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Asian Perspective is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1.5), WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Johns Hopkins University Press.
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ISSN 0258-9184Verify ISSN ↗2288-2871Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Political Science and International Relations | 352 / 745 | 52nd | Q2 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 738 / 1530 | 51st | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2005–present (also 1974), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.5.
Asian Perspective is Q2 in Political Science and International Relations (rank 352 of 745) and Q2 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 738 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025.
Asian Perspective 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 1.5, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 52nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.337, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 31.
Asian Perspective is published by Johns Hopkins University Press. Its print ISSN is 0258-9184 and its online ISSN is 2288-2871.
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.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Asian Perspective has an h-index of 37 and a 2-year mean of 1.34 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.5, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #197 of 704 Scopus journals in Political Science and International Relations.
Asian Perspective published 41 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 50. 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.
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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