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German Politics is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.8), WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Routledge.
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ISSN 0964-4008Verify ISSN ↗1743-8993Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Routledge
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Political Science and International Relations | 60 / 745 | 92nd | Q1 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 158 / 1530 | 89th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2010–present (also 1992–1995), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.8.
German Politics is Q1 in Political Science and International Relations (rank 60 of 745) and Q1 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 158 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025.
German Politics 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 5.8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 92nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.144, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 29.
German Politics is published by Routledge. Its print ISSN is 0964-4008 and its online ISSN is 1743-8993.
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.
German Politics has an h-index of 55 and a 2-year mean of 2.3 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #91 of 704 Scopus journals in Political Science and International Relations.
German Politics published 42 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 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 96 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from Germany (64.7%), United Kingdom (8.2%) and United States (4%). 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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