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Quality Progress is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.1), ABS / AJG 1. Published by American Society for Quality.
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ISSN 0033-524XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: American Society for Quality
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering | 389 / 425 | 8th | Q4 |
| Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality | 266 / 282 | 5th | Q4 |
| Strategy and Management | 498 / 506 | 1st | Q4 |
| Management Science and Operations Research | 222 / 225 | 1st | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1978–present (also 1974), best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.1.
Quality Progress is Q4 in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering (rank 389 of 425), Q4 in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality (rank 266 of 282) and Q4 in Strategy and Management (rank 498 of 506), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Quality Progress 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 0.1, quartile Q4, 8th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.100, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 38.
Quality Progress is published by American Society for Quality. Its ISSN is 0033-524X.
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 Operations and Technology Management field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Quality Progress has an h-index of 33 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.1, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #325 of 359 Scopus journals in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering.
Quality Progress published 1 papers in 2017; its busiest recent year was 2006 with 79. 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.
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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