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title: "Evaluation and Program Planning: impact and top papers"
description: "Evaluation and Program Planning has a 2-year mean citedness of 2.65 and an h-index of 123 in OpenAlex, #50 of 56 tracked management journals by citedness. In 2025 it published 169 papers, and its papers received 5,160 citations."
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# Evaluation and Program Planning

- 0 papers in the last 7 days
- category: Management
- publisher: Elsevier BV
- ISSN 0149-7189
- Journal website: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/evaluation-and-program-planning
- ISSN portal: https://portal.issn.org/resource/ISSN/0149-7189
- OpenAlex: https://openalex.org/S1842953

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## Key findings

- Evaluation and Program Planning has a 2-year mean citedness of 2.65 and an h-index of 123 in OpenAlex, #50 of 56 tracked management journals by citedness.
- In 2025 it published 169 papers, and its papers received 5,160 citations.
- Evaluation and Program Planning published 1 paper in the last 30 days (2026-10-05 to 2026-11-03), ranking #389 of 480 journals.
- Leading institutions: Ghent University (1).
- Countries: Belgium (1).
- From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, Evaluation and Program Planning published 1 paper (0 a month on average, by publication date in OpenAlex).
- Its most frequent keywords over that period were “Flanders” (1), “agency” (1) and “capability approach” (1).

## Citation metrics

*Citation metrics (OpenAlex)*

| Metric | Value |
|---|---:|
| 2-year mean citedness | 2.65 |
| h-index | 123 |
| i10-index | 1,643 |
| Papers in OpenAlex | 3,659 |
| Citations in OpenAlex | 122,003 |
| Rank among tracked management journals | [#50 of 56](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journal-metrics/management.md) |

*Papers per year and the citations the journal's papers received that year (OpenAlex)*

| Year | Papers | Citations received |
|---|---:|---:|
| 2026 (so far) | 49 | 3,655 |
| 2025 | 169 | 5,160 |
| 2024 | 95 | 5,986 |
| 2023 | 139 | 6,178 |
| 2022 | 131 | 6,482 |
| 2021 | 100 | 6,575 |
| 2020 | 82 | 6,145 |
| 2019 | 122 | 5,255 |
| 2018 | 115 | 4,922 |
| 2017 | 123 | 4,791 |
| 2016 | 145 | 4,754 |

2-year mean citedness is OpenAlex's count of citations per paper a journal published in the two previous years, an open counterpart to the journal impact factor (which counts only Web of Science citations); the h-index and i10-index cover all its papers. The figures come from OpenAlex (CC0) and are read again monthly.

Official metrics such as the Journal Impact Factor (Clarivate) and CiteScore (Scopus) are licensed by their owners and not copied here; the publisher shows them on the journal's website. Journal website: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/evaluation-and-program-planning

## The last 36 months

*Papers by publication date, Nov 2023 to Oct 2026*

| Nov 23–Oct 24 | Nov 24–Oct 25 | Nov 25–Oct 26 | 36 months |
|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |

*Most frequent keywords, Nov 2023 to Oct 2026*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Flanders | 1 |
| 2 | agency | 1 |
| 3 | capability approach | 1 |
| 4 | context-mechanism-outcome configurations | 1 |
| 5 | former prisoners | 1 |
| 6 | human dignity | 1 |
| 7 | institutional support | 1 |
| 8 | middle-range theory | 1 |
| 9 | prisoner reentry | 1 |
| 10 | realist evaluation | 1 |

*Papers, newest first.*

| Date | Title | Journal | Authors | Affiliations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-17 | [Evaluating reintegration effectiveness differently: A realist evaluation of sports programs in Belgian male prisons using the Capability Approach](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2026.102827) | [Evaluation and Program Planning](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/evaluation-and-program-planning.md) | Marie-Lou Libbrecht | Ghent University |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Evaluation and Program Planning. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/journals/evaluation-and-program-planning

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  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {Evaluation and Program Planning},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/journals/evaluation-and-program-planning}},
  urldate = {2026-11-03},
  note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
}
```

License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).