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Policy and Society is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 13.6), ABDC B, WoS SSCI, DOAJ. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme, which pays the article processing charge for authors at eligible institutions. Published by Oxford University Press.
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ISSN 1449-4035Verify ISSN ↗1839-3373Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Cost to publish: APC covered for authors at ONOS-subscribed Indian institutions
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Political Science and International Relations | 2 / 745 | 99th | Q1 |
| Public Administration | 1 / 248 | 99th | Q1 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 12 / 1530 | 99th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2008–present (also 2002–2003), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 13.6.
Policy and Society is Q1 in Political Science and International Relations (rank 2 of 745), Q1 in Public Administration (rank 1 of 248) and Q1 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 12 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025.
Policy and Society 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 13.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 99th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.442, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 70.
For authors at Indian institutions covered by One Nation One Subscription (ONOS), the article processing charge is paid by the scheme. The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$1,634 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.
Policy and Society is published by Oxford University Press. Its print ISSN is 1449-4035 and its online ISSN is 1839-3373.
Yes. ONOS also covers its article processing charge for authors at eligible institutions.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
It is rated B in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Other commerce, management, tourism and services.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Policy and Society has an h-index of 86 and a 2-year mean of 10.46 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 13.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #2 of 704 Scopus journals in Political Science and International Relations.
Policy and Society published 50 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 51. 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 99 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (12.1%), Canada (11.2%) and United Kingdom (9.4%).
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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