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Housing Policy Debate is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 7.3), ABDC B, WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Taylor & Francis Online.
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ISSN 1051-1482Verify ISSN ↗2152-050XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Online
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Urban Studies | 26 / 295 | 91st | Q1 |
| Development | 34 / 314 | 89th | Q1 |
| Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law | 92 / 432 | 78th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2010–present (also 1990–2008), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 7.3.
Housing Policy Debate is Q1 in Urban Studies (rank 26 of 295), Q1 in Development (rank 34 of 314) and Q1 in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law (rank 92 of 432), by CiteScore 2025.
Housing Policy Debate 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 7.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 91st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.006, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 81.
Housing Policy Debate is published by Taylor & Francis Online. Its print ISSN is 1051-1482 and its online ISSN is 2152-050X.
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 B in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Applied economics.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Housing Policy Debate has an h-index of 100 and a 2-year mean of 2.78 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 7.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #46 of 280 Scopus journals in Urban Studies.
Housing Policy Debate published 36 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 81. 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 97 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (78.5%), China (4.8%) and Canada (2.9%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (1.3 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.
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