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Public Integrity is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 3.6), ABS / AJG 2, WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Taylor and Francis Ltd..
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ISSN 1099-9922Verify ISSN ↗1558-0989Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Ltd.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Philosophy | 55 / 891 | 93rd | Q1 |
| Law | 165 / 1162 | 85th | Q1 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 347 / 1530 | 77th | Q1 |
| Public Administration | 88 / 248 | 64th | Q2 |
| Business and International Management | 210 / 456 | 54th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2000–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 3.6.
Public Integrity is Q1 in Philosophy (rank 55 of 891), Q1 in Law (rank 165 of 1162) and Q1 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 347 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Public Integrity 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 3.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 93rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.458, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 35.
Public Integrity is published by Taylor and Francis Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1099-9922 and its online ISSN is 1558-0989.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
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, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Public Integrity has an h-index of 46 and a 2-year mean of 2.25 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #25 of 805 Scopus journals in Philosophy.
Public Integrity published 58 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 91. 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 98 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (36.8%), Indonesia (8.2%) and United Kingdom (5.5%).
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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