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South Asian Journal of Macroeconomics and Public Finance is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.8), ABDC C, ABS / AJG 1, WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Sage Publications.
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ISSN 2277-9787Verify ISSN ↗2321-0273Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Sage Publications
Cost to publish: About US$3,650 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finance | 215 / 342 | 37th | Q3 |
| Economics and Econometrics | 496 / 755 | 34th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2012–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.8.
South Asian Journal of Macroeconomics and Public Finance is Q3 in Finance (rank 215 of 342) and Q3 in Economics and Econometrics (rank 496 of 755), by CiteScore 2025.
South Asian Journal of Macroeconomics and Public Finance is indexed in the Emerging Sources 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 1.8, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 37th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.257, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 12.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,650 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.
South Asian Journal of Macroeconomics and Public Finance is published by Sage Publications. Its print ISSN is 2277-9787 and its online ISSN is 2321-0273.
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 Emerging Sources Citation Index.
It is rated C in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Applied economics.
It is graded 1 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the International Business and Area Studies field.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
South Asian Journal of Macroeconomics and Public Finance has an h-index of 16 and a 2-year mean of 1.2 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.8, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #202 of 335 Scopus journals in Finance.
South Asian Journal of Macroeconomics and Public Finance published 14 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 14. 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 56 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from India (58.4%), Vietnam (8%) and United States (4.5%). 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.
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