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French Politics, Culture and Society is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.2). Published by Berghahn Journals.
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ISSN 1537-6370Verify ISSN ↗1558-5271Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Berghahn Journals
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 1483 / 1936 | 23rd | Q4 |
| Cultural Studies | 1184 / 1434 | 17th | Q4 |
| Anthropology | 487 / 536 | 9th | Q4 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 1442 / 1530 | 5th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2015–2025, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.2.
French Politics, Culture and Society is Q4 in History (rank 1483 of 1936), Q4 in Cultural Studies (rank 1184 of 1434) and Q4 in Anthropology (rank 487 of 536), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
French Politics, Culture and Society 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 0.2, quartile Q4, 23rd percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.130, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 9.
French Politics, Culture and Society is published by Berghahn Journals. Its print ISSN is 1537-6370 and its online ISSN is 1558-5271.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
French Politics, Culture and Society has an h-index of 25 and a 2-year mean of 0.04 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.2, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #1,214 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
French Politics, Culture and Society published 23 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 41. 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 27 research articles (2021–2023), authors are most often from United States (46.3%), France (27.8%) and Canada (11.1%).
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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