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Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.9), WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by John Wiley and Sons Inc.
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ISSN 1529-7489Verify ISSN ↗1530-2415Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Inc
Cost to publish: About US$3,470 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Social Sciences (all) | 90 / 286 | 68th | Q2 |
| Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law | 232 / 432 | 46th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2005–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.9.
Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy is Q2 in Social Sciences (all) (rank 90 of 286) and Q3 in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law (rank 232 of 432), by CiteScore 2025.
Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy 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 2.9, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 68th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.649, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 43.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,470 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.
Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy is published by John Wiley and Sons Inc. Its print ISSN is 1529-7489 and its online ISSN is 1530-2415.
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.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy has an h-index of 60 and a 2-year mean of 1.72 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.9, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #78 of 268 Scopus journals in Social Sciences (all).
Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy published 59 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 74. 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 99 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (56.3%), United Kingdom (5.9%) and Italy (5.1%). 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. 4 retracted papers are recorded (4.4 per 1,000 papers). 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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