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Contemporary Pacific is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.7), formerly ABDC B, WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by University of Hawaii Press.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 1043-898XVerify ISSN ↗1527-9464Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sociology and Political Science | 1060 / 1530 | 30th | Q3 |
| Geography, Planning and Development | 702 / 876 | 19th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–2025 (also 1992), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.7.
Contemporary Pacific is Q3 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 1060 of 1530) and Q4 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 702 of 876), by CiteScore 2025.
Contemporary Pacific 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 0.7, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 30th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.150, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 39.
Contemporary Pacific is published by University of Hawaii Press. Its print ISSN is 1043-898X and its online ISSN is 1527-9464.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
It was rated B in the 2016 ABDC list but is not in the current 2025 Journal Quality List.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Contemporary Pacific has an h-index of 50 and a 2-year mean of 0.15 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.7, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #1,206 of 1,478 Scopus journals in Sociology and Political Science.
Contemporary Pacific published 17 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 60. 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. 1 retracted paper is recorded (0.7 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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