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Foreign Policy Analysis is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.9), WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Oxford University Press.
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ISSN 1743-8586Verify ISSN ↗1743-8594Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Cost to publish: About US$4,320 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Political Science and International Relations | 195 / 745 | 73rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2011–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.9.
Foreign Policy Analysis is Q2 in Political Science and International Relations (rank 195 of 745), by CiteScore 2025.
Foreign Policy Analysis 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 2.9, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 73rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.902, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 42.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,320 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.
Foreign Policy Analysis is published by Oxford University Press. Its print ISSN is 1743-8586 and its online ISSN is 1743-8594.
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.
Foreign Policy Analysis has an h-index of 64 and a 2-year mean of 1.53 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.9, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #169 of 704 Scopus journals in Political Science and International Relations.
Foreign Policy Analysis published 43 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 54. 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 100 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (42.3%), United Kingdom (11.3%) and Germany (7.8%).
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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