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Communist and Post-Communist Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.8), WoS SSCI. Published by University of California Press.
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ISSN 0967-067XVerify ISSN ↗1873-6920Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: University of California Press
Cost to publish: About US$1,800 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sociology and Political Science | 452 / 1530 | 70th | Q2 |
| Development | 133 / 314 | 57th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1993–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.8.
Communist and Post-Communist Studies is Q2 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 452 of 1530) and Q2 in Development (rank 133 of 314), by CiteScore 2025.
Communist and Post-Communist Studies 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 2.8, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 70th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.420, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 57.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$1,800 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.
Communist and Post-Communist Studies is published by University of California Press. Its print ISSN is 0967-067X and its online ISSN is 1873-6920.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Communist and Post-Communist Studies has an h-index of 70 and a 2-year mean of 1.26 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.8, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #489 of 1,478 Scopus journals in Sociology and Political Science.
Communist and Post-Communist Studies published 39 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 47. 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 99 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (14.1%), Poland (13.1%) and United States (13%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 3 retracted papers are recorded (2.6 per 1,000 papers). 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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