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Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4.1), ABDC C, 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 1461-5517Verify ISSN ↗1471-5465Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Online
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geography, Planning and Development | 255 / 876 | 70th | Q2 |
| Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law | 182 / 432 | 57th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1998–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.1.
Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal is Q2 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 255 of 876) and Q2 in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law (rank 182 of 432), by CiteScore 2025.
Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal 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 70th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.612, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 66.
Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal is published by Taylor & Francis Online. Its print ISSN is 1461-5517 and its online ISSN is 1471-5465.
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 C in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Strategy, management and organisational behaviour.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal has an h-index of 73 and a 2-year mean of 2.71 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.1, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #161 of 825 Scopus journals in Geography, Planning and Development.
Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal published 50 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 66. 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 Kingdom (14.8%), Brazil (13.2%) and South Africa (10.7%).
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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