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International Journal of Action Research is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.9). Published by Verlag Barbara Budrich.
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ISSN 1861-1303Verify ISSN ↗1861-9916Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Verlag Barbara Budrich
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sociology and Political Science | 970 / 1530 | 36th | Q3 |
| Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management | 205 / 254 | 19th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2009–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.9.
International Journal of Action Research is Q3 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 970 of 1530) and Q4 in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management (rank 205 of 254), by CiteScore 2025.
International Journal of Action Research is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.9, quartile Q3, 36th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.216, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 16.
International Journal of Action Research is published by Verlag Barbara Budrich. Its print ISSN is 1861-1303 and its online ISSN is 1861-9916.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
International Journal of Action Research has an h-index of 15 and a 2-year mean of 0.72 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.9, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #750 of 1,478 Scopus journals in Sociology and Political Science.
International Journal of Action Research published 21 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 33. 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 31 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from Denmark (36.1%), Spain (11.3%) and United Kingdom (9.7%).
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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