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Psychology, Public Policy, and Law is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.1), WoS SSCI. Published by American Psychological Association.
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ISSN 1076-8971Verify ISSN ↗1939-1528Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: American Psychological Association
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 130 / 1162 | 88th | Q1 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 297 / 1530 | 80th | Q1 |
| Social Psychology | 117 / 315 | 63rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1995–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.1.
Psychology, Public Policy, and Law is Q1 in Law (rank 130 of 1162), Q1 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 297 of 1530) and Q2 in Social Psychology (rank 117 of 315), by CiteScore 2025.
Psychology, Public Policy, and Law 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 4.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 88th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.589, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 84.
Psychology, Public Policy, and Law is published by American Psychological Association. Its print ISSN is 1076-8971 and its online ISSN is 1939-1528.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Psychology, Public Policy, and Law has an h-index of 95 and a 2-year mean of 0.96 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #321 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
Psychology, Public Policy, and Law published 47 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 61. 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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