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Economic Research Guardian is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.6), DOAJ. Published by Mihai Mutascu.
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ISSN 2247-8531Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Mihai Mutascu
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sociology and Political Science | 1179 / 1530 | 22nd | Q4 |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous) | 240 / 283 | 15th | Q4 |
| Geography, Planning and Development | 758 / 876 | 13th | Q4 |
| Economics and Econometrics | 693 / 755 | 8th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.6.
Economic Research Guardian is Q4 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 1179 of 1530), Q4 in Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous) (rank 240 of 283) and Q4 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 758 of 876), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Economic Research Guardian 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, 22nd percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.121, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 6.
Economic Research Guardian is published by Mihai Mutascu. Its ISSN is 2247-8531.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Economic Research Guardian has an h-index of 1 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.6, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #1,360 of 1,478 Scopus journals in Sociology and Political Science.
Economic Research Guardian published 1 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2011 with 1. 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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