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Asian Journal of Political Science is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2), ABDC B, WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Taylor & Francis Online.
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ISSN 0218-5377Verify ISSN ↗1750-7812Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Online
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Political Science and International Relations | 289 / 745 | 61st | Q2 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 631 / 1530 | 58th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1993–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.
Asian Journal of Political Science is Q2 in Political Science and International Relations (rank 289 of 745) and Q2 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 631 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025.
Asian Journal of Political Science is indexed in the Emerging Sources 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 2, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 61st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.287, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 25.
Asian Journal of Political Science is published by Taylor & Francis Online. Its print ISSN is 0218-5377 and its online ISSN is 1750-7812.
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 Emerging Sources Citation Index.
It is rated B in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Other commerce, management, tourism and services.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Asian Journal of Political Science has an h-index of 32 and a 2-year mean of 1.53 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #169 of 704 Scopus journals in Political Science and International Relations.
Asian Journal of Political Science published 35 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 36. 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 100 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from South Korea (17.3%), India (13%) and Kazakhstan (9.7%).
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.
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