Government Information Quarterly

ISSN 0740-624x · Elsevier BV · United Kingdom · active 1984–2026

Metrics

Scimago quartile
Q1
Cites per paper (2y)
8.0
SJR
3.575
h-index
179

“Cites per paper” is a two-year cited-by rate computed from OpenAlex. It is not a Clarivate Journal Impact Factor — we neither compute nor license that metric. Citation rates differ enormously between fields, so compare within a discipline.

Indexing & access

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Access status: unknown. Where this comes from publisher-level signals rather than works-level data it is a heuristic — confirm on the journal’s own site, especially regarding any article processing charge.

Scope

e-governmentpublicservicespoliticalrelationssocialmediapoliticscommunicationpolicyadministrationprivacy

Frequently asked

Is Government Information Quarterly a predatory journal?

Our screening does not flag Government Information Quarterly. That is not a guarantee of quality — it means the venue is not on Beall's archive (frozen since 2017) and does not match our name-pattern heuristic. It is listed in Scopus, Web of Science, PubMed, which is a positive signal.

Is Government Information Quarterly indexed in Scopus or Web of Science?

Per our venue index, Government Information Quarterly appears in: Scopus, Web of Science, PubMed. Index membership changes over time — confirm on the index's own site before relying on it.

What is Government Information Quarterly's impact?

Papers in Government Information Quarterly are cited about 8.0 times each within two years of publication, and Scimago places it in Q1, with an h-index of 179. This is not a Clarivate Journal Impact Factor — we neither compute nor license that metric — and a citation rate is a property of a field as much as of a journal.

Is Government Information Quarterly open access?

We hold no reliable open-access classification for Government Information Quarterly. Check the journal's own site for its access model and any article processing charge.

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