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Behavioral Science and Policy is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 2.2). Published by SAGE Publications Inc..
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ISSN 2379-4607Verify ISSN ↗2379-4615Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: SAGE Publications Inc.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Development | 160 / 314 | 49th | Q3 |
| Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health | 425 / 725 | 41st | Q3 |
| Human-Computer Interaction | 138 / 196 | 29th | Q3 |
| Behavioral Neuroscience | 76 / 93 | 18th | Q4 |
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Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2018–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 2.2.
Behavioral Science and Policy is Q3 in Development (rank 160 of 314), Q3 in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (rank 425 of 725) and Q3 in Human-Computer Interaction (rank 138 of 196), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Behavioral Science and Policy 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 2.2, quartile Q3, 49th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.518, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 16.
No article processing charge is recorded for it (source: OpenAlex). Confirm on the journal's own website, since some journals charge for extras such as colour figures.
Behavioral Science and Policy is published by SAGE Publications Inc. Its print ISSN is 2379-4607 and its online ISSN is 2379-4615.
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.
Behavioral Science and Policy has an h-index of 30 and a 2-year mean of 3.55 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.2, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #35 of 299 Scopus journals in Development.
Behavioral Science and Policy published 11 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 57. 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 59 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (64.1%), United Kingdom (10.2%) and Australia (4%). 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. 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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