Research Policy
Last updated ISSN 0048-7333
Research Policy is published by Elsevier BV in business, management and accounting. It is a subscription journal. The article processing charge is $4,280.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Research Policy concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Innovation and Knowledge Management
- Innovation Policy and R&D
- Firm Innovation and Growth
- Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences
- Economic Growth and Productivity
- Intellectual Property and Patents
- scientometrics and bibliometrics research
- Private Equity and Venture Capital
- Diverse Scientific and Economic Studies
- Human auditory perception and evaluation
Key facts
| Publisher | Elsevier BV |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0048-7333, 1873-7625 |
| Subject area | Business, Management and Accounting |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $4,280 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Social Sciences Citation Index · Scopus |
| Articles published | 5,302 |
| Publishing since | 1971 |
| Journal website | www.journals.elsevier.com/research-policy |
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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