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Contemporary Arab Affairs is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.3). Published by Brill Academic Publishers.
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ISSN 1755-0912Verify ISSN ↗1755-0920Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cultural Studies | 1012 / 1434 | 29th | Q3 |
| Political Science and International Relations | 659 / 745 | 11th | 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 2010–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.3.
Contemporary Arab Affairs is Q3 in Cultural Studies (rank 1012 of 1434) and Q4 in Political Science and International Relations (rank 659 of 745), by CiteScore 2025.
Contemporary Arab Affairs 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 0.3, quartile Q3, 29th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.109, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 16.
Contemporary Arab Affairs is published by Brill Academic Publishers. Its print ISSN is 1755-0912 and its online ISSN is 1755-0920.
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.
Contemporary Arab Affairs has an h-index of 22 and a 2-year mean of 0.52 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.3, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #382 of 1,309 Scopus journals in Cultural Studies.
Contemporary Arab Affairs published 28 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 44. 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 88 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from Lebanon (27.8%), Egypt (6.3%) and United Arab Emirates (6.3%).
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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