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Public Sector Economics is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.2), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Institute of Public Finance.
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ISSN 2459-8860Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Institute of Public Finance
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finance | 254 / 342 | 25th | Q3 |
| Economics and Econometrics | 583 / 755 | 22nd | Q4 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2017–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.2.
Public Sector Economics is Q3 in Finance (rank 254 of 342) and Q4 in Economics and Econometrics (rank 583 of 755), by CiteScore 2025.
Public Sector Economics 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 1.2, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 25th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.195, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 14.
Public Sector Economics is published by Institute of Public Finance. Its ISSN is 2459-8860.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Public Sector Economics has an h-index of 20 and a 2-year mean of 0.63 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.2, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #259 of 335 Scopus journals in Finance.
Public Sector Economics published 31 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 33. 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 78 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from Croatia (32.1%), Türkiye (7.1%) and France (4.5%).
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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