American Journal of Evaluation
Last updated ISSN 1098-2140
American Journal of Evaluation is published by SAGE Publishing in decision sciences. It is a subscription journal. The article processing charge is $3,650.
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What it publishes
Recent work in American Journal of Evaluation concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Evaluation and Performance Assessment
- Health Policy Implementation Science
- Educational Assessment and Improvement
- Community Health and Development
- Public Policy and Administration Research
- Human Resource Development and Performance Evaluation
- Primary Care and Health Outcomes
- Advanced Causal Inference Techniques
- Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics
- Diverse Scientific and Economic Studies
Key facts
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 1098-2140, 1557-0878 |
| Subject area | Decision Sciences |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $3,650 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Social Sciences Citation Index · Scopus |
| Articles published | 1,953 |
| Publishing since | 1976 |
| Journal website | www.sagepub.com/journals/Journal201729/title |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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