Policies | Journal of Policy and Society

Editors-in-Chief

Prof. Hamid Mattiello
University of Applied Sciences (FHM)
Germany

Prof. Carlo Bulletti
Yale University
United States

eISSN

3060-8686

Publication Frequency

Quarterly since 2025

About the Publisher

Academic Publishing insists on taking academic exchange and publication as the main line, carrying out comprehensive management based on science and technology, and fully exploring excellent international publishing resources. Within 5 years, it will form a strategic framework and scale with science (S), technology (T), medicine (M), education (E), and humanities and arts (H) as the main publishing fields. Academic Publishing is headquartered in Singapore and based in Malaysia, with the United States and China providing the main scientific and academic resources. At the same time, it has established long-term good cooperative relations with other publishing companies, scientific research communities, and academic organizations in more than a dozen countries and regions. Academic Publishing uses English and Chinese as its main publishing languages, mainly publishing books, journals, and conference papers in print and online. The vast majority of publications follow the international open access policy, providing stable and long-term quality and professional publications. With the joint efforts of the expert team and our professional editorial team, our publications will gradually be indexed by international databases in stages to provide convenient and professional retrieval for various scholars. At the same time, manuscripts we accept will be subject to the peer review principle, and cutting-edge and innovative research articles will be preferentially accepted for peer reference and discussion. All kinds of our publications are welcome for peer to contribute, access, and download.

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Volume Arrangement

2025

2024

2023

Featured Articles

Global Solutions & Outreach Programs: Humanity’s best chance to resolve global warming, Part 1: Global warming challenges

In June 2024, the world’s largest standalone public opinion poll covering 77 countries, Peoples’ Climate Vote 2024, reported that “89% of people [want] to see more climate action from their governments”. That is all well and good. However, how are policymakers being informed on the viability of climate solutions? Policymakers are typically not engineers or scientists. They must rely on others for advice. Many who provide that advice are influenced by four types of bias: Corporate vested interests, career vested interests, public passions, and political agendas. In combination with business-as-usual, these biases are destroying humanity’s chances of resolving global warming. They are detrimentally affecting current global projects to resolve global warming. To mitigate these biases, the Global Solutions and Outreach Programs (GSOP) proposal will be undertaken by multiple teams of engineers, economists, social experts, and policy experts within each country, using a Wicked-Problem Approach. This work will be done outside of, yet informing, governments, the marketplace, and public opinion. Country action plans will be rolled up to regional and global levels. The GSOP work will be iterated until the global action plan provides a resolution of global warming at the scale of Earth. Part 1 describes the challenges we face and a problem-solving approach to resolving it. Part 2 will describe our GSOP proposal using that approach.

Policy review of talent competition among Chinese cities: Impacts of hukou and declining fertility

China’s cities are increasingly engaged in a “talent war”, driven by urban competitiveness and challenges posed by low fertility rates and the Household Registration System. Talent policies have become central to addressing labor shortages, fostering regional innovation, and supporting sustainable urban development. This study uses the method of meta-research to explore the intricate relationship between talent policies and urban competitiveness, analyzing 58 journal articles sourced from the CNKI database. The analysis identifies three main areas of focus: (1) The evolution and characteristics of talent policies in response to economic reforms and demographic shifts; (2) the effectiveness of these policies in enhancing urban technological innovation and industrial restructuring; and (3) the mechanisms by which talent policies influence population mobility, innovation performance, and urban economic transformation. Findings highlight that cities, leveraging their superior resources and autonomy, successfully attract high-skilled talent but contribute to regional disparities. In contrast, smaller cities face challenges such as limited diversity in policy tools and low market-oriented talent allocation. Additionally, the commodification of talent and the competitive nature of local government policies have introduced inefficiencies in regional innovation systems. To achieve sustainable urban development, the study underscores the need for coordinated talent policy frameworks, emphasizing innovation-driven development, regional collaboration, and tailored approaches to attract, retain, and utilize talent effectively. Addressing systemic issues in the Household Registration System and fostering equitable resource distribution will be critical to balancing regional development and ensuring long-term urban sustainability. This research provides actionable insights into the evolving dynamics of talent policies in China’s rapidly transforming socioeconomic landscape and provides readers with a clearer and three-dimensional understanding framework to understand China’s talent policy.

Energy research in a pluralistic system: Bibliometric analysis of SA publications

This article presents the results of a bibliometric analysis of South African energy publications during the period 2011 to 2021. Bibliometric analyses have the potential to reveal policy issues that cannot be identified easily through other approaches (e.g., peer review). Several findings are important for policy. It is identified that a substantial number of the energy publications produced by South Africans are proceedings papers. Identification of the main funders leads to the assumption that the National Research Foundation funding for conferences has led to the overproduction of proceedings. The most prolific producers of energy research produce approximately the same number of publications. Energy research is distributed to a large number of universities in the country. It is suggested that this may create diseconomies of scale. Comparisons of the organizational outputs of the South African organizations with international entities identify that the country’s organizations are subcritical. Analysis of the international collaborative patterns of energy identifies that collaboration is very light in comparison to collaborative patterns of all disciplines. It is noted that researchers moved towards renewable technologies even though there is no relevant support from the government. The investigation identifies that bibliometrics is a powerful approach for monitoring and evaluating disciplines within systems of innovation.