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International Journal of Public Opinion Research is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.1), ABDC A, WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Oxford University Press.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0954-2892Verify ISSN ↗1471-6909Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Cost to publish: About US$3,121 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sociology and Political Science | 587 / 1530 | 61st | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1989–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.1.
International Journal of Public Opinion Research is Q2 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 587 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025.
International Journal of Public Opinion Research 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 2.1, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 61st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.726, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 73.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,121 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
International Journal of Public Opinion Research is published by Oxford University Press. Its print ISSN is 0954-2892 and its online ISSN is 1471-6909.
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 A in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Marketing.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
International Journal of Public Opinion Research has an h-index of 86 and a 2-year mean of 2.45 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.1, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #181 of 1,478 Scopus journals in Sociology and Political Science.
International Journal of Public Opinion Research published 68 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 77. 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 96 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (25.5%), Germany (7.2%) and South Korea (5.6%).
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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