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International Journal of Public Law and Policy is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.1). Published by Inderscience.
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ISSN 2044-7663Verify ISSN ↗2044-7671Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Inderscience
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 605 / 1162 | 47th | Q3 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 898 / 1530 | 41st | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present (also 2011–2017), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.1.
International Journal of Public Law and Policy is Q3 in Law (rank 605 of 1162) and Q3 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 898 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025.
International Journal of Public Law and Policy 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 1.1, quartile Q3, 47th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.150, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 11.
International Journal of Public Law and Policy is published by Inderscience. Its print ISSN is 2044-7663 and its online ISSN is 2044-7671.
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 Public Law and Policy has an h-index of 12 and a 2-year mean of 0.37 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.1, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #617 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
International Journal of Public Law and Policy published 45 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 39 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from India (39.7%), Indonesia (9%) and United Arab Emirates (5.1%).
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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