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Asia Pacific Journal of Social Work and Development is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1.5), WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Routledge.
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ISSN 2165-0993Verify ISSN ↗2994-9769Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Routledge
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Social Sciences (miscellaneous) | 354 / 744 | 52nd | Q2 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 741 / 1530 | 51st | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2024–present (also 2014, 2012), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.5.
Asia Pacific Journal of Social Work and Development is Q2 in Social Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 354 of 744) and Q2 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 741 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025.
Asia Pacific Journal of Social Work and Development 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 1.5, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 52nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.165, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 4.
Asia Pacific Journal of Social Work and Development is published by Routledge. Its print ISSN is 2165-0993 and its online ISSN is 2994-9769.
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.
Asia Pacific Journal of Social Work and Development has an h-index of 27 and a 2-year mean of 1.52 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.5, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #203 of 703 Scopus journals in Social Sciences (miscellaneous).
Asia Pacific Journal of Social Work and Development published 40 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 46. 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 100 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from China (28.8%), South Korea (16.5%) and Singapore (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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