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Behavioural Public Policy is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 8.5), ABS / AJG 1, WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme, which pays the article processing charge for authors at eligible institutions. Published by Cambridge University Press.
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ISSN 2398-063XVerify ISSN ↗2398-0648Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Cost to publish: APC covered for authors at ONOS-subscribed Indian institutions
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Political Science and International Relations | 16 / 745 | 97th | Q1 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 55 / 1530 | 96th | Q1 |
| Social Sciences (miscellaneous) | 28 / 744 | 96th | Q1 |
| Social Psychology | 18 / 315 | 94th | Q1 |
| Applied Psychology | 35 / 258 | 86th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2017–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 8.5.
Behavioural Public Policy is Q1 in Political Science and International Relations (rank 16 of 745), Q1 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 55 of 1530) and Q1 in Social Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 28 of 744), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Behavioural Public Policy is indexed in the Emerging Sources 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 8.5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 97th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.200, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 29.
For authors at Indian institutions covered by One Nation One Subscription (ONOS), the article processing charge is paid by the scheme. The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,550 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.
Behavioural Public Policy is published by Cambridge University Press. Its print ISSN is 2398-063X and its online ISSN is 2398-0648.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS also covers its article processing charge for authors at eligible institutions.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
It is graded 1 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Economics, Econometrics and Statistics field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Behavioural Public Policy has an h-index of 41 and a 2-year mean of 3.73 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 8.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #32 of 704 Scopus journals in Political Science and International Relations.
Behavioural Public Policy published 44 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 74. 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 97 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (30.1%), United States (25.2%) and Netherlands (7.7%).
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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