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Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.7), ABDC B, ABS / AJG 1, WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Taylor & Francis Online.
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ISSN 1387-6988Verify ISSN ↗1572-5448Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Online
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sociology and Political Science | 242 / 1530 | 84th | Q1 |
| Public Administration | 65 / 248 | 73rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1999 (also 2010–present), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.7.
Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice is Q1 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 242 of 1530) and Q2 in Public Administration (rank 65 of 248), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice 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 4.7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 84th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.703, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 44.
Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice is published by Taylor & Francis Online. Its print ISSN is 1387-6988 and its online ISSN is 1572-5448.
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 B in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Other commerce, management, tourism and services.
It is graded 1 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Public Sector and Health Care field.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice has an h-index of 69 and a 2-year mean of 2.25 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #210 of 1,478 Scopus journals in Sociology and Political Science.
Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice published 55 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 57. 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 98 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from China (19.2%), United States (17.7%) and Canada (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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