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Diaspora Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 1), WoS ESCI. Published by Brill Academic Publishers.
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ISSN 0973-9572Verify ISSN ↗0976-3457Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 348 / 1936 | 82nd | Q1 |
| Demography | 85 / 140 | 39th | Q3 |
| Political Science and International Relations | 457 / 745 | 38th | Q3 |
| Geography, Planning and Development | 631 / 876 | 28th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2015–present (also 2009–2010), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 1.
Diaspora Studies is Q1 in History (rank 348 of 1936), Q3 in Demography (rank 85 of 140) and Q3 in Political Science and International Relations (rank 457 of 745), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Diaspora Studies 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 Q1 at the 82nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.208, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 13.
Diaspora Studies is published by Brill Academic Publishers. Its print ISSN is 0973-9572 and its online ISSN is 0976-3457.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Diaspora Studies has an h-index of 20 and a 2-year mean of 0.35 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #384 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
Diaspora Studies published 26 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 33. 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 94 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from India (26.6%), United States (7.8%) and Ethiopia (5.3%).
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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