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Q Open is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.5), ABDC C, WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Oxford Academic.
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ISSN 2633-9048Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Oxford Academic
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous) | 80 / 283 | 71st | Q2 |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous) | 83 / 253 | 67th | Q2 |
| Development | 109 / 314 | 65th | Q2 |
| Economics and Econometrics | 303 / 755 | 59th | Q2 |
| Food Science | 197 / 420 | 53rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2021–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.5.
Q Open is Q2 in Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous) (rank 80 of 283), Q2 in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 83 of 253) and Q2 in Development (rank 109 of 314), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Q Open 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 3.5, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 71st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.542, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 13.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$1,882 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.
Q Open is published by Oxford Academic. Its ISSN is 2633-9048.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
It is rated C in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Applied economics.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Q Open has an h-index of 17 and a 2-year mean of 1.96 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.5, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #95 of 274 Scopus journals in Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous).
Q Open published 35 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 44. 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 100 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from Germany (28.7%), United States (18.4%) and Italy (6.7%).
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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