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Zeitschrift fur Evaluation is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.5), WoS SSCI. Published by Waxmann Verlag GmbH.
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ISSN 1619-5515Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Waxmann Verlag GmbH
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Social Sciences (miscellaneous) | 577 / 744 | 22nd | Q4 |
| Communication | 439 / 541 | 18th | Q4 |
| Education | 1469 / 1698 | 13th | Q4 |
| Statistics and Probability | 281 / 303 | 7th | Q4 |
| Applied Psychology | 240 / 258 | 7th | Q4 |
| Strategy and Management | 480 / 506 | 5th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2015–present (also 2006–2013), best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.5.
Zeitschrift fur Evaluation is Q4 in Social Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 577 of 744), Q4 in Communication (rank 439 of 541) and Q4 in Education (rank 1469 of 1698), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 6 subject areas in all.
Zeitschrift fur Evaluation is indexed in the 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 0.5, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 22nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.176, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 8.
Zeitschrift fur Evaluation is published by Waxmann Verlag GmbH. Its ISSN is 1619-5515.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Zeitschrift fur Evaluation has an h-index of 6 and a 2-year mean of 0.09 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.5, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #624 of 703 Scopus journals in Social Sciences (miscellaneous).
Zeitschrift fur Evaluation published 41 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 15 research articles (2022–2024), authors are most often from Germany (45.6%), Switzerland (15.6%) and Austria (15.6%).
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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