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Comparative Politics is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 3.9), ABDC A, WoS SSCI. Published by City University of New York.
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ISSN 0010-4159Verify ISSN ↗2151-6227Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: City University of New York
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sociology and Political Science | 317 / 1530 | 79th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present (also 1987–1989, 1978), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 3.9.
Comparative Politics is Q1 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 317 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025.
Comparative Politics 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 3.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 79th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.324, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 83.
Comparative Politics is published by City University of New York. Its print ISSN is 0010-4159 and its online ISSN is 2151-6227.
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.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Comparative Politics has an h-index of 130 and a 2-year mean of 1.7 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #341 of 1,478 Scopus journals in Sociology and Political Science.
Comparative Politics published 27 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 72. 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.
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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