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Civil Szemle is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.1), WoS SSCI, DOAJ. Published by Civil Szemle Foundation.
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ISSN 1786-3341Verify ISSN ↗3004-2119Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Civil Szemle Foundation
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Social Sciences (miscellaneous) | 433 / 744 | 41st | Q3 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 905 / 1530 | 40th | Q3 |
| Political Science and International Relations | 443 / 745 | 40th | Q3 |
| Public Administration | 179 / 248 | 28th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2020–present (also 2013, 2008–2011), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.1.
Civil Szemle is Q3 in Social Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 433 of 744), Q3 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 905 of 1530) and Q3 in Political Science and International Relations (rank 443 of 745), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Civil Szemle 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 1.1, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 41st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.218, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 8.
Civil Szemle is published by Civil Szemle Foundation. Its print ISSN is 1786-3341 and its online ISSN is 3004-2119.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Civil Szemle has an h-index of 5 and a 2-year mean of 1.09 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.1, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #289 of 703 Scopus journals in Social Sciences (miscellaneous).
Civil Szemle published 28 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 61. 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 92 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from Hungary (66.9%), Romania (13.6%) and Türkiye (5.2%). 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.
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