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Canadian Public Policy is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2), ABDC B, ABS / AJG 1, WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by University of Toronto Press.
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ISSN 0317-0861Verify ISSN ↗1911-9917Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sociology and Political Science | 616 / 1530 | 59th | Q2 |
| Public Administration | 135 / 248 | 45th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1989–present (also 1984, 1978–1980), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.
Canadian Public Policy is Q2 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 616 of 1530) and Q3 in Public Administration (rank 135 of 248), by CiteScore 2025.
Canadian Public Policy 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 2, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 59th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.429, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 45.
Canadian Public Policy is published by University of Toronto Press. Its print ISSN is 0317-0861 and its online ISSN is 1911-9917.
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 rated B in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Other commerce, management, tourism and services.
It is graded 1 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Public Sector and Health Care field.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Canadian Public Policy has an h-index of 89 and a 2-year mean of 1.27 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #483 of 1,478 Scopus journals in Sociology and Political Science.
Canadian Public Policy published 42 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 60. 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 99 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from Canada (87.8%), United States (4.1%) and United Kingdom (1.6%). 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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