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Voluntary Sector Review

Policy Press · United Kingdom · Est. 2010

ISSN2040-8056eISSN2040-8064

SJR Q2✓ WOS ESCI✓ Scopus / SJR

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

✓ Indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection (ESCI) — Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor and JCR quartile for this journal.

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📊 Standing in its field

Where this journal ranks among others in the same subject area.

SJR · Scopus

Top 50% in field

Clarivate’s JCR quartile is a separate ranking and may differ

SJR Scorei

0.342

H-Indexi

SNIPi

0.804

Total Worksi

519

Total Citationsi

5,025

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.69

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary; Social Sciences (miscellaneous).

General Information

Country / RegionUnited Kingdom

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published2010

Annual Volume~ 27 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications519

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

5/11 · 45%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Policy Press

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Does the journal have a website?

No URL

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Is the ISSN verified?

2040-8056 / 2040-8064

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Indexed in a trusted database?

WoS, Scopus

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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

190

2019

280

2020

252

2021

239

2022

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.

SJR Quartile by Discipline

Scimago ranks this journal separately in each subject category — its quartile can differ by discipline.

Social Sciences (miscellaneous)Q2

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary

Scopus Categories

Social Sciences (miscellaneous)

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Nonprofit Sector and VolunteeringCommunity Development and Social ImpactTourism, Volunteerism, and DevelopmentReligion, Society, and DevelopmentHealthcare innovation and challengesHousing, Finance, and NeoliberalismHomelessness and Social IssuesMental Health and Patient InvolvementPublic Policy and Administration ResearchSocial Work Education and Practice

Frequently asked questions about Voluntary Sector Review

Is Voluntary Sector Review a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Voluntary Sector Review: it is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, 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 Voluntary Sector Review?

Voluntary Sector Review 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 0.69.

Is Voluntary Sector Review indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Voluntary Sector Review is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of Voluntary Sector Review?