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Foreign Affairs is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6), ABDC C, WoS SSCI. Published by Council on Foreign Relations.
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ISSN 0015-7120Verify ISSN ↗1665-1707Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Council on Foreign Relations
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Political Science and International Relations | 58 / 745 | 92nd | Q1 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 148 / 1530 | 90th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–2025 (also 1991–1992, 1989, 1985, 1977–1981, 1974, 1965), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.
Foreign Affairs is Q1 in Political Science and International Relations (rank 58 of 745) and Q1 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 148 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025.
Foreign Affairs 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 6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 92nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.763, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 117.
Foreign Affairs is published by Council on Foreign Relations. Its print ISSN is 0015-7120 and its online ISSN is 1665-1707.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
It is rated C in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Other commerce, management, tourism and services.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Foreign Affairs has an h-index of 342 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #648 of 704 Scopus journals in Political Science and International Relations.
Foreign Affairs published 1 papers in 2021; its busiest recent year was 2016 with 933. 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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