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Comparative Migration Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.8), 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 SpringerOpen.
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ISSN 2214-594XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: SpringerOpen
Cost to publish: APC covered for authors at ONOS-subscribed Indian institutions
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 91 / 1162 | 92nd | Q1 |
| Demography | 18 / 140 | 87th | Q1 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 233 / 1530 | 84th | Q1 |
| Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty | 34 / 178 | 81st | Q1 |
| Geography, Planning and Development | 209 / 876 | 76th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2013–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.8.
Comparative Migration Studies is Q1 in Law (rank 91 of 1162), Q1 in Demography (rank 18 of 140) and Q1 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 233 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Comparative Migration 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 4.8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 92nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.158, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 45.
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$1,490 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.
Comparative Migration Studies is published by SpringerOpen. Its ISSN is 2214-594X.
Yes. ONOS also covers its article processing charge for authors at eligible institutions.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Comparative Migration Studies has an h-index of 56 and a 2-year mean of 3.29 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #39 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
Comparative Migration Studies published 98 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 95 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from Germany (9.4%), United Kingdom (9%) and United States (8.4%).
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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