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Telecommunications Policy is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 12.7), formerly ABDC B, ABS / AJG 1, WoS SCIE/SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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ISSN 0308-5961Verify ISSN ↗1879-3258Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$3,870 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Communication | 14 / 541 | 97th | Q1 |
| Library and Information Sciences | 13 / 296 | 95th | Q1 |
| Economics and Econometrics | 39 / 755 | 94th | Q1 |
| Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law | 30 / 432 | 93rd | Q1 |
| Information Systems | 48 / 519 | 90th | Q1 |
| Management Information Systems | 17 / 143 | 88th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1976–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 12.7.
Telecommunications Policy is Q1 in Communication (rank 14 of 541), Q1 in Library and Information Sciences (rank 13 of 296) and Q1 in Economics and Econometrics (rank 39 of 755), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 6 subject areas in all.
Telecommunications Policy is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and 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 12.7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 97th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.519, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 101.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,870 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.
Telecommunications Policy is published by Elsevier Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0308-5961 and its online ISSN is 1879-3258.
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 Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index.
It was rated B in the 2010 ABDC list but is not in the current 2025 Journal Quality List.
It is graded 1 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Sector Studies field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Telecommunications Policy has an h-index of 129 and a 2-year mean of 5.48 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 12.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #16 of 511 Scopus journals in Communication.
Telecommunications Policy published 152 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 93 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from China (22.6%), United States (13.1%) and United Kingdom (9%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 1 retracted paper is recorded (0.2 per 1,000 papers). 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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