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American Journal of Political Science is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 12.4), ABDC A*, ABS / AJG 4*, WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing.
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ISSN 0092-5853Verify ISSN ↗1540-5907Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing
Cost to publish: About US$4,100 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Political Science and International Relations | 4 / 745 | 99th | Q1 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 20 / 1530 | 98th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present (also 1986, 1982), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 12.4.
American Journal of Political Science is Q1 in Political Science and International Relations (rank 4 of 745) and Q1 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 20 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025.
American Journal of Political Science is indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 12.4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 99th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 6.539, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 229.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,100 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
American Journal of Political Science is published by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing. Its print ISSN is 0092-5853 and its online ISSN is 1540-5907.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
It is rated A* in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Other commerce, management, tourism and services.
It is graded 4* in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Social Sciences field.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
American Journal of Political Science has an h-index of 337 and a 2-year mean of 5.08 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 12.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #12 of 704 Scopus journals in Political Science and International Relations.
American Journal of Political Science published 91 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 115. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 98 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (69.6%), United Kingdom (6.7%) and Germany (3.7%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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