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Global Public Policy and Governance is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.3), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer Nature.
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ISSN 2730-6291Verify ISSN ↗2730-6305Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Nature
Cost to publish: About US$2,290 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Political Science and International Relations | 123 / 745 | 83rd | Q1 |
| Development | 91 / 314 | 71st | Q2 |
| Public Administration | 75 / 248 | 69th | Q2 |
| Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law | 173 / 432 | 60th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2021–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.3.
Global Public Policy and Governance is Q1 in Political Science and International Relations (rank 123 of 745), Q2 in Development (rank 91 of 314) and Q2 in Public Administration (rank 75 of 248), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Global Public Policy 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 4.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 83rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.644, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 14.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,290 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.
Global Public Policy and Governance is published by Springer Nature. Its print ISSN is 2730-6291 and its online ISSN is 2730-6305.
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.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Global Public Policy and Governance has an h-index of 17 and a 2-year mean of 2.37 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #88 of 704 Scopus journals in Political Science and International Relations.
Global Public Policy and Governance published 30 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 95 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from China (26.6%), United States (20.2%) and Hong Kong SAR China (10.3%).
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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