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Diplomacy and Statecraft is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.6), WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Routledge.
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ISSN 0959-2296Verify ISSN ↗1557-301XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Routledge
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 659 / 1936 | 65th | Q2 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 1171 / 1530 | 23rd | Q4 |
| Political Science and International Relations | 586 / 745 | 21st | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2010–present (also 2001–2003, 1998, 1990–1996), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.6.
Diplomacy and Statecraft is Q2 in History (rank 659 of 1936), Q4 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 1171 of 1530) and Q4 in Political Science and International Relations (rank 586 of 745), by CiteScore 2025.
Diplomacy and Statecraft 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 0.6, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 65th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.229, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 21.
Diplomacy and Statecraft is published by Routledge. Its print ISSN is 0959-2296 and its online ISSN is 1557-301X.
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.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Diplomacy and Statecraft has an h-index of 34 and a 2-year mean of 0.33 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.6, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #414 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
Diplomacy and Statecraft published 49 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 69. 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 (2024–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (34.9%), United States (24.7%) and Canada (7%).
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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