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Science and Public Policy is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.2), ABDC C, ABS / AJG 2, WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Oxford University Press.
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ISSN 0302-3427Verify ISSN ↗1471-5430Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Cost to publish: About US$4,608 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geography, Planning and Development | 186 / 876 | 78th | Q1 |
| Public Administration | 56 / 248 | 77th | Q1 |
| Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law | 146 / 432 | 66th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1984–present (also 1976–1982, 1974), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.2.
Science and Public Policy is Q1 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 186 of 876), Q1 in Public Administration (rank 56 of 248) and Q2 in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law (rank 146 of 432), by CiteScore 2025.
Science and Public 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 5.2, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 78th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.847, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 91.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,608 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.
Science and Public Policy is published by Oxford University Press. Its print ISSN is 0302-3427 and its online ISSN is 1471-5430.
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 C in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Other commerce, management, tourism and services.
It is graded 2 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Social Sciences field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Science and Public Policy has an h-index of 114 and a 2-year mean of 3 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.2, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #140 of 825 Scopus journals in Geography, Planning and Development.
Science and Public Policy published 103 papers in 2025. 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 95 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from China (11.4%), United Kingdom (10.6%) and Netherlands (7.3%).
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.
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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