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Journal of Information Policy is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.3), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Penn State University Press.
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ISSN 2158-3897Verify ISSN ↗2381-5892Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Penn State University Press
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sociology and Political Science | 814 / 1530 | 46th | Q3 |
| Communication | 294 / 541 | 45th | Q3 |
| Public Administration | 167 / 248 | 32nd | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2017–2025, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.3.
Journal of Information Policy is Q3 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 814 of 1530), Q3 in Communication (rank 294 of 541) and Q3 in Public Administration (rank 167 of 248), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Information Policy 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 1.3, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 46th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.264, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 18.
Journal of Information Policy is published by Penn State University Press. Its print ISSN is 2158-3897 and its online ISSN is 2381-5892.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Journal of Information Policy has an h-index of 38 and a 2-year mean of 2.14 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.3, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #229 of 1,478 Scopus journals in Sociology and Political Science.
Journal of Information Policy published 15 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 48. 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 87 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (55%), United Kingdom (5.6%) and Kazakhstan (4%). 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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