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Government Information Quarterly is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 23.9), ABDC A, ABS / AJG 3, WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier.
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ISSN 0740-624XVerify ISSN ↗1872-9517Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier
Cost to publish: About US$4,360 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 1 / 1162 | 99th | Q1 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 2 / 1530 | 99th | Q1 |
| Library and Information Sciences | 3 / 296 | 99th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1984–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 23.9.
Government Information Quarterly is Q1 in Law (rank 1 of 1162), Q1 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 2 of 1530) and Q1 in Library and Information Sciences (rank 3 of 296), by CiteScore 2025.
Government Information Quarterly 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 23.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 99th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 3.575, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 157.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,360 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.
Government Information Quarterly is published by Elsevier. Its print ISSN is 0740-624X and its online ISSN is 1872-9517.
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 A in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Information systems.
It is graded 3 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Information Management field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Government Information Quarterly has an h-index of 184 and a 2-year mean of 12.02 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 23.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #2 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
Government Information Quarterly published 71 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 82. 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 92 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from China (14.2%), United States (9.7%) and Sweden (9.6%).
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.
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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