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Internet Policy Review is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 7.5), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society.
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ISSN 2197-6775Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Communication | 39 / 541 | 92nd | Q1 |
| Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law | 87 / 432 | 79th | Q1 |
| Computer Networks and Communications | 119 / 568 | 79th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2012–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 7.5.
Internet Policy Review is Q1 in Communication (rank 39 of 541), Q1 in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law (rank 87 of 432) and Q1 in Computer Networks and Communications (rank 119 of 568), by CiteScore 2025.
Internet Policy Review is indexed in the Emerging Sources 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 7.5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 92nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.150, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 43.
Internet Policy Review is published by Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society. Its ISSN is 2197-6775.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Internet Policy Review has an h-index of 56 and a 2-year mean of 6.22 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 7.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #10 of 511 Scopus journals in Communication.
Internet Policy Review published 39 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 55. 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 74 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from Netherlands (22.7%), United Kingdom (9.9%) and France (9.9%).
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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