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Journal of Public and Nonprofit Affairs is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.7), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Midwest Public Affairs Conference.
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ISSN 2381-3717Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Midwest Public Affairs Conference
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sociology and Political Science | 475 / 1530 | 68th | Q2 |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous) | 113 / 283 | 60th | Q2 |
| Public Administration | 111 / 248 | 55th | Q2 |
| Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management | 142 / 254 | 44th | Q3 |
| Business and International Management | 255 / 456 | 44th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2015–2025, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.7.
Journal of Public and Nonprofit Affairs is Q2 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 475 of 1530), Q2 in Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous) (rank 113 of 283) and Q2 in Public Administration (rank 111 of 248), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Journal of Public and Nonprofit Affairs 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 2.7, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 68th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.311, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 15.
Journal of Public and Nonprofit Affairs is published by Midwest Public Affairs Conference. Its ISSN is 2381-3717.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Journal of Public and Nonprofit Affairs has an h-index of 19 and a 2-year mean of 0.73 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.7, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #744 of 1,478 Scopus journals in Sociology and Political Science.
Journal of Public and Nonprofit Affairs published 16 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 52. 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 93 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (72.9%), Canada (3.2%) and South Korea (3.2%). 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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