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Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6.7), ABDC B, ABS / AJG 2, WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
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ISSN 1750-6166Verify ISSN ↗1750-6174Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Public Administration | 34 / 248 | 86th | Q1 |
| Information Systems and Management | 47 / 222 | 79th | Q1 |
| Computer Science Applications | 265 / 1022 | 74th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2007–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.7.
Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy is Q1 in Public Administration (rank 34 of 248), Q1 in Information Systems and Management (rank 47 of 222) and Q2 in Computer Science Applications (rank 265 of 1022), by CiteScore 2025.
Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy 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 6.7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 86th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.642, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 54.
Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy is published by Emerald Group Publishing Limited. Its print ISSN is 1750-6166 and its online ISSN is 1750-6174.
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 B in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Information systems.
It is graded 2 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Public Sector and Health Care field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy has an h-index of 59 and a 2-year mean of 4.15 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #23 of 245 Scopus journals in Public Administration.
Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy published 63 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 (8.4%), Sweden (7.9%) and India (7%).
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 1 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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