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Journal of Poverty and Social Justice is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.8), WoS SSCI. Published by Policy Press.
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ISSN 1759-8273Verify ISSN ↗1759-8281Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Policy Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sociology and Political Science | 459 / 1530 | 70th | Q2 |
| Public Administration | 110 / 248 | 55th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2010–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.8.
Journal of Poverty and Social Justice is Q2 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 459 of 1530) and Q2 in Public Administration (rank 110 of 248), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Poverty and Social Justice is indexed in the Social Sciences 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 2.8, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 70th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.357, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 24.
Journal of Poverty and Social Justice is published by Policy Press. Its print ISSN is 1759-8273 and its online ISSN is 1759-8281.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Poverty and Social Justice has an h-index of 30 and a 2-year mean of 0.75 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.8, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #726 of 1,478 Scopus journals in Sociology and Political Science.
Journal of Poverty and Social Justice published 20 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 29. 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 96 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (46.2%), Spain (8.3%) and South Korea (6.3%).
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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