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British Journal of Political Science is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 7.2), ABDC A*, WoS SSCI, DOAJ. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme, which pays the article processing charge for authors at eligible institutions. Published by Cambridge University Press.
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ISSN 0007-1234Verify ISSN ↗1469-2112Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Cost to publish: APC covered for authors at ONOS-subscribed Indian institutions
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Political Science and International Relations | 32 / 745 | 95th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1971–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 7.2.
British Journal of Political Science is Q1 in Political Science and International Relations (rank 32 of 745), by CiteScore 2025.
British 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 7.2, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 95th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 3.576, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 128.
For authors at Indian institutions covered by One Nation One Subscription (ONOS), the article processing charge is paid by the scheme. The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,550 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.
British Journal of Political Science is published by Cambridge University Press. Its print ISSN is 0007-1234 and its online ISSN is 1469-2112.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS also covers its article processing charge for authors at eligible institutions.
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.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
British Journal of Political Science has an h-index of 189 and a 2-year mean of 3.64 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 7.2, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #36 of 704 Scopus journals in Political Science and International Relations.
British Journal of Political Science published 184 papers in 2025. 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 (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (36.8%), United Kingdom (20.5%) and Germany (6.2%).
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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