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Contributions to Political Economy is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1.5), ABDC B, ABS / AJG 2. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Oxford University Press.
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ISSN 0277-5921Verify ISSN ↗1464-3588Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Cost to publish: About US$4,514 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sociology and Political Science | 755 / 1530 | 50th | Q2 |
| Economics and Econometrics | 527 / 755 | 30th | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2005–2025 (also 1982–2003), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.5.
Contributions to Political Economy is Q2 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 755 of 1530) and Q3 in Economics and Econometrics (rank 527 of 755), by CiteScore 2025.
Contributions to Political Economy 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 1.5, quartile Q2, 50th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.224, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 22.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,514 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Contributions to Political Economy is published by Oxford University Press. Its print ISSN is 0277-5921 and its online ISSN is 1464-3588.
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.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
It is rated B in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Applied economics.
It is graded 2 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Economics, Econometrics and Statistics field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Contributions to Political Economy has an h-index of 33 and a 2-year mean of 0.94 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.5, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #624 of 1,478 Scopus journals in Sociology and Political Science.
Contributions to Political Economy published 15 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 21. 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 93 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (36.4%), United States (21.3%) and Italy (11.1%).
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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