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Journal of Governance and Regulation is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.3). Published by Virtus Interpress.
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ISSN 2220-9352Verify ISSN ↗2306-6784Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Virtus Interpress
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Public Administration | 122 / 248 | 51st | Q2 |
| Finance | 186 / 342 | 45th | Q3 |
| Economics and Econometrics | 413 / 755 | 45th | Q3 |
| Business and International Management | 277 / 456 | 39th | Q3 |
| Strategy and Management | 312 / 506 | 38th | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.3.
Journal of Governance and Regulation is Q2 in Public Administration (rank 122 of 248), Q3 in Finance (rank 186 of 342) and Q3 in Economics and Econometrics (rank 413 of 755), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Journal of Governance and Regulation 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 2.3, quartile Q2, 51st percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.223, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 16.
Journal of Governance and Regulation is published by Virtus Interpress. Its print ISSN is 2220-9352 and its online ISSN is 2306-6784.
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 Governance and Regulation has an h-index of 29 and a 2-year mean of 2.31 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.3, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #71 of 245 Scopus journals in Public Administration.
Journal of Governance and Regulation published 145 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 146. 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 99 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from Vietnam (20.2%), Indonesia (17.7%) and Malaysia (9.4%).
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 3 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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