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Australian Journal of Career Development

SAGE Publications Ltd · United Kingdom · Est. 1992

ISSN2200-6974

SJR Q2✓ WOS ESCI✓ Scopus / SJR

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

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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

0.614

H-Indexi

SNIPi

0.965

Total Worksi

1,178

Total Citationsi

7,199

2yr Mean Citednessi

3.69

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Psychology, Applied; Education; Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management.

General Information

Country / RegionUnited Kingdom

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published1992

Annual Volume~ 29 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2025)

Total Publications1,178

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?

SAGE Publications Ltd

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Does the journal have a website?

No URL

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Is the ISSN verified?

2200-6974

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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

364

2019

284

2020

243

2021

205

2022

200

2023

267

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.

EducationQ2

Organizational Behavior and Human Resource ManagementQ2

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Psychology, Applied

Scopus Categories

Organizational Behavior and Human Resource ManagementEducation

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Higher Education and EmployabilityCareer Development and DiversityEducation Systems and PolicyYouth Education and Societal DynamicsEmployment and Welfare StudiesHuman Resource and Talent ManagementEntrepreneurship Studies and InfluencesRetirement, Disability, and EmploymentHigher Education Research StudiesLabor market dynamics and wage inequality

Frequently asked questions about Australian Journal of Career Development

Is Australian Journal of Career Development a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Australian Journal of Career Development: 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 Australian Journal of Career Development?

Australian Journal of Career Development 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 3.69.

Is Australian Journal of Career Development indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Australian Journal of Career Development is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of Australian Journal of Career Development?