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Geopolitics Quarterly is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.3), DOAJ. Published by Iranian Association of Geopolitics.
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ISSN 1735-4331Verify ISSN ↗2538-3698Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Iranian Association of Geopolitics
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Political Science and International Relations | 399 / 745 | 46th | Q3 |
| Geography, Planning and Development | 578 / 876 | 34th | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2014–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.3.
Geopolitics Quarterly is Q3 in Political Science and International Relations (rank 399 of 745) and Q3 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 578 of 876), by CiteScore 2025.
Geopolitics Quarterly 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 1.3, quartile Q3, 46th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.258, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 9.
Geopolitics Quarterly is published by Iranian Association of Geopolitics. Its print ISSN is 1735-4331 and its online ISSN is 2538-3698.
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.
Geopolitics Quarterly has an h-index of 2 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.3, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #648 of 704 Scopus journals in Political Science and International Relations.
Geopolitics Quarterly published 5 papers in 2022; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 49. 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 49 research articles (2021–2022), authors are most often from Iran (85.7%), Malaysia (10.2%) and Poland (2%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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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