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European Political Science is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.1), WoS SSCI, DOAJ. Published by Cambridge University Press.
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ISSN 1680-4333Verify ISSN ↗1682-0983Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Cost to publish: Checking DOAJ for article charges…
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Political Science and International Relations | 131 / 745 | 82nd | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2008–present (also 2005), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.1.
European Political Science is Q1 in Political Science and International Relations (rank 131 of 745), by CiteScore 2025.
European Political Science 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 4.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 82nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.744, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 38.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,550 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
European Political Science is published by Cambridge University Press. Its print ISSN is 1680-4333 and its online ISSN is 1682-0983.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
European Political Science has an h-index of 53 and a 2-year mean of 2.01 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #118 of 704 Scopus journals in Political Science and International Relations.
European Political Science published 46 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 65. 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 98 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from Italy (12%), United Kingdom (10.1%) and Germany (7.2%).
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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