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Action Learning: Research and Practice is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 2.1), ABDC C, ABS / AJG 1, WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Taylor and Francis Online.
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ISSN 1476-7333Verify ISSN ↗1476-7341Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Online
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Education | 855 / 1698 | 49th | Q3 |
| Business, Management and Accounting (all) | 140 / 235 | 40th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2010–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 2.1.
Action Learning: Research and Practice is Q3 in Education (rank 855 of 1698) and Q3 in Business, Management and Accounting (all) (rank 140 of 235), by CiteScore 2025.
Action Learning: Research and Practice is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 2.1, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 49th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.305, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 16.
Action Learning: Research and Practice is published by Taylor and Francis Online. Its print ISSN is 1476-7333 and its online ISSN is 1476-7341.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
It is rated C in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Strategy, management and organisational behaviour.
It is graded 1 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Management Development and Education field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Action Learning: Research and Practice has an h-index of 48 and a 2-year mean of 1.09 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.1, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #857 of 1,610 Scopus journals in Education.
Action Learning: Research and Practice published 53 papers in 2025. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 67 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (42.2%), United States (8.2%) and South Africa (4.9%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
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