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Research Policy is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 17.6), ABDC A*, ABS / AJG 4*, WoS SSCI, FT50. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier.
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ISSN 0048-7333Verify ISSN ↗1873-7625Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier
Cost to publish: About US$4,280 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Management Science and Operations Research | 8 / 225 | 96th | Q1 |
| Management of Technology and Innovation | 13 / 317 | 96th | Q1 |
| Strategy and Management | 21 / 506 | 95th | Q1 |
| Stage | Typical time |
|---|---|
| Submission → first decision | 24 days |
| Acceptance → online publication | 14 days |
Not listed in: DOAJ, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1971–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 17.6.
Research Policy is Q1 in Management Science and Operations Research (rank 8 of 225), Q1 in Management of Technology and Innovation (rank 13 of 317) and Q1 in Strategy and Management (rank 21 of 506), by CiteScore 2025.
Research Policy 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 17.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 96th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 4.471, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 318.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,280 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.
Research Policy is published by Elsevier. Its print ISSN is 0048-7333 and its online ISSN is 1873-7625.
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 Strategy, management and organisational behaviour.
It is graded 4* in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Innovation field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Research Policy has an h-index of 405 and a 2-year mean of 8.3 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 17.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #9 of 209 Scopus journals in Management Science and Operations Research.
Research Policy published 172 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 227. 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 82 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (20.4%), United Kingdom (17.7%) and China (17.1%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 6 retracted papers are recorded (1.1 per 1,000 papers). 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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