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International Journal of Housing Policy is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6.5), formerly ABDC B, WoS SSCI. Published by Taylor and Francis Ltd..
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ISSN 1949-1247Verify ISSN ↗1949-1255Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Ltd.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geography, Planning and Development | 126 / 876 | 85th | Q1 |
| Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law | 111 / 432 | 74th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2014–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.5.
International Journal of Housing Policy is Q1 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 126 of 876) and Q2 in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law (rank 111 of 432), by CiteScore 2025.
International Journal of Housing Policy 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 6.5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 85th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.954, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 49.
International Journal of Housing Policy is published by Taylor and Francis Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1949-1247 and its online ISSN is 1949-1255.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
It was rated B in the 2022 ABDC list but is not in the current 2025 Journal Quality List.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
International Journal of Housing Policy has an h-index of 58 and a 2-year mean of 1.7 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #288 of 825 Scopus journals in Geography, Planning and Development.
International Journal of Housing Policy published 67 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 100 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from Australia (18%), United Kingdom (15.3%) and Netherlands (5.5%).
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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