用自上而下、演绎和大样本方法，或主要采用理论重点。政策科学鼓励系统和实证研究，从实践和理论角度明确问题，在现有文献中很好地定位问题，并使用与情境理解（而不是还原论理解）兼容的方法进行研究。我们倾向于不发表纯理论性的文章，而是倾向于清晰阐述应用政策经验的作品。政策科学倾向于（但不只发表）明确或隐含地利用政策科学框架的作品。政策科学可以应用于强度更大或更小的文章，以适应作者作品的重点。至少，这意味着采取面向问题、多方法或情境化的方法。最充分的表达是，它可能意味着利用核心理论或明确应用框架的各个方面，该框架由三个主要维度组成：（1）社会过程，以参与者、观点、情况、基本价值观、策略、结果和效果来映射，价值观（权力、财富、启蒙、技能、正直、尊重、幸福和感情）是理解参与者行为和互动的关键要素；（2）决策过程，以七种功能来映射——情报、促进、规定、调用、应用、终止和评估；（3）问题导向，包括澄清目标、描述趋势、分析条件、预测发展以及发明、评估和选择替代方案的智力任务。还有更广泛的核心文献也适用，可以在政策科学网站上访问：http://www.policysciences.org/classicworks.cfm。除了明确使用政策科学框架的文章外，《政策科学》还长期出版借鉴该框架及其核心理论各个方面的论文，以及以与本期刊努力维护和扩展的观点一致的方式解决关键挑战、机遇或方法的高质量概念性文章。正式引用为：政策科学

Policy Sciences创刊于1970年，由Springer Nature出版商出版，收稿方向涵盖Multiple全领域，此刊是中等级别的SCI期刊，所以过审相对来讲不是特别难，但是该刊专业认可度不错，仍然是一本值得选择的SCI期刊 。平均审稿速度 ，影响因子指数3.8，该期刊近期没有被列入国际期刊预警名单，广大学者值得一试。