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Contemporary South Asia is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1.6), WoS AHCI/SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Routledge.
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ISSN 0958-4935Verify ISSN ↗1469-364XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Routledge
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Political Science and International Relations | 342 / 745 | 54th | Q2 |
| Geography, Planning and Development | 494 / 876 | 43rd | Q3 |
| Development | 197 / 314 | 37th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2008–present (also 1992–2006), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.6.
Contemporary South Asia is Q2 in Political Science and International Relations (rank 342 of 745), Q3 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 494 of 876) and Q3 in Development (rank 197 of 314), by CiteScore 2025.
Contemporary South Asia is indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index and 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 1.6, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 54th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.452, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 35.
Contemporary South Asia is published by Routledge. Its print ISSN is 0958-4935 and its online ISSN is 1469-364X.
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 Arts & Humanities Citation Index and Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Contemporary South Asia has an h-index of 54 and a 2-year mean of 0.7 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.6, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #371 of 704 Scopus journals in Political Science and International Relations.
Contemporary South Asia published 86 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 87. 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 91 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from India (42.6%), United Kingdom (17%) and United States (7.7%).
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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