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New Directions for Evaluation is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.5), ABDC B. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing.
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ISSN 1097-6736Verify ISSN ↗1534-875XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing
Cost to publish: About US$3,140 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Education | 526 / 1698 | 69th | Q2 |
| Strategy and Management | 254 / 506 | 49th | Q3 |
| Management Science and Operations Research | 114 / 225 | 49th | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1995–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.5.
New Directions for Evaluation is Q2 in Education (rank 526 of 1698), Q3 in Strategy and Management (rank 254 of 506) and Q3 in Management Science and Operations Research (rank 114 of 225), by CiteScore 2025.
New Directions for Evaluation is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.5, quartile Q2, 69th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.551, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 53.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,140 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
New Directions for Evaluation is published by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing. Its print ISSN is 1097-6736 and its online ISSN is 1534-875X.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
It is rated B in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Other commerce, management, tourism and services.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
New Directions for Evaluation has an h-index of 69 and a 2-year mean of 1.96 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.5, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #489 of 1,610 Scopus journals in Education.
New Directions for Evaluation published 32 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 66. 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 (2023–2026), authors are most often from United States (59.5%), Australia (14%) and Canada (7.5%). 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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