Journal profile · Social Sciences-Education
New Directions for Evaluation
ISSN 1097-6736 · eISSN 1534-875X · Wiley-Blackwell
New Directions for Evaluation: subscription journal; APC about USD 3,140; 32 articles in 2025; indexed in Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
New Directions for Evaluation is published by Wiley-Blackwell. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Evaluation and Performance Assessment, Public Policy and Administration Research and Advanced Causal Inference Techniques, together about 65.8% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
New Directions for Evaluation, a quarterly sourcebook, is one of two official journals of the American Evaluation Association. The journal publishes works on all aspects of evaluation, with an emphasis on presenting timely and thoughtful reflections on leading-edge issues of evaluation and the organizational, cultural, and societal context within which evaluations occur. Each issue of New Directions for Evaluation is devoted to a single topic, with contributions solicited, organized, reviewed, and edited by guest editors. Topics can be about broad aspects of evaluation or can focus on programs, policies, personnel, and other forms of evaluands in professional or disciplinary domains such as energy, environment, mental health, education, criminal justice, social welfare, human resources, technology assessment, and myriad others.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Social Sciences-Education
Editor-in-chief Christina ChristiePublisher website
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Evaluation and Performance AssessmentDecision Sciences41.9%
- Public Policy and Administration ResearchSocial Sciences15.8%
- Advanced Causal Inference TechniquesMathematics8.1%
- Education and Public PolicySocial Sciences5.1%
- Human Resource Development and Performance EvaluationPsychology3.6%
- Community Development and Social ImpactEconomics, Econometrics and Finance2.8%
- Environmental and Social Impact AssessmentsEnvironmental Science2.6%
- Health Policy Implementation ScienceHealth Professions2.5%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Not covered
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CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Not covered
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CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
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CiteScore quartiles (Scopus, June 2026 release)
| Subject | Quartile | Rank | Percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Education | Q2 | 526/1698 | 69th |
| Strategy and Management | Q3 | 254/506 | 49th |
| Management Science and Operations Research | Q3 | 114/225 | 49th |
Scopus ranks journals by CiteScore within each subject: the 75th percentile and above is Q1, then a quartile every 25 points. A different system from the CAS zones.LetPub
Database indexing
ScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
EBSCO, ProQuest, Academic Search Alumni Edition (EBSCO Publishing), Education Research Complete (EBSCO Publishing), Higher Education Abstracts (Claremont Graduate University), ProQuest Politics Collection (ProQuest), ProQuest Sociology Collection (ProQuest), Social Science Premium Collection (ProQuest)Publisher website
As the journal's website lists them, not checked against each database; for Web of Science editions the records above apply.
Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 3.5LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher) 2025
- 3.5Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.55LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.7LetPub ·
- h-index
- 68OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 436OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 2.07OpenAlex ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 0%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year (publisher) 2025
- 32Publisher website ·
- Downloads per year (publisher) 2025
- 96,384Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 1,352 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 25 | 17 | 1,002 |
| 2025 | 32 | 23 | 1,328 |
| 2024 | 50 | 39 | 1,532 |
| 2023 | 49 | 37 | 1,419 |
| 2022 | 50 | 31 | 1,369 |
| 2021 | 49 | 13 | 1,323 |
Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
Review time from article dates manuscript dates registered with Crossref
Not usableThis publisher's "received" date is mostly when the revised manuscript arrived (62% of articles were "accepted" within 3 days), so it cannot measure review time
Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Subscription journalLetPub
A subscription journal: articles are read by subscription or purchase, and authors usually pay no publication charge.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAlex | USD 3,140 / EUR 2,630 / GBP 2,110 | — | — |
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAI use, Data availability, Peer review
- AI use Disclosing the use of artificial intelligence (AI)
AI use must be described transparently and in detail in the Methods section. Model summary
If you or your co-authors have used Artificial Intelligence Generated Content (AIGC) tools such as ChatGPT and others based on large language models (LLMs) to develop any portion of a manuscript, their use must be described transparently and in detail in the Methods section.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Data availability
Consent to Wiley Online Library Terms of Use and processing of personal data as disclosed in Wiley's Privacy Policy. Model summary
I consent to Wiley Online Library’s Terms of Use and processing of my personal data as disclosed in Wiley’s Privacy Policy.*
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review
Proofs must be returned within 48 hours of receipt of the email. Model summary
Proofs must be returned within 48 hours of receipt of the email.
Source ↗Publisher website ·
Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- Wiley-Blackwell
- ISSN
- 1097-6736
- Electronic ISSN
- 1534-875X
- Society / sponsor
- American Evaluation Association
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 2026, Issue 189 (2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about New Directions for Evaluation
Which databases index New Directions for Evaluation?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, New Directions for Evaluation is indexed in Scopus.
Is New Directions for Evaluation open access, and what is the APC?
New Directions for Evaluation is a subscription journal. APC about USD 3,140.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, Publisher website; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-26). Last updated: .