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POVERTY & PUBLIC POLICY

WILEY · US · Est. 1979

ISSN1944-2858eISSN1944-2858

✓ WOS ESCI

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

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H-Indexi

SNIPi

0.749

Total Worksi

677

Total Citationsi

3,236

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.55

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Social Work.

General Information

Country / RegionUS

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published1979

Annual Volume~ 43 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications677

Publisher OrgWiley

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Submission Info

Peer Review—

OA License—

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

thinkchecksubmit.org

6/11 · 55%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

WILEY

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

1944-2858 / 1944-2858

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Indexed in a trusted database?

WoS

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Peer review process documented?

N/A

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Follows ethical publishing standards (COPE)?

N/A

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Not on predatory/blacklists?

✓ Clean

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Long-term digital preservation?

N/A

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Plagiarism detection in place?

N/A

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Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?

N/A

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Primary language documented?

English

A twelfth criterion — whether APC fees are clearly disclosed — is not scored here; it is left out of the total rather than counted as a failure. Publication charges appear in the metrics card above.

Based on the Think.Check.Submit framework by DOAJ, COPE & OASPA. All data from verified open sources.

Publication & Citation Trend

Articles published

Citations received

140

2019

220

2020

163

2021

2022

115

2023

2024

2025

2026

Source: OpenAlex · Each year’s green bar = citations earned by that year’s papers, counted to date — so recent years look lower simply because their papers haven’t had time to be cited yet.

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Social Work

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Income, Poverty, and InequalityPoverty, Education, and Child WelfareGender, Labor, and Family DynamicsSocial Policy and Reform StudiesHuman auditory perception and evaluationHousing, Finance, and NeoliberalismDiverse Scientific and Economic StudiesMicrofinance and Financial InclusionFiscal Policy and Economic GrowthEmployment and Welfare Studies

Frequently asked questions about POVERTY & PUBLIC POLICY

Is POVERTY & PUBLIC POLICY a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for POVERTY & PUBLIC POLICY: it is indexed in Web of Science, and is not on DOAJ's withdrawn list. Indexing is a transparency signal, not a guarantee — always confirm fit and policies before submitting.

What is the impact factor of POVERTY & PUBLIC POLICY?

POVERTY & PUBLIC POLICY is indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection, so Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor for it (since the 2023 Journal Citation Reports, every Core Collection journal — including Arts & Humanities and Emerging Sources titles — receives one). PubScope links to Clarivate's official source rather than reprinting the number, which can be out of date. Its open 2-year mean citedness is 0.55.

Is POVERTY & PUBLIC POLICY indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

POVERTY & PUBLIC POLICY is indexed in Web of Science.

What is the aims and scope of POVERTY & PUBLIC POLICY?