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Economic and Political Weekly is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.6), ABDC B. Published by Sameeksha Trust.
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ISSN 0012-9976Verify ISSN ↗2349-8846Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Sameeksha Trust
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sociology and Political Science | 1150 / 1530 | 24th | Q4 |
| Political Science and International Relations | 577 / 745 | 22nd | Q4 |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance (all) | 241 / 289 | 16th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1978–1980 (also 1982–1986, 1993, 1995–1997, 2007–present), best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.6.
Economic and Political Weekly is Q4 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 1150 of 1530), Q4 in Political Science and International Relations (rank 577 of 745) and Q4 in Economics, Econometrics and Finance (all) (rank 241 of 289), by CiteScore 2025.
Economic and Political Weekly 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 0.6, quartile Q4, 24th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.216, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 81.
Economic and Political Weekly is published by Sameeksha Trust. Its print ISSN is 0012-9976 and its online ISSN is 2349-8846.
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.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Economic and Political Weekly has an h-index of 3 and a 2-year mean of 0.08 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.6, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #1,281 of 1,478 Scopus journals in Sociology and Political Science.
Economic and Political Weekly published 847 papers in 2025. 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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