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Applied Research in Quality of Life is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6.2), ABDC B, WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer Nature.
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ISSN 1871-2576Verify ISSN ↗1871-2584Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Nature
Cost to publish: About US$3,190 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Life-span and Life-course Studies | 11 / 61 | 82nd | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2006–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.2.
Applied Research in Quality of Life is Q1 in Life-span and Life-course Studies (rank 11 of 61), by CiteScore 2025.
Applied Research in Quality of Life 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 6.2, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 82nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.958, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 61.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,190 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.
Applied Research in Quality of Life is published by Springer Nature. Its print ISSN is 1871-2576 and its online ISSN is 1871-2584.
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 B in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Other commerce, management, tourism and services.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Applied Research in Quality of Life has an h-index of 77 and a 2-year mean of 3 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.2, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #8 of 61 Scopus journals in Life-span and Life-course Studies.
Applied Research in Quality of Life published 121 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 143. 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 96 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (24.6%), United States (13.9%) and Hong Kong SAR China (8.9%).
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 1 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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