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Public Opinion Quarterly is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.2), ABDC A, ABS / AJG 3, WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Oxford University Press.
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ISSN 0033-362XVerify ISSN ↗1537-5331Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Cost to publish: About US$3,969 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 17 / 1936 | 99th | Q1 |
| History and Philosophy of Science | 17 / 254 | 93rd | Q1 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 282 / 1530 | 81st | Q1 |
| Communication | 103 / 541 | 81st | Q1 |
| Social Sciences (all) | 59 / 286 | 79th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1937–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.2.
Public Opinion Quarterly is Q1 in History (rank 17 of 1936), Q1 in History and Philosophy of Science (rank 17 of 254) and Q1 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 282 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Public Opinion Quarterly 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 4.2, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 99th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 2.191, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 129.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,969 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 Opinion Quarterly is published by Oxford University Press. Its print ISSN is 0033-362X and its online ISSN is 1537-5331.
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 Social Sciences Citation Index.
It is rated A in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Other commerce, management, tourism and services.
It is graded 3 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Social Sciences field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Public Opinion Quarterly has an h-index of 217 and a 2-year mean of 3.34 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.2, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #12 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
Public Opinion Quarterly published 72 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 88. 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 94 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (50.2%), United Kingdom (5.4%) and Netherlands (4.8%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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