Utilities Policy

Utilities Policy is deliberately international, interdisciplinary, and intersectoral. Articles address utility trends and issues in both developed and developing economies. Authors and reviewers come from various disciplines, including economics, political science, sociology, law, finance, accounting, management, and engineering. Areas of focus include the utility and network industries providing essential electricity, natural gas, water and wastewater, solid waste, communications, broadband, postal, and public transportation services. Utilities Policy invites submissions that apply various quantitative and qualitative methods. Contributions are welcome from both established and emerging scholars as well as accomplished practitioners. Interdisciplinary, comparative, and applied works are encouraged. Submissions to the journal should have a clear focus on governance, performance, and/or analysis of public utilities with an aim toward informing the policymaking process and providing recommendations as appropriate. Relevant topics and issues include but are not limited to industry structures and ownership, market design and dynamics, economic development, resource planning, system modeling, accounting and finance, infrastructure investment, supply and demand efficiency, strategic management and productivity, network operations and integration, supply chains, adaptation and flexibility, service-quality standards, benchmarking and metrics, benefit-cost analysis, behavior and incentives, pricing and demand response, economic and environmental regulation, regulatory performance and impact, restructuring and deregulation, and policy institutions.

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Quartiles

The set of journals have been ranked according to their SJR and divided into four equal groups, four quartiles. Q1 (green) comprises the quarter of the journals with the highest values, Q2 (yellow) the second highest values, Q3 (orange) the third highest values and Q4 (red) the lowest values.

Category	Year	Quartile
Business and International Management	1999	Q2
Business and International Management	2000	Q1
Business and International Management	2001	Q1
Business and International Management	2002	Q2
Business and International Management	2003	Q2
Business and International Management	2004	Q2
Business and International Management	2005	Q2
Business and International Management	2006	Q2
Business and International Management	2007	Q2
Business and International Management	2008	Q1
Business and International Management	2009	Q1
Business and International Management	2010	Q1
Business and International Management	2011	Q1
Business and International Management	2012	Q1
Business and International Management	2013	Q2
Business and International Management	2014	Q2
Business and International Management	2015	Q2
Business and International Management	2016	Q1
Business and International Management	2017	Q1
Business and International Management	2018	Q1
Business and International Management	2019	Q1
Business and International Management	2020	Q1
Business and International Management	2021	Q1
Business and International Management	2022	Q1
Business and International Management	2023	Q1
Development	1999	Q2
Development	2000	Q1
Development	2001	Q2
Development	2002	Q3
Development	2003	Q2
Development	2004	Q2
Development	2005	Q3
Development	2006	Q2
Development	2007	Q2
Development	2008	Q1
Development	2009	Q2
Development	2010	Q1
Development	2011	Q1
Development	2012	Q1
Development	2013	Q2
Development	2014	Q2
Development	2015	Q2
Development	2016	Q1
Development	2017	Q1
Development	2018	Q1
Development	2019	Q1
Development	2020	Q1
Development	2021	Q1
Development	2022	Q1
Development	2023	Q1
Economics and Econometrics	2022	Q2
Economics and Econometrics	2023	Q2
Law	1999	Q2
Law	2000	Q1
Law	2001	Q1
Law	2002	Q2
Law	2003	Q2
Law	2004	Q1
Law	2005	Q2
Law	2006	Q1
Law	2007	Q2
Law	2008	Q1
Law	2009	Q1
Law	2010	Q1
Law	2011	Q1
Law	2012	Q1
Law	2013	Q2
Law	2014	Q2
Law	2015	Q1
Law	2016	Q1
Law	2017	Q1
Law	2018	Q1
Law	2019	Q1
Law	2020	Q1
Law	2021	Q1
Law	2022	Q1
Law	2023	Q1
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law	1999	Q2
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law	2000	Q2
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law	2001	Q2
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law	2002	Q3
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law	2003	Q3
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law	2004	Q3
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law	2005	Q3
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law	2006	Q2
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law	2007	Q2
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law	2008	Q1
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law	2009	Q2
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law	2010	Q1
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law	2011	Q2
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law	2012	Q1
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law	2013	Q2
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law	2014	Q2
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law	2015	Q2
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law	2016	Q2
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law	2017	Q1
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law	2018	Q1
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law	2019	Q2
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law	2020	Q2
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law	2021	Q2
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law	2022	Q1
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law	2023	Q2
Sociology and Political Science	1999	Q3
Sociology and Political Science	2000	Q2
Sociology and Political Science	2001	Q2
Sociology and Political Science	2002	Q3
Sociology and Political Science	2003	Q2
Sociology and Political Science	2004	Q2
Sociology and Political Science	2005	Q3
Sociology and Political Science	2006	Q2
Sociology and Political Science	2007	Q2
Sociology and Political Science	2008	Q1
Sociology and Political Science	2009	Q2
Sociology and Political Science	2010	Q1
Sociology and Political Science	2011	Q1
Sociology and Political Science	2012	Q1
Sociology and Political Science	2013	Q2
Sociology and Political Science	2014	Q2
Sociology and Political Science	2015	Q2
Sociology and Political Science	2016	Q1
Sociology and Political Science	2017	Q1
Sociology and Political Science	2018	Q1
Sociology and Political Science	2019	Q1
Sociology and Political Science	2020	Q1
Sociology and Political Science	2021	Q1
Sociology and Political Science	2022	Q1
Sociology and Political Science	2023	Q1
Transportation	2022	Q2
Transportation	2023	Q2

SJR

The SJR is a size-independent prestige indicator that ranks journals by their 'average prestige per article'. It is based on the idea that 'all citations are not created equal'. SJR is a measure of scientific influence of journals that accounts for both the number of citations received by a journal and the importance or prestige of the journals where such citations come from It measures the scientific influence of the average article in a journal, it expresses how central to the global scientific discussion an average article of the journal is.

Year	SJR
1999	0.251
2000	0.442
2001	0.437
2002	0.151
2003	0.237
2004	0.258
2005	0.233
2006	0.407
2007	0.312
2008	0.748
2009	0.606
2010	0.798
2011	0.817
2012	0.909
2013	0.499
2014	0.507
2015	0.503
2016	0.817
2017	0.920
2018	0.927
2019	0.818
2020	0.860
2021	0.736
2022	0.906
2023	0.889

Total Documents

Evolution of the number of published documents. All types of documents are considered, including citable and non citable documents.

Year	Documents
1999	25
2000	16
2001	17
2002	0
2003	26
2004	33
2005	29
2006	28
2007	28
2008	35
2009	30
2010	28
2011	31
2012	32
2013	39
2014	58
2015	58
2016	90
2017	71
2018	89
2019	83
2020	108
2021	122
2022	95
2023	181

Citations per document

This indicator counts the number of citations received by documents from a journal and divides them by the total number of documents published in that journal. The chart shows the evolution of the average number of times documents published in a journal in the past two, three and four years have been cited in the current year. The two years line is equivalent to journal impact factor ™ (Thomson Reuters) metric.

Cites per document	Year	Value
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	1999	0.383
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2000	0.472
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2001	0.432
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2002	0.375
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2003	0.638
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2004	0.559
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2005	0.395
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2006	0.773
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2007	0.638
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2008	1.347
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2009	1.367
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2010	1.405
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2011	1.537
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2012	1.879
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2013	1.868
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2014	1.638
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2015	1.794
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2016	2.086
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2017	2.224
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2018	2.801
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2019	2.851
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2020	3.580
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2021	3.308
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2022	3.938
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2023	4.402
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	1999	0.383
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2000	0.472
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2001	0.418
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2002	0.241
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2003	0.485
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2004	0.442
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2005	0.390
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2006	0.773
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2007	0.622
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2008	1.365
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2009	1.231
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2010	1.430
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2011	1.634
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2012	1.517
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2013	1.560
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2014	1.569
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2015	1.775
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2016	1.923
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2017	2.257
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2018	2.849
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2019	2.704
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2020	3.210
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2021	3.346
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2022	4.099
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2023	4.572
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	1999	0.383
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2000	0.308
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2001	0.439
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2002	0.152
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2003	0.000
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2004	0.538
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2005	0.390
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2006	0.629
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2007	0.632
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2008	0.946
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2009	1.206
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2010	1.662
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2011	1.310
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2012	1.000
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2013	1.508
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2014	1.563
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2015	1.588
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2016	1.836
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2017	2.372
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2018	2.801
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2019	2.206
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2020	3.244
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2021	3.476
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2022	4.065
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2023	4.811

Total Cites

Self-Cites

Evolution of the total number of citations and journal's self-citations received by a journal's published documents during the three previous years.
Journal Self-citation is defined as the number of citation from a journal citing article to articles published by the same journal.

Cites	Year	Value
Self Cites	1999	2
Self Cites	2000	5
Self Cites	2001	3
Self Cites	2002	0
Self Cites	2003	2
Self Cites	2004	4
Self Cites	2005	5
Self Cites	2006	17
Self Cites	2007	5
Self Cites	2008	14
Self Cites	2009	3
Self Cites	2010	4
Self Cites	2011	10
Self Cites	2012	21
Self Cites	2013	16
Self Cites	2014	13
Self Cites	2015	38
Self Cites	2016	43
Self Cites	2017	57
Self Cites	2018	71
Self Cites	2019	62
Self Cites	2020	82
Self Cites	2021	97
Self Cites	2022	108
Self Cites	2023	162
Total Cites	1999	18
Total Cites	2000	34
Total Cites	2001	23
Total Cites	2002	14
Total Cites	2003	16
Total Cites	2004	19
Total Cites	2005	23
Total Cites	2006	68
Total Cites	2007	56
Total Cites	2008	116
Total Cites	2009	112
Total Cites	2010	133
Total Cites	2011	152
Total Cites	2012	135
Total Cites	2013	142
Total Cites	2014	160
Total Cites	2015	229
Total Cites	2016	298
Total Cites	2017	465
Total Cites	2018	624
Total Cites	2019	676
Total Cites	2020	780
Total Cites	2021	937
Total Cites	2022	1283
Total Cites	2023	1486

External Cites per Doc

Cites per Doc

Evolution of the number of total citation per document and external citation per document (i.e. journal self-citations removed) received by a journal's published documents during the three previous years. External citations are calculated by subtracting the number of self-citations from the total number of citations received by the journal’s documents.

Cites	Year	Value
External Cites per document	1999	0.340
External Cites per document	2000	0.403
External Cites per document	2001	0.364
External Cites per document	2002	0.241
External Cites per document	2003	0.424
External Cites per document	2004	0.349
External Cites per document	2005	0.305
External Cites per document	2006	0.580
External Cites per document	2007	0.567
External Cites per document	2008	1.200
External Cites per document	2009	1.198
External Cites per document	2010	1.387
External Cites per document	2011	1.527
External Cites per document	2012	1.281
External Cites per document	2013	1.385
External Cites per document	2014	1.441
External Cites per document	2015	1.481
External Cites per document	2016	1.645
External Cites per document	2017	1.981
External Cites per document	2018	2.525
External Cites per document	2019	2.456
External Cites per document	2020	2.872
External Cites per document	2021	3.000
External Cites per document	2022	3.754
External Cites per document	2023	4.074
Cites per document	1999	0.383
Cites per document	2000	0.472
Cites per document	2001	0.418
Cites per document	2002	0.241
Cites per document	2003	0.485
Cites per document	2004	0.442
Cites per document	2005	0.390
Cites per document	2006	0.773
Cites per document	2007	0.622
Cites per document	2008	1.365
Cites per document	2009	1.231
Cites per document	2010	1.430
Cites per document	2011	1.634
Cites per document	2012	1.517
Cites per document	2013	1.560
Cites per document	2014	1.569
Cites per document	2015	1.775
Cites per document	2016	1.923
Cites per document	2017	2.257
Cites per document	2018	2.849
Cites per document	2019	2.704
Cites per document	2020	3.210
Cites per document	2021	3.346
Cites per document	2022	4.099
Cites per document	2023	4.572

% International Collaboration

International Collaboration accounts for the articles that have been produced by researchers from several countries. The chart shows the ratio of a journal's documents signed by researchers from more than one country; that is including more than one country address.

Year	International Collaboration
1999	4.00
2000	18.75
2001	17.65
2002	0
2003	7.69
2004	9.09
2005	6.90
2006	21.43
2007	10.71
2008	17.14
2009	26.67
2010	10.71
2011	22.58
2012	25.00
2013	25.64
2014	22.41
2015	24.14
2016	22.22
2017	33.80
2018	28.09
2019	31.33
2020	25.00
2021	25.41
2022	32.63
2023	38.12

Citable documents

Non-citable documents

Not every article in a journal is considered primary research and therefore "citable", this chart shows the ratio of a journal's articles including substantial research (research articles, conference papers and reviews) in three year windows vs. those documents other than research articles, reviews and conference papers.

Documents	Year	Value
Non-citable documents	1999	0
Non-citable documents	2000	0
Non-citable documents	2001	0
Non-citable documents	2002	0
Non-citable documents	2003	0
Non-citable documents	2004	2
Non-citable documents	2005	4
Non-citable documents	2006	7
Non-citable documents	2007	7
Non-citable documents	2008	9
Non-citable documents	2009	8
Non-citable documents	2010	8
Non-citable documents	2011	9
Non-citable documents	2012	10
Non-citable documents	2013	11
Non-citable documents	2014	8
Non-citable documents	2015	9
Non-citable documents	2016	7
Non-citable documents	2017	10
Non-citable documents	2018	8
Non-citable documents	2019	9
Non-citable documents	2020	4
Non-citable documents	2021	5
Non-citable documents	2022	5
Non-citable documents	2023	5
Citable documents	1999	47
Citable documents	2000	72
Citable documents	2001	55
Citable documents	2002	58
Citable documents	2003	33
Citable documents	2004	41
Citable documents	2005	55
Citable documents	2006	81
Citable documents	2007	83
Citable documents	2008	76
Citable documents	2009	83
Citable documents	2010	85
Citable documents	2011	84
Citable documents	2012	79
Citable documents	2013	80
Citable documents	2014	94
Citable documents	2015	120
Citable documents	2016	148
Citable documents	2017	196
Citable documents	2018	211
Citable documents	2019	241
Citable documents	2020	239
Citable documents	2021	275
Citable documents	2022	308
Citable documents	2023	320

Cited documents

Uncited documents

Ratio of a journal's items, grouped in three years windows, that have been cited at least once vs. those not cited during the following year.

Documents	Year	Value
Uncited documents	1999	35
Uncited documents	2000	56
Uncited documents	2001	40
Uncited documents	2002	49
Uncited documents	2003	25
Uncited documents	2004	25
Uncited documents	2005	42
Uncited documents	2006	50
Uncited documents	2007	59
Uncited documents	2008	39
Uncited documents	2009	44
Uncited documents	2010	33
Uncited documents	2011	35
Uncited documents	2012	33
Uncited documents	2013	36
Uncited documents	2014	40
Uncited documents	2015	55
Uncited documents	2016	53
Uncited documents	2017	54
Uncited documents	2018	40
Uncited documents	2019	59
Uncited documents	2020	40
Uncited documents	2021	60
Uncited documents	2022	42
Uncited documents	2023	54
Cited documents	1999	12
Cited documents	2000	16
Cited documents	2001	15
Cited documents	2002	9
Cited documents	2003	8
Cited documents	2004	18
Cited documents	2005	17
Cited documents	2006	38
Cited documents	2007	31
Cited documents	2008	46
Cited documents	2009	47
Cited documents	2010	60
Cited documents	2011	58
Cited documents	2012	56
Cited documents	2013	55
Cited documents	2014	62
Cited documents	2015	74
Cited documents	2016	102
Cited documents	2017	152
Cited documents	2018	179
Cited documents	2019	191
Cited documents	2020	203
Cited documents	2021	220
Cited documents	2022	271
Cited documents	2023	271

% Female Authors

Evolution of the percentage of female authors.

Year	Female Percent
1999	18.18
2000	16.13
2001	14.29
2002	0.00
2003	10.81
2004	17.39
2005	17.31
2006	8.33
2007	18.75
2008	12.00
2009	43.40
2010	15.79
2011	24.19
2012	25.49
2013	20.78
2014	21.21
2015	27.91
2016	33.64
2017	32.10
2018	33.50
2019	32.37
2020	31.14
2021	27.16
2022	27.59
2023	32.18

Documents cited by public policy (Overton)

Evolution of the number of documents cited by public policy documents according to Overton database.

Documents	Year	Value
Overton	1999	0
Overton	2000	0
Overton	2001	0
Overton	2002	0
Overton	2003	0
Overton	2004	14
Overton	2005	21
Overton	2006	19
Overton	2007	13
Overton	2008	23
Overton	2009	19
Overton	2010	14
Overton	2011	19
Overton	2012	18
Overton	2013	22
Overton	2014	39
Overton	2015	27
Overton	2016	39
Overton	2017	26
Overton	2018	26
Overton	2019	24
Overton	2020	22
Overton	2021	11
Overton	2022	11
Overton	2023	2