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Journal of Accounting and Public Policy is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.1), ABDC A*, ABS / AJG 3, WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier.
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ISSN 0278-4254Verify ISSN ↗1873-2070Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier
Cost to publish: About US$3,380 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sociology and Political Science | 294 / 1530 | 80th | Q1 |
| Accounting | 79 / 191 | 58th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1982–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.1.
Journal of Accounting and Public Policy is Q1 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 294 of 1530) and Q2 in Accounting (rank 79 of 191), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Accounting and Public Policy 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 4.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 80th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.970, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 104.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,380 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.
Journal of Accounting and Public Policy is published by Elsevier. Its print ISSN is 0278-4254 and its online ISSN is 1873-2070.
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 Accounting, auditing and accountability.
It is graded 3 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Accounting field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Accounting and Public Policy has an h-index of 131 and a 2-year mean of 3 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #117 of 1,478 Scopus journals in Sociology and Political Science.
Journal of Accounting and Public Policy published 80 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 92 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (36.6%), China (18.5%) and Hong Kong SAR China (5.3%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 3 retracted papers are recorded (1.8 per 1,000 papers). 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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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