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Resources Policy is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 20.3), ABDC B, ABS / AJG 2. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier.
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ISSN 0301-4207Verify ISSN ↗1873-7641Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier
Cost to publish: About US$3,810 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 2 / 1162 | 99th | Q1 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 3 / 1530 | 99th | Q1 |
| Economics and Econometrics | 12 / 755 | 98th | Q1 |
| Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law | 8 / 432 | 98th | Q1 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1974–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 20.3.
Resources Policy is Q1 in Law (rank 2 of 1162), Q1 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 3 of 1530) and Q1 in Economics and Econometrics (rank 12 of 755), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Resources Policy 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 20.3, quartile Q1, 99th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 2.050, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 154.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,810 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.
Resources Policy is published by Elsevier. Its print ISSN is 0301-4207 and its online ISSN is 1873-7641.
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.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
It is rated B in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Applied economics.
It is graded 2 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Economics, Econometrics and Statistics field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Resources Policy has an h-index of 182 and a 2-year mean of 10.43 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 20.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #4 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
Resources Policy published 285 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 1,211. 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 81 research articles (2026), authors are most often from Canada (8.8%), Australia (8.4%) and United States (8.3%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 9 retracted papers are recorded (1.4 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 14 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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