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Digital Policy, Regulation and Governance is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 7.6), ABDC B, ABS / AJG 1, WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Emerald Publishing.
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ISSN 2398-5038Verify ISSN ↗2398-5046Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Information Systems and Management | 35 / 222 | 84th | Q1 |
| Computer Networks and Communications | 110 / 568 | 80th | Q1 |
| Information Systems | 117 / 519 | 77th | Q1 |
| Management Information Systems | 35 / 143 | 75th | Q1 |
| Management of Technology and Innovation | 79 / 317 | 75th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2017–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 7.6.
Digital Policy, Regulation and Governance is Q1 in Information Systems and Management (rank 35 of 222), Q1 in Computer Networks and Communications (rank 110 of 568) and Q1 in Information Systems (rank 117 of 519), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Digital Policy, Regulation and Governance 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 7.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 84th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.674, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 48.
Digital Policy, Regulation and Governance is published by Emerald Publishing. Its print ISSN is 2398-5038 and its online ISSN is 2398-5046.
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 Emerging Sources Citation Index.
It is rated B in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Information systems.
It is graded 1 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Sector Studies field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Digital Policy, Regulation and Governance has an h-index of 39 and a 2-year mean of 5.41 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 7.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #27 of 156 Scopus journals in Information Systems and Management.
Digital Policy, Regulation and Governance published 45 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 51. 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 96 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from India (19.3%), China (6.5%) and United States (4.7%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 1 retracted paper is recorded (2.6 per 1,000 papers). 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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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