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Contemporary Southeast Asia is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 2.9), formerly ABDC C, WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute.
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ISSN 0129-797XVerify ISSN ↗1793-284XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 52 / 1936 | 97th | Q1 |
| Political Science and International Relations | 193 / 745 | 74th | Q2 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 437 / 1530 | 71st | Q2 |
| Development | 128 / 314 | 59th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1979–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 2.9.
Contemporary Southeast Asia is Q1 in History (rank 52 of 1936), Q2 in Political Science and International Relations (rank 193 of 745) and Q2 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 437 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Contemporary Southeast Asia 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 2.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 97th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.114, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 49.
Contemporary Southeast Asia is published by ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute. Its print ISSN is 0129-797X and its online ISSN is 1793-284X.
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 C 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 Southeast Asia has an h-index of 63 and a 2-year mean of 1.64 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #42 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
Contemporary Southeast Asia published 30 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2016 with 67. 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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