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Journal of Disability Policy Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.2), WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by SAGE Publications Inc..
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ISSN 1044-2073Verify ISSN ↗1538-4802Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: SAGE Publications Inc.
Cost to publish: About US$3,650 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 121 / 1162 | 89th | Q1 |
| Health (social science) | 93 / 387 | 76th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1990–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.2.
Journal of Disability Policy Studies is Q1 in Law (rank 121 of 1162) and Q1 in Health (social science) (rank 93 of 387), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Disability Policy Studies 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 4.2, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 89th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.693, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 47.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,650 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 Disability Policy Studies is published by SAGE Publications Inc. Its print ISSN is 1044-2073 and its online ISSN is 1538-4802.
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.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Disability Policy Studies has an h-index of 61 and a 2-year mean of 0.96 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.2, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #321 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
Journal of Disability Policy Studies published 15 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 39. 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 97 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from United States (84.5%), Canada (4.6%) and Australia (3.1%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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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