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Project Leadership and Society is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 9.2), ABDC C, 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 Elsevier Ltd.
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ISSN 2666-7215Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
Cost to publish: APC covered for authors at ONOS-subscribed Indian institutions
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sociology and Political Science | 43 / 1530 | 97th | Q1 |
| Social Sciences (miscellaneous) | 23 / 744 | 96th | Q1 |
| Public Administration | 14 / 248 | 94th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2020–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 9.2.
Project Leadership and Society is Q1 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 43 of 1530), Q1 in Social Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 23 of 744) and Q1 in Public Administration (rank 14 of 248), by CiteScore 2025.
Project Leadership and Society 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 9.2, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 97th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.036, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 26.
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$2,270 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.
Project Leadership and Society is published by Elsevier Ltd. Its ISSN is 2666-7215.
Yes. ONOS also covers its article processing charge for authors at eligible institutions.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
It is rated C in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Strategy, management and organisational behaviour.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Project Leadership and Society has an h-index of 30 and a 2-year mean of 6.07 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 9.2, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #20 of 1,478 Scopus journals in Sociology and Political Science.
Project Leadership and Society published 34 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 57. 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 89 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (15.3%), Australia (14%) and Finland (7.6%).
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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