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Journal of Higher Education Policy and Leadership Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1.5), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Ali Khorsandi Taskoh.
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ISSN 2717-1426Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Ali Khorsandi Taskoh
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Social Sciences (miscellaneous) | 349 / 744 | 53rd | Q2 |
| Education | 1021 / 1698 | 39th | Q3 |
| Public Administration | 154 / 248 | 38th | Q3 |
| Strategy and Management | 378 / 506 | 25th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2020–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.5.
Journal of Higher Education Policy and Leadership Studies is Q2 in Social Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 349 of 744), Q3 in Education (rank 1021 of 1698) and Q3 in Public Administration (rank 154 of 248), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Journal of Higher Education Policy and Leadership Studies is indexed in the Emerging Sources 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 1.5, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 53rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.288, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 11.
Journal of Higher Education Policy and Leadership Studies is published by Ali Khorsandi Taskoh. Its ISSN is 2717-1426.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Journal of Higher Education Policy and Leadership Studies has an h-index of 11 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.5, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #661 of 703 Scopus journals in Social Sciences (miscellaneous).
Journal of Higher Education Policy and Leadership Studies published 12 papers in 2023; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 53. 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 59 research articles (2021–2023), authors are most often from United States (31.4%), Canada (19.8%) and India (6.8%).
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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