Q Open

Oxford University Press · United Kingdom · Est. 2020

ISSN2633-9048eISSN2633-9048

SJR Q2✓ WOS ESCI✓ Scopus / SJR✓ DOAJ✓ Open Access

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.

See the official Impact Factor & quartile on the journal’s page ↗

The Impact Factor & JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date. Open metrics below: SCImago Q2. Source: Clarivate Journal Citation Reports.

📊 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

0.542

H-Indexi

SNIPi

0.59

Total Worksi

177

Total Citationsi

1,054

2yr Mean Citednessi

1.47

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Agricultural Economics & Policy; Economics; Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous); Development; Economics and Econometrics; Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous); Food Science.

General Information

Country / RegionUnited Kingdom

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published2020

Annual Volume~ 33 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications177

Publisher OrgOxford University Press

OA Since2020

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Submission Info

Peer ReviewDouble-blind

OA LicenseCC BY, CC BY-NC, CC BY-NC-ND

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Plagiarism Detection✓ Yes

📦 Long-term Preservation

Portico

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

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10/11 · 91%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Oxford University Press

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

2633-9048 / 2633-9048

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Indexed in a trusted database?

WoS, Scopus, DOAJ

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Peer review process documented?

Double-blind

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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?

Portico

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Plagiarism detection in place?

Yes

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Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?

DOAJ verified

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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

167

2020

291

2021

314

2022

333

2023

106

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.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous)Q2

DevelopmentQ2

Economics and EconometricsQ2

Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous)Q2

Food ScienceQ2

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Agricultural Economics & PolicyEconomics

Scopus Categories

Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous)Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous)Economics and EconometricsDevelopmentFood Science

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Agricultural Innovations and PracticesEconomic and Environmental ValuationAgricultural Economics and PolicyAgriculture Sustainability and Environmental ImpactOrganic Food and AgricultureAgricultural risk and resilienceEconomics of Agriculture and Food MarketsSustainable Agricultural Systems AnalysisClimate Change Policy and EconomicsGlobal trade and economics

Frequently asked questions about Q Open

Is Q Open a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Q Open: it is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, DOAJ, 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 Q Open?

Q Open 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 1.47.

Is Q Open indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Q Open is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, DOAJ.