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Evidence and Policy is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.2), ABS / AJG 2, WoS SSCI. Published by Policy Press.
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ISSN 1744-2648Verify ISSN ↗1744-2656Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Policy Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Social Sciences (miscellaneous) | 84 / 744 | 88th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2006–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.2.
Evidence and Policy is Q1 in Social Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 84 of 744), by CiteScore 2025.
Evidence and 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 5.2, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 88th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.677, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 51.
Evidence and Policy is published by Policy Press. Its print ISSN is 1744-2648 and its online ISSN is 1744-2656.
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 Public Sector and Health Care field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Evidence and Policy has an h-index of 62 and a 2-year mean of 1.27 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.2, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #253 of 703 Scopus journals in Social Sciences (miscellaneous).
Evidence and Policy published 32 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 46. 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 (2023–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (29.8%), United States (23.8%) and Australia (8.7%).
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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