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Comparative Political Theory is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.6). Published by Brill Academic Publishers.
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ISSN 2666-9765Verify ISSN ↗2666-9773Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 607 / 1936 | 68th | Q2 |
| Political Science and International Relations | 567 / 745 | 23rd | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2021–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.6.
Comparative Political Theory is Q2 in History (rank 607 of 1936) and Q4 in Political Science and International Relations (rank 567 of 745), by CiteScore 2025.
Comparative Political Theory is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.6, quartile Q2, 68th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.106, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 3.
Comparative Political Theory is published by Brill Academic Publishers. Its print ISSN is 2666-9765 and its online ISSN is 2666-9773.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Comparative Political Theory has an h-index of 4 and a 2-year mean of 0.1 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.6, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #938 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
Comparative Political Theory published 8 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 28. 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 76 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (39.5%), United Kingdom (9.2%) and Germany (5.9%).
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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