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Evaluation and Program Planning is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4.1), WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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ISSN 0149-7189Verify ISSN ↗1873-7870Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$3,370 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geography, Planning and Development | 254 / 876 | 71st | Q2 |
| Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health | 240 / 725 | 66th | Q2 |
| Social Psychology | 113 / 315 | 64th | Q2 |
| Business and International Management | 194 / 456 | 57th | Q2 |
| Strategy and Management | 235 / 506 | 53rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1978–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.1.
Evaluation and Program Planning is Q2 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 254 of 876), Q2 in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (rank 240 of 725) and Q2 in Social Psychology (rank 113 of 315), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Evaluation and Program Planning 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 4.1, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 71st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.549, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 77.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,370 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.
Evaluation and Program Planning is published by Elsevier Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0149-7189 and its online ISSN is 1873-7870.
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.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Evaluation and Program Planning has an h-index of 124 and a 2-year mean of 2.46 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.1, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #181 of 825 Scopus journals in Geography, Planning and Development.
Evaluation and Program Planning published 169 papers in 2025. 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 United States (35.2%), Canada (7.1%) and South Africa (5.1%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 1 retracted paper is recorded (0.3 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 1 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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