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Asian Pacific Journal of Social Work is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 3.4). It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Routledge.
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ISSN 0218-5385Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Routledge
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sociology and Political Science | 369 / 1530 | 75th | Q1 |
| Social Sciences (miscellaneous) | 182 / 744 | 75th | Q1 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1991–2024, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 3.4.
Asian Pacific Journal of Social Work is Q1 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 369 of 1530) and Q1 in Social Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 182 of 744), by CiteScore 2025.
Asian Pacific Journal of Social Work is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.4, quartile Q1, 75th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.382, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 22.
Asian Pacific Journal of Social Work is published by Routledge. Its ISSN is 0218-5385.
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.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Asian Pacific Journal of Social Work has an h-index of 27 and a 2-year mean of 1.52 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #397 of 1,478 Scopus journals in Sociology and Political Science.
Asian Pacific Journal of Social Work 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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