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Professional and Practice-based Learning is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.3). Published by Springer Nature.
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ISSN 2210-5549Verify ISSN ↗2210-5557Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Nature
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Education | 407 / 1698 | 76th | Q1 |
| Business and International Management | 190 / 456 | 58th | Q2 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2026 (also 2022–2024, 2014–2020, 2010–2012), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.3.
Professional and Practice-based Learning is Q1 in Education (rank 407 of 1698) and Q2 in Business and International Management (rank 190 of 456), by CiteScore 2025.
Professional and Practice-based Learning 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 4.3, quartile Q1, 76th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric.
Professional and Practice-based Learning is published by Springer Nature. Its print ISSN is 2210-5549 and its online ISSN is 2210-5557.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Professional and Practice-based Learning has an h-index of 34 and a 2-year mean of 0.4 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #1,250 of 1,610 Scopus journals in Education.
Professional and Practice-based Learning published 11 papers in 2024; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 124. 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.
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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