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Asia and the Pacific Policy Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1.8), ABS / AJG 1, WoS SSCI, DOAJ. Published by John Wiley and Sons Ltd.
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ISSN 2050-2680Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Political Science and International Relations | 314 / 745 | 57th | Q2 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 662 / 1530 | 56th | Q2 |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous) | 145 / 283 | 48th | Q3 |
| Public Administration | 140 / 248 | 43rd | Q3 |
| Strategy and Management | 352 / 506 | 30th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2014–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.8.
Asia and the Pacific Policy Studies is Q2 in Political Science and International Relations (rank 314 of 745), Q2 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 662 of 1530) and Q3 in Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous) (rank 145 of 283), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Asia and the Pacific Policy Studies 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 1.8, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 57th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.310, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 36.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$1,810 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.
Asia and the Pacific Policy Studies is published by John Wiley and Sons Ltd. Its ISSN is 2050-2680.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
It is graded 1 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Public Sector and Health Care field.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Asia and the Pacific Policy Studies has an h-index of 43 and a 2-year mean of 2.36 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.8, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #89 of 704 Scopus journals in Political Science and International Relations.
Asia and the Pacific Policy Studies published 60 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 99 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from Australia (26.8%), China (26.6%) and Japan (6.1%).
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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