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Public and Municipal Finance is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 3), ABS / AJG 1, DOAJ. Published by LLC CPC Business Perspectives.
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Publisher: LLC CPC Business Perspectives
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 230 / 1162 | 80th | Q1 |
| Social Sciences (miscellaneous) | 208 / 744 | 72nd | Q2 |
| Public Administration | 102 / 248 | 59th | Q2 |
| Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous) | 100 / 235 | 57th | Q2 |
| Finance | 160 / 342 | 53rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 3.
Public and Municipal Finance is Q1 in Law (rank 230 of 1162), Q2 in Social Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 208 of 744) and Q2 in Public Administration (rank 102 of 248), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Public and Municipal Finance 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 3, quartile Q1, 80th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.234, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 10.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$749 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.
Public and Municipal Finance is published by LLC CPC Business Perspectives. Its print ISSN is 2222-1867 and its online ISSN is 2222-1875.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
It is graded 1 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Finance field.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Public and Municipal Finance has an h-index of 15 and a 2-year mean of 2.13 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #103 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
Public and Municipal Finance published 42 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 95 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from Indonesia (30.5%), Ukraine (10.2%) and Portugal (4.2%).
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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