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Journal of LGBTQ Issues in Counseling is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1.2), WoS ESCI. Published by Routledge.
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ISSN 2692-4951Verify ISSN ↗2692-496XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Routledge
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gender Studies | 114 / 233 | 51st | Q2 |
| Clinical Psychology | 233 / 314 | 25th | Q3 |
| Psychiatry and Mental Health | 446 / 580 | 23rd | Q4 |
| Applied Psychology | 208 / 258 | 19th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2021–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.2.
Journal of LGBTQ Issues in Counseling is Q2 in Gender Studies (rank 114 of 233), Q3 in Clinical Psychology (rank 233 of 314) and Q4 in Psychiatry and Mental Health (rank 446 of 580), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Journal of LGBTQ Issues in Counseling 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 1.2, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 51st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.350, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 39.
Journal of LGBTQ Issues in Counseling is published by Routledge. Its print ISSN is 2692-4951 and its online ISSN is 2692-496X.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of LGBTQ Issues in Counseling has an h-index of 43 and a 2-year mean of 0.9 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.2, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #86 of 225 Scopus journals in Gender Studies.
Journal of LGBTQ Issues in Counseling published 35 papers in 2025. 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.
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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