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German Politics and Society is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 1), WoS ESCI. Published by Berghahn Journals.
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ISSN 1045-0300Verify ISSN ↗1558-5441Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Berghahn Journals
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 350 / 1936 | 81st | Q1 |
| Cultural Studies | 410 / 1434 | 71st | Q2 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 926 / 1530 | 39th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2015–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 1.
German Politics and Society is Q1 in History (rank 350 of 1936), Q2 in Cultural Studies (rank 410 of 1434) and Q3 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 926 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025.
German Politics and Society is indexed in the Emerging Sources 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 1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 81st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.241, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 15.
German Politics and Society is published by Berghahn Journals. Its print ISSN is 1045-0300 and its online ISSN is 1558-5441.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
German Politics and Society has an h-index of 31 and a 2-year mean of 0.29 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #473 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
German Politics and Society published 27 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 29. 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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