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Contributions to Political Science is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.7). Published by Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH.
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Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Social Sciences (miscellaneous) | 515 / 744 | 30th | Q3 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 1082 / 1530 | 29th | Q3 |
| Political Science and International Relations | 547 / 745 | 26th | Q3 |
| Public Administration | 196 / 248 | 21st | 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 2019–present (also 2014–2017), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.7.
Contributions to Political Science is Q3 in Social Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 515 of 744), Q3 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 1082 of 1530) and Q3 in Political Science and International Relations (rank 547 of 745), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Contributions to Political Science 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 0.7, quartile Q3, 30th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric.
Contributions to Political Science is published by Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. Its print ISSN is 2198-7289 and its online ISSN is 2198-7297.
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.
Contributions to Political Science has an h-index of 14 and a 2-year mean of 0.72 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.7, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #387 of 703 Scopus journals in Social Sciences (miscellaneous).
Contributions to Political Science published 102 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 195. 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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