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International Journal of Sustainability Policy and Practice is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1). Published by Common Ground Research Networks.
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ISSN 2325-1166Verify ISSN ↗2325-1182Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Common Ground Research Networks
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sociology and Political Science | 919 / 1530 | 39th | Q3 |
| Geography, Planning and Development | 627 / 876 | 28th | Q3 |
| Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment | 278 / 345 | 19th | Q4 |
| Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law | 359 / 432 | 17th | 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 2013–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.
International Journal of Sustainability Policy and Practice is Q3 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 919 of 1530), Q3 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 627 of 876) and Q4 in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment (rank 278 of 345), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
International Journal of Sustainability Policy and Practice 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, quartile Q3, 39th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.257, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 7.
International Journal of Sustainability Policy and Practice is published by Common Ground Research Networks. Its print ISSN is 2325-1166 and its online ISSN is 2325-1182.
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 Sustainability Policy and Practice has an h-index of 9 and a 2-year mean of 0.66 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #794 of 1,478 Scopus journals in Sociology and Political Science.
International Journal of Sustainability Policy and Practice published 19 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 22. 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 23 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from Thailand (26.1%), Vietnam (13%) and India (13%).
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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