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Studies in Public and Non-Profit Governance is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.2). Published by Emerald Group Publishing Ltd..
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ISSN 2051-6630Verify ISSN ↗2051-6649Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sociology and Political Science | 847 / 1530 | 44th | Q3 |
| Public Administration | 170 / 248 | 31st | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2025–present (also 2023, 2018, 2013–2016), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.2.
Studies in Public and Non-Profit Governance is Q3 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 847 of 1530) and Q3 in Public Administration (rank 170 of 248), by CiteScore 2025.
Studies in Public and Non-Profit Governance 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 1.2, quartile Q3, 44th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.145, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 11.
Studies in Public and Non-Profit Governance is published by Emerald Group Publishing Ltd. Its print ISSN is 2051-6630 and its online ISSN is 2051-6649.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Studies in Public and Non-Profit Governance has an h-index of 9 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.2, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #1,360 of 1,478 Scopus journals in Sociology and Political Science.
Studies in Public and Non-Profit Governance published 14 papers in 2018; its busiest recent year was 2015 with 18. 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.
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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