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Social Issues and Policy Review is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 15), WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
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ISSN 1751-2395Verify ISSN ↗1751-2409Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$3,800 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sociology and Political Science | 8 / 1530 | 99th | Q1 |
| Social Sciences (miscellaneous) | 7 / 744 | 99th | Q1 |
| Social Psychology | 5 / 315 | 98th | Q1 |
| Applied Psychology | 13 / 258 | 95th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2008–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 15.
Social Issues and Policy Review is Q1 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 8 of 1530), Q1 in Social Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 7 of 744) and Q1 in Social Psychology (rank 5 of 315), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Social Issues and Policy Review 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 15, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 99th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 2.273, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 58.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,800 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.
Social Issues and Policy Review is published by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1751-2395 and its online ISSN is 1751-2409.
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.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Social Issues and Policy Review has an h-index of 68 and a 2-year mean of 2.67 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 15, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #155 of 1,478 Scopus journals in Sociology and Political Science.
Social Issues and Policy Review published 4 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 20. 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 41 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (68.8%), Netherlands (5.7%) and United Kingdom (5.6%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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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