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International Journal of Public Policy and Administration Research is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.1). Published by Conscientia Beam.
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ISSN 2312-6515Verify ISSN ↗2313-0423Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Conscientia Beam
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Public Administration | 178 / 248 | 28th | Q3 |
| Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous) | 173 / 235 | 26th | Q3 |
| Development | 237 / 314 | 24th | Q4 |
| Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management | 195 / 254 | 23rd | Q4 |
| Economics and Econometrics | 604 / 755 | 20th | 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 2019–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.1.
International Journal of Public Policy and Administration Research is Q3 in Public Administration (rank 178 of 248), Q3 in Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous) (rank 173 of 235) and Q4 in Development (rank 237 of 314), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
International Journal of Public Policy and Administration 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 1.1, quartile Q3, 28th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.140, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 6.
International Journal of Public Policy and Administration Research is published by Conscientia Beam. Its print ISSN is 2312-6515 and its online ISSN is 2313-0423.
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 Policy and Administration Research has an h-index of 10 and a 2-year mean of 0.58 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.1, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #173 of 245 Scopus journals in Public Administration.
International Journal of Public Policy and Administration Research published 23 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 69 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from Indonesia (27.5%), South Africa (10.1%) and Malaysia (7.2%).
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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