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British Journal of Guidance and Counselling is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 3.8), ABS / AJG 2, WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Routledge.
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ISSN 0306-9885Verify ISSN ↗1469-3534Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Routledge
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) | 106 / 692 | 84th | Q1 |
| Education | 488 / 1698 | 71st | Q2 |
| Applied Psychology | 122 / 258 | 52nd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1973–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 3.8.
British Journal of Guidance and Counselling is Q1 in Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) (rank 106 of 692), Q2 in Education (rank 488 of 1698) and Q2 in Applied Psychology (rank 122 of 258), by CiteScore 2025.
British Journal of Guidance and Counselling 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 3.8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 84th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.613, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 59.
British Journal of Guidance and Counselling is published by Routledge. Its print ISSN is 0306-9885 and its online ISSN is 1469-3534.
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.
It is graded 2 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Management Development and Education field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
British Journal of Guidance and Counselling has an h-index of 84 and a 2-year mean of 1.34 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #126 of 610 Scopus journals in Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous).
British Journal of Guidance and Counselling published 67 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 96. 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 98 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from Türkiye (23.3%), United States (11.7%) and United Kingdom (7.1%).
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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