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Administrative Science Quarterly is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 13.4), ABDC A*, ABS / AJG 4*, WoS SSCI, FT50, UT Dallas 24. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Sage Publications.
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ISSN 0001-8392Verify ISSN ↗1930-3815Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Sage Publications
Cost to publish: About US$3,900 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Public Administration | 2 / 248 | 99th | Q1 |
| Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) | 6 / 692 | 99th | Q1 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 15 / 1530 | 99th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present (also 1993–1994, 1989–1990, 1975–1987), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 13.4.
Administrative Science Quarterly is Q1 in Public Administration (rank 2 of 248), Q1 in Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) (rank 6 of 692) and Q1 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 15 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025.
Administrative Science Quarterly is indexed in the Social Sciences 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 13.4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 99th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 9.595, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 228.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,900 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Administrative Science Quarterly is published by Sage Publications. Its print ISSN is 0001-8392 and its online ISSN is 1930-3815.
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 Social Sciences Citation Index.
It is rated A* in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Strategy, management and organisational behaviour.
It is graded 4* in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Ethics, Corporate Social Responsibility and Management field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Administrative Science Quarterly has an h-index of 475 and a 2-year mean of 3.98 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 13.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #25 of 245 Scopus journals in Public Administration.
Administrative Science Quarterly published 79 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 60 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (56.4%), United Kingdom (9.7%) and Canada (8.1%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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