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International Series on Public Policy is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.6). Published by Palgrave Macmillan Ltd..
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ISSN 2524-7301Verify ISSN ↗2524-731XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Ltd.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Political Science and International Relations | 589 / 745 | 20th | Q4 |
| Public Administration | 215 / 248 | 13th | 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 2016–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.6.
International Series on Public Policy is Q4 in Political Science and International Relations (rank 589 of 745) and Q4 in Public Administration (rank 215 of 248), by CiteScore 2025.
International Series on Public 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 0.6, quartile Q4, 20th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric.
International Series on Public Policy is published by Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. Its print ISSN is 2524-7301 and its online ISSN is 2524-731X.
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 Series on Public Policy has an h-index of 17 and a 2-year mean of 0.84 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.6, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #316 of 704 Scopus journals in Political Science and International Relations.
International Series on Public Policy published 34 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 41. 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.
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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