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Policy and Politics is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.8), ABDC A, ABS / AJG 3, WoS SSCI. Published by Policy Press.
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ISSN 0305-5736Verify ISSN ↗1470-8442Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Policy Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sociology and Political Science | 165 / 1530 | 89th | Q1 |
| Public Administration | 47 / 248 | 81st | Q1 |
| Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law | 130 / 432 | 70th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1979–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.8.
Policy and Politics is Q1 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 165 of 1530), Q1 in Public Administration (rank 47 of 248) and Q2 in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law (rank 130 of 432), by CiteScore 2025.
Policy and Politics 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 5.8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 89th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.823, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 75.
Policy and Politics is published by Policy Press. Its print ISSN is 0305-5736 and its online ISSN is 1470-8442.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
It is rated A in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Other commerce, management, tourism and services.
It is graded 3 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Public Sector and Health Care field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Policy and Politics has an h-index of 90 and a 2-year mean of 5.51 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #30 of 1,478 Scopus journals in Sociology and Political Science.
Policy and Politics published 29 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 53. 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 (2024–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (19.2%), United States (16.2%) and Denmark (8%).
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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