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Cosmopolitan Civil Societies is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by UTS ePRESS.
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ISSN 1837-5391Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: UTS ePRESS
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cultural Studies | 397 / 1434 | 72nd | Q2 |
| Anthropology | 236 / 536 | 56th | Q2 |
| Law | 615 / 1162 | 47th | Q3 |
| Demography | 83 / 140 | 41st | Q3 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 910 / 1530 | 40th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2017–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.
Cosmopolitan Civil Societies is Q2 in Cultural Studies (rank 397 of 1434), Q2 in Anthropology (rank 236 of 536) and Q3 in Law (rank 615 of 1162), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Cosmopolitan Civil Societies is indexed in the Emerging Sources 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, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 72nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.235, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 12.
Cosmopolitan Civil Societies is published by UTS ePRESS. Its ISSN is 1837-5391.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Cosmopolitan Civil Societies has an h-index of 23 and a 2-year mean of 0.72 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #282 of 1,309 Scopus journals in Cultural Studies.
Cosmopolitan Civil Societies published 23 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 30. 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 83 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from Indonesia (17.3%), Australia (13.9%) and Brazil (6.6%).
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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