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Journal of Data Protection and Privacy is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1.3). Published by Henry Stewart Publications.
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ISSN 2398-1679Verify ISSN ↗2398-1687Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Henry Stewart Publications
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 540 / 1162 | 53rd | Q2 |
| Strategy and Management | 409 / 506 | 19th | Q4 |
| Management Information Systems | 118 / 143 | 17th | Q4 |
| Marketing | 184 / 221 | 16th | 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 2017–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.3.
Journal of Data Protection and Privacy is Q2 in Law (rank 540 of 1162), Q4 in Strategy and Management (rank 409 of 506) and Q4 in Management Information Systems (rank 118 of 143), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Journal of Data Protection and Privacy 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 1.3, quartile Q2, 53rd percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.178, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 9.
Journal of Data Protection and Privacy is published by Henry Stewart Publications. Its print ISSN is 2398-1679 and its online ISSN is 2398-1687.
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.
Journal of Data Protection and Privacy has an h-index of 11 and a 2-year mean of 0.99 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.3, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #310 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
Journal of Data Protection and Privacy published 42 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 47. 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 34 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from India (39.7%), United States (8.8%) and Poland (5.9%).
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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