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Voluntary Sector Review is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.3), ABS / AJG 1, WoS ESCI. Published by Policy Press.
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ISSN 2040-8056Verify ISSN ↗2040-8064Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Policy Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Social Sciences (miscellaneous) | 261 / 744 | 64th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2015–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.3.
Voluntary Sector Review is Q2 in Social Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 261 of 744), by CiteScore 2025.
Voluntary Sector Review 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 2.3, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 64th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.342, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 20.
Voluntary Sector Review is published by Policy Press. Its print ISSN is 2040-8056 and its online ISSN is 2040-8064.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
It is graded 1 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Public Sector and Health Care field.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Voluntary Sector Review has an h-index of 31 and a 2-year mean of 0.7 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.3, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #400 of 703 Scopus journals in Social Sciences (miscellaneous).
Voluntary Sector Review published 28 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 54. 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 95 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (49.3%), United States (8.4%) and Spain (4.2%).
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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