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Policy Design and Practice is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6.5), ABS / AJG 2, WoS ESCI, 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 Taylor and Francis Ltd..
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ISSN 2574-1292Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Ltd.
Cost to publish: APC covered for authors at ONOS-subscribed Indian institutions
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Political Science and International Relations | 50 / 745 | 93rd | Q1 |
| Public Administration | 36 / 248 | 85th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2018–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.5.
Policy Design and Practice is Q1 in Political Science and International Relations (rank 50 of 745) and Q1 in Public Administration (rank 36 of 248), by CiteScore 2025.
Policy Design and Practice 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 6.5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 93rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.867, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 33.
For authors at Indian institutions covered by One Nation One Subscription (ONOS), the article processing charge is paid by the scheme. Authors elsewhere should check the fee on the journal's own website.
Policy Design and Practice is published by Taylor and Francis Ltd. Its ISSN is 2574-1292.
Yes. ONOS also covers its article processing charge for authors at eligible institutions.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
It is graded 2 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Public Sector and Health Care field.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Policy Design and Practice has an h-index of 38 and a 2-year mean of 3.84 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #27 of 704 Scopus journals in Political Science and International Relations.
Policy Design and Practice published 44 papers in 2025. 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 100 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (11.8%), Australia (11.3%) and United States (9.2%).
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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