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Journal of Park and Recreation Administration is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1.7), ABDC B, WoS ESCI. Published by Sagamore Publishing LLC.
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ISSN 0735-1968Verify ISSN ↗2160-6862Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Sagamore Publishing LLC
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Urban Studies | 134 / 295 | 54th | Q2 |
| Social Sciences (miscellaneous) | 338 / 744 | 54th | Q2 |
| Nature and Landscape Conservation | 141 / 231 | 39th | Q3 |
| Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management | 124 / 156 | 20th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.7.
Journal of Park and Recreation Administration is Q2 in Urban Studies (rank 134 of 295), Q2 in Social Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 338 of 744) and Q3 in Nature and Landscape Conservation (rank 141 of 231), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Journal of Park and Recreation Administration 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 1.7, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 54th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.282, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 15.
Journal of Park and Recreation Administration is published by Sagamore Publishing LLC. Its print ISSN is 0735-1968 and its online ISSN is 2160-6862.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
It is rated B in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Commercial services.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Park and Recreation Administration has an h-index of 54 and a 2-year mean of 0.49 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.7, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #164 of 280 Scopus journals in Urban Studies.
Journal of Park and Recreation Administration published 59 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 70. 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 86 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (77.9%), Canada (2.9%) and Poland (2.3%). 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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