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Global Change, Peace and Security is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.8), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Routledge.
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ISSN 1478-1158Verify ISSN ↗1478-1166Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Routledge
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sociology and Political Science | 1035 / 1530 | 32nd | Q3 |
| Political Science and International Relations | 527 / 745 | 29th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2025–present (also 2008–2023), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.8.
Global Change, Peace and Security is Q3 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 1035 of 1530) and Q3 in Political Science and International Relations (rank 527 of 745), by CiteScore 2025.
Global Change, Peace and Security 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 0.8, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 32nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.223, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 27.
Global Change, Peace and Security is published by Routledge. Its print ISSN is 1478-1158 and its online ISSN is 1478-1166.
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 Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Global Change, Peace and Security has an h-index of 41 and a 2-year mean of 0.35 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.8, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #1,008 of 1,478 Scopus journals in Sociology and Political Science.
Global Change, Peace and Security published 29 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 45. 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 94 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from South Africa (10.1%), United States (9.6%) and United Kingdom (7.1%).
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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